A Disgraceful Scene.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 235, 15 December 1888, Page 2

A Disgraceful Scene.

It was stated in a recent cable message that at the wedding of Miss Essie Jenyns, in the Sydney Cathedral, a disgraceful scans occurred. A Sydney contemporary thus describes it: —People rushed pellmell into she body of the Cathedral, and not only were the pews quickly crammed, but hundreds of persons, forgetful of the picture of the edifice in -which they were assembled, stood upon the easts and desks, while others clung to the brass rode which separate the choir from the congregation. Even the sanctity of the Bishop's throne and the Dean's chair was invaded, and over a dozen people took possession of the pulpit and the stairs leading to it. After the ceremony was over there was a rush towards the communion rails, and the bride fainted, and had to be carried into the vestry, and she only recovered after a lapse of abo-t ten minutes. The result of the treatment to which the furniture of the building had been subjected was clearly apparent after the people had departed. The carved wood work of ths pulpit was found to be destroyed in several places, and ths stone basement on which it stands, chipped and broken. T.ie Governor’s pew sustained considerable damage —the carpet was torn, and some of the woodwork completely demolished. Two of the large forms were also smashed to pieces, and several gas standards so much injured as to be rendered usiless. Some of the people actually mounted upon the Amsrican organ, which stands near the southern entrance, and caused serious injury to the instrument, and a portion of the choir curtains with brass rings attached were torn down. As for the hansoms floral decorations placed in the Cathedral by Messrs. Searl and Sons, and which were so muah admired prior to the ceremony, they almost entirely disappeared in a very brief space of time, and very little remained to indicate the amount of taste and trouble which had been bestowed upon the work by the florists named, beyond the crushed blossoms with which thf floor was covered.”