The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-10
PRINCESS RUTH VgDS H0DlI.
TBg BRIDgOR0eM, a eYSat,
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Ruth, q gypsy Ia u b maffied 81 w
sytey sncampment Jbss m the fnsin fCad
between hero and NeWafh tosmoffow
afternoon, provided Huahie Evans We
bridegroom IN 10. shows up, lie had rot
but IN m appearances 40 u q late bous THE
afternoon bt ibe gypsy pros essnts al
aid that he wss corning On . epeessl efasH
and would he hrfctn tins fof the ceremony
Amos, cointless are the fohhadces That
have been printed about Ruth, and every
time she sot into typ tho sign 'iAne ferns
on this slda' was hung out nest dRy a The
fortune telling tables N che eypey camps,
witch are within twenty yards of Q trolley
line. All accounts have eereed IN the state
nent that her famed vas Claude Cavaedah,
q rich California lawyer and Planter, who
came 10 the camp one day 10 Aet 9 llns on
hls luck. In tire map on bis palm Pr'ncees
Ruth saw that Claude would be her hus-
band II cams pretty neal ell happening
In q jify, but the old king, Ruth's father,
withheld his coneent. He knew that hone
Of his gypsies had ever married outelde the
tribe. That Was forbi dden by q RomAny
law. Wac II not told around the camp
fire how a gypsy girl Of another tribe had
married n stranger; how she lived In wealth
and station near Asbury Park In winter,
but every spring listened TO the call Of the
wild and II was back 10 the woods for her for
Nkn a,,aa.a, ~ go a ~Na1 klN that neNth.
too, would be lonesome In q drawing room,
and would return 70 the tall timber when
the snow disappeared.
have been here before now had not tbs
earthquake damaged his estate In Caltfof-
mia. A reporter who went 10 the gypsy
camp expecting 10 zee Claude learned that
II by him was meant the bridegroom who
is coming on the special his real name is
Hughie Evans and that, at best, no livee on o
farm somewhere West.
The reporter ran into q holiday In the
little glade of woods where the camp 10 sit
uated. A couple Of ~highbred horses were
tethered to stumps. A watchdog lay under a
% snsGins k a (. 'f B. T pain lyin Biz Hn x sss g pis y
on a guitar under a tree. Princes Ned,
San and Jim were swapping horee yarns
between spells at mumble-peg on the
grass. Princess Ruth couldn't be .eeen,
but Princess Rebecca was there. ecrubtirg
O pan. There were more p~rincesees wan
dering In the woods, young prinees and
princesses chasing l~adybuge, and sitting
quietly apart was Queen Laura, mending a
sock.
A legend hanging to a tree told how we'll
Queen Laura and the princesses could teif
fortunes at 40 much per fortune. The
reporter went to Queen Laura TO get q
peep at his future. He lost a dollar on
queen high, but learned some real 1facts"
about the wedding.
1t is set for tomorrow afternoon. The
brides name Is Ruth Evans and IL the family
trees were examined 1t might be found she
IL distantly related to the Hughie Evans
who1s coming on a special to make her his
wife. The ceremony will be like all wedding
ceremonies. AL Smith, gypsy, OF Chicago,
is to % best man., out the bridesmaid was
still unknown this afternoon.
The reporter was about to hang a little
romance around the allie eyed Romany ira
dition that forbids a gypsy to marry oft side
the tribe, but even that was lost when
Queen Laura pointed out in the camp an
Italian, a German and a Sootchman all with
gypsy wives.