The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1910-06-30
MAYOR GAYNOR'S
DAUGHTER WEEDS
Little Did New York Executive Know
of Plans Of Miss Ethel GaynOr-
Vlngut.

NEW HORk.-Special-
Mayor VIM j. GaynOr was walking
across Brooklyn Bridge to bis
Office Thursday newly mar
ried couple were eating their first
honeymoon breakfast at the Plaza
Hotel. This was not extraorCii-
nary In itself, but the fact that
the bride at breakfast was the
eioping daughter OF the Mayor
made the coincidence one OF moro
than ordinary interest.
The bride and bridegroom are
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Kermit Vim
gut. Mrs. Vingut, the second
daughter OF Mr.. Gaynor, Is only
nineteen years old, while the
broker bridegroom is forty. The
dlnerence in the couples age is
understood to have been the cause
Of Mr.. Gaynor's objection TO the
marriage, which took place ut
Wilmington, Del, late yesterday.
Hopes For Forgiveness.
Neither would discuss the elope-
ment today I'VE have nothing to
say" was the statement made by a
feminine voice over the wire leading
from the Vingut apartment on the
fifteenth floor of the Plaza. But ]
think papa will forgive us. Goodbye
was the conclusion and the receiver
was hung up.
The honeymoon suite was engaged
by Mr.. Ningut on Tuesday, when, it is
said, the elopement was planned. Mr.
Ningut did not occupy the rooms or
Tuesday, nor did he appear at the
hotel until late last night, when he
and his bride alighted from an auto
mobile which brought them from the
railroad station.
That the elopement plans were
known to some of the friends of Mr.
Ningut and the Mayors daughter i:
apparent, as flowers addressed to then
began do
When the bridal couple entered theil
suite there We're flowers in every room
Mayor Gaynor is believed to hav,
first learned of the marriage while
dining at the Manhattan. He spen
the night at his Brooklyn residence.
Mrs. Gaynor and the Gaynor chill
dren have been living at the Gaynol
summer home, st. James, l.. l., for
month or more.
Miss Gaynor has been receiving de
voted attentions from Mr.. Vingut FOL
the past two months. Mrs. HalsteaC
Swan, who was Miss Florence Berry
and lifelong friend of the Mayor;
daughter, made it possible for th'
pair to meet often at her house anC
was their chaperon on many little out
ings.
New Son-in-Law.
The new son-in-law of Mayor Gay
nor is of English French descent, anC
was born in New York, March IL
1870. His father was George T. Vim
gut, and his mother. before her mar
riage, was Miss Sarah A. Floyd, {
noted beauty.
Vingut was graduated from Harvard
with the class Of 81 and for severa
years after he left school, Travelled
IN Europe and the Orient. He is man
ager OF the Forty-third Street branch
IF the brokerage firm of Thomas l.
Manson & Co, II Broadway, n. Y.
1t is not in financial circles that he
is noted, but as a horseman, clubmar
and society man. He belongs to sew
eral clubs and had one of the finest
string of polo ponies in or around
New York.
When Richard Canfield's gambling
house, on East Forty-fourth Street
was raided in 1906, number of younf
society men were said to have played
for high stakes there, and Vingut wa;
among them. SSA
Miss Edlln Gaynor is the second Of
the Mayors family TO elope. A son
Rufus w. Gaynor, eloped with Maria
Guiffi, the daughter Of a barber, OF
New London, Conn, on December 10
1908. He subsequently found that hi:
wife had a husband living.
Finally Gives Interview.
Mrs. Ningut, after being besiegeC
by reporters for several hours, finally
issued a statement to the effect tina
she hadn't elOped.
1T wasn't a runaway match" she
| asserted. 1T was just a quiet wed
ding. l have always had fear Of bis
weddings ever since / can remem Der
sort of stage fright l would call il
and so we decided to slip away quietly
| down to Wilmington.
Everything had been all arranged
sometime ago and my parents knew
all about it. / had been engaged foI
about a year, but no definite date fOl
the marriage had been set. a few day.
ago we decided to go to Wilmington
TO get married and we just went qui
| city without telling anybody eNcep
| my parents and a few friends"