The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-13
A Real Society Wedding.


New York, Nov. 10.-AIiss May Cob
let, only daughter of Mrs. Cutglass Cob
let, and one of the richest American
heiresses on the market, was turned
over to Hank Incas Cur, eighth duke
Of OXblood, today. Only $50 invited
guests got a foOthold I'm the church. but
the major portion Of New YOrk's So
ciety women turned out to make the
occasion hot one A conservative es-
innate places the number of women
crowded into Fifth avenue before the
ceremony at 100000 throng which s.
765 policemen could not control The
policemen ought to have known better.
The wedding itself did not amount TO
much. 1t is the same old story-sne
had the price. But there was consider
able doing in the streets. Before the
service began several prominent so
ciety women who did not get invita-
tons made a breach in the wall of the
church with dynamite and climbed
ropes to the gallery They were dis
lodged after being stunned with pick
handles. When the carriage containing
the bride and her brother drew rear the
church it was surrounded by women
who trampled the horses to death,
stove in the sides of the rig and
/ dented brothers new hat. -Four regi-
ments of infantry had arrived by this
/ time and had cut their way through the
crowd to the carriage, which was
showed along far enough to enable the
bride to spring inside the canvas can
ODy leading 10 the church door. A bril-
I gade of leading society women burst
/ through the sOldiery at this juncture
and ducked under the canvas. Many
/ of these managed to get far enough un-
/ der 20 have their necks stepped on by
/ the bridal party, which was jogging
/ along toward the church steps. One
prominent society woman got her hands
under a stone flag and defed the ef-
forts Of nine policemen to drag her out
/ by the leg. A hawser was secured and
! by its aid she was Jared loose. -Four
/ prominent society women had secured
a balloon and attempted to get into
/ the church by going down the chin
/ ney. One Of the ushers threw his Turk
/ ish cigarette into the furnace, how
Z ever. and the ballOOnists were killed by
/ the fumes which arose. Fifteen of the
/ younger set in New York society broke
! the lock of the coal chute with a cobble
stone and slid through the chute TO the
coal bins below, where they could not
see but could hear. Seventy-five long
/ shoremen We're called to throw them
/ out, which was done after some time
/ had been lost in, releasing a stout So
Z ciety leader who had got stuck mid
I way of the chute. A prominent so
ciety woman had a tunnel dug from tho
/ docks to the church and attempted Il
get into the chancel in that way. bat
was fOiled by the Honorable Percy
/ Wumpstun, the best man. who gar
rOted her with his tie as soon as hel
head showed above the surface a
] prominent society woman was discOv.
! cred concealed in the floral decoration
about the altar. The head usher killed
her after a desperate hand-to-hanC
/ struggle by shooting her four time.
/ with a revolver. Meantime the bish.
ops were manfully fighting against odds
in their frantic endeavors to consum
mate the deal between May and tn,
: duke. The motion was finally carried
I by a rising vote as the duke had beer
I frightened into Inconsistencies. Tn.
! bridal party escaped from the mob by
/ Disgusting themselves as hod-carrier,
and duCking down the back alley. pass
! ing through a beer saloon to the mex
] street. The attack on the front doO
! at length brought results The doc
was forced and the crowd poured in
| Women who were unable 10 get hold o.
4 some of the floral decorations pluckeC
hair out of each others heads anC
| amused themselves by throwing hymn
/ books through the memorial windows
| The pews went next. The altar was
| wrenched loose by a prominent societl
woman who had it split across her hea,
I by a more prominent society woman
who also appeared to want It. All III,
/ policemen had been beaten to death err
I this and the soldiers had fed so nobod,
tried to stop the festivities. The bishOl
was impaled on a chandelier, which
was soon torn down and taken away az
| a souvenir. In fifteen minutes from tn,
| conclusion Of the ceremony nothing wa
: left OF the church but the iron beam.
and the stone work The women thei
/ dispersed and went home happy. TIL
wedding. 10 win thus be seen. was thu
most important society event Of th'
present season.