Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-08-05 | Page 10 | Groom's Hilarity Stops the Wedding

GROOM'S HILARITY STOPS THE I00M Rector Refuses to Marry Chorus ,Girl and Heir Who Laughed. BOSTON, Auir. I. The elopement of Miss Dello Maxon. a chorus plrl. and Harry Martin Holllstor of Now York, to Albany, whero they wero married, wan tho climax of many Interesting Inter-esting Hltlo episodes. Ono of th"m was a scene sail to havo token place In Trinity Episcopal Epis-copal church In Albany, where the couple started to icel married. Tuesday evenlne the couple called at tho rectory and asked the RoV. Mr. Mclean to perform the ceremony. He o creed, and aa Miss Maxon said her mother wished a, church wvddlnK. the rector led them Into the edified. There the ceremony began and had reached Its most solemn part when It wan Interrupted by a hearty .augh from the groom. Lectures the Groom. Tho rector paused Ions enough to give Hol-llsler Hol-llsler a lltllo side lecturo on the solemnity of tho occasion, and then continued. Tho fact 1 of the bride vowing to love nnd obey him seemed so humorous to Holllster that ho released re-leased another peal of lauchter, louder than tho first. Tho brldo pleaded with him to bo-have, bo-have, but the clergyman whs so angered that, ho ordered, the couple from the church wllh' tho cormony unfinished, and tore up the marriage mar-riage certificate. Find Another Minister. Undismayed, the half-wed couple called upon a number of clergymen who refused. It Is said, to officiate. About midnight the pair drove up to the home of tho ltev. Mr. Knapp on Stato street ?.nd routed him out of bod. Ry this time tho humor of the situation had passed nnd the groom did not laugh. Mr Knapp ays It was the soberest bridal party he over married, nnd the occnxlon seemed more llko a funeral than a wedding. Elopement a Surprise. Tho bride In a handaomo young woman. SO years old, and nan been on tho stago but a short llmtf. Lata season sho was with the 'Royal Chef." In New' York. Her parents live nt 2 Klnggold street. South End. The father, Robert, la n. retired shoemaker. Thn mother say that tho marriage wm not unexpected, but thu elopement was a surprise, as there wna no opiosltlon. A few days ago the bride wont to "vorcestor to visit friends, and her pnrents thought she wan still Jhero when Informed of her marriage Tho announcement came to the parvnta In the following letter- "Married last nl"ht. With love. Relic." Holllster Is said to bo a son of a. wcallhy New York wool merchant. He !s a Hnrvard mun and Is .now employed by his father as a traveling salesman. Tho couple mot nt Nan-tasket.