Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-07-11

than ordinary interest in the lonely
little passenger.
When Miss Dehner landed at New
York she had promised to keep UP a
correspondence with her officer ac-
quaintance. This promise was kept
and for almost four years while Miss
Albertina made new friends and ac-
quaintances in Harrisburg and Steel
ton, she kept sending little perfumed
missives to the ship officer who re-
piled with big, fat letters that de-
scribed his life at sea.
Friendship ripened into love and but
for the strenuous objections of the
uncle. there would have been an early
wedding AS it was, the strict Ger
man ideas of the guardian would not
tolerate a match, the outgrowth of a
shipboard filtration. So, in strict Ger
man fashion, he packed up Miss AL
bertina and sent her protestingly back
to live for a time with relatives in
Germany and forbid her ever to again
write to Noskuhl.
Ignorant of the absence of his be-
trothed. the young officer continued
to send letters to her home in Steel
ton. When she failed to reply after
months, he obtained leave from his
ship and came to the borough.
Brusquely, the uncle informed him
that his niece had returned to Ger
maryland that he hoped they would
never meet again.
That was fourteen years ago.
To-day in st. James Catholic
Church, Miss Albertina Dehner and
Tobias Voskuhl were we'd by the Rev.
Father ]. c. Thompson. In a little
note prepared for the papers, a rela-
tive stated that the bridesmaid was
10 - Il, .
street, and that the best man was
Charles Wieger. The wedding march
was played by Miss Mary Lynch. with
violin accompaniment by Frank
Wieger. Mrs. c. H. Daniels sang
Ave Marie There will be a honey
moon trip to Atlantic City, the note
said, and then Mr.. and Mrs. Voskuhl
will reside at 312 North Second street,
Steelton.
But the note didn't tell the story of
those intervening fourteen years, OF
the longing, watching and waiting of
Miss Albertina for the lover who never
came, nor of the worldwide search of
the young officer, who has now de-
veloped into a first officer of one OF
the German liners, nor of his years of
disappointment.
The tale was told by mutual
friend, while the happy couple were
speeding away to dip into the waves OF
The heartbroken young officer left
the uncle's home. following his rebuff
returned to his ship and at first OPP
portunity while on the other side, OBJ
tanned another leave to visit his sweet
hearts former home at Hohenzollern
There friends told him Miss Albertina
had gone to live with relatives in
Switzerland. So to that country he
went to pursue his fruitless search
There after years of search he was
told his sweetheart had married and
gone again to America.
Heartbroken, he gave up the search
and again took to the sea. While on
one of his visits to New York he heard
that the story of the marriage of his
betrothed to another was false. Again
he renewed mis- search.
This time the big war cloud that had
been gathering over Europe for years
broke and unleashed the roaring lions
of the British fleet. All German ship
ping was forced to flee to the safety
of neutral ports and the boat upon
which Noskuhl was an officer steamed
| into Galveston, Texas, and interned. OF
course American newspapers carried
the story and gave the names of the
ships officers.
On the opposite side of the United
States, Miss Albertina read the news
and far down in the list of officers she
saw the name of her lover.
Fourteen years is long time to wait
and it gave the girl time to develop in
to a woman, with a woman's intuition
and a woman's mind.
Disregarding the command of her
uncle, she sat down and dispatched a
timid. inquiring letter to the far-ofi
officer. Then she sat back to resume
her waiting.
This time, however. it wasn't foI
long. Less than month later. a trim
| looking German came to Steelton and
| inquired at the Steel plant for work as
a rigger. the nearest work to a sailors
heart At first his high German and
superior education created suspicion
and Voskuhl had considerable annoy
ance from those who thought him a
German spy.
That, however. was merely an Incl
dent in fourteen years of heartrend-
, ing search. But an event came with
the first pay. Then the officer again
presented himself at the home of the
uncle and that blustery individual
again met him.
But-welI what followed is best told
in the little note handed out for pub
lication.