A WIDOW'S SACRIFICE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12814, 13 July 1912, Page 3 (Supplement)

A WIDOW'S SACRIFICE.

£2,000,000 LOST FOR LOVE

NEW YORK, May 29. "There are other things m this world Worth having beside money, and the highest of them is love," was the blushing remark addressee! to interviewers by Mrs James A. . Garland, who by marrying AMr Francis Cushing Green, a New York lawyer, gave up a fortune of £2,000,000.

The wedding was described by . one £>f the trustees of the vast Garland estate as "a glowing example of what a loyal woman is willing to do for the man she loves." Rumors of the sacrifice made by the widow attracted large crowds to the Garland mansion at Bourne, Buzzard's Bay, y Massachusetts, but they were not admitted to the di*awiri,g-room where the simple ceremony took place.. '

Dressed m a sunlmer gown of pink material, Mrs Garland, who is > the mother of five children, was attended by her little daughter; Hope, while her eldest son, -James,, acted as best man. No sooner was the wedding over than the happy couple slipped away through the back door, and across the garden, and reached a motor-car unobserved by a throng of curious persons. It is believed that they are now on their, way- to New' York. '■*' '"' ',' ' It was the bride's third wedding, but Mr -Green is only her., second husband. She married the Boston millionaire, Mr Garland, when a young girl, and divorced him some years later. A few months after ihe divorce she Afriet '; .her" frrijiher. husband ml the '{streets' 1 of Boston. -, They spoke, were reconciled,'.and r.eriiarried. On the deathA' of Mr A Garland the widow inherited an inodfne from- a trust fund, which, according to the. will, she could enjoy "until her death or remarriage."