The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-22
SPRlGHTLY GROOM
HAS JOYOUS TIME
OVER HIS WEDDING

NEW 1OTk, req. GU.-EOWarO Is. Al
sop, 80, a millionaire retired steel mer-
chant, and Miss Efie Pope Hill, 20, Of
Washington, Ga, were married in Trim
1ty church by the Rev. DIR. Sutton. Fol-
lowing a wedding dinner at a down.
town restaurant, at which the bride
groom's two ons Hal" n Med" AL
sop, Harvard students and his nephew
Reese Alsop, of Brooklyn, were guests,
the bride returned to her mother, Mrs.
John J. Hill, at the Hotel Latham, and
the bridegroom adjourned to the Wal
dorf-Astoria, where he continued the
wedding festivities until late into the
night.
In this he was assisted by his son
n a host of friends and others, who
were unable to resist the contagion OF
the high spirits of the happy BRIDE
groom, the burden Of whose many re-
marks was:
"They ain I am so. Don't you be-
lieve it. l am only 40, for a MAJ is
only as old as he feels. (Have a cigar,
%grandest little team that ever came
down the matrimonial homestetch.
(Some more wine, waiter, please.) My
boys agree with me that this is a mo-
mentous occasion for their dad"
Son Has Eyes For Mamma.
She's a peacherino," interjected the
son, Ned" and, looking at his father.
added:
IF you don't look out, pop, amrn
and I will elope."
1T don't think there is any danger of
that" retorted the old gentleman,
laughing, for 1 am still able to lick
you. ell what?"
At the Hotel Latham, this blushing
bride, made radiant in a pink kimono,
received and expressed her joy. With
Mr.. Alsop she had gone out for an aft
ernoon stroll. it having been planned
that their wedding should take place at
q later date. He had decided, how
ever, that they might avoid notoriety
if their wedding occurred without any
display.
With this in view he te%lephoned to
his sons to meet him at 4 o'clock in
the afternoon at a Broadway restau-
rant. There he suggested to his fiancee
that they get married at once. She
agreed and the journey was made in
taxicabs to the marriage license bur-
eau and to Trinity church.
At 8. o'clock in the evening Mrs.
Alsop strolled into the Hotel Latham.
She was escorted by a young woman
friend.
I'm married, mamma" remarked
the bride to her. anxious n now thor
oughly astonished parent.
He's the "Ragtime Kid"
"T call Mr.. Alsop the rigtime kid"
said the bride to the reporter. "Some
people claim that ragtime is national
paresis, but I think it is paradise. ]
know it sounds slangy, but my hus-
band is the liveliest man 1 have rur
against in New York. I intend to join
him at the Waldorf and we will prob:
able leave in a few days for a triI
through the out
my two sons, who, by the way, you
know. are much older han I, are splen-
did fellows. l think we will get along
very nicely together"
The engagement of Miss Hill ant
Mr.. Alsop was announced shortly aft.
er her arrival in New York from thu
south early this winter. The wedding
was set for March ID.
Mr.. Alsop has a handsome residence
in Washington, where he ives most O
the time, and a large estate on thu
shores of AXE Toxaway, N. c. He Is {
member of the Duquesne club of Pitts.
burgh, the Allegheny Country club a
Sewickley. and the Metropolitan clu
of Washington. His brother is tn
Rev. DR.. Reese T. Alsop, of BROOKLYN