The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-23
WIDOW OF AST0R BECOMES BRIDE
 OF VIM. K. DICK
Less Than a Score at Weddinq. Celebrated With Simple
 Ceremony.

noon shortly after o'clock, in the presence of less than a score of near | relatives and intimate friends, with the simplest of ceremonies without flowers, music or bridesmaids, Mrs l AStor was married to MT. Dick In the chancel of St. Saviour's, brilliant ly lit for the occasion the Episcopal ceremony was performed by the Rev. A. c. Larned, rector of the church. Mrs Astor. wearing plain blue serge suit, plain straw hat, gray spats | and carrying handsome neckpiece of silver gray fox fur, came in on the arm of her father, William H. Force and met the bridegroom and his brother, who were standing in the 1 chancel.
 The Wedding Guests.
 Besides her father the other mem bers of the brides family present were l her mother, Mrs. William H. Force; her sister, Miss Katherine Force, and the latter's 1ance, Henri Harnicken. 1 The bridegroom's family was repre- sented by MT and Mrs. J. Henry Dick his parents; his sisters and their hus- bands, MT. and Mrs. Horace Have meyer and MT. and Mrs. Kingston Ma cy, and his uncle and aunt, MT. and Mrs. Adolph Mollenhauer.
 Others present were Archibald liar 1 rison, Victor N. Cushman, who has made most of the arrangements for the wedding; Miss Dorothy Sturges,
  | ton French
 Shortly after noon, upon the arrival l of the wedding party, luncheon was served at the De Gregoire. It was brief and informal affair.
 Following the marriage ceremony ] the bridal party motored to Ellsworth the county seat, twenty miles away, to take the train
 | The bridal pair will spend their hon. : eymoon on the Pacific coast in a bun galow at Santa Barbara, placed at their disposal by friends. They plan to stay there about three weeks and will be back at Bar Harbor by the l first of August at least, if not earlier.
 Friends Since Youth.
 :. Mrs. Astor is 24 years old and MT. Dick is .28. They were friends as children when the Force and Dick families lived in Brooklyn years ago. It is said they had been engaged two months prior to the announcement last Saturday. The secret was kept well, however, even intimate friends being surprised. Just when MT. Dick Fl renewed his former friendship does not appear, but he was among the 25O guests at a dinner party at the Astor home in Fifth avenue a year ago. More recently he was a guest at small CT parties entertained by Mrs. Astor at Bar Harbor and Aiken s. c.
 William K Dick, who has made his home with his parents at 20 East Fifty-third street, belongs to a fam . fly long identified directly and : through alliance with the sugar ref1n- . . ing industry. Of his fortune, a DOT tion-about $3,00O, ,000-was inherit ed from his grandfather, William Dick, a pioneer sugar ref1ner, who . built some of the plants now lining : I-the Williamsburg water front. The grandfather also organized the Manu- lecturers Bank, now the Manufac- turers' Trust Company, of which MT. Dick is vice-president. 9l MT. Dick is vice president of the , Robert Chapman Company, the Mo- Kee Refrigerator Company and Rig ney & Co.,, confectioners Among other financial and industrial institu- tions with which he is connected are the Broadway Trust Company, Bi- : Products Rec1ainning Company Cord man Savings Bank, Lake Charles Mill T, ing Company, Citizens Water Supply Company and the Commercial Ma ! ttonal Bank of Long Island City. He : Bankers, Piping Rock and Meadow Brook clubs.
 MT. Dicks mother was Julia Theo- dore Mollenhauer. daughter of John Mollenhauer, who was a, sugar refin- CT. His sister, Doris Dick, was mar tried to Horace Havemeyer, son of the late Henry O. Havemeyer, another su- gar baron His other sister, Julia, is the wife of William Kingsland Macy, son of George H. Macy.
 Madeleine Talmage Force was in her twentieth year and Col. John Ja- cob Astor was 47 years old when their engagement was announced by Miss Forces parents. MT. and Mrs. Will liam H. Force. The announcement made in August, 1a11, caused a stir in social circles, which was intensi- fed by the circumstance that eighteen months previously Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, the ColonePs first wife, had ob- tained a divorce.
 Romantic First Marriage.
 Col. Astor and Miss Force had be- tic manner at Bar Harbor about 3 year before. When the Colonel saw her and her sister Katherine playing tennis he sought introduction ano soon afterward began his courtship
 The wedding was solemnized Sep tember g, l911, at Beechwood, the Astor villa at Newport, by the Rev Joseph Lambert of the Elrnwood Tenn pie Congregational church at Provi dence, after ministers of the Episco pal Church had declined owing to the divorce. Miss Katherine Force, sis ter of the bride, was bridesmaid, ant William Vincent Astor was his fath
 CTS best man.
 In January, 1912, Col and Mrs As tor went to Egypt for a Journey dow1 the Nile. On the return trip the. took passage on the liner Titanic, ma
 king her maiden voyage, and at tha
 time the largest vessel that had eve
 foated. In the night of April IA thu
 Titanic was ripped open by an ice
 berg in the middle of the Atlantic.
 Col. Astor Drowned.
 In the two hours and forty minute
 that the Titanic remained af1oat Col
 and Mrs. Astor were witnesses to tn
 distressing scenes of the wreck. Non
 among the 1476 passengers and crev
 that drowned bore himself nor
 bravely than Col. Astor. When h
 realized the ship would go down h
 put his wife in a Hfeboat and drey