MISS HARRIMAN'S WEDDING. MILLIONAIRE BRIDE'S SIMPLE CEREMONY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 9, 11 July 1910, Page 9

MISS HARRIMAN'S WEDDING. MILLIONAIRE BRIDE'S SIMPLE CEREMONY.

Unlike the marriages of Miss Vanderbilt and Miss Gould, which were celebrated with a certaiu amount of ostenta tion and display of wealth — an account already published in The Post referred to the Goula-Drexel celebration as a "saturnalia of "vulgarity" — the wedding of M.iss Mary Hamman, who is probably America's greatest heiress, to Mr. Chai-les Rumsey, was solemnised at the end of May very quietly at Arden, Tuxedo Park, in the presonce of the families and the immediate friends of the bride and bridegroom. ' St. John's Church, at Arden, where the ceremony took place, and in whose adjoining churchyard the remains of the millionaire are buried, was, like the beautiful house where the reception was afterwards hold, decorated with simple wild flowers and roses gathered from tho estate. For the occasion the bride discarded her mourning, and was married in a white satin dress, while her younger sister accompanied her as maid-of-hon-our. An informal reception was afterwards held at the house of Mrs. Harriman, wheie hundiods ot magnificent presents were inspected by the guests. "There is some romance attached to this wedding, which is exceedingly popular in American eyes, because Mr. Humsey is an American, and further because ho is a poor man. He is a young sculptor who has done some excellent work, but whose name hitherto iias been almost unknown outside art circles. It was through a commission to execute some of the sculDtures for a memorial to the late "Railway King" that Miss Harriman became acquainted with him. * She admired his work, and the two, being thrown together a great deal, fell "in love with each other, with the result that they became engaged. Mr. Rumsey is one of the best polo players in tho country and an excellent rider. Miss | Harriman is also a fine horsewoman, j and tha two have many tastes. in common. "Recently the sculptor completed an equestrian statue of his bride, which lis very greatly admired by those who have seen it, and altogether he is expected to become one of America's loading sculptors. Before Mr. Harriman died he 1 gave his daughter £1,200.000, and when the immense fortune now controlled by her mother is divided among Mr. Farrirasn's three children, the bride of today will be immensely wealthy, as the htrtim" i". estimated at something like £50 000,000. Since the death of her father, Miss Harriman has virtual! v had the entire management of the 4000 acre estate at Arden. and lias devoted the frofits* from tho farms and dairies to fighting tuberculosis in America.