The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-11-11
MOBS OF CURIOUS PEOPLE
CROWD VICINITY OF GOBLET
 RoXBURGHE WEDDING.
Excitement Unparalleled in History of Big New York Weddings-Women Worse Than the Men-steul Into Crawl Through Coal Hole-Rush for Souvenirs.

SSSA eSSAS-A~e%1As ~~A Souvenirs.
 New York, Nov. 10.-Before and dur ing the wedding of the Duke of Rox- burghe to Miss May Goelet to-day,
 Fifth avenue in the vicinity of St.
 Thomas church, where the ceremony
 was performed, was the scene of ex-
 citement and disorder unequalled at
 any Of the previous great weddings in New York. From the church to the 1 Goelet residence, distance of five blocks. the avenue was a surging mob
 Of fully 10000 persons, mostly women,
 powerless to hold in check.
 Before the service began several hun 1 dred women gained entrance to the church and seated themselves in the
 galleries. from which they were forci- 1 bly, dislodged by a squad of police a l few minutes before the arrival of the 1 bride.
 When the carriages containing the
 bride-to-be and her brother, Robert
 Goelet, neared the church, it was sur ! rounded by women who stopped the
 horses and in their efforts to see the 1 bride clung to the carriages, some of them getting on the steps and thrusting their heads into the open windows. MT. l Goelet called 10 the police, but it was
 some moments before the half dozen policemen who rushed to the rescue were able to drive the curious women I back and enable the carriage to pro- ceed.
 When the carriage of Mir. 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 twenty-five feet deep on either side, rushed fran- tically forward carrying the solid lines ] of policemen with them and for mo- ment choked the entrance. They were forced back only to again rush forward when the brides carriage drew up. By l this time policemen from other points
 had been collected there, but in spite of l them group of half dozen women stopped down and lifted the canvas of the canopy and crawled part way un-
 der. They clung to their positions in spite of 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, A patrolman caught one very well
 dressed woman by one of her ankles
 and dragged her along the walk, she
 still clinging to the canvas, until she
 was forced to lose her hold. She was l lifted up smiling and satisfied. She l had seen the bride. On the Fifty-third street side of the
 church fifteen well-dressed women l crawled down into a coal hole leading l underneath the chaneel They could
 not see anything, but they could hear what was going on above. Policemen
 had to get in and drive them out. l Four hours after the ceremonies Fifth l avenue was still crowded with curious l women, many of whom were laden with ! spells from the church decorations. l After the invited guests had left the l mob crowded into the church and pro- l ceeded at once to tear the chrysanthe- l mums and lies from the pew entrance. 1 In few minutes they began to break
 the leaves from the palms, and before 1 they could be stopped the church was
 despoiled of many of the floral decora- I tions.
 Newport, R. l., Nov. 10.-The Duke
 and Duchess of Roxburghe, who were 1 married in New York this afternoon, l arrived here at Il o'clock tonight and I will spend the first week of their honey
 moon at Ochre court, the home of the brides mother, Mrs. Ogden Goelet The l newly welded pair were brought to I Wickford in private car attached to 1 the regular 5 o'clock New York ex- l press, coming down the bay on the
 steamer General, which made a special I frin Thay were araonarla 0ind hv fwn