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Show HIS WHITE BRIDE IS VERY HAPPY Chicago, Dec. 4. Jack Johnson, the negro pugilist, and Lucile Cameron, the Minneapolis white girl, were married mar-ried yesterday afternoon in the home of Johnson's mother, 3344 South Wabash Wa-bash avenue. "i am so happy," said the bride as she clasped her hands ecstatically when the ceremony was done "I guosn this will stop all those prosecutions," said the negro, rather grimly. "As soon as we can get away we will go to Paris." The marriage took place almost on the same spot in the front parlor of the Wabash avenue home where the body of Johnson's first white wife, who died a suicide through the bitterness bitter-ness of her lot, lay only a few short weeks ago, while Johnson sobbed out his love for the dead woman A little later in the afternoon Johnson John-son went to the safe where the jewels jew-els were deposited that had belonged to Etta Duryea Johnson, and taking them to Lucile Cameron, decorated her cheap white shirtwaist with the jewels the other woman had loved, which have been the lure of two women's wom-en's souls All the afternoon the orchestra played ragtime while the black and white visitors who camo to pander to the pugilist danced the grizzly bear, and champagne flowed like water "There are 24 cases of champagne, ' boasted one of Johnson's henchmen,", "and we shall drink it all before morn-lug" morn-lug" There were other things to drink besides, and on the center, table of the dining room was a small wedding cake in the shape of asheart, with the grotesque figures of- a white woman and a white man on the top of the icing Johnson experienced not a little difficulty dif-ficulty in getting the license for tho ceremony Clerk L. C. Longer, the cupid of the marriage license bureau, refused to Issue the necessary paper, as Lucile Cameron is not yet 19 years of age He demanded that the girl should be brought to the city hall. Then the negro appealed to County Clerk Sweitzer, who ordered a license to be issued "There is no alternative under the law," said tho clerk. A crowd followed Johnson to the county building and he was greeted with groans and hisses as he left his automobile in search of the license clerk. There was some difficulty in securing secur-ing the services of a minister to perform per-form the ceremony, several declining the glittering offers that were held out to them. Uutimately the Rev William Wil-liam Beloy of tho Olivo Baptist church 1 waB persuaded to tie the knot. The mystery of Lucile Cameron's whereabouts was solved by her appearance ap-pearance from a room In the Johnson house. She wore a plain tailored suit of black and white check and a largo black hat Johnson had chosen the same color seheme. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Danielson, friends of the Cameron girl, with whom she is believed to have spent most of her time since she eluded her mother at the Wellington hotel, attended the negro and his white bride, with Sig Hart, who was Johnson's John-son's manager when he defeated Jeffries, Jeff-ries, and his wife and P. D. Wilkes and his wife were the attendants. Johnson and Lucile Cameron stood in the center of this group, the pugilist with his bride to be on his right and his mother, Mrs. Tiny Johnson, on his left The ceremony was brief in defer- t Hv ence to the wishes of Johnson, and K there was no exhortation or sermon W of any sort. iW. iW |