The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-18
NeWarker and Daughter of
Rich Family Met in Course
Of Mission Work.
COURTSHIP ACROSS OCEAN
John Burroughs Came to Newark
and PrOspered-- Proposed by
Letter = Accepted, Prepares
Home for Fiancee..W Wedding
Tonight Crowns Romance.

A romance which had its beginning
four years g in Cork, ireland. will
reach its elimination tonight in the
marriage of job M. Burroughs. of
25Sh High street, this city, and Miss
Mary Elizabeth Bateman, of Queens
town, County Cork. The ceremony win
be performed in the Peoples Temple,
SO Clinton street, and the officiating
clergyman will be the Rev. Fred Lind
say, superintendent of the Temple, in
which the prospective groom is an ar
dent worker.
Mr.. Burroughs and Miss Bateman
met for the first time one bleak, cold
winters night in 1903, near the close of
the year. The young woman. who is
the daughter of one Of the foremost
merchants in the old Irish city, had
surrendered her place in society and the
Injuries of a wealthy home to engage
in city missionary work. And when
she chose the slums of that city as her
field of labor she became estranged
from her family and disinherited. Her
work in Cork continued, and in time
she a become so busy with her mis-
sionary work that the sting of being
rejected by her family became less
keen.
One night while assisting at a serv-
ice in the little mission hall, in which
she was the most enthusiastic worker,
Miss Bateman met for the first time
the man whose wife she was destined
to become. He was a volunteer mis-
sionary and had also selected Cork as
his field.
As a result of their meeting both
fought shoulder to shoulder in the
battle to uplift. and for weeks found
pleasure in the work and in each
others company.
One night Miss Bateman missed her
fellow worker. She made inquiries,
thinking, perhaps, that he might be
i'll. She was informed that he and his
family had sailed for America. At
first she was disappointed to think that
he had gone away without bidding her
farewell But she returned to her work
among the poor.
Time passed. The young man ar
rived in New York and came to New
ark. He soon obtained employment.
He was steady n proficient at his
vocation and had success almost from
the start. BY day he would ply his
vocation and at night he would be
found at one of the city missions an
enthusiastic worker.
One night, several months after COM
ing to this country, the young mans
thoughts went back to the city of his
birth and to the IL missionary
there. Had she forgotten him? Was
it light for him to write to her and
tell her of his success. A voice wills
pered in his ear, "Write!" And he
did. Soon came an answer n some
thing in it encouraged the young man
to write again. Another answer came.
A correspondence was opened.
One day last year a letter crossed the
ocean, and in due time was delivered
to Miss Bateman. She read 1t and re-
read it. Her letter contained a love
declaration and a proposal for her han
The very next steamship that
ploughed its way across the Atlantic
carried the answer. Needless to say
what the answer was.
The young lover set to work, actu-
ated by a new inspiration. 1t was not
long before a little ban account was
opened and all the money he had saved
for he was not a spendthrift and had
saved-was placed in the bank. 1t grew
week by week, month by month. Other
letters passed to and fro, containing
things that ordinary folk have naught
to do with.
One day last month a furniture van
drove up to a little house in High
street and several articles of furniture
were left there. Daily, wagons stopped
at the little house and left boxes, pack
ages, bundles, etc. Inside busy hands.
volunteer hands, we're at work and
soon the house was in readiness for an
occupant, and a cosier little home would
be hard to ind. A visit to the bank
was, made one day about the middle of
October by Mr.. Burroughs and a sum
of none was drawn. 1t was soon on
its way across the ocean, accompanied
by a letter that was full of specific
and careful instruction to a young
woman who was to sail for America as
soon as she received the missive. The
instructions were carried out, and on
November 9 last Miss Bateman ar
rived in New York.
When the ocean greyhound, in which
she travelled, was tied to her pier and
the passengers started ashore the young
woman hurried to the pier, but before
she could glance about her in the
throng she was clasped in a pair of
strong arms.
: And so the wedding will tax place to-
night. 1t will be a public one, and 1t
is expected that the Temple will be
thronged, for the story OF the romance
is known to nearly all those who are
affiliated with the Temple. The mar
riage will be in the Temple at the re-
quest of the bride-elect because of her
prospective husbands connection with
the Temple.
Miss Bateman has no relatives in
this country, and so she will be given
away by Mrs. Pattie Watkins Lindsay.
Her bridesmaids will be Miss Bessie
Burroughs, a sister of the bridegroom;
Miss Minnie Blower and Miss Rose
Keet. William E.. Gray will act as best
man. A reception will be held at the
home of the bridegroom following the
marriage.