The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-07-06
DOUGLAS M'BRYDE'S
AUTO CAR ATTIRE
POETIC RETRIBUTION FOR AN
ATTEMPT ON PEACE OF MIND
OF A BRIDAL COUPLE.

! SAN FRANCISCO, June 2S-For once
at least in the jocund history of young
loves a-mating, the rice throwers were
| fooled last night in their nefarious
designs. The big automobile in which
the ushers of the Gordon Upham we'd
ding were chasing the bridal party at
a thirty mile-an-hour clip last night
through the streets in order to pelr
them with rice and tie signs and rib
bons and old shoes and other things
to their carriage, took fire on Market
street near Montgomery. 1t was only
a hop, skip and jump behind the destin-
ed victims when it came to a standstin
with an exhibition of pyrotechnics that
called out the Fire Department. The
happy Couple-twice happy, then-en-
tered the Palace Hotel without being
disturbed, leaving the joyous ushers in
the street endeavoring to extinguish
the flames with their overcoats and
with hand grenades rushed to the scene
| by volunteer fire fighters.
The machine, a big touring car, was
owned by \. d. McBryde, and with
him were the other ushers at the we'd
! ding of Miss Cornelia Dean Gordon,
daughter of General and Mrs. David S.
| Gordon, to Isaac oliver Upham, which
| took place last evening in st. PauPs
Episcopal Church. The other ushers
! were W. H. Smith, Jr., c. S. Tripler
and Temple Smith. There was a re-
| ception Immediately following the cere-
mony at the home of the brides broth
er, 1856 Washington street, and the
ushers had put their heads together
and conspired against the peace of the
young couple.
Mr.. McBryde had his machine in
waiting, and the plan was to sail in
chase of the newly married couple
when they left the house for a destina-
ton kept secret by the groom, who Is
up to a trick or two himself. There
were big bags of rice in the automobile
old shoes, tin horns and ribbons galore
The ushers confessed last night that
the driver of the bridal party's car
riage had been brbed to deliver up the
vehicle to the more or less tender mer-
ces of the ushers, and the latter pro
fusely decorated the carriage with the
chains and locks and horns and such
and the young couple entered the glar.
ing vehicle and drove away, with the
automobile footing behind.
But a block or two away from the
house the groom had stationed another
carriage, and into this he made quick
change with his bride, and drove away
the automobile stopped and the car
riage empty in the roadway. The ush-
ers jumped from the automobile anl
denuded the carriage of it's decorations
but the other carriage had by this time
attained quite a handicap in distance
and, try their best, they could not gel
alongside. At Leavenworth and Pos
the automobile stopped and the cor
riage got another big lead while the
baffled ushers We're getting the biz
machine in running order again.
Then it was "Tally-ho!" and off again
in pursuit, and soon it was plain that
the Palace Hotel was the objective
point aimed at by Mr.. Upham and his
bride. The big machine was a mere
length behind at Second and Market
street, and the ushers were digging up
handfuls of rice, when
Puff-ff! Shoo-Oo! Bang! binding
glare, a burst of flame, most evil
odor and a hasty stop The carburet-
er had Hooded and a spark had set the
gasoline afire, and the ushers landed
like Billy Baxter, in the middle of the
car track" while the bridal party sail
ed unmolested up to and into the well
coming portals of the Palace.
Not a drop of rice,
Not a ribbon white,
Nor shoes nor tin horn harmed them
And safe in the bridal suit thaV
laughed
At the fears which once alarmed
them.
And it will cost Mr.. McBryde some
5000 to repair the damage done to his
machine.