The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-13
PRETTY ROMANCE ELIMINATED
IN FAMOUS LAUREL PARK WHEN
MILLIONAIRE WINS LOVELY
BRIDE.

The romantic marriage of million
aire Frank Gum, of Macon, Ca, to
Miss Cynthia Neal, Atlanta beauty,
solemnized at Laurel Park Retreat
Thursday tells a human-interest story
of love at first sight, of separation
an ardent two-days' courtship amidst
surroundings more conducive to the
blind gods worship-the joyous con-
summation of an event OF greatest IN
terest to the people of two states
and finally the complete happiness OF
young hearts temporarily estranged.
The millionaire groom has been
counted the most eligible bachelor OF
Macon, while the charming bride, a
member of a prominent family, is one
of the Southland's fairest daughters,
A short two months ago they first met
at Indian Springs, where they were
spending a few weeks. Their mutual
friends admitted it would be an idea
mating-this union of Southern mil
lions and Southern beauty, and
whispered amongst themselves that it
was really love at first sight, don't
you know"
The god of loves task rested lightly
upon his bare shoulders and the young
PEOPLES bark of bliss sailed under
fairest of skies. Then came the. inev-
table misunderstanding estrangement
and cruelest of separation. The pi-
quaint beauty left at once for her At
lanta home, quickly followed by her
millionaire lover. From Atlanta'S
heat Miss Neal fled to the mountains
or Western North Carolina, and in
laurel Park, a beautiful residence
park just outside of the city of Hen
Jacksonville found ~surcease for a sor-
row she would not admit. Within a
day or so of Miss Meals arrival at
Laurel Park Retreat, a family hotel
i'm the park, came a monstrous motor
machine, sweeping up the broad ave-
nue. leading to the hotel. With a
grinding of brakes it stopped but be-
fore it came to a standstih a manly
figured leaped from the car, flew up
the broad steps of the building, and
there found his hearts desire.
Also the misunderstanding was
there, too. While the sparkling of
bright eyes and the faint flushing of
delicate cheeks were involuntary ind1-
cations of real heart feelings, femi-
nine perversity prompted only softly
modulated words of conventional
greetings, and the millionaire felt a
sad sinking sensation within his
breast where once his heart had
lodged.
But Laurel Park is Dan Cupid's
own private and particular domain.
That most beautiful natural park in
America abounds in cupids paths
and lovers lanes, in coolest and
shadiest of mystic walks penetrating
almost impenetrable thickets of laurel
and rhododendron, bOrdered by
laughing streams and murmuring wa
terfalls telling young hearts the Sc
tret of happiness. And so it came
about while hearkening of the sigh of
pines, the whispering of silver ma
pies they hearkened also to the sigh
of the little blind god, all cObwebs of
misGr ~t2z3ing were swept ava
and two souls met in perfect peace.
That evening, as the day star drop
ped behind Echo Mountain and his
million shafts of light made radiant
the darklfng sky, a quiet announce
ment Of a wedding on the morrow was
made at the Retreat, and the sixty
guests there had not the slightest
difficulty in picking the prospective
bride and groom. Congratulations
came in showers and they were imme-
date and sincere, for the course of the
pretty romance had centered the
whole attention of the hotels guests.
guests.
So, soon after the breakfast hour,
came a man of God to the Park, and
surrounded by daintily dressed and in
tensely interestd girls, and smiling
men in cool-looking summer apparel,
in the big hall of the Retreat was con-
sumated the romance of two lives
when happy hearts found that the
world existed but for them.
The long, rakish touring car had
made but few trips over the shaded
roads in Laurel Park, and it's last for
many a day to come was when it
Whirled the millionaire bridegroom
and his beautiful bride to the Hender-
sonville depot, where they boarded the
Special for New York. They
will spend the honeymoon in Europe.