Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-01
TO WED ON A MOUNTAIN TOP.
English Girl Arrives to Marry Fiance
at $4,000 Feet Altitude

NEW YORK. July Miss Lille Edith
Bergman of Gwinear, Cornwall. who ar
rived on the American liner New York on
Saturday. left yesterday for Reno. New,
where she is to marry Thomas Penzance
Nichols. an old sweetheart whom she first
met under romantic circumstances The
young woman is the daughter of Edward
Bergman, an English mining engineer. Her
| romance began on st. Michaels Mount, in
Cornwall. and will eliminate when the
young couple are married on Wheeler's
Peak, New, 1906 feet above sea level.
Miss Bergman is the picture Of Mabelle
Gilman, now Mrs. Corey. and during the
voyage from Southampton some of her fell
low travellers insisted on calling her Miss
Gilman. greatly to her annoyance Miss
Mary G. Nichols, a relative of her ilance,
met her at the pier, and she went to Miss
Nichols home, 22l West 23d street. Yes
terday she started on her trip to the west.
smiling and happy. Nichols will meet his
| bride-to- be at Reno. and together they will
ascend Wheeler's Peak to be married on
| the summit.
Much of the country about Lands End,
England. Is in the estate of Lord St. Levan.
| On fine days the grounds are thrown open,
and the young people go there for their
| holiday. One June afternoon sixteen years
ago a party of girls were spending the
afternoon on ST. Michael's Mount when a
crowd of boys. many of them just entering
their teens. came along. Among them was
leeted their playground near where the girls
were having a good time, and the cricket
game soon lost interest. Within an hour
bags and girls were playing together The
fun waxed fast, and some boy said to
Nichols. who had been romping with slim
young girl with chestnut hair. 81 dare you
to kiss that girl.
Young Nichols would not take the dare
and undertook to kiss his playmate. A
singing blow on the cheek was his reward
and soon after the party broke UP.
Some years later Nichols came to this
country. and. going west. he made n COM
atOr. A year ago last March he went back
to Penzance. where he was brought up
One day while on the main street of
Grinear he suddenly grabbed Il compan-
is that pretty girl coming down the street,"
"Which--the red-haired one?" asked
Jack
mo: the tall slim girl with the brown
dress and the mass of chestnut hair" said
the excited mining man.
''Why that's Miss BeBrrynan, the girl
You tried to kiss
Within two weeks after this chance meet
| ing on the street Nichols had been intro
duced to Miss Bergman. and two months
later he returned to America with Miss
Berryman's promise to come over within
year and marry him.
| Nichols wanted Miss Rerryman to marry
| him st. Michaeis Mount. where they
4 first met. and return to America US his
wife. She declared that she could not wed
| then.
| az cannot marry now" said the girl. land
| as you are now an American. and have to
| go back to your business. I will promise
you that within year I will come to
| America and. instead Of ST. Michaefs
Mount. III marry you on the highest noun
| tain in America YOU choose"
| And this is why Miss Bergman came over
| in the cabin of the New York and why she
| and the young mining man to be mar
ried on the summit of Wheeler's Peak