Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-09-24
FOUR CHILDREN MARRY;
ARE STERNLY PARTED

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-When Joseph
A. Physioc, jr., son of a scene painter
took Miss Lorene Douglas for better or
worse at the same time his friend, Frank
E. Libby, made Miss Lillian MacNames
his bride, they stored up trouble which
bids fair to last for some time to come.
Joseph is of the mature age of 1o whiie
his bride when married was not quite of
that age. Frank and his bride are each
a year older Their marriages have get
seven parents by the ears and sent a
Young Methodist minister to Cleveland.
Moreover, court proceedings are contem-
plated to annul the marriage ties and
expunge the records in the office of the
town clerk at Oyster Bay.
How 1t All Happened
Young Physioc expected to enter Ste
vens institute this fall He spends MS
summers with his parents at their coun-
try home, a show place of Bayville L. l.,
near oyster Bay Young Libby, who also
hoped to go to college, often visited him.
The youngest Mrs. Physioc, still known
as Lorene Douglas, is the daughter OF
James F. Douglas, an importer or z44
Fifth avenue, whose home Is at 349 West
One Hundred and Twenty-second street
At least so it appears In the record. A
Young man at the house, who said last
night he was Mr.. Douglas son, declared
that he had no sister and that Lorene
Douglas did not live there. Mrs. Libby,
or Lillian MacNames, is the daughter OF
a widow who lives on st. Nicholas avenue.
Mrs. Douglas met Mrs. MacNames at
a bazaar In the Waldorf-Astoria a year
ago and their daughters became close
friends. Young Physioc was Lorere's
ii ri hp
became acquainted. On June they were
members of a house party in the elder
Mrs. Physioc's home.
They spent the first day boating,
driving, bathing, tennis playing and
strolling. The stroll took them to the
Methodist Episcopal parsonage, occu-
pied by the Rev. E. e. Wilson, who had
not long been in charge of the Bayville
church.
When these four came out of the
parsonage, according to the record,
they were married. Mr.. Wilson'S re-
port says that Joseph Physioc, jr., a
civil engineer, was twenty-five; Libby
another engineer, of the same age
Lorene and her friend, Lillian, eigh-
teen 1t seemed to have escaped the
minister's notice that Lorene's skirts
were not down to her shoe tops and
that her hair hung in plaits down hel
back.
How 1t Came Out
The young people said never wore
of the marriage that night. The mex
day they returned to their homes
Mr.. Wilson met young Physioc in the
street and in the presence of the towr
hackman asked after his bride. Lillian
thought it was such a good joke tina
she told her mother about the SAM
time Telephone and telegraph mes
sages passed between the parents, ant
it is reported that slippers, hal
brushes and stronger weapons became
active. Mrs. MacNames turned tn
matter over to her lawyers and wen
west with her daughter. ME> and Mrs
Douglas went with theirs to the ST
Lawrence Mr.. and Mrs. Libby tool
their son up to the Adirondack
Young Joseph remained at Bayville
The minister withheld his official re
port for weeks About a fortnight agi
he resigned his charge and tlled tn
papers. That made the marriag
public.