Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-08-25
HONEYMOON
WITH FOND PAPA
Married Her Chauffeur, But
Couple Repented, Confessed
to Father and Parted
NOW YOUNG BRIDE
IS AFTER DIVORCE

CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-Mrs. Elsa
Steven Pardee Collins, the 19-year-old
daughter of Dwight w. Pardee, secre-
tary of the New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad, who married her
fathers chauffeur, Kenneth Lee Col
Inns. of Bay Shore, on July 1 reached
here from the Far West yesterday
on the return trip of her honeymoon
honeymoon without the bridegroom.
She took the trip with her father and
mother In her fathers private car The
young husband, with whom she has
never lived. has been meanwhile driv-
ing a automobile for a Connecticut
business man who come into New
York every morning.
There is no doubt that the young
people eloped and we're married. but
the unconsulted family Of the girl have
forgiven her and do not appear to
blame the husband.
The corrected story of the elopement
is told I'm New York by the brides
brother, Roy e. Pardee, who obtained
a divorce last spring from a young
woman whom he married against the
wishes of his family.
wishes of his family.
Dwight w Pardee lives at No. 1910
Dean street, Brooklyn. and has
country place at Bay Shore. Last
summer Miss Elsa had just come
home from a finishing school, and 70
keep her interested I'm the country
side about Bay Shore. her father
bought a touring car and hired TO run
It Kenneth Lee Collins. a country boy
who had grown up to % years without
doing much else than acquires manly
qualities and good looks. and Elsa
promptly fell in love. When Mr.. Par
dee discovered the fact he talked Ia
the young folk in a fatherly way and
argued them out of their foolishness
AS he thought. They agreed TO put
the subject out Of their minds. The
chauffeur remained In his employ
until early in June. Mr.. Pardee. find
ing the two were not keeping their
promise. sent Collins out West. but
soon Collins was back in Manhattan
working for New Yorker as chauf-
feur.
On July / Miss Elsa came up "a
New York with her friend, Miss Mar.
ian Van Cleek, daughter of a neighbor
to shop. They met Collins by acct
dent, with the result that all went
over to Jersey City, where Elsa be.
came Mrs. Collins. Miss Van Cleel
and Collins brother being the wit
nesses to the wedding, and Miss Elsa
in a firm hand, writing that she live'
at No 341 Jersey avenue.
, Then without even wedding break
J fast they returned to New York. Col
! Inns to his auto driving and Mrs. Col
2 Inns 10 return TO her home at Ba
Shore. She did not see her husban
= again. Two days after that she an
4 Miss Van Cleek went to Lake Geor;
+ for a two weeks vacation. When u
II young bride came back she we
n straight to her fathers office in q
,e Grand Central Station, confessed a.
s. told her father that two weeks
X serious thought had shown her tn
II she didn't really want to be MI
" Kenneth Lee Collins. Mr.. Pard
If called his son-in-law, who. sham
l. faced but manly. admitted that
i was sorry he had eloped and wish'
n he had not Mr.. Pardee said thi
Il he was glad they we're free of the
delusions, and that he would see h
attorney, ex-Judge Dittenhoeffer, an
Kr Dittenhoeffer is still strugglin
= with the problem OF untying a Cupid
? bow without apparent slips in. IT,