Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-03-28
DAUGHTER OF
PRELATE WE'D
TO JAPANESE
MISS EMERY AND HER ASIATlC
SWEETHEART MARRY
1ooo-MlLE FLIGHT ENDS AT THE
ALTAR IN SEATTLE
Episcopal Church Scene of Unusua
Ceremony as Californian Takes
Former Oriental Servant
for Her Husband
tBy Associated Press.J


~ EATTLE, March 27.-With Rev. II.
~ H. Gowan as the officiating cler-
| ~ gyman, assisted by Rev. A. Pat
| terson, Gunjiro Aoki, Japanese, and
Miss Helen Gladys Emery, the daugh-
ter of Archbishop John Emery or the
! Episcopal diocese of California, were
| married at Trinity church at 11:45 this
morning.
| They had travelled for more than
| 1000 miles to become legally united as
man and wife, as the laws OF CanIof-
mia, where the girl was born and. reared
and where the courtship occurred IN
| the home of the Emerys at Corte Ma
dera prevent the union of white per-
sons with those of an oriental race.
Archdeacon Emery, his wife, VINO
against her husbands strongly protest
ed opposition to the marriage or her
daughter with the Japanese, insisted
on the marriage, and j. Sunada, pro-
prietor of the Great Northern hotel,
were the only witnesses to the cere-
mony.
The big granite church at Eighth
avenue and James street was dlmly
lighted for the ceremony.
There was the true "cloistered aloof-
ness which the Japanese, Aoki, the
former house servant of the Emerys,
had travelled almost the length of the
coast to obtain.
Outside the church there was no
gathering of any kind. Aoh and his
white bride had finally landed before
a Christian altar and in the sacred
silence of the granite walls of old
Trinity they. plighted their troth and
forgot the jeers and threats of ply
steal violence of the California towns
which they had so lately quit for good.
How Gunjiro Aoki, who claims kim
ship with the brilliant General Aok OF
Russian-J Japanese war fame, won the
love of the daughter of the California
clergyman while he worked as house
servant in the California home of the
Emerys, and how the story 'of the
romance aroused in a sensational man
| ner the anti-Japanese race prejudice OF
the people of California has been told.
Literally Driven Away
Literally driven from California, Mrs.
Emery and Helen Gladys were forced
to seek a state where the laws would
not prevent the girls union with a msn
of the Japanese race.
Oregon was barred to the loving
twain-her laws absolutely forbid suen
marriages, and the district attorney OF
Portland announced that if the plight
ed lovers appeared on the. street OF that
city they would be arrested as common
nuisanceS. -,
Archdeacon Emery, his wife and child
arrived here yesterday afternoon IN
company with the Japanese.
The clergyman and his Wlfe ana
daughter registered at the Hotel savoy
There last night Aoki met them' ana
having obtained the aid of local Jap
auese, with the mother and daughter
he completed the arrangements TOT the
wedding.
Aoki is a short, ordinary looking jap
-anese youth, who dresses in black, well
fitting clothes, and has a small plack
mustache. The girl is slender, apout
feet 4 inches tall, fair-halred, p!ue-
eyed, and has charming expression. q, ;s
She is the picture of fair, grill IN inno-
cence; nor does she seem to De 2l' as
the marriage license reads.
At III o'clock this morning Archdea-
con Emery obtained marriage license
for the wedding of the pair at the
county court house, and by arrange
ment with Rev. H. H. Gowan, rector
of Trinity parish, took his wife and
daughter to the church. There await
ing them was the groom and Sunaoa.
There were no other witnesses. The
Episcopal marriage service was per
formed and the party quickly left the
sacred edifice.
went to the Hotel Savoy, paid the bill
and packed his grip for the south. He
said: :,
honeymoon on ranch in the Hoods
Canal county. 1t is owned by busi-
ness man of San Francisco friend
of mine, whose name shall not di-
vulge He has offered them lease OF
the place on a percentage OF the crop
from the fruit trees.
1.-THE welded pair will either make
that place their home, or they will
purchase fruit ranch in some other
part of this state-I cannot say where.
This proposition is under advisement.
1 am pledged not to divulge any of
their plans, and, as a matter of fact,
their future has not been settled on.
my wife will remain here for time, |
and / shall go back to San Francisco.
I shall not be at my work there for
some time, as 1 have other engage
ments which will take some days"