The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-27
2-VARTY. GOTTHOLD UNIONS 3
VILLIAN AS DOTH TO MARRY
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tiers and There Are = Few Condolences
mat Are Enough to Puzzle Master
Minds OF License Bureau Clerks.

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tiers and There Are = Few Condolences
mat Are Enough 20 Puzzle Master
Minds OF License Bureau Clerks.
There are a couple Of good looking young
chaps In this town each named William
Vsrty, and both AVE taken out marriage
uospses, one yesterday and the other on
Monday, TO marry a couple Of good looking
Young girls each named Kate E. Gotthold.
perhape this will be clearer II 1t Is said sim
NV that William A. Varty is about to be
married to Kate E. Gotthold and on the
other hand William A. yarty 10 about TO
La married to Kate e. Gotthold.
The father Of ono of the William A. vsrtys
IA named William A. Varty and the father
OF the other William A. Varty 10 named
william A. Varty. Both the younger Will
IAN A. vartys give their occupations as
Journalist" and this adds to the mixup.
inasmuoh as the nearest any one ever has
come to defining Journalist is that some
one has said that Q Journalist Ia o graduate
OF Harvard and Oxford who has decided
10 AJAX the old folks whether he may look
for a job as a regular reporter,
But to resume.
William A. Vsrty, who 10 about to marry
Miss Kate Gotthold. gives his residence as
Havana. whereas the William A. Varty that
two days later got his license to marry
Miss Kate Gotthold lives at Havana. And
one Kate z. Gotthold has q middle name
Eugenia. and, for that matter. 30 has the
other one. And they are slsters and each
says she 10 t~wenty-four years old. And
City Clerk Joe Soully. twisting iced towels
around his fevered brow while trying to
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bureau at the City Hall, said late last night
that you could search him and observed
that It might be worse-the day was at least
cool. he said.
Furthermore, continued Joe Scully, IL
1t should 81 happen that both marriages
take place In the same house on the same
evening and there should be a strike Of
the electric light workers Of Greater New
York during the ceremony, thus leaving
all the William A. Vartys and all the Kate
Eugenia Gottholds mixed up In the dark
In front Of the minister, the question might
never be settled as to which Miss Gotthold
had got hold ONO. that was unintentional,
honesti-whioh had got married to the
thirty-two-year-old William A.. Varty and
which had been married to the thirty-three-
year-old William A. V~arty-not 10 mention
the possibility OF one Of the two senior
William A. Vartys answering by mistake
when the marriage questions begin.
Joe Scully ssys that he has been drilling
along with only hts customary troubles to
bother him this week until In came the
second William A. varty Yesterday and the
second Kate EsRenia Gotthold to take out
amarriage license. Assistant Clerk Hallen-
stein was asking the young couple all those
personal things that you were asked your
self when you up and did it-when YOU were
IN jail last and why. and are you white or
colored, and things like that-when aalen-
stein remembered that q man named yarty
had called for . license on Monday last to
marry a girl named Gotthold.
DO you know Q mar Of the Same name.
hy he way, and also a journalist and from
Hayana7' the clerk asked the applicant.
A, Yafty. and was about to burst into the
rsfrain Of the Clarioe vanoe song Hes q
Cousin Of Mine. hut decided to tell the same
thing In prose. And yesterdays Miss
Gotthold remarked pleasantly that she also
Clerk Hallenstein noticed that the wednes-
day varty was taller and less stout than
the Monday Verify. but Q few minutes after
the Wednesday Yarty-Gotthold couple had
left tbs once with their license the clerk
looked up the Monday license application TO
make sure that nobody was repeating.
After one look at the first application Clerk
Hallenstein cried, sWell, for gracious sakel'
or como other popular City Hall exclamation
and drew Joe Soully's attention to the mat
ter. Hoe Scully. after coming up for air.
fancyt' and then together they arranged on
Q sheet VI paper the dearly rarallel.
Here's the way 1t us
yARrr-eorrHoLp MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS