The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21
SOLE PAIR In ALL THE CABIN.
BRIDE AND BRIDEGROOM HAVE
WHOLE STEAMSHIP SALOON. :

Tn IA Cabin stewards Decide to Remit
Their Tips and lake Some wedding
Presents Themselves STORY Of a French
o IN the Dim Background.
John A. Gibbons. a young publisher Of
Philadelphia, fell in Low several years ago
with Miss Leila NJ. Brown. a blue eyed little
woman Of Quaker ancestry. Her mother
and father were residents of Francs and
while she was there with them a French
Count paid court to her. The romance
builders Of the French press said that Miss
Brown apparently decided that kind hearts
were more than oronets and elected Glib
bons even il she must live in Philadelphia.
The story goes that her parents favored the
Count and that she fled from France and
returned to Philadelphia and the publisher.
They were married in a hurry n on
August 20 last they sailed for Havre from
this port aboard the French liner La Savoie.
They surprised the father and mother Of
the bride in Paris by announcing the
marriage.
The couple spent more than two months
In France taking observations from the
seat of a dogoart behind the brides spirited
gray mare Msrthe. They visited every spot
Of interest In the Gallo dominion, from
the English Channel to the Pyrenees, some
times covering thirty-ive miles a day.
Finally they decided to come pack to Phila-
delphia, which doesn't always make thirty
five miles an hour.
They found that the big, swift ship OF
the French line, La Savoie. had sailed.
They found also that they couldn't have
taken the mare Marthe with them on
La Savoie anyhow. But the steady, twenty
year-old La Gasoogne was at Havre and
ready to take aboard n horse of high
transportation for. Marthe was hoisted
In q sling by derrick to the main deck of
La Gascogne and put in a specially oon-
structed stall like frame.
The bridegroom and bride we're some
what surprised to learn that they would be
the only cabin passengers aboard. Capt.
Tournier. who had become melancholy
thinking Of a vacant, musicless and gloomy
saloon on a nine day November trip. went
into Gallo ecstacies when the Gibbonses
said they we're going to keep him company.
The gallant skipper summoned all the TWEEN
ty-four cabin steward and told them to
please look out for the young Americans.
He offered them the liberty Of the ship as a
mayor might give the keys of a city, if he
had any, to a distinguished visitor.
The couple sampled all the staterooms
of the FIRST cabin. including the chambre
de luxe. in which they spent most of their
time while the bride was not out on deck.
caressing Marthe or playing the piano
for the captain and the ships officers.
II is customary to fee the cabin stewards
Of a liner, but these stewards protested
that on this unique occasion the loot ought
to be on the other foot, and they made
presents to the bride. Captain, officers and
stewards all attended a democratic dinner
on Monday night and the presents-a fine
vase for the bride and a cigar holder for the
bridegroom-were given to the bride.
Originally Mr.. and Mrs. Gibbons intended
to return to Philadelphia behind Marthe in
the dogcart. But they discovered yester-
day afternoon that there was no derrick
big enough at the French lock to lower the
mare. and they went home prosaically by
train. Marthe will be shipped "A freight
to-day.
Between decks on La Gascogne nobody
was lonesome. There were 1868 immi-
grants, mostly Italians, there, and they
made day and night noisy IL not ~melodious.
One steerage passenger with the where
withal came up into the second cabin and
made an Alexander Selkirk trip Of il. .
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20-It is said here
that Mrs. Gibbons, who is a daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ. Brown Of Walling-
ford, Tilted a French nobleman, Count Max
Bloch. Miss Brown was introduced to the
Count in Paris last winter. He met with an
accident and she nursed him. While the
Count was convalescing they became en-
gagged. Miss Browns family was delighted,
Then the Count went on a hunting trip in
South America. Miss Brow returned to this
country She was to become Countess
Bloch in August. On the very day the Count
sailed from Havre Miss Brown married
Gibbons. The Browns say they don't really
mind losing the Count.