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Show WEDDING A QUAINT ONE First Quaker Marriage in 17 Years Held in Gramercy Park Church New York, Feb, 21 For the first 1 1 tin in seventeen years was a wedding wed-ding last night In tho little Quaker meeting house In Gramercy park, over ov-er which quaint edifice fashionable apartment houses now tower It is the home ol th0 onlv congregation of Orthodox Friends in New York. It had been o long since the 800 members mem-bers of the congregation saw a wedding wed-ding th.it practically all of them came frcm far and near to sec the marriage mar-riage of Renjamln Mervev Doane. a e'e rk in the appellate division of the supreme court, and Miss Alice Howes Underhill With no minister and ' w ith no music, the couple marched up I the aisle of the church and Standing before the meeting, tbey clasped bauds and repeated the simple marriage mar-riage vows to be loving and dutiful with God's aid Thev signed a certl- I ficate testifying to the fact that tbey bad laid their intentions of marriage before two previous mectinps of the copgrcc.il I'm without having heard objection to them. Fifty years ago when the little meeting house was new, all of the front rows were usually filled with women in the Quaker dress, but last ! nisrhr oni one woman appeared In that garb |