The daily times., 1922-02-14
PLUCKY BRIDE WOULD
NOT POSTPONE WEDDING

NOT POSTPONE WEDDING.
New York, Feb. 13-Tnere were
tsix stitches in the brides cheek.
! Neither they, nor the paleness of her
face, nor the pain-ShadowS under
her eyes, could disguise her youthful
winsomeness. There were red stains
on the torn satin wedding dress. The
, bouquet she carried was dropping and
battered. The hand in which the
bridegroom held the ring was cut
and bandaged and shook as he went
through his little part in the cere-
mony. The girls father gave her into
the young mans keeping with a
smile of more than ordinary tender
his forehead, which surgeon just
had sewed together. No one who
watched the brides mother could
have suspected that an ambulance
doctor had recorded in his case book
few minutes earlier that she was
suffering shock. Nor was the painful
experience the best man and the maid
of honor had shared with the others
allowed to mar the brightness of the
ceremony.
The girl who just wouldn't post
pone it, automobile accident or no
automobile accident, was Henrietta
Greenberg of 4,241 Third Avenue
The man who insisted the time to
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now was Jack S. Diamond of 2,853
West Thirtieth Street, Coney Island,
a salesman.
The brides father, Herman Green
mother thought at first, after they
had been helped out of the smashed
car, that Henrietta ought to come
right home with them and be put to
bed and nursed. But for some time
they had been schooling themselves,
mother and father fashion, to the
thought that the time was coming
when some one else would have the
first right to watch. over Henrietta 1t
came little sooner than they expect-
J ed, that's all, and the young man
couldn't be denied
The rest of the wedding party, so
soon as they were out of the hands
of the ambulance surgeon and. the
neighborhood physicians who helped,
were keen for the idea of going right
through with it. So some one tele-
phoned to Rabbi Sa1ig at Temple
Adath Israel, in East 169th Street,
to wait a few minutes; George Dia-
mond made sure he hadn't lost the
ring he was to hand to his brother
at the right instant; Sylvia Scharf of
1858 Avenue A said her right shoul-
der didn't hurt so much she couldn't It
second the bride; some one else hunt
ed up another car, and away they
| went.
The smash came at Hath Street
and Third Avenue while Mortimer
Block of $50 Madison Street, Brook
lyn, was whirling them all gaily
downtown to the wedding at O'Clock
last evening. Some building is going
on there, and the street is cluttered
with material. Block said there was
no light on it. The police said the red
lamp was there. Anyway Block gave
the steering wheel hard twist as he
was almost upon a pile of bricks, the
car skidded in the wet street, and
the reaHwhee1s were smashed against
an elevated pillar.
The bang was hard one, and the
glass on the car was shattered into
splinters One of them was driven
clean through Miss Greenberg's
cheek. Another jagged piece slashed
her fathers forehead, while Jack
Diamonds hand was jammed among
sharp fragments. The others were
| bruised, shaken and shocked.
People ran from all directions to
extricate the. seven persons who
found themselves scrambled head,
/ imprisoned in the wrecked car. Block,
freed first, was the only one unhurt.
He joined Patrolman Horan and 9TH
ers in lifting out the members OF
the wedding party. Rosenberg's drug
store is on the corner, and there the
lsix were led, to await the coming