New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-12
HYMEN THE CHAUFFEUR
IN A 13O-M|LE SPIN
Steers Couple from Sag Harbor
to New York'S Little Church
Around the Corner.
TENNIS GAME PAVED WAY
Great Grandson of "Quinlne
King" and Western Girl Take
Time by Forelock in
Hours of Early Morn.

Lovers ever run before the clock,
they say: so il was not at all strange
that William Weightman, Sd, great
grandson of the "Quinine King Of
America" eloped from Sag Harbor
with Miss Mary Healy Powers at .
o'clock Yesterday morning and motored
la miles TO THE Little Church
Around the Corner" to be married.
There appear to have been no objec-
tions TO the match. and just why the
couple should have preferred thai
early morning spin is puzzle. But
the pair only laughed gayly when
asked to explain last night and escaped
into the apartment of Mr.. Weight
mans mother, at No. Col West lOSth
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weightman met at
dance in Sag HarbOr the Fourth OF
July. Therefore, their marriage was
only in keeping with the rapid devei-
opment Of their courtship. 1t is SAID
the two planned their elopement while
battling with each other over the net
of a tennis court.
Miss Powers is the daughter or
NORRIS Powers, of Shelbytown. Iowa
She has been in the East only six
weeks and was visiting her aunt MIS-
A Frank Richardson, i'm sag Harpor'
Mr.. Weightman was also spending MS
vacation at Sag Harbor. and that was
the way IL all came about.
Friend Made All Arrangements.
r. f. Singer, a friend of the BRIDE
groom. had been let into the secret OF
the intended elopement, and made all
the arrangements. He and Mrs Ida
y CurIev. who met Miss Powers while
tho latter was visiting her aunt, went
IN New York with the couple and at
tended them at the wedding.
At the Marriage Bureau Mr.. Weight
man gave his age as twenty-five MS
birthplace as Philadelphia and his ad-
dress as No. col West 16Sth street A
relative said last night however that
the bridegroom was only eighteen years
old. Miss Powers gave her age as
eighteen years and her address as NO.
lOg west i4tu Si'SI ""NiN
rnerly lived a short time with her
cousin, Mrs. Austin Hoyt.
From the City Hall the couple has
tened TO THE Little Church Around
the Corner" where the knot was tied.
\ Then by long distance telephone they
announced to Mr.. Weightman's mother
with whom he had been staying at sag
Harbor. and Miss Powers's aunt. that
they were married. All these details
attended to. they celebrated the event
at a wedding breakfast.
The bridegroom said he and his wlfe
would leave for trip around the
world in the near future. But just how
or when he laughingly refused to tell.
MIR. Singer later betrayed him. how
ever, by saying the newlyweds would
embark on Saturday and would be
gone for about two years.
Young Weightman is the great
grandson Of the late William Weight
man, whose fortune, estimated at from
100000 to $S0,OO0.000. was amassed
as a manufacturing chemist and
through the purchase or real estate
now almost in the heart of Philadel-
phia.
His father Malcolm Roger Weight
man, continued the elder Weightman's
business under the name Of Powers &
Weightman. He died recently. When
the son becomes Of age. it is said, ne
will inherit a fortune of 100000. AL
though by a strange coincidence the
name Of his fathers partner was Pow
ers. II was said the bride bore no re-
lationship TO the partners family.
Mr.. Weightmans grandfather on his
mothers side was Peter Moller,
pioneer In the sugar industry and a
member of the firm OF Moller & Have
meyer. The young man is also said to
be the heir 10 a considerable fortune
from that branch Of his family.
Mrs. Frederic CORTLAND Penfeld, the
wife Of the new United Safes Ambas-
sador to Austria Hungary. is the bride