The sun., 1919-06-01
JOSEPH TOWNE
TAKES FACTORY
GIRL AS BRIDE
Grandson of Lock Manufac-
turer Earns $50 a Week
as Machinist.
REVEALED BY A MISHAP
Orthodox Jewish Parents For
give and Doting Mother
R1shes to Injured Son.
REVEALED BY A MISHAP

Although the marriage was denied
for months, formal announcement was
made yesterday in Stamford. Conn.,, by
the brides parents that Joseph Mere
dith Towne, grandson Of Henry r.
Towne, founder OF the famous lock
and hardware firm Of Yale & Towne,
married last March in Toledo Miss
Sarah Raven. an immigrant girl from
Kiev. Russia, whom he met while she
was laboring as a bench hand In the
big Yale & Towne factory in Stamford.
Young Towne. who is only 10, and Is
understood to be destined to inherit
much OF the new fortune built up by
his grandfather. is at work now in an
automobile factory in Detroit. He was
Joined there recently by his bride, one
year his Junior and. denied parental
blessing on both sides, the couple set
w housekeeping. A few days ago
young Towne's efforts to make his
own way in the world as a mechanic
at $50 a week led to an accident In
which one OF his fingers was crushed
/ hut the accident has been forgotten
by reason of the fact that 1t caused
the youthful couples parents to re-
lent from their opposition to the
match.
Al the big Towne estate In Noroton.
Conn. It was stated last night that
young Townes mother was on her way
to Detroit. and just af,sr that the brides
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Max Raven, made
the announcement OF the marriage from
their humble women's tailoring estat
lishment in Stamford
She Goes to Work in Factory.
Things looked very dark last winter
for all concerned. The tailor shop had not
been as prosperous as It might have been
and Sarah, finished with grammar school.
had taken her rosy cheeks each day to
the Yale & Towne factory. There those
same rosy cheeks met the eye OF the
young grandson OF the founder of the
ifirm, a boy used to everything that
money and refinement can give, private
schools. travel with tutors and the big
brick house In Noroton, where his
mother painted portraits of important
men because she loved TO paint, taught
dancing and gymnastics TO young per-
, sons less fortunate than her own sons,
and founded a popular school OF arts for
her factory people.
SO when Sarah and her boy began to
be seen about together she did not quite
like 1t. Her resentment. however, was
as nothing to that Of the two humble
workers on women's clothing who had
known OF the Christian only as the op-
pressor of their kind. They refused to
permit Sarah to see the young man
again.
But the young man had things inside
! OF him. He took his own fate into his
own hands, left school and went to work
on his own. The things he didn't
know about motor cars were not many
and he turned his knowledge into hard
cash. He got q job In a factory in To-
edo. And yesterday a letter from his
bride, Sarah. told the whole story.
She followed him last March and on
March IS, as the wedding certificate she
inolosed proved. they were married by
Robert G. Golsine, a Justice OF the
Peace. Then they went to Detroit. Mrs
| Towne always denied this marriage ana
| the father and mother OF the bride had
| nothing to say, All the parents have
been reconciled now, apparently, for Mr..
ard Mrs. Raven made the announcement
of the marriage yesterday. and at the
Towne homo 1t was stated that Mrs
| Towne was on the way to Detroit, where
she will see II she can add anything to
fha -
at 241 Lemay avenue Judging by the
brides reports, there is nothing she can
add but the happiness of her own for.
giveness and her presence.
Bride Has Learned TO Cook,
The accident. which seems TO have
been the indirect cause OF the reconcilia.
| tion, was not as serious after all as 1,
might have been. Young Towne was
employed in the plant Of the Hudson
Motor Car Company and had won sew.
| eral advancements. His hand was badly
crushed one day last week, and he viii
lose finger. but the latest reports were
that he was rapidly recovering other
wise.
As to his domestic happiness the little
! bride writes
! II have learned to cook almost every.
! thing and l can save some OF the money
my boy makes. He makes $40 n week
l am afraid OF only one thing-that
am going to get fat. So think l shall
! have to so back TO work"
! The bridegroom's grandfather was tn,
late Henry r. Towne. who extended the
business OF his Arm from that OF lock,
and Keys to a huge production OF al
sorts of builders hardware. He was
director of the Merchants Associatio
OF New York city and its president from
(! 1907 to 1913, His son, the young bride
groom's father, was Frederick 7. Towne
who died some years ago, leaving hi!
wife and two sons, Joseph and Frederic
T. Towne Both boys have been popula'
among the youngsters in the SounC