The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-27
MARRIAGE ENDS Cab CHASE.
TRATELLTNG WEDDING PARTY
STRIKES CAKV.ARY CHURCH,,
Baptist. with No Wule Against Divorced
Person--N Took Int7l r. VI. Yester"
,lal TO wind Up the Expedition Begun
ON Saturday Might In the Tenderloin---
Edwin Hot and Lucille Cheney Arc One

Edwin Hom and Lucille Cheney Arc One
The newspapers were accommodated
last night with an account Of wedding,
presumably unique among such chronicles
In that It contained allor even more than
all--the necessary particulars except the
names of the bridegroom and the bride
seldom has press agent hit on that kind
of a story.
This, of course, was the wedding that
Mr.. W. G. Camp Of the Lambs Club, hus-
band of Elita Proctor Otis, the actress.
was pioneering on a cab all Saturday night
His energies, which did not flag until 8
o'clock Sunday morning, were in active
operation again yesterday afternoon, with
the result that he landed minister and
got the two throbbing souls that had trav-
elled In the cab with him, with the
presses throbbing behind, made one at
Z o'clock in the evening, in the Sunday
school room OF Calvary Baptist Church
in Fifty seventh street. The Rev, Frank
Rogers Morse, assistant pastor OF the
church. offlciated.
Yesterdays SUN told how the Lambs
Club man appealed at 1890 Saturday night
to the Tenderloin police to find Magis-
trate for him; and. finding none set out
after a clergyman after midnight with a
troop pursuing II came out yesterday
that Mr.. Camp had already been disap-
pointed by one clergyman at least. That
clergyman was the Rev. DIR. Houghton.
rector OF the Little Church Around the Cor
ner,' TO which actor folk and press agents
generally iesort for such weddings. APP
parently II WAS to the aLittle Church Around
the Corner that Mr.. Camps couple went
fret on Saturday night. 1t was about
1880 O'Clock
Il decline to perform marriages az late
as that" said DIR. Houghton Yesterday.
In speaking of the visit. but | sent my
curate to see the couple My curate asked
them right away IL either had been divorced
and one of them-l dom know which,
answered in the affirmative. The curate
then told them that We could not marry
any divorced persons.
Il do not know their names, but this
morning gentleman came around here
and wanted to know II we had married
such couple He said that he was the
father OF the girl and that he had under
stood that the marriage had taken place
a week ago. Then lie went away. don't
know his name either"
Yesterday afternoon some one called up
Calvary Baptist Church on the telephone
and mans voice asked il it would he pos
sible to have a marriage performed AT the
church
Tho sexton said that the only per son TO
answer that was Mr. Morse. the minister
who ~ In charge in the absence of Dr.
Macarthur. Apparently Mr, Mors. was
reached AT hts home by the marriage seekers
and he agreed 20 perform the ceremony at
I o'clock, an hour before the evening SER
vice al the church.
At that hour two carriages drove up TO
the church. One of them. big carriage.
contained four persons, two women and
two men, and the other. hanson. two
young women and q man.
The bride and bridegroom had short
oonfab with the minister and then all went
into the Sunday school room. and Mr..
Morse performed the marriage, The bride,
who did not look much over %, carried a
big bunch of Bride roses and wore light
travelling suit The bridegroom appeared
at least AZ, according to person who wit
messed the marriage. After the marriage
all hurried out Of the church and drove
away.
When the minister was asked af,erward
whom he had married he said he wouldn't
tell.
ar Or. Houghton refused to marry them
because one OF them was divorced it's none
of my business" said Mr.. Morse. 1--WE
married great many divorced people,
young nan, a great many. There's no rule
against the practice here that know Of"
Mr.. Camp and his wife returned home
early this morning and said that the bride
groom was Edwin W. Hoff, a tenor for a
number Of years with the Bostonians.
but now in the insurance business. and the
bride, Lucille Cheney, 81 years old of
Denyer