The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-23
DAUGHTER OF RICHEST WOMAN
 MARRIED TODAY
Miss Sylvia Green Wed at MOrristown,
 N. J., to Matthew Aster Wilks. Manage to EInde Crowd of Curious at noboken and Slip Away-Prominent People Present.
Special from United Press.)

Morristown. N. J., Feb. 23-Miss Sylvia Green. daughter of Mrs. Hetty
 Green, and Matthew Wilks. were mar ried at St. Peters church here to-day by Rev. zPhiloman F. Sturgess. Mrs. Green was present.
 Mrs, Hetty Green, her daughter, and the bridesmaids arrived here at 10:3t
 thsi morning. They were met at the
 train by Rev. Sturgess who accom-
 panied them to the Morristown Inn
 where they rested for an hour or more
 They then proceeded to the church
 where the ceremony was performed.
 Arrangements for the wedding were
 made yesterday by the brother and
 sister of the groom, who stayed for the
 wedding. Mrs. Green said that the
 reason she brought her daughter to
 MOrriStOWn to marry was because of
 the associations which surround the
 town. She and her daughter lived here young. So, she said, they decided on
 Morristown when they were searching
 for a quiet place to wed.
 Mrs. Green was in high spirits,
 laughing and joking with the other
 members of the party. At the close of
 more, returned to the Morristown Inn
 where the wedding breakfast was serT-
 ed.
 Hoboken. N. J.. Feb 23.-NIrs. FIetty Green. the richest woman in the world, following precedent. declined to-day to take the public into her confidence even about so trifling matter as the marriage of her daughter. Sylvia Green, to a scion of the old Astor family. Matthew Astor WilkS.
 The aged milliOnairess intimated last night that the wedding would be per formed at noon to-day at the Hoboken flat in which she and her daughter re- side. But it was not definitely known. Mrs. Green knew full we'll that the more announcement that there would be a wedding there would attract crowd-and she was rich. The crowd gathered and finally became so dense that it blocked the street in front of the house. Not a dozen of the people there had ever heard of Mrs. Green until they had read the announcement in the papers. Some had brought rice, others articles of footwear and all participated a good view of the bridal party as it left the house.
 But they were doomed to disappoint- 1nent The door of the apartment house was suddenly opened and two women one of them Sylvia. appeared. l AS they moved forward two policemen who had been vainly trying to keep the crowd moving. swung ahead and | behind of the pair and hustled them | to a, corner where a cab was waiting | To get them inside and slam the door | was the work of but an instant and l they drove away. It was seen how | ever that the two women were Mrs. | Green and her daughter. The young | who is to become a bride later | in the day may have worn her bridal | outfit but a long dark cloak, covering | her from her neck to her heels. pre- l vented any of the curious determining | the fact.
 The couple were greeted by an elder | " man whose face was kept sunk well down in the collar of his fur lined coat. bridegroom' Matthew Astor Wilks but when asked who he was and where the Dartv were going. he became real i oeevish.
 The party was hustled into a private car that was waiting at the station, which was attached to the regular vest-bound train. It was stated later that they were bound for Morristown, V. J.. and that the marriage would be performed there.
 A dispatch from Morristown later stated that there was quite a party waiting there for the Greens and Wilks. This included MT. and Mrs. Bell. MT. and Mrs. Stephen Bell, MT. and Mrs. Amery Carphate and several relatives of Wilks. The wedding of Miss Sylvia, Green and Mir Nilks gives Mrs. Green a marriage re- ationship with the innermost circles if New York society. Wilks is a direct of the original Astor who lmassed the present Astor fortune by rading for furs as a pack peddler and hen investing his Winnings in New { Amsterdam Real Estate. He is worth tbout $200O. 900 in his own right and las been a favorite in New York and Newport society.
 No one knows just what the Green 1 ortune amounts to. The lowest esti- ; nate is sixty million dollars and the ,uesseE range all the way to one hun