The Washington herald., 1907-06-01
COPID'S AID TALKS
Marrying Hotel ParSOn In
terYiewS Park Row.
WOULD SELL WEDDING NEWS
Could Tell of Fierce Midnight
Hymeneals with Bridal Couples
Fetching Marriage Gowns-HOyv
Fat Corey Fee Got Away.

New York. May 5l.-If any philanthropic
person IN town would Ike 70 be one Of
say twenty men 20 whack up . cents a
week so that the income of the Rev
Or. Henry Marsh Warren may be in
! creased about so every seven days thera
| is one-as the pink editions say-who
would be delighted 20 increase the grand
total % $l12j and see that the doctor gets
the money DR.. Warren as everybody
knows. is the hotel chaplain vino marries
EN- I'm Jacks. or any other convenient
place after they've been foolish. or have
missed the last train TO Yaphank
In certain parts Of the Tenderloin. where
they don't seem 10 have a proper respect
for Dr. Warrens holy office. he is known
as the rst-aid-to-the-injured. or some
times theCupid, 10 the stay-out-aU-nights
But DR. Warren has made up his mind
that he has been tying the hasty knots
and then galloping 10 the nearest tole-
phone to tell the newspapers about the
marriages gratis long enough. He realizes
that his calling is sacred. all right. but he
needs the money. Consequently the doc
tor has gathered together all the clippings
published about his marriages for some
years back. and armed with these the
doctor has begun a crusade on Park row
asking how about it.
Mr.. warren's Profession.
Mr.. Warren's profession was ex-
planned in further detail to-day by the
marriage peddler himself, at his home
In West Ninety-foUrth street He told
amiably about the Iovelorn who have
come TO him stewed To the topknot.
and he even cOndescended to supply
a reporter with names including some
Of the interesting cases of the widest
ones he has known. The names were
not taken down, however. The con-
tracing parties might not be pleased
if they saw them in print
The reverend doctor was in his most
communicative mood, which is going
some. Ever and anon, Mrs. War
rem. who is one Of the best over
worked marriage witnesses in town.
came to the door and pleaded with the
doctor to come in TO dinner
On the supposition that the dinner got
under way in the dining room about the
time the doctor got underway in his in
terview to-day, then his description of the
various robes he uses in his business
alone. it IS safe TO say. lasted from the
beginning Of The soup to the end of the
enIree. From his enthusiastic description
some Of the gowns must be among the
sweetest in town.
His Lovely Marriage Robes.
One perfect love Of a marriage robe the
doctor wears on occasions is a pure vir-
gin white, and is used by him only now
and then. He was leading up to the hood
Of scarlet he wears at tremendous mar
riage ceremonies. when Mrs. Warren came
to the door again.
Probably the prettiest Of all is one Of
black silk with "A swell surplice. cut on
the bias. This robe is of silk throughout
with well-made buttonholes The sur
pice material alone must have cost over
g a yard If it cost a cent. When the
doctor gets this on it serves to accen-
tuate ne jolly black lustrous locks that
he parts so neatly in the center and it
comes up remarkably well in a news
paper photo.
mo matter what the papers may say"
said DR.. Warren, again speaking for pub
lication, Il really was asked to perform
the Corey-Gilman marriage. Unforu-
nately I went TO Miss Spooner's matinee
that afternoon. and as I was sitting in