The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-29
STORY OF ROMANTIC WEDDING IN
 STAMFORD
String Breaks as Brides Trous- seau is Being Lowered to Sidewalk From Window of Parental Mansion

Stamford, Nov. 29-By way of prov ing that romance still lives in mundane Manhattan, Miss Eff Blake. of 337 West Eighty-fifth street, and Howard T. Walker, of Brooklyn. ran away from the brides home early Sunday morn ing and were married in this city by Rev. John D. Skene, the rector of St. Andrews church, that night.
 The affair had all the trimmings and ornaments prescribed by the most prominent authorities on the subject, according to the attendant, Daniel M. Polsey.
 According to MT. Polsey, there was the lowering of the brides rousseau from an upper window by piece of twine while the bridegroom waited be- low with suppressed excitement and 9 suitcase
 There was the intervention of the po- lice. and only a clever ruse of the bridegroom saved the day then.
 In fact, there was everything that regular, honest-tO-goodness elope- ment should have. except a Romeo and Juliet scene; and no doubt this. too. would have been put on had it sight of the architect of the Blake home. who neglected to append a bal cony.
 Rolled Once Before.
 Once the couple had been foiled in their attempt to elope. but love found a way. According to Mir. Polsey. Frederick M. Blake. the father of the bride, opposed the marriage at this time and Miss Blake was unable to get away from home on Saturday night, the original date planned for the elopement.
 MT. Polsey had telephoned to a Jus tice of the Peace in Stamford to be ready to tie the knot at o'clock on Saturday night, but that essential lnteger of any wedding the bride, was unable to attend when the time arrived.
 According to MT. Polsey, MT. Blake had his house watched by the police on Saturday night in order to prevent the elopement. It was necessary for the bridegroom to elude the arm of the law as the long hand of parental au- thority by strategy. How ingenious ly this was done MT. Polsey tells best in his own words.
 Howard and I went to the Blake home on Saturday night. and we had tough time, but in the end we out witted them. Miss Blake sent down her trousseau in sections from third story window by the outside route. MT. Walker and myself stood below and received. The first load was suc- cessfully lowered and contained-but why mention details which have no bearing on the story. Sufficient to say that the first load went into the suit case, as did the second
 The Twine Broke.
 ''The third was the most difficult to handle. Wrapped in bundle of clothes were some bottles of perfum- cry, and that junk which every woman knows. All that stood between this portion of the rousseau and the hard cold sidewalk was the bit of twine, and in the minute of need it failed us.
 When the relay had descended as far as about the second story the line proved to be only as strong as it's weakest link, which was not suffi- ciently robust to carry its burden. It broke.
 ''The bottles crashed to the sidewalk The police heard. grabbed the part the corner. It was too late for How ard to follow. He still had some of the rousseau on his arm As the policeman approached him I began to hum a few bars of No Wedding Bells for Me, but with wonderful coolness sauntered up the front steps and pretended to ring the door bell l saved.
 ''It was at this time that Saturday night had to b eabandoned as the date of the wedding. After the policeman had passed, Howard and I went down the block little and waited. Later, when there was no policeman about, Miss Blake again lowered a string and we sent up a note. We told her we would wait until the coast was clear We agreed to abandon further opera tions on the trousseau end of the af- fair, as 1t had almost resulted in a tragedy once. Miss Blake consented to stand pat on what she had already sent down.
 Then we stayed out of sight until early in the morning. When all the policemen had gone and the house was quiet. Miss Blake slipped out We then went to the Grand Central Sta ton and caught an early train for Stamford