The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-12-02
Blanche Malone, Fairmont,
West Virginia, Heiress,
Leaves Seminary to Wed.
GOES TO BALTIMORE
FOR THE CEREMONY
Succeeds In Keeping the Secret
From Her Teachers Since
October %.

blanche AIaIOne's mother took her
home a wek ago Up TO the time she
left school she emphsdcally denied the
reports that she had married her chauf-
feur-''
A principal OF Mt Vernon Seminary
thus summed up today the most mys-
tifyfng feature OF the romance, which
illuminated in the marriage OF Miss
Blanche Malone, one Of West Viz
g1nis's heiresses. and her chauffeur, Al
Sanders How did they keep the secret
under the watchful eyes Of seminary
chaperones. and, pric- to her entrance
there, Of the girls mother? That Is
what Mrs Malone and the school au-
thOrities would like TO know today
Nearly every day since Miss Malone
entered ut. Vernon Seminary. late IN
October an unassuuinc chauffeur in a
bic touring car has gIided uD 10 the
school doorway TO take the wealthy
young woman for q spin In every in
stance Miss Malone was accompanied
bv 2 teacher or ChapeTOue- No love
making went on between the girl on
the rear seat and the quiet young man
at the wheel
Married In Baltimore
Yet the records show that the two
were married IN Baltimore october %
The secret is Just out
On that day-it was Saturday when
the seminary misses are permitted to
shop-Miss Malone said
MY aunt, MIS- Summers, IS here from
home She is stopping at the New VII
lard and wants me 20 so shopping with
her"
The permission was given That after
noon Miss Malone returned 10 the semi
GzF-a sid r--+HF~rr- 0F having r7ee1r1
married. She resumed her studies in
the quiet, matter-0f-fact way that al
ways had marked her school demeanCr-
Ten days ago there came from Fair
mont. w Va, the hone OF the girl
vague rumors that she had married
The question was put sGuarsly up TO her
by the principals al the ut Vernon
Seminary
Miss Malone denied any completely IN
the alleged romance sun suspicious,
the school authorities communicated
with the girls mother
The mother came. and the daughter
returned 10 Fairmont with her
Rumor Is Confirmed.
Today there comes from Fairmont a
confirmation Of the story that Cupid has
again laughed at the differences in sta
ton between the rich and the poor. and
Win II EO4i-r-1 AAAE -e--r- -- L--F NA-tA VI
other weU-planned school career
The marriage records at Baltimore
show that 9lr- Sanders and Miss Ma
lone were married there October q
When Mrs Malone reached Washing
ton she said that Chauffeur Sanders had
been dismissed by her during the past
summer for -i1Dertinence-'' Evidently,
the mother knew nothing OF the fact
that the dashiDE Young aJh0 driver had
kept track Of the NOV e. j 'ntS of the
daughter Of The wealthy 2 oman Who
en-pIoyed him When sns came TO
washington TO enter schOc-, sanders
showed ND also
Mrs Adelia g. Hensiey, assistant pTln-
cipal Of the Nj vernon seminary de
MED TODAY that Sanders had ever been
received socially at the school
Miss Malone had no vIslJOrS at all,
she said. she was never accompanied
bv her chauffeur 10 the Jheater, as was
published We only knew him as her
chauffeur Whenever she went autOuO-
billing she was accompanied By teach
er Where and how the plans were
made for her marriage II II has taken
place, we DO not know. as there has
been no opportunity for the chauffeur
10 see her here
An Ideal Pupil
Miss Malone was of a most quiet.
womanly nature she had been much
saddened since the death Of her father
more tna1 a year aSO. der mother
wished to place her in Sc - again in
order that she might thin Iess Of her
bereavement
THE girI attended Mt. vernon Semi
nary for two years before the death of
her father. When she applied for ad-
mission again. lust this last October
she WAS welcomed back. because she
had been an ideal pupil
since re-euterfnE school the actions
bf the girl have been anything sUt that
fer = q
has had but one opportunity 10 become
married. and that is the day she left
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