The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-31
PROMINENT CLUBMAN
MARR|Es HELLO GIRL"
In Whirlwind Courtship EIgin II.
(Doc) Graves Wins Miss
Haidee HOagland.
CouKTsnIp OVER TELEPHONE
Pretty Operator at Jefferson Hotel
Succumbs TO Plcadings OF Popular
Travelling Man, and They Wed at
Little Church Around the Corner.
Dan cupid. lightning conductor,

Dan Cupid. lightning conductor.
Arrowcd and bowed the ever youth.
ful hunter Of hearts never worked III
faster time nor to greater advantage
than when tic brought together for the
final and irrcvocable knot la the Little
Church Around the Corne-. which is
III New York town, Yesterday at 10
I" clock. ElSin X. Graves. III Richmond.
and Miss Uuidcc IIoagland formsrlv
Of South Tittsburg. Tenn. but more
recently one Of the presiding angels AZ
the telephone switchboard Of the JET
ferson Hotel
II WAS swift. but cncctiva. this court
SNIP. Counting the time hy the hands
81 the clock. II consumed less than
iorty-eight hours; forty-cigh; hours
during which the groom made the ac-
uuaintancc of his bride. wooed and won
her.
by 40 means a record comr,ahip. so
far as the actual elapsed time is con
r"rned. ii fairly teens with romance"
NJ Graves. whose friends in Rich
mond are legion. is well-known Ia the
realms OF society. Somewhat OF a re-
ciise. both. by nature and through cir
cunstanccs. most OF his time being
m"nt OF his 'narriag. Will prove the
on" big surprise 10 those who knew
member OF The Commonwealth club
ana prominently connected throughout
ne south. he had been regarded by
10 the darts of tho insidious younust.r
ANNOUNCEMENT COMES
- DISTINCT SURPRISE
Graves didn't Know that ,her F' wa a.
such person ia tho world as Miss
liaidee lioagland. t'orty-cight hours
ago II is doubtful il Elsin Il. Graves
thought %! anything lcss than he did
OF matrimony. 1t was the one thing
say ms friends. that was ;arthest from
to make "A trip to New York. getting
ready to start on his sem:annual
travels in the interest OF a wholesale
nat company. OF Orange. y. J., the con
Germ he represents while Oh the road
BEFORE leaving there We're some few
matters That he desired TO talk ovr
WIN - r.. Wcisiger. manager OF the
Jefferson Hotel. where. MS has already
Hwp!Ipsihrsd. NJ. Graves made his home,
Mr.. Weisigers telephone. he engaged
in conversation with the Young woman
VINO no" bears his name. lie didn't
TO. and told her just that much in just
those plain words. After finishing his
business with Mr. Weisigcr. Mr.. Graves.
Ing much time. went to The Jefferson.
There he was formally introduced TO
MISS Hoagiand An appointmept was
made on the spot. ana tina, night sin.
movies"
TRANSFORMS VACATION
INTO real, HONEYMOON
Wednesday. night Miss Hoagland am
nounced to Manager Wcisger that she
VIC soiuI Oh ner vacation Peculiar
train from Richmond that bore Mr.
Graves. ana still stranger that train
was hound for New York. II arrived
in Gotham town at o'clock i'm tho
morning. AT 10 o'clock Miss HoagInnd
was relieved of her natal patronymic
ana transformed into Mrs. Elgin r.
! Graves. ana from advices received from
the groom. the initial part OF tho honey
moon will he spent in the biggest city.
of America
T., There = re. is no more popular young man
Graves. Those who know him re-
spect him, and those who have
heard Of him regard him as
one good fellow His whirlwind
wooing and winning OF tho young wo-
man who is now his wife is regarded
n a., char r,! by those of his friends
career. His mother. who lives in At
lanta. but who will move here in the
early fall, has been advised OF the mar
rlage, as were his intinateS here
Miss Hoagland is "a brunette of the
most pronounced type. She is petite
and and pretty. Her voice. the one com
il was the voice that first attracted
her husband, is described by the other
young woman who shared duty with
| ncr, az bcinE OF that ripping, mellow
| ing blend that made the normally
Onerous duty Of calling numbers on the
telephone pleasure when Miss Hoag-
land answered.
WE'D AZ G0TiIAM'S
FAMOUS GRETNA GREEN
n special from New York says
| "ElSin Il. Graves, Of Richmond, Va.
stopping AT the Hotel York, was mar
ried 10 Miss Haidee Hoaglana. OF South
Pittsburgh. Tenn, at the Little Church
Around the Corner this morning.
Mr.. Graves, who is connected with
! a nat manufacturing company of
Orange, y. j., and whose Offices are in
New York City. is we'll known in Rich
inond society circles. and is u member
OF the commonwealth Club Of Rich
mond. He told The Times Dispatch
correspondent tonight that he and his
bride mad not determined upon where
they would spend their honeymoon. but
said they would make their home in
Richmond after brief wedding trip"