The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-04-05
English Agents Who Arrange
Marriages for Kaiser's Sub
jects Are Prospering.
ECONOMY, ALSO EASE
Formalities in England Are
Not SO Formal as Those
in the "Vaterland."
specIa! Gable to The Tribune.

Special Gable to The Tribune.
BERLIN, April MANY firms are
finding profitable business in arrang-
ing marriages in England for German
couples. The curious service performed
by these agents is attractive on account
of the great cost and the excessive
formalities required to wed here. Then,
too, the trip to London is in the ma
ture of honeymoon.
Most of the agents live in Hamburg,
but they have branches in Berlin and
there find most of their clients. The
Berlin police state that several thou
sand Germans are now married. in Eng
land every year. Most OF these mar
riages are arranged by the Hamburg
and Berlin agencies.
The marriage laws here are strict,
and, apart from that, not everybody
has time or patience to fulfill the re-
quirements Of the German magistrates
with regard to the production of GER
tifcates and official papers,
Dodge Age Limit.
Also, 1 am told, many Of the German
couples who marry in the British isles
are not Of age, and cannot hope to
deceive a local magistrate as easily as
they might mislead foreign one
The agents not only attend to all
requisite formalities, find suitable wit
ncsses and guarantee secrecy when nee
essary or desirable, but some Of them
even arrange the entertainments of the
young couple at dinners, theaters and
SO forth.
Green.
The kaiser can well pride himself on
the enterprise Of his German subjects
who have invaded England industrially
and are about to open an Anglo German
coal mine at Harworth, The mine lies
near the edge of the rich and busy coal
district around Doncaster. Much of
the machinery used will be German.
'1nvasion" Regretted.
The invasion of the Yorkshire coal
| field by the German company working
| on German methods has been regretted
| in English mining circles, but the op-
portunity of acquiring the property was
| first offered to and declined by English
coal owners. Herr SHINES then stepped
in and O. company was formed with a
capital Of S2,500.0o0 which was fully
subscribed, chiefly in Germany, but
partly in England. The complaint that
British mining engineers have been ig-
nored is also hardly justified, for two
English engineers have been retained
by the company, and Arnold Lupton,
also a mining engineer, is one of the
two British directors.
The contract for the sinking Of the
shaft has been let to German firm.
To Employ Englishmen.
It has been quite incorrectly stated
that German miners will be introduced
to work the new mine, With the ex-
ception of the workmen employed by
the contractor in the sinking operations
who will remain after tho working OF
the mine is begun, the labor used Will
be wholly British.
Some idea Of what this means fol
the Yorkshire miners Is given by the
fact that between 1900 and 1000 cot
tapes are to be erected in the modeI
| village which has been planned for thcil
orrommodation. The layout and the
houses will be on English lines, there
will be park playground for children
and bowling green's, The workmet
Will there live under conditions which
Will offer q striking contrast with those
obtaining in some Of the collicry dis
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