The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-10-08

New York, Oct when the White Star
liner Majestic reaches Queenstown to-
morrow, Mrs. Samuel ClarksOn, who was
Miss Helen MalOney, the daughter Of Mar
lin MaIoney, the papal marquise, OF this
city, viii receive many cables from her
parents telling her that her el0pement
with the young Englishman last Tuesday
has been forgiven and that If she will
only bring her new husband back to the
shadow OF the Maloney rooftTee nothing
Will be too good for both Of them. After
vainly securing the Atlantic by wire
less messages TO every boat that had left
either New York OF Boston since the day
of their daughters runaway marriage. the
parents have learned from reliable source
none other than one within the precincts
Of st. Patrick's Cathedral, that their
daughter and her husband took the Ma
jestic, which left here Wednesday, the
morning after Helen MaIoney and Samuel
Garrison were married.
Had Been FamiIy's Guest.
Mr.. MaIoney was in St. Louis preparing
TO go down the river with the President
when he received a telegram from his wife
telling him that Helen had run away with
the EHglishman who had been the Ma
loneys' guest at their summer home at
Spring Lake for several weeks. Taking
the first train out of st. Louis, Mr.. Ma
loney hurried back to New York and i'm
mediately proceeded TO get into touch
with every outgoing boat that was still
within range Of the wireless here and at
Cape Race. Newfoundland.
wireless StartIes Boats.
Fully a dozen boats, first-class liners,
Atlantic Transport boats, and slow-going
cargo boats, were startled last Friday 10
get queries out of the air about Tuna-
way girl and her young husband.
Ships captains were implOTed by doting
parents to tell Helen if she were on
board that she was forgiven and that
she could come home just as fast as the
next boat across could carry her.
BeIated Letter Tells News.
All the girls father and mother had to
tell them that Helen had run away and
married her Englishman was a belated
letter, which the daughter had mailed Ia
them on Wednesday morning Just before
the Majestic pulled out at 10 O'Clock. This
missive simply said that she had married
the man Of her choice and that they
were going on their honeymoon, and she
hoped they would be forgiven.
Sister Let Secret Out.
To-day it was learned that after the
fruitless search Of the Atlantic the father
of the runaway bride had begun around
nearer home and that some one high Fl
orders in St. Patrick's Cathedral had
thought it no harm TO put the girls pa.
rents at rest as 20 their whereabouts
Maybe Mrs William c. Richie Heller
MalOney's older sister, whose marriage
in ST Patrick's Cathedral four years ago
was blessed by the Pope relented and
violated her vows of secrecy, which she
made to the young couple at the time OF
their hasty wedding
Full story Is Ont.
Now the full story of the eIopement
has come out, and the reason why Mrs
Richie knows something about her sis.
ter being on the Majestic is apparent
It seems thai she was IN league with the
young people and secretly helped then
down from Spring Lake with their trunk,
and wedding fixings on Tuesday Heller
came TO New York ostensibly on a shop
ping TRIP; Garrison, the guest OF the Ma
lOneys, came along seemingly as q matter
of course, and a French maid was the
third member OF the party for propriety'
sake.
Ceremony at st. Patrick's.
Helen Maloney and Clarkson left tn,
maid at the Waldorf, with instruction!
that she should await their return iron
the shopping trip. Some time after they
had left the maid behind Miss Malonel
and her husband-to-be met Mrs. Richie
and the three of them went to St. Pat
rick's Cathedral Mrs. Richie had pre-
viously arranged 1t with some one there
Mgr Tavele will not say that he had
hand in the Gretna Green marriage, no
that under special dispensation Helen an,
her Englishman, who is a Church of Eng
land man, could be married.
Did Not Want "a Fuss"
-Four years ago, when Mrs. Richie wa
married at the cathedral with mucl
pomp and ceremony, her more demo
cratic sister said that If she ever mar
ried It would be without all the SHOW
and fuss and feathers Of a big churcl
wedding. II Is understood that this Wa
what Helen Maloney advanced as rea
son for her hasty wedding in the lette
10 her father and mother: Thatsshe di
not want a big fuss made over anything
After the wedding there was a daint1
little supper in a secluded room of
Thirty-sixth street restaurant, that pride
itself on serving only the Newport set
and after a farewell taken Of the sister
Mr.. and Mrs. ClarksOn went down ant
boarded the boat. 1t was about this tim
that the fOrlOrn maid, left waiting at tn
Waldorf, sent hasty telegram to Sprlnj
Lake, telling Mrs. MalOney that some
thing surely must be the matter wit
Miss Helen.
Father Is MagnanimOus.
Close friends of the Maloneys said to
day that Mr.. Maloney had cabled hi
daughter that if she would only return
with her husband he would give them hi
summer house at Spring Lake and Sc
10 1t that neither of them would lack a
long as he lived. Since Clarkson is on
Of the poor but honest type Of English
men, it is believed that papa MaIoney'
offer viii look good to him.