Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-07-24

U, N, M, Graduate Sails Across
Atlantic to Marry Florence
Pickard in Savannah; She
Leaves for Honeymoon.

the University OF New Mexico some |
two years ago. Rhodes scholar from
4. \. NJ to oxford university In Eng
land. and known by many Alhuquer-
que people other than those who
knew him nj the varsity has been
Tilted. Whether karsten is aware
that his faneee that was--Miss Flor I
enee Martha Pickard--is welded to /
another. or whether he rs In SaNan- /
nah, where he was tu marrv Miss
Pickafd on JulA rs. Is not known. |
The last heard Of karstcn he was
on the broad Atlantic ocean. sailing /
on the Mauretana, bound for New /
York. preparing 10 catch the first
train for the south. Miss Pickard, 1t /
VIII be remembered. was student
at the u. ~ NJ. while Karsten was
plugging for the Rhodes scholarship |
II was Mt the varsity that the love |
affair began which eliminated In !
their engagement to marry
Now Miss Pickard Ia Mrs Leverett /
X. Harrison and distant relatives and /
many friends I'm Albuquerque are /
wondering how II all happened. We'd |
ding presents we're forwarded 10 Sa- !
vannah from here and kilograms and I
letters were awaiting karstens ar |
rival there Now karsten's romance +
is shattered ana he will likely carry /
days. All of which goes to prove that /
the old saying Is true: The man that
stays on the job gets the girl
The story OF how Miss PiclSard de-
.cided to marry Mr. Harrison Just a
few days before the day set for her
marriage to Karsten. is best told in
a dispatch from Savannah. publish
ed in the Atlanta journal Of re-
cent date.
The thrilling details Of how II all +
happened which will he intensely in
tercsting to many Albuquerque peo-
pie, arc as follows: II
while the man she was engaged II
TO marry was speeding 10 this cOun-
try from England on the Mauritania,
Miss Florence Martha Pickard Il
daughter of the Rev. DR.. and Mrs.
w. l.. Pickard, was married this az T,
ternoon to Lcvcrett Il. Harrison, OF :
Halifax, an old sweetheart. whom she
had not seen for several years.
Miss Pickard's engagement TO
Karl Gustav karsten was announced
last Sunday. and her marriage was
10 have taken place July 2S in the
First Baptist church. Of which her
father was pastor until he accepted
the presidency OF Mercer university
"A short time ago Her younger sister,
Miss Elizabeth Packard. who was to
have been maid OF honor AT the we'd =
ding. was the only witness of the hur- =
riod marriage TO Mr.. Harrison. =
"Mr Harrison arrived in the city !,
Sunday. the day the announcement !.
az Miss Pickard's engagement TO Mr.. I
tarstent was published. lie had been
engaged to her some years ago, ana
although the engagement had peen
broken, he had remained constant.
Since coming to the city he has been e.
unremittng in his attentions, press
ing his cause with an ardor that fl u
nally won and resulted in the roman :
tic elopement. ;,
Licerse Is Secured. u
I'm the afternoon he and Miss :,
piekard. accompanied by Miss Eliza N
beth Pickard, who was in the secret, =,
went for an automobile drive The IL ~
cense was secured and an attempt -
was Immediately made to find a min y
lister who would perform the cere-
mony
"A telephone message to the Rev. 81
NJ j. Eptlng pastor of St PauPs y
Lutheran church, discovered that he =
was at home and willing to perform l
a marriage ceremony, which, he was 4
must be hastily done. No a
OF the identity Of the II
bride was given to DR. Epting. d
con their arrival at his house. 81
about $50 O'clock. he inquired II
they were Savannah people, and was
informed that the bride was resi- O
dent The license was shown, but the OF
identity of the brides name with that OF
Of the pastor Of the First Baptist S,
church conveyed nothing to DR.. Ep- g,
ting, who had no suspicion until after ii
the young people had left the house tc
as to who they might be. He was told 50
that the bride was in very i'll health M
and that it was important to make S;
the ceremony as short as possible. II,
at was quickly done, and it was %
only in talking the matter over alter d
wards that Mr.. Eptng began to sus- /.
pect that the bride and the Miss in
Florence Pickard whose engagement =,
and wedding plans he had read Of a M
few DAYS before were the same per- W
son. i'm
MIR. and Mrs Harrison went at n
once to the home of DR.. and Mrs. q,
Pickard. accompanied by Miss Eliza r
beth Pickard, and broke the news TO n,
the brides mother by asking for her
They then drove to
The De Soto, where they dined. They "
left tonight for New York and Nova
Scotia, and will make their home in
Halifax.
Rejected Lover Not Yet Told
"In the meantime the rejected low
err, who has just graduated from OK
ford university on Rhodes schol-
ership. is nearing this country on the u
unconscious of the dis te
appointment that awaits him. Mr. NJ
Karsten, although he has lived much OF
broad is an American by birth ana n
belongs to family quite distinguish OF
ed in the world of letters. His en- U
gagement to Miss Pickard grew out u
Of a college romance while both We're u
students at the University OF New ~
Mexico. and eliminated during her II
residence abroad She has only re- W
Gently returned from Europe, having W
spent the last year in Germany. re
DIR. Pickard Surprised. ~
"When told of his daughters sc
slopement tonight DR.. Pickard said, W
NV daughter, Florence, was engaged
10 be married to Mr.. Karsten July e
" This is indeed a great surprise
% me. Mr. Harrison has been in love
with my daughter for several years.
Eight years ago she was stricken
Town with typhoid fever and mas
never been thoroughly strong since. n,
IN order TO regain her heaith shs ID
spent two years at the UNIVERSITY ~ es
New Mexico and there she met MI bl
karsten who has been devoted 70 re
ner through all these years Mr.; a
Harrison, too has loved her put ulu M
not press his suit as did Mr.. harsten, q
because she was not cf
strong vet, though all these years he Il,
has declared that he would marry .,
her ice