The twice=a=week herald. (Amarillo, Tex.) 1887-1906, 1906-07-31
WEDDINGS AT SEA

From thc New YORK. Sun,

couples on the high SEA? We'll |
reckon, said man who makes ire
Quent lO,OOO-milo jumps In selling
bridges and structural steel
The topic was started by the case
Of a young woman who sailed from
New York the other day for Trim
dad, British West Indies TO meet
and marry her young man q Mich
isander, working down there, To
avoid the British marriage law,
which requires a two weeks resi-
dencc before the ceremony can be
performed the young woman cN-
pccted her berothcd TO meet h2roul-
side The threc-mile limit OF Trinidad,
aud the skipper OF The ship on which
she sailed was to tie the knot
"A skipper can do plenty Of things
that lot OF people don't know he's
entitled TO do" went on the man
who goes mp and down the seven seas
selling steel tie can arrest YOU,
for one thing He can bury the dead,
Of course, and believe there have
been some shippers who'ye baptized
young uns born on board their
ships
But they have certainly got the
marrying power, One reason why
know that is because have been
present at three deep sea marriages.
First time was on board the Co
lima OF the Pacific Mail line, In
1898. Among the passengers who
came ON board at San Francisco were
hustling young man and a sprightly
clever girl, neither of whom had
ever clappcd an eye on the other.
The young man had been living
at Maagtlan, Mexico, for couple OF
years acting as Mazatlan manager
for an American shipping firm. The
girl had been acting as soyerness In
a wealthy Peruvian family, living at
Callao, for couple OF years She,
too had been visiting San Francisco
with the whole Peruvian family and
was on her way back to Callao.
They happened to be made mess
mates, being placed alongside each
other at table, and It didn't take one
eighth of an eye to see that they
we're hitting It off with each other
mighty slick and fine from the time
the Colima left the Farallones on
the horizons rim,
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THE third day ont the mother Of
the Peruvian brood for whom the
girl was govorness, began to look
blue over tho prospect, plain enough,
of losing that goyernoss Fourth
day out bets began TO he laid in the
room, with no takers, that thorell he
q marriage on board the Colima be-
fore she made her first stop, Malat-
Ian. The reason why that there was
no takers was that the young man
had been seen several times in
earnest conference with the skipper.
THE Young man, it appeared,
wanted the ceremony performed two
or three days before the ship was
duo to fetch Mazatlau, but tho cirl
wouldn't listen TO that proposition.
Her idea was marriage just before
tho ship reached Ma5aDlan They
were both Protcstauts, and as such
they preferred not TO ho married by
A Catholic priest in Ma9atlau or the
Mexican alcaldc The Peruvian fam.
lily wanted 10 SCa the girl safely
married before letting her go.
I'VE pulled FIRST sight of Mazatlan
al three o'clock in the afternoon, and
then all the passengers were mustered
in the main cabin 10 witness tho cor
cmony. There wasn't any dubdub
or supernuijes about it,
THE skipper brought out his lit
tie book and read the lines in his
tremendous hssso profuudo , The
girl had been wearing for many
years her dead mothers Wedding
ring suspended around her neck 10y
a tiny chain and she used that ring
for her own Wedding All that was
needed 10 make tho thing realistic
was some feminine wceps and those
evontuatcd at Just the proper mo.
mont
First the handsome mother of
tho Peruvian children for whom the
bride had been goyernessing, broke
out. The couple had no sooner been
pronounced man aud wife than she
foil upon her neck, and after kissing
her most affectionately performed
the necessary wedding waiting to the
queens taste. in which she was fer
vcntly Joined by all Of her brood,
who worc broken hearted when they
learned that they we're going to lose
their govcrrcss,
The biz skipper of course,
claimed the immortal privilege of
splicers on land and sea. He stood