The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-12
TWAIN MADE One AT ESQ A. M.
CANE FROM PHILA DELPHIA,
WHERE LICENSE rs REQUIRED.
Here II Was Only Necessary to Find a
Hymeneal Blacksmith willing TO Forge
the Link Late at Night-Had a Great
(has Around Town In a Cab First.

Miss Charlotte Madeline hlng, uaugnter
of Bernard B. King of Philadelphia. and
Walter Frederick Lever, son of the late
Oswald Lever of the same city, were mar
ried at 2;3O O'Clock Yesterday morning by
the Rev. Henry Marsh Warren, the hotel
chaplain, at his home, As West Ninety
fourth street. They found DR.. Warren
after they had spent six hours riding
around in a cab hunting a priest, preacher.
magistrate or anybody qualified to tie a
knot properly.
Mr.. Lever met his wife a year ago when
she was a coed at Swarthmore College.
She had been engaged for several years to
Harmer A. C. Virdin Of 913 East Allen street,
Philadelphia, but she fell in love with MIR.
Lever. Her parents, while not Directing
to Mr.. Lever personally, did not approve
OF her marrying him because he is a Prot
estant and the Kings are Catholics. 1t is
said that they rather encouraged young
Virdin's suit.
Last Saturday morning Miss King called
Mr.. Lever up from her home at ~Lansdowne.
Pa, and told him that Mr.. Virdin Intended
to call that night for a decisive answer.
She wanted to know what she should do.
He ~telephoned back from his house at 3239
North Fifteenth street for Miss King to
meet him at the Broad street station and
they would talk it over. He got his best
friend, Harry +. Gerkler, Of 2402 Lehlgh
avenue and his sister, Mrs, Blanche Minot,
of 1907 Sedgley avenue and met Miss King
at the railroad station. She had slipped
out OF the house wearing two dresses ana
with pair of shoes tucked under her coat.
The four had luncheon at the Bellevue
Stratford and decided that the best thing
Mr.. Lever and Miss King could do would
be to run over to New York, get married
quickly and hurry back home. Mr.. Lever
bought a couple OF suit cases in which Miss
King slowed the extra dress, the extra
pair of shoes and a few trinkets. They
got here over the Pennsylvania at 10 o'clock
Saturday night.
A cabman named Kennedy got the party
and they asked him to drive them to st.
Patriok's Cathedral. They found a priest
and told him the circumstances. He de-
INJURED. He didn't want to perform the
ceremony because Mr.. Lever was not a
Catholic. He suggested that they have a
civil ceremony. Kennedy volunteered some
advice.
He said it would be a good thing to drive
around to the East Thirty-ffth street
station. There the sergeant suggested
that Magistrate Steinert, who lives at 1871
Lexington avenue, would marry them.
They drove to Steinert's house, but the
Magistrate was out.
Then the cheerful cabby advised them to
go to the West Forty-seventh street station
and see what could be done. Capt. DAILY,
behind the desk, was talking to Two friends,
f.. p. Campbell of the Algonquin Hotel
and w. X. Caruthers of 43e Eastern Park
wav, Brooklyn. DAILY said he didn't know
how he could help them out, but one OF his
friends said that Alderman Farrell would
be pretty sure to be at the Montauk Club,
1923 West Fifty-eighth street.
They went to the club and found Farrell,
but the Alderman said he hadn't had any
experience in marrying folks and he didn't
feel like beginning at night.
BY that time Miss King was almost In
tears. 1t was getting late and they had
planned to return to Philadelphia on a train
which leaves Jersey City about l o'clock
in the morning.
Alderman Farrell said he thought that
Alderman Hahn OF lao West Sixty-eighth
street would marry them. Alderman Hahn
was out. Then they tried Magistrate
Whitman, who lives at 235 West Seventy
sixth street. There was nothing doing.
They called up Magistrate Pool and Magis-
state Moss and finally were about to give
UP in despair when Mr.. Campbell and MIR.
Caruthers, who had accompanied them
on the rounds, thought Of Chaplain Warren.
They called up DIR Warren and he said
he would be pleased to marry them If they
would hurry up. 1t was 2 o'clock then.
They drove to the chaplain's house as fast
as Kennedy's horses, could make it. Miss
King didn't want to be married by any
body but a priest, but there was no way
out of it. DR.. Warren performed the cere-
mony.
Then he said he might be Of service to
them further. Father DAILY and Father
Quinn Of St. Malachi's Church, 2Se West
Forty-ninth street, were great friends OF
his. He suggested that they see Arch
bishop Farley, get a special dispensation
and be married all over again later on in
the day.
They saw the Archbishop yesterday
afternoon and explained matters. Arch
bishop Farley gave the special dispensa-
ton and they will be married by Father
Quinn this afternoon in the parish house
of st. Malachi's.
III ItllISyiNdh" J"H o.
Unexpectedly. A license is required.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lever will return to Phila-
delphia this evening, probably. They are
at the Hotel Algonquin. They were very
much amused last night when a reporter
asked them about the hurry up marriage.
"Oh, we are married all right said Mrs.
Lever. mo, | don't think theSe will be
much trouble when we get home. think
matters will come out all right. / will be
married again tomorrow by . priest Of
nv church and l don't think my father
and mother will care so much after that.
We'll, we got away with it, didn't we?'
said Mr.. Lever, when he got in a word.
1T looked scary for a few hours, though.
IN bet we tried fifteen different places
! trying to find somebody who could marry
us. 8 ay, / wonder what the other man
will think when he wakes up and reads
about u adventures?"
MIR. Lever is managing a textile manu-
facturin g concern which his father estab-
lished. He is 20 years old and Mrs. Lever
is %.
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