The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-23
LEAVES CHAUFFEUR HUSBAND
CoAhHaed rom FUs' Pngo

Gals IN chicago and gave them to Colllns
to present ~ letters 81 Introduction IN"
letters asked that the young man ha,"
an opportunity 10 get on In the railroad
business collins departed for Chicago
and Elsa waited AZ HON" Tor news ~
his promotion
/ The experiment was AnVth hing htt sue
cessii!l The letters he carried opened
the way foT Collins Ia several jobs. hut
he conldn't hold them lie vas certain
tha' he had worked hard and inielli
/ gently. bat somehow be- didn't succ..ed
/ in pleasing Later he wondered whether
~ vas his mepiitude that lost jon after
Job for HIM. Az any rate he waS back
IN New York within three weeks lie
vert To work in a Manhattan garage and
found means 20 communicate with his
sweetheart They made decision
speedily
On july ! last the marriage license
clerk IN Jersey City faced over his desk
very good looking young woman, who
aid she was about 20 &c, married and
wanted to take out tho necessary papers
She Was prepared. she said. ia furnish
the statistics required hy Law concerning
both herself and the man she waS "a
marry ACCOMPANYING her was Miss
Marion Van Kleeck. 4 gir friend who
lived a few doors awav az 1919 Dean
stree BROOKLYN. from her father. home
Filling out tho blanks Of IA. daclara-
ton. she wrote that her name was Elsa
Stevens Parde". that she was ~ wears
old and had never been married before
She put down her fathers name as Dwight
" rardee She CAV. her address a.
3iS Jersey avenue She wrote down the
hridegroom's name A. Kenneth Lee
Collins. 20 wears old II BAY Shore. |. |
bachelor. occHra',"n. marhinlst Il,s
father uHme was William ~ collins
Upstairs m Ia" ,,1y Hall Miss Parda"
and Young Collins. who had Joined her.
found " = Burke. a fnarriIgeSmth. who
- messenger for Mayor Ot,u II Witt
penn when couples ar" not Hu't"ring
about He consented 10 marry them aud
'l"d tn" knot IN three minutes The
witnesses were Marian Van kl.."cs and
Joseph J Collins. hroth,r Il the bride
groom
Miss rard.n had told her father that
Sh" was going 10 visit friends ~ = cot
tag" on l-lk" Gaorg" After living two
DAYS with Collins she left hum and went
to Lake Grorg" Very shortly after
ward Mr. rirden lea rued that N" mar
riage had taken place lawyer az.
p"ar"d NJ the Bureau ~ Vita STATISTICS
IN Jersey Ci'y and asked Ia s"a IA. rec
ord He inspected II carefully and with
drew frowning
Then MIR Pard"a wrote to his dan z htar
He did not take the trouble Ia sign his
name tn the letter. hut there was no pos
sIbIllty Of her misiaking the writer II
WAS = decisiv" ultmatum After "A time
Mr. Pardec went 10 see Mrs Collins
He forgave her and she promised 70 leave
her husband She wrote to Collins that
their marriag" had been "A mistake She
mad come 90 know that she didn't love
hun and II would he impossible for them
to spend their lives toR-t her She ASKED
HIM 10 return all the letters that -h-. had
written 20 him collins accepted hi-
dismissal and returned the letters 10 a
bundle He has not heard from h. Wif"
since
Roy T. Pard-a who obtained divorce.
last Apring from the young woman who
was Oh l'.c' Ionahl" go his father. j. now +
wee president and 4 director ~ tn" x +
! y Sporting bupd> company aud see F
rotary aud a director II n" Peerless IL .
inter Company. q concern Of winch his .
father u pre-ld-r' He makes hI- huun" .
~ 1io Dean st'""i. Bropklvn