The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-09
PROPOSES TO
WIDOW ON SIGHT
AND IS ACCEPTED
Angelo Asper, a Widower, Lost
No Time in His Court
ship.
WEDDING IN HOSPITAL
PERFORMED BY PATIENT
Brides First Husband Died at
Sea, and She Got Work in
German Hospital.

Married to a woman he had never
seen before, Angelo Asper Is spending
his honeymoon In his humble home mt
8 Sixth avenue.
Behind the wedding there 1. a story
of love at nrst sight, a proposal In the
Kitchen of the German Hospital and q
marriage In one of the private wards
of that Institution.
Six months ago there sailed from
Italy Maria De Gullielma and her nus
band, Pietro. Maria was anticipating
a happy event, and they decided TO
come to a new a with chances OF a,
better future, and where Pietro might
regain his shattered health, for he was
q delicate man and Mrs. Gullielma,s
greatest fear was that he would not
live to see his child. But the ship on
which the ! Gullielmass sailed encoun-
tered rough seas and Pietro sickened
and declined and finally died. and they
buried him far out of sight of land,
slipping him over the side in q coarse.
canvas coffin. The other, passengers
were sorry for Maria and they got up
a purse, but the woman refused 1t.
She. said she. had friends in this coun
try and that they would care for. her. :.
Newark Friends Had Moved.
When she landed Maria DE Gullielma,
the widow of a few days, came to New
ark. She went to the address where
she believed her friends lived, but she
found that they had moved away. to
another city and the neighborhood had
lost all trace of them. She was in
pitiable health and applied for admis-
sion to the German Hospital and this
was granted. Three months ago a son
was bornato her. When she w%asquite se-
covered she was allowed to remain, the
authorities having learned her story.
She was given work In the kitchen.
1t was while she was employed In the
hospital that Maria met Angelo Pater.
&. stone mason. who was doing sor1e
work rou the building. BY degree
Pster learned the circumstances of thu
case and one day he casually told his
friend, Angelo Asper, of the prett,
widow and her child. Asper became in
terested. He nae two children of his
own. Edith, IL years old, and Belle. I
years old. and his wife had died ten
months before. He had tried to get
along comfortably under the circum-
stances, and Edith had done we'll as n
little mother. but he wished the child to
go to school and not spend her time
looking after the family and the house.
He pondered over some treasured
thought long, and yesterday did not go
to work. Instead. he dressed himself
up4in his very best clothes and walked
to the German Hospital.
Widow says Eyes, In Hospital.
The doctors were surprised when, IN
asked for Maria" They did not think
of the young woman In the kitchen.
and, %supposing that he was looking for
q patient, they told him the visitinS
days. Then Asper inquired for his
friend Pater and was led to him. They
held a hurried consultation and Pater
looked surprised, but finally he took
him to the kitchen. Then he left.
In the figure of the little woman
dressed in black Asper saw a mother
for his children. And SO he proposed
and was accepted. Once again the
services Of Pater were. called In. The
stone mason to the hospital au-
thorities n they remembered that
Amzi e.. Berla, an assistant in the city
clerks office and a Justice Of the peace
was a patient in a private ward. They
went to him and told him the whole
story and he agreed to perform the
ceremony.
M so by the bedside of the sick mar
these two were married, Maria's child
Growing gleefully, but not knowing
what 1t was all about. Immediately
afterward Angelo took his bride to his
home and introduced his children TO
their new mamma. Then She rushed out
and. told all his friends that he had been
married, and invited them to his home.
The event was celebrated in many bot
ties of sweet italian wine,. and IL you
had been In the neighborhood last night
you would have heard Singing and
dancing and the wheeling strains of a
concertina.