New-York tribune., 1910-12-02
CAVE JEWELLERS ARE WE'D
Escape from Clutches of the Law
and Get Parents BLESSING.
FLIGHT ENDS IN HAPPINESS
Tallman's Diary Tells of Simple
Life When They Had Flap
Jacks for Breakfast.

Beatrice Sanders and La We're Tall
man, the erstwhiIe babes in the cave.
were married yesterday in Newark at
the home of the bridegroom's mother,
Mrs. Emily TalIman. No. 12S Somerset
street The Rev DR.. Lyman Whitney
Allen, pastor of the South Park Presby-
terian Church. performed the ceremony.
the only witnesses being the girls father
and Mrs. TaIlman.
Beatrice and her lover reached New
ark about o'clock in the afternoon. &c
Companied by Mr.. and Mrs. Sanders
They had gone from Yonkers. where the
couple had been held for safe keeping
by Captain Lent Of the Yonkers police
force TO await the arrival of their par
ents.
When the train arrived at the Market
street station in Newark Mrs. Sanders
and friend got off. while Mr.. Sanders
and the two lovers of the primitive re-
mained aboard until the South street
station was reached Then they went
directly to the Sanders home. at No. 1876
Clinton avenue
At 4;30 O'Clock Beatrice and La We're
arrived at the marriage license bureau
! IN the Newark City Hall. Their parents
were with them as the license was made
out Both gave their ages as seventeen.
and Tallman said he was a druggist by
occupation AS soon as the paper had
been made out the party went to Tall
mans home, where the ceremony was
performed Mrs TaIlman and Mr.. and
Mrs. Sanders had made the marriage a
vagrancy against the two would be
withdrawn.
TaIIr1an Wants to Turn Author
No one in the wedding party would
answer any questions The young man
simply said that if he were so inclined
he could tell a great story about their
life in the cave He said. however. with
utmost seriousness, that he would write
book about il himself
The romance OF Paul and Virginia"
has modern parallel in the story of the
way in which Beatrice Sanders and La
We're Tallman spent six weeks within the
shelter of a cave in the CatskilIs. near
Palenville- Flipping iapjacks and cook
ing corn cakes III an underground home
while bats and smoke played hide and
seek about their heads did not dampeu
the enthusiasm of the two young lovers.
They were at least pIentifulIy supplied
with a practical philosophy which
smoothed over many of their youthful
difficulties. and they viewed such things
with happy eyes.
On September Is Beatrice and La
We're left their homes in Newark, stag
gering beneath the weight of two heavy
blankets. a small rifle, a shotgun and a
meagre supply OF kitchen implements.
They crossed the river and missed a boat
for Catskill. They stayed that night in
the city and started next day.
When they reached Catskill they took
the train 10 Palenville and found cave
which had been described to La We're by
David kellar. friend of his 1t was an
ideal retreat for prosecuted lovers
hedged about by protecting trees and
by kindly Nature from prying
eyes and chilling winds
Back TO Nature In q Cave.
A stones throw from the cave Law a
limpid. glistening lake, and here IL was
that Paul and Virginia spent the long.
crisp September evenings. shared the
trout from their lair. and performed
their primitive ablutious- 1t seemed
an idyllic spot for the boy and the girl
Although they had only $50 when they
left the protection of their Newark
homes to avoid parental objection to
their marriage, La We're and Beatrice so
in their cave keeping that
they managed TO live a life of compara-
tive luxury in the wilderness When the
fish in the little lake were bashfuI about
rising TO the lure OF the hooked worm,
the boy would track his way through the
silent woods and return with a rabbit
belt
Beatrice proved 10 be an expert cook.
according 10 Tallnan. and. although
their eyes would fill with tears as they
induced by smoke. not remorse. Farm
ars in the neigh borhood, all unsuspect-
ing OF the romance which was being en-
acted under their very noses. were glad
to help the young couple out with gifts
of potatoes and corn, eggs and milk.
Toward the end OF October, however.
when the keen frosts began TO cover the
ground with a silver mantle every morn