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Show MRS. ADMIRAL GEORGE DEWEY, NEE HAZEN. t Washington, Nov. 9. Admiral George Dewey and Mrs. Mildred Hazen were married quietly at the rectory of St. Paul's Catholic church in V street near Fifteenth, this city, shortly before 10 o'clock t'his morning. The ceremony was performed by Rev. James F. Mack-in, Mack-in, pastor of the church, assisted by the Rev. Joseph H. Foley, assistant pastor, and tho Rev. Sidney Hullbut. The ceremony was of the simplest character, charac-ter, according to the rites of the I . ; f t - Catholic, church, and, the only witnesses besides the officiating clergymen were Mrs. Washington McLean and Mrs. Ludlow; , wifepf 'General Ludlow, mother and sister respectively of the bride, and Lieutenant Caldwell, Admiral Ad-miral Dewey's secretary. The. arrangements for the- wedding .were made w!th all the secrecy which has., attended the whole affair. - After procuring the license for the wedding yesterday, Lieutenant Caldwell called on .Father Mackin of St. .Paul's, of . . ' r i ' - " '- which church Mrs. Hazen is a communicant, com-municant, and arranged for the wedding wed-ding this morning. . As Admiral Dewey is not a Catholic, a special dispensation was required for the performance of the ceremony, and this was procured by Father Mackin from Bishop Curtis, vicar general of the diocese of Baltimore, who granted it in the absence of Cardinal Gibbons, who is at present in New Orleans. Father Mackin went to Baltimore for this purpose yesterday afternoon. |