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Show SHAMEFUL CONDUCT OF UNWOMANLY WOMEN The Associated Press gives a lengthy report of the marriage of Miss Mary Goelet to Henry John Ir.nes-Korr, i eighth duke of Koxburghe. at New York . opj Tuesday. We clip that portion j which exhibits the intlueiice of displays i of wealth upon our American women: The dv.ke and duchess left the Goelet residence in a carriage, to wrdelr at the last moment a long white streamer was attached by the ushers, and drove to the ' Grand Centra) station, where they en-! en-! lered a private car attached to the 5 o'clock express for .Newport. - J &nameiui spectacle. Fifth avenue in the vicinity of the church was the scene before and during the ceremony of excitement and disorder unparalleled at any of the previous great weddings in New York. From the -church to the Goelet residence, a distance Ot five blocks, the avenue contained a sure- ing mob numbering fully R.fH) persons, i mostly women, whom a force ot -policemen was powerless to hold back. Before the service Ivgan several prom- : inent women gained entrance to the i church and seated themselves n the pal- ' leries. from which they were forcibly dislodged by a sipiad of police a few minutes min-utes before the arrival of the bride. I When the carriage containing the ' bride-to-be and her brother. Robert Goe-t Goe-t let, nearer! the church it was surrounded by women, who stopped the horses, an i in their efforts to per tht- bride clung to the carriage, some of them getting" on ttie steps and thrusting their heads into j the open windows. Mr. Goelet. called to the police, but it was some moments before be-fore the half-dozen policemen who rushed I to the rescue were able to drive the curi- I ous women back and enable the carriage ' to proceed. i When ibe carriage of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vapdcrbilt. ' which was just ahead of the bride, reached the canopy leading from the curb to the church the crowd of women banked up twenty-five ; feet on either side rushed frantically for- i ward, carrying the solid lines of police- j men with them, and for a moment blocked . the entrance. They were forced . back, j only to rush forward again when the brirle"s carriage drew up. j She Saw the .Bride. By this tisie policemen from other j points had been collected there, but Jn I spite of them, a gToup of half a dozen I women stooped down and lilted the can-! can-! vas of the canopy and crawled part way j under. They crawled to their positions ! notwithstanding all the efforts cf the po-' po-' lice to pull them away, and several ot them managed to fteep their heads under the canvas untii the bride had passed up. A patrolman caught one very well dressed woman by one of her ankles and dragged her along the walk, she still clinging to the canvas until she was forced to loose her bold. She was lifted op smiling and satislied; she had seen the bride. On the Fifty-third street side of the church fifteen well-dressed women crawled down into a coal hole leading under the newest chancel. They could not see anything, but they could "hear what j was going on ahc-e. Policemen had to ! enter and drive them out. j Four hours after the ceremony Fifth avenue was stil! crowded with curious women, many of whom were laden with i spoils from the church decorations, for ! after the invited guests had left the mob crowded into the church and proceeded to tear the flowers from the pew entrances. In a few minutes they began to break the leaves from the palms and before they could be stopped the church was despoiled de-spoiled of many of the floral decorations. |
