The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-02-08
u. S. SAILORS WED
IRISH GIRLS
Many Romances Have Come
Out of the American
Fleets Visit
BRIDES ANXIOUS
FOR "FAIR AMERICA"
some of the Men Make Over
Property to Their
Wives

Base American Flotilla in British
Waters, Feb. S. Correspondence of the
Associated Pressl Every part of the
United States has supplied hero in love
| romances that have eliminated in happy
marriages between American bluejackcts
aud blue-eyed madens since the arrival
of the American destroyer forces in the
south of Ireland. After the war, cv-
cry part Of the United States from
Maine to California and from the Great
Lakes to Florida will boast of an Irish
bride, who was woocd and won in her
native land by an American sailor.
All of the brides are looking forward
to that happy day when they will see
what their husbands so proudly proclaim
as Gods country" Already the Amer
lean sailor has supplied his Irish bride
with all necessary documents to estab
lsh her identity as an American and
some have even had their property in
the United States transferred to their
wives as precaution in case they lose
their lives for their country.
There is the marriage of former
ranchman Bert Adams, TO Brigid
oRouke, whose family descends from an
Irish king of that name. Adams, who
is boiler maker on one of the de-
stroyers, halls from Hugo, Col. He is
now arranging 10 have his ranch in
Colorado decided to his wife as pre-
caution in the event of his being tor
pedoed. His wifes relatives live in Bruce,
County Limerick, and there is plenty of
anecdote connected with the famlly's re-
lations to the O'Roukes of kingly fame
u don't know anything about ranching,
Mrs. Adams told the Associated Press
but ] am preparing my
self for the fair land Bert has told me
so much about by studying a history
IF Colorado
Then there is the case OF Mary Ridge,
head waitress at the leading hotel here,
who lost her heart to Harland G. Richie,
/ machinists mate, first class, of Allston,
Mass. She was one of the most pop
liar girls in town. The dining room
,ver which she presided is out of bounds
o enlisted men, but Richie eontrived
o see her when she was off duty They
now each other for four months before
Mr.. Ritchie led her to the altar of the ]
illage church.
But the record for love al first sight /
mong the Americans belongs to young
canaan, Paul Valachovic by name who ,
sed TO work in the machine shop of the
'eneral Electric company at Science
ady, y. Y. He fell in love the first $
ay he stepped ashore here, from his de-
troyer. Ada Jones. a Cork girl, was |
he object of ctpid's dart. After the a
'ar Valachovic is going TO take her back
nth him to that thriving city of New
ork. Q
A few of the Americans first met their a
ives on visits to England Charles {
-armon Cobia of Charleston, $. G., fell d
J love on the beautiful Cornish riviera II
it'll Ada Gilbert, widow of "a, whose u
ONE was in Plymouth Another Eng ;,
sh bride is Nora Elizabeth Kit, who
as married to Joseph w Highfeld of u
es Moines, Pa.
But the majority of the Americans s.
arried Irish girls who lived in the vi. W
nifty of the American. naval base and
hen they met at the dance hall or :,
Her skating rink. Thus Doris Francis =,
hillips is now Mrs. Leo Vincent Fla y
III of Hanover, Mass, and Mary Ellen Is
lllivan has become the wife of Thomas tt
Balschi of Mount Carmel Pa After
e war Mary O'keefe. who became the h,
ife of Edward C.. Turner. expects to de- y,
TT the trying climate of southern Ire "a
nd, for that of sunny San Jose, Cal, II
hich is her husbands home. William al
,aulding of DeLand. Fla, has married
ter Allen, while Oral T. Cox of lola. m
an won the hand of Phyllis Rose Rog- m
:.
Among the Others of the American
ilors who have taken to themselves a
fe over here are Benjamin J. Moore ST
Dallas Tex; Albert A. Rockingham of
nsscola, Fla. Harry Il. Holder of Den IN
r, Col, and Michael J. Della REQ of IN
henectady, \. Y. And the list gives on
omise of growing steadily. a. a.