Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-11
Washington and Baltimore Ri
val Candidates For Abruzzi-
Elkins Ceremony
PAPA ELkINs GETS OVER FRIGHT
No Longer Fears Result of Match on
His Political Future = Castro and
His BIuffins Regarded by Govern
ment Officials as Huge Joke
Washington News.

Especial Washington Correspondence
Washington, April 11.-About all
there is left, in the view of Washing
ton society, to be decided, is whether
the Elkins wedding will take place in
Washington, at Elkins. w. Va, or in
Italy. The impression is strong that
it will occur in this city but there is
a possibility-just a mean. uncomfort-
Baltimore.
Washington and Baltimore are in
many WAYS rivals, and it would be eS-
pecially exasperating if this Abruzzl-
Elkins wedding should go to Baltimore
merely because a cardinal is located
there 1t is frankly understood among
the friends of the IIlllins family that
Cardinal Gibbons will perform the we'd
ding ceremony that will unite Miss
Katherine Elkins and the Duke of the
AbruZzi Beyond that, Washington So
ciety understands that the cardinal Will
probably come here, as he is an init
mate friend of many years standing
of the Elkins family. Ii he should de-
cline, however, it is possible that the
wedding might have to be performed
in Baltimore, as the disposition is to
insist that the highest authority of the
Catholic church must pronounce the
words of the ceremony.
Senator Elkins has been less dis
tba, n talk .hDlt the
of late There was a time,
when it was supposed that the sena-
tor feared the effect on his political
future of such a match, but that fear
was not justified. The whole
has come to believe sincerely
that this is going to be a love match,
if it comes off at all. and AL the
world loves lover" not excepting the
coal-mining constituents of the West
Virginia senator. OF course the no.
ton that Senator Elllins will be made
a duke or count or something, is ac-
cepted as nonsense. The point is that
if Miss Elkins wants to marry an ltal-
ian gentleman who chances to possess
a title. there is not going to be any OBJ
lection out among Uncle Steve's"
folks. They don't propose to allow
politics to interfere with the affairs of
Cupid. and if there ever was any polit-
ical reason for objection to the mar
riage, it is declared to have been re-
moved by the evidences which have
come from the home state that folks
out there want Miss Elkins to marry to
suit herself, not to suit papa's political
The duke is expected to be back
here before long. In fact there is much
whether he will come before
the adjournment of congress. That is
about two months ahead. If he doesn't
come before that time, the Elkins fam
lily will be at their mountain place in
West Virginia, and Washington will
miss the delicious sensation
1t is curious to what extent an af-
fair of this sort changes the whole
social plan of Washington. 1t would
be impossible to keep any
think doing, socially. in Washington,
after the weather had become uncom-
Portable. Society would fit to the
mountains and the sea and the north
and Europe-but it wouldn't stay here.
But if the duke is coming = coming
with the consent of the king, his royal
cousin; coming to demand that the
girl keep her promise contingent on
that royal assent-then Washington
will willingly stay here and swelter
and worry over whether it is to be in
vited.
There have been twice, in the MEM
Dry of living people, when Washington
was existed over a social problem as
it is now Once was when Alice Roose-
velt was about to be welded, and 1T
was absolutely necessary to be invited /
in order to be correct. the other time
was when President Grants daughter
was to wed Algernon Sartoris. On each
IF those occasions it developed that the
semi official character of the function
overshadowed it's social aspects, and
the social effect of failure to get in
yited was not so disastrous as feared.
But this time it is going to be more
distinctly social and the matter of get