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Show JoyalBonors at Jim erica n fs Wedding t The coming visit to this country of Cardinal Satolli, recently papal delegate at Washington, will bo marked by one of the most elaborate wedding ceremonies ever seen outside of Rome. The bride will be Miss Margaret Maloney. a small, slim, brown haired, brown eyed Philadelphia girl. The -bridegroom will be Carbery Ritchie, a young lawyer of Washington, D. C. Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia, assisted by the bishop of Trenton, will perform the ceremony, . with their highnesses. Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore Balti-more and Satolli of Rome, and his grace, the archbishop arch-bishop of New York, witnessing. The ceremony will take place at St. Catherine's Memorial church at Spring Lake, N. J.. which was built dt the cost of half a million dollars by the bride's father in memory of his eldest daughter, Catherine Maloney, who died on an Atlantic liner five years ago. In official dignity and churchly splendor the wedding will eclipse any ceremony of" the kind heretofore witnessed in America. To have a pupal duke perform a wedding ceremony cere-mony is a high honor for a bride in the United States, but to have two papal princes with several archbishops and bishops to participate in such an affair is unheard of outside of the Holy City, and has seldom been equaled there. Besides having the full Roman Catholic wcdditig ceremonial, .which is rarely performed even in Europe, Eu-rope, and then only when crowned heads are. the principals. Miss Maloney will be attended by fifteen bridesmaids, 100 flower girls and several score of pages, each of whom will have a part in the elaborate elab-orate proceeding both before and after the religious relig-ious ceremony. The girl to be so exceedingly honored is the daughter of Martin Maloney, financier, inventor, but, above all. loyal Catholic. A few years ago he was a poor Irish lad, just from the County Tipper-ary, Tipper-ary, Ireland, who had emigrated to the new world in search of fortune if not of fame. Both he has succeeded in securing. He obtained fame and the basis of his great fortune by the inventing of the "fishtail burner" for electric lights.. . Subsequently he became a. power in the electric and traction combination com-bination of Philadelphia and other cities. And that, is not all, for he has gained title as well, as a short time before his death Pope Loc XIII created Mr. Maloney a marquis of the Holy Roman empire as a Reward for his lavish generosity towards his church. When the agitation against religious orders broke put in France Mr. Maloney was in Europe. When the decree of expulsion was issued he is credited cred-ited with purchasing and putting in bis own name several French convents. One of them was the home of the sisters of Notre Dame. Another near Paris was maintained by the Order of the Sacred Heart. When this act became known to Pope Leo XIII he asked. "Who is this gentleman,-' Martin Maloney Malo-ney C The pope put the question to every American Ameri-can priest who visited the Vatican. Finaly someone from Pennsylvania informed Leo of the identity and history of the Fhiladelphian. The pope expressed ex-pressed a desire to confer some honor upon Mr. . Maloney, and he was created a papal marquis, having hav-ing precedence over many of the older nobles of Rome. He has since renovated many churches and liquidated their debts. Miss Maloney began her education at the tree-embowpred tree-embowpred convent of the Holy Child, at Sharon hill, near Philadelphia, and finished at the Assumption Assump-tion convent, in Paris. She speaks French well, and is a cultured girl who can always be relied upon to fake her place .with ease at her father's. table to preside when distinguished dis-tinguished guests arc present. , It is probably because she" has seen so much of the great dignitaries of her church that she does not seem at all excited and nervous and self-conscious over her approaching nuptials with their promised splendor and pomp-She pomp-She knew Cardinal Satolli in Rome, and it is said that she begged him then to be in the States at the time of her wedding. His grace, the archbishop of Philadelphia, she has known ever since she could knov anyone, and has been near him, officially and personally, all her life. , ' . She is stil Iquite a young woman, only 23. She is an enthusiastic horsewoman, is fond of golf and an expert whip, is smart in her costumes, good to lookat, unassuming in manner and a good business woman. As she will inherit her father's immense wealth, he is training her in financial ways' and means. To give her experience ho settled a snug little fortune on her when she came of age, and'told her to "pad-dl "pad-dl her own canoe" while he watched.. , . She looks after her investments, knows the language lan-guage of "the street," is a shrewd buyer and seller, and in devious ways is learning not only to take care of what she has, but to increase it and manage whatever' is left her. Mr. Ritchie, who is to marry Miss Maloney, is a young lawyer, and a son of Dr. Douis Ritchie, a promiuent physician at the national capital. His family comes from the south, and owns a count ry residencc in Fairfax county, Virginia. - It was at the national capital that the young pair met and fell in love at first sight at the home of Miss Maude McCahill, and it is quite natural and fitting that this young lady is to be Miss Maloney 's maid of honor. ' Marquis. Maolney and his daughter have just returned re-turned from Rome. It was while in the sacred city that the engagement of the heiress was announced. When he heard of it, Cardinal Satolli expressed a wish to be present at the wedding, 'saying, he would be in this country . at the' time, about the second week in June. lie was asked to participate and promptly, accepted the invitation. Chicago Trib-line. Trib-line. i ' i |