Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-17
SWELL WEDDINGS
 AND DISGUSTING SYcOPhANcY

AND DISGUSTING SYCOPHANCY.
 There was a "swell'' wedding in New York last week. Why it was diff ferent from any other wedding, ex- cept that there was a bride with mil lions left to her through the accident of birth, and an obscure duke, with a long list of tail-end titles, also be- queathed to him through the accident O. birth, We are at a loss to under stand. The facts boiled down are that a man and woman were joined in matrimony according to law. The bride was Miss Goelet of New YorK, and, as stated, the groom was "juke' from the British isles. There never has occurred in the history of we'd dings in the United States a more disgusting spectacle than was witness ed in Fifth Avenue, New York, on the occasion of the marriage of this cou- pie.
 It is no exaggeration in calling it a riot, the circumstances when women WShCn over tdCH OlutT like Van Buren Street, Chicago, news boys stealing their way under the canvas of a circus. me police pro- lection provided for the wedding ap- peared to be ample. consisting. as 1t did, of 125 of New York's finest po- hcemen. Had the rioters been of the male arclroCiOr1 fhara m been plenty of Ine blue coats 10 care for them and disperse them. It is only 10 the credit of the policemen that they did not use the last argu- ment left to an officer on the women who persisted in mobbing the bride Hasty thinkers might judge that the marriage of an American girl to e British duke was the cause for breach of the peace, and while at times such cause would seem to be Justifiable, this was only an illustra- ton of the effect of modern notorie- ty.
 When lot of people who are dls- trguished from their fellow citizens simply because they have nothing to do, and have plenty of money to do 1t, have not only their social lunc- nons6' but their downsittings and their uprisings chronicled with half toned illustrations, and are treated as class separate and apart from their fellow citizens, it is no wonder that both they and the people who read about their doings ana look upon smudgy photographs should imbibe an exaggerated notion of their import ance. When one of them arrives at point where the woman is to marry 'juke," and the wedding is adver- used long in advance, the natural re- suit is an outbreak of organized and hysterical vulgarity sucn as took place at the door of the church where Miss Goelet and the Royal Duke of Rox- burghe were simply bound by a con- tract made valid by the words of a priest or minister. The accounts of the scenes at this wedding are such as in which the Police Gazette ana similar publications would revel and no doubt will do so Women gather ed at the door of the church by the hundred, brushed the 125 policemen aside as though they were not there. crawled down into the coal holes in the sidewalk, hid in the belfry of the church. and a policeman had to pull Cue drivelling woman from under the canopy by the ankle Women fought over each other 10 see the bride while crowds stopped the horses and opened the door of the carriage which was conveying the bride to the place of marriage.
 The most disgusting tthing to think about the whoe matter, is the fact that all this occurred in an American city. If there is anything the free born American turns from with all the hatred of his soul, it is anything in the shape of royal fiunkery. The sorofulous makeup of the royal fami- lies of Europe is as a rule sufficient to turn away from sight the freeman O. this land of free men. who abhor snobbery in any form. And yet m the greatest American city, we might say the greatest city on earth, a lot Of simpering, silly, brainless women stamp each other down in the sicken- ing scurry to see another woman mar ried
 It is 10 be assumed that this singu- lar and insane tribute was pleasing to the people immediately concerned. Nothing would have been easier than to have avoided if. If people choose