Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1914-01-02
CUPID ON STEAMERS
Many Romances Started on Big
Ocean Liners.
Captains Of Transatlantic Steamships
Who Have Been Kind to Ardent
swaIns--Marriaoe 10 Often
1E.s..a the Sequel.

+, Cupid Is nowhere In mere frolic.
some mood than On board ship, and he
plays his pranks impartially in saloon
and steerage alike. There is never q
long voyage without at least one 70.
nance in which he figures. London
Answers states.
= A Manchester man who settled in
Canada prospered SO we'll that he was
soon able to send to England enough
money for the passage of his bride. On
the day she should have arrived he
went up to the station to meet her
vainly. He then made inquiries, and
ultimately discovered that she landed
safely at Quebec, but left the train at
Montreal, placing her luggage in the
office there in her own name, and sub
seQuently claiming it as Mrs. -!
AS the name she gave on the second
occasion was that of a man who had
been among her fellow passengers, her
old lover did not make further investi-
cations.
There was singular parallel to this
incident about twelve months ago.
An engineer who had been in Australia
two or three years went to Sydney to
meet his bride to be whose passage
money he had sent to England. And
he did meet her-with a man whom
she liked better!, The two had fallen
in love with each other during the
voyage and she had thrown over her
betrothed.
Equally curious was a love romance
on an Orient liner. Among the emf
grants were an Irishman and young
widow, both bound for Australia. Be-
coming acquainted in the early part
of the voyage, they plighted their troth
under the shadows of Pompeii and
soon afterward asked an archdeacon
who was on board to marry them.
The good man saw no objections and
proclaimed the banns in the presence
OF the interested passengers. But the
captain promptly interviewed and con-
sequently the two could not get mar
ried till they reached Melbourne.
The skipper of Cunader once dig
played more tenderness. Among the
emigrants were couple who had
eloped AS it was probable that, unless
they married meanwhile, they would be
detained at New York, under the Amer
lean immigration act, the captain ap-
preached a clergyman who was on
board and induced him to promise
to make the pair man and wife.
The ceremony took place in the
saloon, the captain acting as best
man and the surgeon giving the bride
away and afterward, at the command
of the genial autocrat Of the ship, a
fine breakfast was spread in honor OF
the event
Another Cunader was the scene of
q still more singular romance. Three
English girls crossed the Atlantic to-
gether to greet their future husbands,
all from thu old country. Because
they were unaccompanied the immi-
grafton authorities would not permit
them to land So a clergyman and
the trio of grooms were brought on
BOARD and then three romantic we'd
dings followed
Curious, again, was happening on
an outward bound Australian liner.
Within five days two emigrants-a
married man and a married woman
died and were buried at sea. Nat
urally, the widow and the widower
sympat hized with each other and even
tually became engaged.
One of the strangest love romances
connected with emigration began on
the Atlantic quarter of a century ago.
A young mechanic from Yorkshire met
for the first time on the boat which
was bearing him to the west a girl
belonging to his own country, and
soon after they landed in America
they were married. Five or six years
ago they came to England for holi-
day, and while they were on their
way back the wife died.
Since then the widower has made
an annual trip to this country about
the anniversary Of her death, and
when the boat reaches the latitude
and longitude where the partner Of
his joys and sorrows was buried he
scatters quantity Of flowers on the
waves.