Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
COHEN WEDDING
NEARLY SPOILED
Former Newarker, Who Posed
as Glasgow Official. Almost
Lost His Bride.

& NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-An elaborate
wedding which took place last night
IN the ballroom of the Hotel Ansona
came near being upset at the last
minute because a lawyer in divorce
8 case eleven years ago failed to file a
final decree for the plaintiff after II
had been signed.
The bridegroom was Frank L Cohen,
who has been referred to frequently
as an ex-lord mayor of Glasgow since
he came here several years ago and
who called himself master of the
works of Glasgow. The bride was
Mrs Frances A. Harris, head of
millinery establishment in this city
The couple were married by RABBI
Joseph Silverman. of Temple Emanu-
FL, in the presence of $50 friends.
After the ceremony it was an
nounced that letters of eongratulation
had been received from President
s Wilson, Vice President Marshall, the
Duke Of Connaught, King George Of
England. Governor Glynn. Secretary
of State Bryan. Secretary TumultY
and hurry Guggenheim.
When the wedding parties went TO
the city clerks office and applied for
q license Mrs. Harris told the clerk
she had been divorced in 1903 from
Louis Harris and that he didn't de-
fend the action. She said she had
heard nothing from him since, The
clerk told Mrs. Harris she would nave
{ to present a certified copy OF her
decree before she could get the IL
cense.
Went for Decree
The couple called up Mrs. Harris's
attorney. Leo r. Brilles, and he went
with them to get the decree out of the
court records and have a certified
copy made. The decree couldn't be
found for several hours.
Il Clerk Smith then made an AFFIDAVIT
>that the decree had been signed, but
never filed. and this affidavit was
presented to Justice Newburger. who
signed an order directing the filing of
s3the decree as of the date it was
ssigned.
81 In the fall of 1912 Frank 1. Cohen
smade his appearance in Newark, and,
for time, cut a wide swath in
social way and was very much in the
&public eye. He was fete1 and made
afnuch of, certain newspapers picturing
him as the master of Works Of elias
Ngow" which position, it was said,
twas even more distinctive than that
1pf lord mayor. He was pictured in
his regal robes of office, gownlike
kgarments with something akin to a
Etrail to them. His views as to the
Amethod of conducting municipal af-
fairs in the big Scottish town were
ssprinted in long articles and his i'm
spressions of American ideas were
Eagerly sought
81 Took Long Vacation.
Cohen was getting along famously.
He had taken a long vacation to visit
the United States to study customs
and business methods here so that he
could apply such as he deemed wise
80 Glasgow's betterment on his re-
turn to Scotland He was introduced
TO Louis V. Aronson. who, about that
time, had started his mayoralty cam
paign against Mayor HausSling, and |
Cohen and Mr.. Aronson became al
most inseparable.
Cohen proceeded to boost" the
e boom of his new-found friend so per-
sistently that people began to eriti-
else the visiting statesman. At din
'ner of the Caledonian Club, composed |
of many prominent Newark citizens |
o,e Scottish origin, after descanting |
up on Scotland he proceeded to make |
an Aronson campaign speech. It did |
not take well, the club members ask
fng themselves whether Cohen came
here 10 study American ideas or TO
felI per sons who understood American
iacas how they should vote
q Not a Lord Mayor.
1t was developed through inquiry
BY the Scotch Americans that Cohen
was not ,ord mayor, that his posi-
fion in Glasgow was equivalent to
that of ALDERMAN here, that he had
Rendered his resignation and that it
lad been accepted. Furthermore. it
Gould not have been his intention to
return to Scotland, it was reasoned.
inasmuch as he had taken a position
as a cigar salesman for a New York
hnuse