The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1912-02-22
SPRIGHTLY GROOM
HAS JOYOUS TIME
OVER HIS WEDDING

New York, Feb. 20.-Edward B. AL
BOD. 80, a millionaire retired steel mer-
chant, and Miss Fife Pope Hill, 20, OF
Washington, Ca, were married in Trim
ity church by the Rev. DR.. Sutton. Fol-
lowing a wedding dinner at a down.
town restaurant, at which the BRIDE
groom's two sons, "Hal' and Med" AL
SOP, Harvard students and his nephew
Reese Alsop, of Brooklyn, were guests,
the bride returned to her mother, Mrs.
John ]. Hill, at the Hotel Latham, and
the bridegroom adjourned to the Wall
dorf-Astoria, where he continued the
wedding festivities until late into the
night.
In this he was assisted by his sons
and a host Of friends and others, who
we're unable to resist the c%ontagion OF
the high spirits of the happy BRIDE
groom, the burden OF whose many re-
marks was:
"They claim I am 80. Don't you be-
lieve it. am only 40. for a man Is
only as old as he feels. (Have a cigar,
g~entlemen.) We are going to make the
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 Mammas
She's a peacherino," interjected the
son, Ned" and, looking at his father.
added:
IF you don't look out. pop, mamma
and / will elope."
II don't think there is n danger Of
that" retorted the old gentleman,
laughing, "for I 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, thai they might avoid notoriety
u their wedding occurred without any
display.
With this in view he t~elephoned ia
his ons 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 III
taxicabs to the marriage license bur-
eau and to Trinity church.
At 9 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 and now thor
oughly astonished parent.
He's the "Ragtime Kid"
IT call Mr.. Alsop the rigtime kid,
said the bride to the reporter. "Som'
people claim that ragtime is nationa
paresis, but l think 1t is paradise.
know it sounds slangy, but my hus
band is the l~iveliest man l have rul
against in New York. / intend to Joil
him at the Waldorf and we will prob
able leave in a few days for a tril
through the south.
My two sons, who, by the way, 20
know. are much older than /. are splen
did fellows. I think we will get aloni
very nicely together"
The engagement Of Miss Hill an
Mr.. Alsop was announced shortly aft
er her arrival in New York from tn
south early this winter. The weddin
was set for March 10.
Mr.. Alsop has a handsome residenc
in Washington, where he lives most
the time, and a large estate on tn
shores OF Lake Toxaway, N. c. He Is
member OF the Duquesne club Of Pitts
burgh, the Allegheny Country club q
Sewickley, and the Metropolitan clu
Of Washington. His brother Is tn
Rev. DR.. Reese F. Alsop. of Brooklyn