Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-08

I'm glad we're married. I'm very
happy. OF course my marriage was q big
surprise to my father and mother. in fact
a shock to them. But 1 am hoping that
they will forgive me for surprising them
and that everything will be all right be-
fore long
This statement was made by phiiander
c. Knox, jr.. the twenty-one-yeaf old son
Of Secretary Knox, who married Miss
May Boiler Of Providence. r. L, In Bur
Iington, VT. Sunday evening. as he stood
in the lobby of the Arlington Hotel today
shbrtly after he had been to ask his
fathers forgiveness.
While Mr.. Knox would not say just
how his father had received him, the
fact that the young man is planning to
take his bride back to Providence wouSd
indicate that the paternal forgiveness
has not yet materialIzed. All Mr.. Knox
would say was that it had been o great
shock to his father and that he hoped for
forgiveness in the future. Mr.. Knox did
not see his mother when he called at the
Knox home in K street this morning.
Expects to Go to Work.
I'VE are going back to Providence for .
time at any rate" said young Knox,
so that can get my things together UP
there and make plans for the future.
expect to go to work. Of course. and will
do So to support my wife if necessary"
Mr.. Knox was asked If he expected 70
hear again from his father before he left
Washington.
Il do not, he replied. IT am expecting
and hoping to hear In Providence from
him after he has gotten used TO the idea
of my being married.
Mr. Knox reached here this morning
on the Federal express. He was ac-
companied by DIR. French the principal
of the Morris Heights School in Provi-
dence' where Mr Knox has been at
train when it reached Baltimore and
went to the Belvedere Hotel. while her
husband came on to Washington to
break the news of their marriage to
Washington a few hours. later and joined
Mr.. KNOX at the Arlington Hotel. They
left here almost Immediately TO go hack
to Providence.
Not Recognized by Reporters.
When AR Knox left the train In thu
Union station. accompanied by Dr.
French. he passed right through .
squad of reporters who were waiting
to see him. They were waiting for .
young man with wife in tow. how
ever, and failed TO recognize the son
of the Secretary of State. who has besS
away at school for many years.
DIR. French went with Mr.. Knox b
his home and was present at the In
terview with the Secretary. Dr. FrAncA
came here the friend OF young Kno1
not as complaining witness against
the boy. as has been reported.
'Dr. French came down to help me ex-
plain the NATTER said Mr.. Knox. .'HD
left Washington soon after we had seen
my father and is on his way back to
Providence. All the stories about hts
expelling me from the school and about
IN h.yr tod
resigned from the school when / told
Mr.. French that L was married. He came
down voluntarily with me TO help M
out.
Young Knox spoke enthusiastically of his
bride. She is about twenty years old.
about the same height as Mr.. Knox. who
is himself not more than five feet two,
he is stockily built and is att-
blond.
Tells of Brides Family.
Its all rot about her having worked I'm
a department store in Providence" said
Mr.. Knox. Her mother married q Sec
ond time and Mrs. Knox and her step
father did not get along well together.
and for that reason her mother leased
apartments for her in another house.
Mrs. Knox's own father died when she
was very little girl and her mother
married again in a few years Mrs. Knox
went to live with her aunt when she WAS
a little girl and stayed with her until she
was seventeen years old. Her mothers
present name is Mrs Daniel Gary
Mr. Knox said that he had not planned
to go to college, but that his father had
promised to set him up In business at the
end of the present school year.
Il hope that he will do SO now, said
Mr.. Knox, who is a manly young fellow
and perfectly willing to bear the rep0onei.
bilities which he has taken upon himself
oo<n r,xv< <tsnx
ner in which his father had received him.
When young Mrs. Knox reached Wash
nyton and Joined her husband at the Ar
Itneton they greeted each other az thougn
thev had been parted for long time M
stead of for a few hours.
Silence at Secretary's Home.
All inquiries at the Knox hoyas IN -