New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-21
HELEN GOULD WILL GET
WEDDING LICENSE TODAY
She and FianCe Go to Her
Country Home to Prepare
for Ceremony.
LYNDHURST is DECORATED
Crowd Fails to See Noted
Couple at City Hall-Bride
to Feed Homeless of
the Bowery.

to Feed Homeless of
the Bowery.
Miss Helen Miller Gould and Finley j.
Shepard her fiance. will go to Miss
Goulds country home. Lyndhurst, at
Tarrytown, to-day, and complete arrange
ments for their wedding there to-mor-
row. This morning they will go to the
town clerk Robert Eastwood. and obtain
their license. The wedding rehearsal will
be held this evening.
IL is expected that Nathan Frankie will
play at the rehearsal, and tine house it,
self will be a thing Of beauty even then,
for decorators from New York were busy
all yesterday putting flowers and plants
in their places. The Rev. Daniel Russell,
of the Irvington Presbyterian Church.
will be on hand. Only seVenty-fve guests
are TO be present at the wedding to-mor-
row. including the members of the Gould
and Shepard families.
A huge crowd besieged the City Hall
Yesterday following a rumor that Miss
Gould and Mr.. Shepard would take out
their license there. and it was necessary
to call out the police before the blockade
could be cleared.
Soldiers Send Gifts.
For several hours the entrance of the
bureau was filled with gaping. curious
throng. but Miss Gould did not appear.
Chief Clerk Scully said that she was not
at the City Hall and that she probably
would secure her license in Tarrytown,
where the wedding IS to take place to-
morrow. In any event, he said, he would
Willingly relieve Miss Gould Of the embar-
rassment Of facing a crowd by sending
one oil his clerks TO her house.
sum of 500 collected from the soldiers
at Fort Hamilton and Fort Wadsworth
was spent yesterday for the purchase Of
three pictures which will be sent TO Miss
Gould as a wedding gift Plans had been
made TO collect sums from various posts
in the Eastern Division, the entire amount
10 be used in purchasing some pretentious
gift like that selected for Miss Gould by
her sailor friends in the navy.
This idea, however. could not he put
into effect in the army as the various or
ganizations were opposed TO the giving OF
a general Sift. each preferrinS 10 make
its own present. IT was said at Gov
ernors Island yesterday that because of
tie inability of the enlisted men to agree
upon a general fund. Miss Gould will be
the recipient OF many small gifts from her
friends in the service.
Wedding Feast for Homeless.
Willie the marriage guests of Miss
Could are eating her wedding cake to-
morrow evening 1000 others of her guests
will sit down to a real. substantial,
soul-satisfyinc. hunger apueasing meal in
TIC breakfast room Of tine Bowery Mis-
sion. IN this city. Few of these others
zNcr saw Miss Gould: some of them
probably never heard Of her, but that
won't prevent them from rejoicing at her
marriage to Finley J. Shepard almost if
not fully. as heartily as the regular we'd
ding guests.
FOR it's going TO be a real dinncr-this
which Miss Gould has had prepared for
the homeless men who drift into the
Bowery Mission tomorrow night First
Of all. there will be roast beef--goOd hot
roast beef. To that foundation viii be
sddcd vegetables. pie. coffee maybe
little soup. The Rev. DR.. j. G.. HALL
mond. superintendent of the mission, said
last might 1t would probably take more
than five hours 10 serve the whole dinner,
as the guests would have TO eat in re-
laws. The first - viii be admitted 10
the breakfast room at $50 1t is eX-
pcCted the last will be out by midnight.
II there are any more they will have 20
take their places in the regular nightly
bread line. which forms at ! o'clock
During the dinner downstairs a CON
tinuous service Will be held In the main
hall upstairs in honor Of the wedding.
Among the speakers will be the Rev
David James BCrrell of the Marble Col
legiate Church the Rev DR. Charles H.
Mead, president of the mission: the Rev.
Arthur II. Evans, pastor of the West-Park
PRESBYTERIAN Church. and probably Jacob
Riis. There will be singing by Or Ion
Jackson. the tenor soloist of the Cole
giate Church of St Nicholas. which Miss
Gould attends, and DR.. $: NJ. Evans of
Bellevue. \ message from Governor Sui
ger will be read and one from President
Taft is expected
BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune.I
Worcester, Mass. Jan. 20.-Mrs. Burton
Henry Wright, Of this city left here this
afternoon for Irvington. n. Y. and will
be the guest of Miss Gould until her we'd
ding Wednesday to her brother, Finley J.
Shepard.
Mrs. Wright will be met in New York
by her brother and VIII then make the
trip to the Gould estate. She will be
Joined by her husband. Burton II. Wright
possibly tomorrow night or carly
Wednesday morning.
iBy Telegraph TO The Tribune.
Savannah. Jan. GA box of camela
japonicas. the gift Of little Miss Lillian
Sturtevant. the four-year-old daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. W. a. Sturtevant. has been
sent to Miss Helen Gould, whose mar
riage 10 Finley ]. Shepard, OF Connectl-
cut. will take place Wednesday at Miss
Goulds Tarrytown home.
Thu reason for the gift is because Mrs
Sturtevant. mother of the little lady. in
whose name the flowers arc sent is dis
tant relative OF Miss Goulds. which
makes little Miss Lillian also a relative.