| Show THEIR CUPID WAS VERY ELUSIVE led eloping couple a chase through fog but they wed at 1 in morning now york june 2 hunting for a marrying parson in a strange land ot gas tanks when the fog comes down is apt to try sorely the warmth and determination of true love it it survives the ordeal it ought to abe jod go at least thought the rev dr john W gill rector of st thomas church 0 ravenwood long island city when on tuesday night he tied the nuptial kaat of a young couple who are described on the wedding certificate as being frank E botsford Bot stord twenty two years 0 age of no west fifty eighth street manhattan and haanah elizabeth palmer of grove street stanford conn the peregrinations of the two lovers in carrying out their elopement began at 10 when the at the ferry in long island city started the pair on their ay to an episcopal church in a hurry one policeman after another saw them loom through the geay blue of the night to ask liow to find a ravens wood car they finally got a car that set them down in the fag at verain avenue in ravenswood Ravens wood where there is a wilderness of gaa tanks that to lovers eyes nii look like of churches they knocked at one gas tank door after another and finally their hearts brightened when a steeple emerged from the fog but only to sink again the doors were of oak braes riveted and nothing but hollowness answered their knocks at length a second conductor set them down in ninth street to tell them that the rev dr gill lived just over there the clock was tolling midnight they knocked and at length the parson appeared in bathrobe and pajamas he dashed their spirits by telling them ho could not mairy them they told him of their journey my vestments arc at the church the clergyman pleaded tho oung lady came to the rescue 1 I have telegraphed mamma that I 1 am married what WILL she bay tho heart of the clergyman melted the clock was tolling one when he returned from the church aej the couple stood up ho preacher said the necessary worda and he the bride then never w a more beautiful girl daiil lie este rilay 1 I hely marrying them |
