The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-11
TO VIEW THE BRIDE
WOMEN STRUGGLED WITH POLICE
MEN IN The STREET
G0ELET-ROXBURGHE EVENT
CAUSED A GREAT MOB OF CURIOUS
PEOPLE TO GATHER.


Their Heads Into the Carriage for
Glimpse of the Bride-Fifteen
Well Dressed Women Descended
Through "a Coal Hole to Hear the
CcremOny-Scene of wild Disorder
About the Church.
New York, Nov. 10.-The marriage
of Miss May Goelet, only daughter of
Mrs. Ogden Goelet, and one of the rich
est of American heiresses, to Henry
John Innes Ker, eighth Duke of Rox-
burghe, was solemnized to-day at st.
Thomas Church in this city, Bishop
William c. Boane of Albany, assisted
by the Rev. Ernest M. Stires of st.
Thomas Church, performing the cere-
mony.
The company of $50 guests, a small
number for an international marriage
of such Importance. witnessed the GER
emony, but masses of palms, shrubs
and flowers banked the church so eff
fectively that the great nave seemed
far from empty. In the chancel itself,
where the ceremony took place, palms,
Japanese chrysanthemums and Eng
! fish primroses were combined in an ar
tistic color scheme, with which the
orchids on the pulpit and the lilies
about the altar toned beautifully.
Forming in the outer vestibule Of
the church, the bridal party proceeded
down the aisle to the chancel steps,
the bride on the arm of her brother,
| Robert Goelet. She was gowned in
white SATIN yelled with point valen-
ciennes lace and trimmed with wreaths
of orange blossoms. Her veil was OF
tulle and she carried an old-fashioned
bouquet of lilies Oft valley.
The Ceremony Performed.
The maid of honor, Miss Beatrice
| Mills, and the bridesmaids, Lady Is
abel Innes-K er, Miss Martha Johnston,
Miss Alice Babcock, Miss Marian Ha-
/ ven, Miss Therese Iselin, Miss Nina
| Thayer of Boston, and Miss Pauline
| Whittier, wore gowns of pink mousse
| line de sole of the quaint and effec-
tive Louise Seize period, combined with
ecru' lace, toques of pink velvet.
! trimmed with lace and sable, and car
ried in place of bouquets, muffs of
| pink velvet and sable.
The ushers, Hugo Barring, Howard
Brassey, Robert Wharton Goelet, Rog-
ers Winthrop, Henry Bun and William
Woodward, did not precede the bridal
party, as customary, but were seated
before the bride entered
At the chancel steps the bride was
met by the Duke and his best man.
the Hon Reginald Ward, son of the
late Earl of DudlV, and the betrothal
service of the Protestant Episcopal
Church was read by Mr.. Stires. The
party then advance to the altar rail,
where the Episcopal marriage cere-
| sol Nv oh
! Afterwards the Duke and Duchess
went to the home of Mrs. Ogden Goelet
/ on Fifth avenue, where an informal
reception, to which only a part of the
wedding guests were hidden. was held.
The Duke and Duchess left the Goe-
let residence in a carriage to which at
! the last moment a long streamer was
attached by the ushers, and drove to
| the Grand Central Station, where they
| entered a private car attached to the
5 o'clock express for Newport.
Women Fought Police.
Fifth avenue, in the vicinity of the
| church, was the scene, before and dur
| ing the ceremony, of excitement and
/ disorder unparalleled at any of the
! previous great weddings in New York.
From the church to the Goelet resi-
| dence, a distance of five blocks, the
avenue was a surgng mob numbering
fully 10000 persons, mostly women,
whom a force of 200 policemen was pow
| erless to hold in check
Before the service began several hun
! bred women gained entrance to the
church and seated themselves in the
| galleries, from which they were fore
! IDLY dislodged by a squad of police a
few minutes before the arrival of the
bride.
When the carriage containing the
bride-to-be and her brother, Robert
| Goelet neared the church, it was sur
J rounded by women, who stopped the
/ horses and in their effort to see the
bride chung to the carriage, some of
them getting on the steps and thrust
| ing their heads into the open windows.
| Mr.. Goelet called to the police, but II
was some moments before the half
| dozen policemen who rushed to the res
| cue were able to drive the curious
women back and enable the carriage to
proceed.
CrawIcd Down n Coal Hole.
When the carriage of Mr.. and Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, which was just
ahead of the bride, reached the canopy
leading from the curb to the church,
the crowd of women, banked up twen-
ty-five deep on either side, rushed
frantically forward, carrying the solid
lines Of policemen with them, and for
a moment choked the entrance. They
were forced back, but again rushed
forward when the brides carriage
drove up.
BY this time the policemen from
other points had been collected there,
but in spite of them a group of half
dozen women stopped down and lift
ed the canvas of the capoy and
crawled part way under. They chung
to their positions, notwithstanding
the efforts of the police to pull them
away. and several of them managed
to keep their heads under the canvas
until the bride had passed up.
On the Fifty-third street side, fif-
teen well dressed women crawled down
into a coal hole leading under the
chancel. They could not see anything.
but they could hear what was going
on above. Policemen had to get in and
drive them out.
Four hours after the ceremony
Fifth avenue was still crowded with
curious women, many of whom were
ladies with spells from the church dec
orations, for after the invited guests
had left the mob crowded into the
| church, and before they could be stop
ped, the church was despoiled of many
of the floral decorations.
At His MOther-in-Law's.