The sun., 1903-11-11
Welded WITH A MOB OUTSIDE.
ROXBURGHE-GOELET NUPTIALS
MEMORABLE FOR THE CROWD.

riaEes and Lie Flat In PeNs TO See the
Gowns-IS Hauled Out or the Church
Coal HOlc-SOme Dressmakers From
Out Of To~n-WcddIng a Happy Mean
Rctween the Splendid and the Simple
There We're Only 700 Guests Present.
Mary Wilson Goelet, heress Of the late
Ogden Goelet was married in st. Thomas's
Church yesterday afternoon to John Innes-
Ker, Duke of Roxburghe in Scotland and
possessor of eight other British titles Of
minor degree, and became thereby the
eighth mistress Of that duchy and the
fourth American Duchess"
The scenes at her wedding both at the
church and outside the house, were never
equalled at any similar event in this city.
The witnesses of the actual ceremony
we're restricted to some two hundred men
and women whose names are written large
in the social doings of New York. They
struggled to their places in the church
through a mob estimated at 10000 persons.
for he most part women wearing expensive
clothing. The crowd swept away the police
lines. nobbed the bride in her carriage. and
fought and scrambled in a vain effort to
get. by any and every means, within sight
or hearing of the nuptial ceremony.
Fifteen female compatrlots Of the bride
were hauled out of coal hole leading into
the cellar beneath the chancel More were
turned out Of the church itself. Some wore
hidden in dark corners Of the gallery, others
were lying fiat under the seats of the pews.
Still more tried to peep through letter
box slit in tho door. Not one gov q
sight Of the marriage ceremony.
The crowd was perhaps larger than
that which turned out at the wedding OF
Miss Vanderbilt and tho Duke OF Marl-
borough. 1t was certainly more persistent
and less under restraint. 1t ohoked Fifth
avenue FOR blocks, and overfowed into the
side streets. A stream Of curiosity seekers
in carriages hired or owned, mingled with
the carriages Of the guests and made jam
that will ever be- remembered.
In the vast crowd men were scarcer
than hens teeth, but crowd Of women
never mado moro trouble. The police
detail was absolutely inadequate, and the
TGenIOECGIuSutE ecAV AoL iioo
arrive until the worst was over. So far
| as the convenience Of the guests went the
wedding was decidedly marred. Many
OF them had to leave their carriages block
away, and in the middle Of the street make
their way as best they could through the
jam.
CARRIAGES MoBBED.
For the principals the crowd had no
respect whatever. The carriage conveying
! the bride and her brother was caught almost
O block from the church, and well dressed
women tried TO precipitate themselves
through the door, one getting In DO far as
to be able to catch and hold on for one brief
moment to Miss Goeet'o veil before her
| brother could push thern out. The curl
osity-crazy women seemed to be united IN
a common purpose. that OF breaking down
all barriers of privacy so far as they could.
The police evidently had not expected
any such curiosity or crowd, nor had the
representatives to the church and thefsmily
In charge OF the arrangements. How
far the curiosity Of the women would 60
was shown early, long before the time set
for the wedding.
Shortly before noon, two hours and half
before the wedding. one Of the sections
gaIlery. He was astonished to see q asoore
or more CT women huddled In dark corners.
Many OF tllem looked as though they had
dressed Tor the occasion, and some OF them
wouldn't bulge. The police had to be ap-
peaed to to clear the galleries.
In the pews they found more women
concealed some OF them lying fat down
to escape detection. 1t was figured that
almost one hundred and City women were
finally corralled and driven out. quite
number almost reduced to tears. The
church had been open all the morning to
the decorators, and the women must have
stolen in, some of them hours before.
POLICE LINES SWEPT AWAY.
INSPECTOR Mclaughlin had charge. OF
the police arrangements. He had sevsnty-
five men under his command at first. In
response to an appeal from tho family he
had early to send twenty men to surround
the Goelet house. in which the crowd had
then as much interest as in the church.
By o'clock the police had their hands
full at both places. At 1:A5. when the first
guests arrived, they were almost swallowed
up. There wore all sorts Of women In the
crowd many with children; but by far
the larger number seemed to be women in
HOOu ClTCuIlslluCeSsS hNtiON AIA sho SoesN~iASo
ordinarily seen In Fifth avenue on any
bright afternoon.
The police started to keep the crowd back
at the street corners, but the thin blue line
soon wavered and finally was swept away.
The sidewalk UP to the awning was jammed,
and the crowd masscd on the steps at each
side Of the door.
WOMEN DOWN THE COAL HOLM.
Around on the Fifty-thlrd street side,
where the rect ory and choir house Is. the
women swarned into the church yard.
There some Of them spied an open coal hole
leading down to the cellar. In second
one and then another had vanished in 1t.
Fully fifteen went down there and were
underneath the chsncel when skullcapped
sexton spod n white-feathered hat just dis
appearing down tho hole. He made
frantic dash in with a policeman, and one
by one the women We're hauled out again,
their clothes much rumpled and the white
fcathcrcd hat very dusty. One woman had
been found sit ing on a pile Of coal.
IT'S just too mean Tor anything said