Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-08
attache to Our embassy at


Toxic.
Good newsl Yes, save for the
fact that Jack recalled that the
general staff or some authority had
said that the attache in Toxic
should be an unmarried man. Jack
did not know what to do. He
wanted the appointment; he wanted
to marry Frances. Much nom
plussed, Jack called upon the sec
retary to thank HIM for the appoint
ment and at the same time to en-
deavor to learn the secretary's views
of married officers insofar as the
Toxic post was concerned.
"Now, though Jack did not know
it, a friend of his, friend who had
Taft's ear, had called earlier on the
secretary and had told him all about
Jacks predicament. So Taft was
prepared for Jack when, all unsus-
pecting that the secretary knew the
facts, Jack walked into the War de-
partment. .
"'There seems to be decision by
the staff Jack said quietly to Taft,
that no married officer can have the
post at Toxic
Taft smiled-he must have
chuckled inwardly.
Get Married Afterward.
"'You understand no married
man can be appointed he replied
quietly. But YOU have the an
pointment. You are not married.
And certainly, no army court nor
board will revoke such an appoint
ment if the officer in question hap
pens to get married.
That was enough for Jack.
u made arrangements all in
day, invitations were issued, and on
January 26, 1905, Jack and my
daughter were married in the church
of the Epiphany here by the Rev.
DR.. Randolph H. Mckim. The
next. day they started for Japan"
Such was Pershing's romance.
DR.. McKim is still alive; he still
is pastor of the Church of the
Epiphany. I called upon him at his
home in X street, Washington. He
recalls the marriage, and never
solemnized happier one in his
life, he told me.
Washington, too, remembers the
wedding of Captain John Joseph
Pershing and Miss Helen Frances
Tho Bridesmaids.
President Roosevelt and Mrs.
Roosevelt attended. So did all the
celebrities of the capital-ambas-
sadors, foreign ministers and scores
of army and navy officers.
Charles E. Magoon, the one-time
Governor of Cuba and of the Canal
Zone, one of "The Three Musket-
eers," was best man. The maid of
honor was classmate OF the bride
at Wellesley, Miss Anne Decker
Orr of Pittsburg. ..-
Among the ushers was that brave
and gallant army officer who was
lost on the Titanic, Capt. Archie
Butts. Other ushers were Major
General .Crozier, lately command
ing general of the Northeastern de-
partment with headquarters in Bos-
ton; Col. Sidney A. Cloman, A. E.
F.; Col. George w. Kirkpatrick,
Fort Riley. Kan; Maj. Gen. Will
liam G. Gaan, A. E. F., and Brig.
Gen. William Lassiter, A. E. F.;
Rear Admiral Andrew T.. Long, Y.
S. N; Capt. Roscoe c. Bulmer, U.
S. NJ; Captain Mark, Bristol, U. S.
N, and Brig. Gen. Charles L. Nc
Cawley, U. S. Marine corps.
Following the wedding, there was
a reception at the New Willard no.
tel.
Honeymoon in Tokyo.
Tokyo honeymoon days for Capt.
John Joseph Pershing and his bride,
who had been Miss Helen Frances
Warren, daughter of United States
Senator Francis Emroy Warren of
were destined to be
short.
The Russian-Japanese war was in
progress and almost Immediately
upon their arrival in Tokyo, where
Pershing had been detailed as mill
tary attache to the American EN-
bassy in Japan, he was assigned as
an observer to go to the front with
the army commanded by General
Kuroki.
Pershing remained with Kuroki's
army from March until September,
1905. The report which he made to
the War department of his observa-
tions was recognized as one of the
best of its kind ever submitted by a
United States army officer. l was
told by government officials in
that his analysis of the
was mastery, an exemplar
of wonderful and keen insight into
the strategic and tactical operations
Of the Japanese.
Pershing, after leaving Kurokis
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