Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-28

On his luck after his divorce he met in a
wash ngt1n avenue laundry a young woman
attendant. After he got on his feet again
he married her and they are living very
happily and prosperously in more modest
surroundings than during his first matri
monial venture.
Edmee, the second daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. Busch, and the beauty Of the family.
entered the matrimonial state by the elop-
ment gate. 1t was around Christmas that
the elopment took place. just about the
same time that Mr.. Scharrer and Miss
Minnie Busch decided on the Belleville
trip but Edmee had a kind helper in her
sister Nellie. Hugo Reisinger. a nephew
OF the Busches, came on from New York
to spend the holidays in Busch place. The
cousins had not seen each other for some
time, during which Edmee had grown into
fine looking young woman. It was love
at first sight Before Busch pere took
notice and could interpose objections on
account of the blood relationship the pair
were on the wing to New York, where they
got married. For years Adolphus Busch
would not allow the name Of his second
daughter to be spoken in his hearing, SO
chagrined was he over the runaway mar
riage, but of late he has forgiven, and the
old relations between father and daughter
nave peen re-esta blished.
Clara Busch's wedding.
The most gorgeous wedding feast ever
prepared in st. Louis for bride was that
of Clara Busch who married Paul Won
Gontard, some eight years ago. Paul Won
Gontard was wealthy iron manufacturer
of Schwalbach, on the Rhine. He met
Miss Busch while she was with a party of
orient, tourists, chaperoned by Mrs. Joseph
Schnaider of st. Louis. This, too, was a
case of love at first sight and a marriage
might have taken place abroad If Mrs.
Schnaider had not insisted that she would
not take the responsibility for such an
action on the young peoples part in the
absence of Miss Buschs parents. They
became engaged with the sanction of the
parents of Miss Busch, and the wedding
date was set for early in the winter when
Won Gontard could come to st. Louis He
brought with him best man his brother,
Hans Won Gontard who was then military
Instructor to the young sons of the German
emperor.
Cost Busch 100000.
The wedding which Adolphus Busch gave
to his daughter must have cost him not
less than $4,000 The ceremony was per-
formed in the Unitarian church at the
corner of Garrison avenue and Locust The
walls Of this fine editice were literally COW
cred with white flowers; no other color
was allowed to creep into this decorative
scheme. From the simple daisy to the
costliest white orchid. there was a range
or white flowers such as had never been
assembled on one occasion.
The entire second floor of the Southern
hotel was engaged by Mr.. Busch two
weeks in advance and turned over to deco
rators and florists. Banquet halls, recep-
ton rooms, dancing salons and coy bowers
were evolved out Of the ordinary hotel
quarters. Such splendor was never before
seen in st. Louis. Every florist in town
sold out of flowers for days before
and after the wedding, and large quanti-
ties of plants and blooms had to be OBJ
tained in the east and west. More than
100 suites of rooms at the Southern, the
Planters and the st. Nicholas were engaged
by Mr.. Busch for his out-of-town wedding
guests.
The bridal suite at the Planters hotel,
which was new then, was arranged for
the Won Gontards, and there they lived
before they started on their wedding trip
east and then to their home across the
sea. Mrs. Won Gontard, though a frequent
guest Of her parents at their villa, Lily on
the Rhine, not far from their home has
never been in st. Louis since her marriage.
The fourth daughter Anna Louise, bet
ter known as "Tolie" Busch, refused to
be married with the pomp and splendor
that characterized her younger sisters
wedding. She had a home affair, when she
gave her hand to Edward A. Faust, oldest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. TONY" Faust, life
long friends and business associates of the
Busches. This, too, was a love match,
pure and simple. the romance beginning in
childhood when the handsome Eddie" and
''Tolie" Busch were playmates.
wiIhelmina Is Beautiful
wilhelmina, the youngest OF the daugh-
tiers, is tall and stately like her mother,
though she has the features of her father.
But the dropping, beautifully rounded
shoulders are just like those of Mrs. Busch,
who now has a charmingly girlish figure.
In Vienna Mrs. Busch was often mistaken
! for the Empress Elizabeth during the lat
/ ter's life, so strong is the resemblance.
| Since budding into womanhood Miss
Busch has had several suitors, all of whom