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Welded ON TIE TOSSING DEEP.
RUNAWAY COUPLE FROM VIENNA
SPLICED ON THE SLAVONIA.

An the Pa sseng ers Were Guests and Capt.
Taylor Cave a wedding Breakfast
which Lasted Until Late at Night
storm Made an Unquiet Honeymoon.
The unusually rough and stormy passage
Of the Cunarder S~lavonia, In early yeeter-
day morning from Mediterranean ports,
was enlivened somewhat by q wedding
that took place or board on November 10.
1t was a runaway match. The couple who
were welded we're Sigmund Adelbert Engel-
bach Of Vienna and Miss Marie Josefa Kor-
mann, daughter Of q wealthy. wine merchant
In that city.
The two had been sweethearts for q
year past, but the father Of the girl would
rave none Of young Engelbach. The latter
had a clerkship in the Hamburg-Amerioan
Line ticket Office in Vienna. Some time ago
he wrote to a cousin in Chicago asking him
II he could get him a Job. A favorable reply
came to that letter on November 5. Engel-
bach had some money saved and he proposed
to Marie that they fee to America. He
wanted her to skip right off and catch the
Slavonia before she sailed from Trieste
On November 8.
By the time the girl made up her mind
II was too late to reach the ship at Trieste.
So Engelbach persuaded her to go TO Fume
and take the Slavonia there on her second
stop. The two reached the gangplank
Just in time. They say that they have rea-
son TO believe that a very stout and angry
man that rushed down to the dock as the
ship was steaming out was the father of
Marie.
The ship touched next at Palermo on
November IL, at Naples the next day and
cleared Gibraltar on the fifteenth. Engel-
bach had been appreh ensive OF trouble from
Vienna, but when he found that no inter-
oepting messages had arrived at any of
these ports he felt greatly relieved. It
had been the original plan of the couple
to wait until they reached these shores
before being married. Two days out OF
Gibraltar Engelbach again became very
nervous. He had learned something about
our immigration laws and came to UNDER
stand that should Marie 3 father cable the
authorities here that his daughter had been
kidnapped she would be returned to Austria
and he would &c to jail-it they were not
married.
Engelbach unbosomed himself to Capt.
Taylor Of the ship. The skipper proved a
rood friend. He said there was a skypilot
on board and that he would use his influence
in getting that worthy to make Engelbach
and the young woman man and wife. The
reV. III SIdlS VI WlOht ~ - WdS Iuc
minister on board and he consented to per-
form the ceremony.
1t took place on November 10 and was a
jolly affair. with all of the cabin passengers
attending. Capt. Taylor was best man
and Carlo Bianci OF Sl4 East Fourteenth
street, this city, was the officially de designated
witness. DR.. Mackenzie, the ships sur
geon, gave the bride away.
Nobody enjoyed the affairs more than
Capt. Taylor. He gave a wedding break
fast in honor Of the event, and the merry
making that followed lasted until late that
night. With dusk came a lambasting
sto m and for days after the ship staggered
through mountainous seas that made her
roll and pitch at a great rate. TIL ex-
perienced sea dogs aboard say that Mrs.
Sigmund Adelbert Engelbach was prob
ably the sickest bride that ever was. She
didn't get out Of her cabin until Sandy
Hook was almost in sight.
However she was all smiles when the
Slavonia's gangplank was lowered to the
Cunard pier yesterday morning. Engel-
bach was as happy as a lark as he made
asho The couple got a rousing sendoff
from the other passengers. They left by
the first train for Chicago, as Engelbach
Is anxious to get started in his new Job.
Among the passengers who took part
in the wedding festiv tiles was Maior-Gen.
Story, U. s.. A. He Is a member Of the
National Coast Defence Board, and has
Just completed a trip around the world
on which he inspected a lot of defences
that have been built for coaling stations.
Gen. Story refused to discuss what he had
done or what suggestions he would make
N tho Gouernmpf