The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1913-06-27

GEMS Owe ERLOOKED
BY BRIDE At TER A
HAsTY MARRIAGE
Mrs. Harold G. Mitchell Sets
Pace for Auto Travel
When She Forgets
Jewels
DIR. AKED IN HURRY
UP WEDDING ROLE
Hand of Miss Kathleen
Branyen Claimed Just Be
fore Manchuria Sails

For real get-the- license. rout out
the minister. buy-the trunks. forget
/ SO, 900 jewels-in- the-hotelsafe, get-ar-
rested -for-s speeding and still-catch-th the
boat for Iongkong wedding, all inside
/ of an hour. San Francisco claims the
speed record.
Shooting the chutes and humping the
bumps in an amusement park is desul-
! tory dalliance compared to what two of
the wealthiest young people of Montana
went through Yesterday between IL
! o'clock noon and o'clock, the time at
which the Manchuria sailed.
Comparing the affair to- coney island
! trip, it might be said that Rev. Charles
| r. Aked stood sat the top of the chute
and that the sailors hauling up the
gangplank on the Manchuria received
1.-THE happy young couple they emerged
from their whirl through the human
roulette, the wheel OF joy~and the roller
/ coaster.
Market street composed large part
OF the "chutes" ard a policeman who
wasn't IN the game and tried to arrest
l
Harold G. Mitchell of Warm Springs.
Mont, and the girl who few minutes
before had been Miss Kathleen Branyen.
of the same city for getting too flying
start on the Journey of life, nearly
broke up the bridal procession. At that
he only made the day more Interesting
and the recovery or the brides $4,000
jewels in the Palace hotel safe more OF
an exploit.
NOT A PRESS AGENT
This wasn't press agent stunt. for
the couple didn't decide 10 get married
till Wednesday evening at o'clock.
They had been engaged for more than
year, and their acquaintance dated
back to the time when Harold G.
Mitchell used to alternate his FIVE big
motor cars as the vehicles in which to
take Miss Branyen out for ride.
Mitchell Is noted all through the
northwest as racing driver, and comes
from an extremely wealthy Montana
family The bride is 22 years old and
pretty-in fact, pretty enough to suit
young Mitchell, who Is extremely
fnicky She was in southern California
last week, and expected to meet her
fiance in San Francisco, where they
were to see their mutual friends DR..
and Mrs. T. NJ Scanland, and their
daughter. Miss Scanland off for trip
around the world. Doctor Scanland
formerly owned a large private hos
pital in Montana, which he later sold
to the state. He is still the superin-
tendent of the present state hospital
and is active in Montana political
affairs.
sCANLANDS SET SAIL
The Scanlands sailed yesterday on
the Manchuria. and at o'clock
Wednesday evening Mitchell got hold
of Irwin c. keeler at the Press club
Keeler is an intimate friend of Mitchell.
Mitchell informed Keeler that he
wanted to get married that very even
ing to Miss Branyen and sail with the
Scanlands next. noon. and that it was
up to Keeler to get license. Keeler
did his best, camping in County Clerk
Harry Mulcrevy's parlor for four hours
but 1t was no uSe anu tue Wouu1HS Hdd
to be put over till yesterday.
Then troubles began to pile up.
Delays at the marriage license bureau
and the difficulty of getting hold of a
minister on short notice caused the
wedding to be set for IL o'clock at
Doctor Aked's residence in Sacramento
street Keeler was there as best man
and Mrs. Scanland as attendant to the
bride
After a corner clipping automobile
trip to the Palace, Keeler bought a
couple of suitcases and a trunk, and
somehow or other they were filled and
piled on top of taSicab.
.oH MY JEwELs:"
Breathless but smiling. the bridal
pair and Keeler arrived at the dock at
1850. All three heaved sighs of re-
nef-ten minutes to spare.
And then came a Shrek from the
bride. My jewels
where. shouted Mitchell and
Keeler in unison. I'm the hotel safe,
she sobbed.
Let it never be said that Keller
gave up hope Showing the bride into
the taxi again. the two shot up Mar
ket street to New Montgomery, in
many minutes fewer than the law
allows. Al1N6 10 MS uulN. a police Of
fcer promptly grabbed the chauffeur
as soon as the taxi slowed up. and
started to make an arrest.
Keeler and the bride waited for no
legal procedure. Jumping out the
door of the taxi, they scurried into the
Palace and gasped out their troubles
to the clerk. Had the clerk become
ratified and missed the combination Of
the safe the first time. the story would
have ended here, bur he didn't. and
KeeIer and a now fearful bride ran
out the door, jewels safely annexed.
Their original chauffeur was still
arguing with the policeman. They let
him argue. Hailing another taxi they
shot down Market street again and
at 1853 drew UP alongside the Man
churia's gangplank. The sailors were
drawing the plank aboard. In spite Of
the bridegroom's entreaties, but when
they saw the bride Jump from the taxi
and fall on her husbands neck they
relented.