Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-31

ton and attention to the wine list. at
swell hosiery, In company with an IN
cumbrance in the shape of a husband she
got Into the hanson cab with her nus
Dand who had become wholly Indifferent
to the charms OF the park scenery. They
were driven around. and, finally. out OF
the park. and every time a stop was made
AT the side door of an Sth avenue hos
fn too. so that after hour so Of that
work the driver didn't know or care
whether he was Jehu or a Jumping
Jack.
Sc she thrust her husband and the cab
driver into the vehicle. mounted to the
high rear hanson perch picked up the
re;ns with all of the SAVIOR faire Of a
real whip. ana. clucking to the horse, was
off in a canter
Two bicycle cops took after the hanson
cab at four-bells speed. but the driver
didn't feel like being corraled so early in
the game She gave the plunging horse a
touch of the whip. and wheeled into Broad
way at gallop, showing really fine horse
Womanship In lodging the clutter Of
vehicles and street Instructions on her
way. Down Broadway to Twenty ninth
street the bicycle cops pursued the cab.
but by this time the horse was running
away. and the bike police never in
the hunt. Broadway cops all along the
line of the run ranged themselves along
side the path of the horse and made as IL
To throw themselves upon the brute and
stop his mad career. but she stood up, and
with whoop-las'' she dashed the cops
faces with the whip and then laughed
nerrily when she turned around and saw
them feeling of the cuts made by the whip
thong. At Twenty ninth street she turned
west-and 1t was a beautiful turn. too. con-
siGering its suddenness and the control
over the maddened horse she exhibited
and two Fifth avenue bicycle policemen
succeeded in stopping the horse in front
OF the Little Church Around the Corner.
The Perfec' lydy, her husband and the
nd hrpfr inc rah
driyer We're taken around to the Tender
loin station and turned loose upon collat-
eral. the husband Offering four fine Madison
avenue residences as bond and they were
accepted. The fair whip gave the cabby
800 before leaving the station although not
a particle of damage had been done TO his
horse or rig. and thus the incident was
clCsed-the woman. who declined to stand
Tor the pent-up Utica idea of femininity,
and her husband not appearing In the po-
lice court the next morning. the matter
having been adjusted" out of court as so
many little matters are adjusted over this
way.
Miss Goelet's Prospective Wedding.
If. as seems to be the present intention.
the marriage of the Duke of Roxeburghe
and Miss Goeet takes place at Grace
Church, which, as everybody knows is sit
uated in the downtown shopping district of
Broadway, the police are in for a pretty
warm morning S work. 1t there Is any one
thing that the "taddy'' element of the New
York population regard in the light of
laughing stock 1t is a wedding in high life.
and the crowds of hooters that assemble
around fashionable church door on such
an occasion in this town are sufficiently
brutal in their conduct and comments to
make even the hardest of young couples
seriously think of Gretna Green rather than
endure the insults inevitably attending
church wedding in New York city. one
does not have to be in sympathy with titled
fortune hunters to reprobate the tide OF in
sulting 'epthets hurled al them from the
streets of New York by the hoodlums. male
and female. when they are sufficiently
short-sighted to have their weddings New
York church affairs.
The last notable wedding of this sort
which took place in New York. at Grace
Church, too, was converted into a memora-
bly, riotous occasion for squares around the
church by bowling mobs of hooligans. and
the brutality to which the bridal party was
subjected by the jeering mob threw the
bride into a state of nervous prostrat'on.
Although this happened several years ago.
It is said that she has never quite recovered
her normal health. Just why any exalted
couple should select Grace Church to be
married in. anyhow. is considerable of a
puzzle to New Workers familiar with the
rather common and unattra ctive setting Of
that church. with the clangor of Broadway
penetrating its every recess, and with the
opportunity which such n wedding presents
for a swift gathering of Sneering lOaferS
There is considerable Judgment displayed.
after all, by those of the smart set who
choose to he married at Newport Almost
any old place is more desirable to be mar
ried in than New York. if the wedding be a
church affair. c. l.. c.