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Show ATTENDS WEDDING BY PHONE Mother Thus Enabled to Hear Daughter's Daugh-ter's Wedding in Another City. RALTl MORE. Dec. ' Though ill In her room at homo In Washington Mis Von Mat re heard every word of the c-r. monv In Haltimore rhal united her da lighter, ligh-ter, Miss Martha. Louise Von Matre, to Harrj 1 ndorhlll Walton, assistant manager man-ager of the New Wlllard hotel In Washington Wash-ington So that the mother might hear, a long-.llsiui... long-.llsiui... telephone w.is rigged up In her room. The ceremony here was performed In a parlor of the Stafford hotel, and the officiating l lTg mail and (he contracting couple stood In front of the telephone, be-ror be-ror which a large megaphone had been swung When the time came I ommunlca-tlon ommunlca-tlon was established with the mother, forty-five miles away. Every word was spoken distinctly and directly Into the megaphom After the ceremony Dr Colt, the officiating clergyman, stepped to ih. telephone. ' Hello! Is this Mrs Yon Matre-"' he Said 1 ' At U, tlitnik KOU," pould Jai hesud by those grouped close to the Instrument "1 wish to congratulate you, madame, on the marriage of your daughter to Mr. Walton, which has just been completed Mrs Von Matre said something about 'delighted." thanked the clergyman and said she had heard distinctly every word of the ceremony Then she talked with her daughter and son-in-law . |