Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-27
Grooms Cousins, and Fathers Could
Have Used Same Visiting Cards.
BESIDES OTHER CONDOLENCES
Master Minds Of License Bureau
Struggle With Strange Concatena-
ton of Circumstances.

ply that William A. Varty is. about to be
married to Kate E. Gotthold and on the
other hand William A. Varty is about to
be married to Kate E. Gotthold.
The father of one of the William A.
Vartys is named William A. Varty and
the father of the other William A. Varty
is named William A. Varty. Both the
younger William A. Vartys give their oc-
equations as Journalist and this adds to
the mix-up, inasmuch as the nearest any
one ever has come to defining Journalist
is that some one has said that Jour
nalist'' is graduate of Harvard and Ok
ford who has decided to ask the old folks
whether he may look for job as regu-
lar reporter.
But to resume:
William \. Varty. who is about to
marry Miss Kate Gotthold. gives his resi-
dence Havana. whereas the William A.
Varty that two days later got his license
to marry Miss Kate GCtthold lives at Ha-
vana. And one Kate F.. GOtthold has a
middle name Eugenia. and, for that mat
ter so has the other one. And they are
sisters and each says she is twenty-four
years old. And City Clerk Joe Scully.
twisting iced towels around his feVered
brow while trying to untangle things IN
the marriage license 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
Mix-Up That Might Be.
Furthermore. continued Joe Scully. II
it should so 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 al! the Kate
Eugenia Gottnods mixed up in the dark
in front of the minister. the question
might never be settled as to winch MISS
GotthOld had got hold ONO, that was
unintentional. honest (which had got
married to the thirty-two-year-old VII
liam A. Varty and which had been mar
ried to the thirty-three- year-old Wlinam
a. Varty-not to mention the possibility
of one of the two senior William A.
Vartys answering by mistake when the
marriage questions begin.
Joe Scully says that he has been drill
ing along with only his customary trou-
bles to bother him this week until in came
the second William a. Varty yesterday
and the second Kate Eugenia Gotthold TO
take out marriage license Assistant
Clerk Haliensten was asking the young
couple all those personal things that you
were asked yourself when you up and
did it-when you were in Jail last and
why and are you white or co!ored, and
things like that-when Hallenstein remem-
bered that a man named Varty had called
for license Monday last to marry girl
named GOtthOld.
DO you know man of the same name
by the way. and also a journalist and
from Havana" the clerk asked the appll-
cant.
"Oh. yes" answered yesterdays VIII
liam A. Varty and was about to burst
into the refrain of the Clarice Vance
song Hes Cousin of Mine, but de-
cided to tell the same thing in prose. And
yesterdays Miss Gotthold remarked pleas
antly that she also knew the other Will
liam A. Varty
Clerk Hallenstein noticed that the We'd
nesday Varty was taller and less stout
than the Monday Varty. but few min
utes after the Wednesday Narty-Gotthold
couple had left the Office with their IL
cense the clerk looked up the Monday
license application to make sure that no.
body was repeating After one look at
the first application Clerk Hallensteln
cried. We'll. for gracious sake!' or some
other popular city hall exclamation. and
drew Joe Scully's attention to the mat
ter. Joe Scully, after coming up for ar.
exclaimed in establishment, why. only
fancy!' and then together they arranged
on sheet of paper the deadly parallel.
Some Vital Statistics.
Here's the way it runs
Varty- Got told marriage license applications of
Monday and Wednesday
Monday. Wednesday,.
Name-Wiiliam A. Varty. Name-William ~ tarty.
Born-Kentucky. overwhelmingly.
IIOme--Havana. Cuba. UOme-IIavana. Cuba.
Age-Thirty- three years Age-Thirty-two years.
Occupation Journalist. OccupatiOn-Journalist.
Father-William A. Var Father-William a. Var
Father born In Scotland Fa. ncr born I'm t. s.
Mothers maiden name Mothers name-Kate.
Mary Catherine ivy Mother born III L. ).
Mother born in L. s.
Gotthold Statistics.
Name-KatsE tthold Gotthold Statistics
Born-Jacksonvle. Fla. Name-Kate f. Gotthold.
Home-JOG Amsterdam misunderstanding. Fla.
ave. Home-Amsterdam ave-
Age-Twenty- four years Age-Twenty four years.
Father-Elis NJ. Colt Father-Elis NJ. Colt
Father born in l.. s. Father born in L. s.
Mothers maiden name Mothers maiden name
Jennie Linn Gilbert. Jennie Lyn:
Mother born In l.. $. Mother born in T. S.
And there you are.
All four signatures were dinerent, Joe
Scully saw at a glance. The Monday VIII
liam Farty had begun to write 1t was
seen, the birthplace of his father was
Scott county Ky, but ne erased this with
pen stroke when ne remembered that
Kentucky was his own birthplace and
that his father was born in Scotland. The
answers that the two Gotthold girls wrote
on their applications were exactly the
same, except that one sister says her
mothers maiden name was Jennie Linn
Gilbert and the other says it was Jennie
Lyn.
Kate Eugenia Gotthold and Kate E,u-
genia Gotthold both are her daughters,
Mrs. Gotthold said yesterday. One sister.
however. is known Katie and the other
as Genie, thus avoiding the slightest con-
fusion. They have an Uncle Eugene and
an Aunt Kate and as the family simply
think the world of Uncle Eugene and
Aunt Kate the GotthOlds called all their
daughters Kate Eugenia after them. and
1t Is likely that if there We're any more
sons to be named they all would be called
Eugene Kate GotthOld.
Girls Are Twins.
Seuth Harris opines that the girls are
twins. because. he says. you can't tell
Kate from Kate This opinion. however.
is not final. and Mrs. Gotthold had no ex-
PLANTATION of why one of her daughters
gives the mothers maiden name as Jen-
ME Linn Gilbert and the other is content
with simply putting it down as Jennie
Lyn. One may go in for simple spelling.
Now. IL the two brides and bridegrooms
go away on a sort of Joint Chinese honey
moon somebody is bound to get the wrong
pitcher of ice water now and then. Also
the letter carriers will be pleased if the
two couples engage apartments I'm the
same building. Last night Letter Carrier
Hennessy, who for some time delivered
mail to DR.. James +. Power of DO West
Saith street that as often as not belonged
to the Dr. James F.. Power of 30 East 34th
street and then took it away again for re-
delivery, said that it would be just his
luck to have both the Varty couples on
his route
\ DR.. James F. Power of East Bath street
Is not related to the DR.. James r. Power