AMERICAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7871, 5 January 1904, Page 2

AMERICAN MANNERS AND CUSTOMS.

• * A DUKE'S MARRIAGE. The New ' York correspondent to the Melbourne Argue writes :— lt must be admitted that the conduct of a large numjber. of curious women at the wedding ooxemony 6f Miss M. Goelet and the ,Dift© of^fioslburgjie was vulgar, and even disgraceful % The ceremony took pierce in St. Thomas's Church, on Fifth Avenue, where Miss Vaoderbilt was " mjar&ed a few years ago to the Duke of M^rlborougb, and the preparations had b^enJessr 'elaborate than on earlier, occasion, owing to the recent death of Sir Midheel Herbert, the British Ambassador, who was Miss I Goolet's uncle by marriage. It ,is estimated that there were 10,000 peoplo around or near the church. A very large majority of them were 'women. For several bloteks they choked Fifth Avenue. Two thousand policemen found it impossible to restrain them. With great difficulty the guests readied the church ; and the bride, seated in the carriage wi^h her brother, was subjected to great annoyance by welldressed persons of her own sex, some of whom seemed determined to bear away fragments of her veil as souvenirs. Fifteen women entered the cellar by way of the coal-hole, and were begimn'ing to hear the service in tho chancel above them, when the unsynvpatiietic police dragged them to. the outer air. The married couple went to Mrs doelet'a villa at Newport. Indirectly connected, wiih this wed■ding was 1 a strange case of .deception. If was rumoured two 'weeks ago that 1 Robert, the bride's only brother, and a young 'man of great wealth, was about to marry a poor girl— in fact, a stenograjpher and typowriter named Eleanor Anderson, employed in on© of our hotels. It now a appears that Miss Anderson wafl deceived by a young man. named Afoeel, who asserted that be was young Goelet, produced forged letter* to support, his false claim, and gav# her a worthless cheauo for 100,000dol. There was an engagement, und the marriage was immediately to follow that of his- sister, as the inapoater »aid, to tho Duke of RoxtourgQie. A<beel is the son. of well-to-do parents in Texas, and he has a wife. Mias- Auderaon, whose 1 father is a mjetfehant in a small way, ■was completely deceived- Al^ knowledge of her little romampe h«4 been Avi^hheld from her parents. Sihe isi now suffering from the shocl* of thp Exposure of Abeel's ' perfidy, aiwi fhe police, urged on by the Goelet family, are looking for Abeel, who has disappeared.