Evening journal., 1903-08-13
HAPPY CLIMAX To
PRETTY ROMANCE
Divorced Wife OF DR.. Pyle
Becomes Wife of Senator
Hepburn
FAST RIDE 70 GET A LICENSE
Bride Said She Heard That Her Form
or Husband Cried When It Was An
nouneed That She Was to Marry
Again.

nouneed That She Was to Marry
Again.
West Chester, Aug. 1S.-Given a United
States Senator returning a rich man to
a quiet rural district TO marry, by sim
pie Quaker rite, the sweetheart of his
youth, whom years had separated from
him: add to this the news that the lady's
divorced husband is stricken with a sud
den Illness in a nearby city the night be-
fore the day set for the ceremony, and
then cap the climax by the startling
eleventh-hour discovery that there is a
legal flaw in the arrangements for the
wedding-imagine all this and you will
say that It is but the plot of some ro-
mantle novel. Then solve the problem Of
the legal hitch by a cross-country race
OF train and automobile and you viii
say that the novelist is entirely too untrue
to life.
But you will be wrong. The story Is a
+ true one and 1t happened yesterday in
connection with the wedding OF United
States Senator Welden Brnton Hepburn
and Mrs. Gheratine Yeatman in the par
lor of the old Yeatman house in Kennett
township, this county.
Or. Pyle ~.
The trouble began when word reached
here this morning that DR.. Joseph p.
Pyle. president Of the Water Commits
sioners Of Wilmington, and the divorced
husband OF the woman who was about
10 marry Senator Hepburn was i'll at
s his Wilmington home. He had a high
4 fever last night and after presiding at
a meeting Of tho Water Board was forced
to take to his bed That. some said, was
inauspiclous. But. after all, It had moth
ing TO do with the case and, Of course,
did not stop the progress Of the prepara-
ton
Something -else. however, came vera,
near to stopping them altogether.
The wedding was set for noon; its scene
was TO be I'm Kennett township. Yet, at
II a. m, in West Chester. Lawyers c.
W. Talbot and William NJ. Hayes de-
cded that the license in the possession Of
Senator Hepburn would not legally serve
the purpose for which It had been pro-
cured.
Mr.. Talbot is a close friend of the Sem
ator and Mr.. Hayes holds the same rela-
tion tc Mrs. Yeatman. Both wished the
couple well But both concluded that the
license, being issued in Philadelphia
would not serve in Chester county.
New License Procured.
What was to be done? The Chester
County Clerk was sought, Il proper blank
was tucked in his pocket and then he was
Informed that he must race with the
lawyers TO the scene of the wedding.
Time pressed. A fleet horse was need
ed-and horse OF no kind was to be
had.
The livery stables were emptied by an
unprecedented number of funeralsl
"How about an automobile" ?" suggested
Mr.. Talbot.
Mr.. Hayes and the clerk shook their
heads. They wouldn't trust their lives
in one Of those things.
well, cried Mr.. Talbot, I'm not
afraid of the Internal machine; I'll go
to the rescue Of the Senator and his
bride-elect by that means and you. Mr..
Hayes. and the clerk go by rail via Wawa
on the Baltimore Central"
And so &c was arranged. It was as des-
perate a race as ever men rode in
Hymens cause but distinctly a modern
one; steam and gasoline against swift
time-and the champions of human Gus
tom and affection won at the tape.
In just one hour Mr.. Talbot had reach
ed the Yeatman home, fifteen miles dis
dant. His co-partners arrived about forty
nve minutes later. The proper paper was
duly prepared, signed, sealed and deliv-
cred, and then the marriage ceremony
took place.
Few Witness the Ceremony.
And pretty ceremony it was ac-
cording to the simple Quaker form,
though with no everseers and under
the auspices of no particular meeti2g.
In the parlor of the Yeatman home,
three miles out Of Kennett Square, only
a few friends were gathered, Mr.. and
Mrs William Hepburn, of Louisville,
XIV; Mr.. and Mrs. II. c. Marshall, of
Duluth. Mimi, and Miss Florence
Yeatman. sister of the bride. The aged
mother of the latter had expected to
be present but she. too, was caught in
the untoward current of events which
prefaced the affair and illness enforced
her absence.
The room. which is the largest one
i'm the old gray stone house, was most
beautifully and simply decorated for
the occasion with flowers gathered
early this morning by the prospective
bride I'm the garden close by and IN
the fields adjoining.
The bride. who carried a small and
simple bouquet. was dressed in a gown
OF white crepe de chine. trimmed with
point lace, which had held a place In
the Heatman family for many gener-
ations, and the bridegroom was dressed
# in conventional black. An elaborate
wedding breakfast was served imme-
& diately after the ceremony.
Watched for the Senator.
e The bridegroom passed Tuesday
& night in Philadelphia and his coming
s to Rosedale Station on the Baltimore
Central Railroad yesterday morning il
handsomely equipped Pullman car
was so new an experience for the peo
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