SEVENTY-FIVE MARRIES NINETEEN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143771, 20 April 1912, Page 5

SEVENTY-FIVE MARRIES NINETEEN.

A romance of June and December culminated at Trinity Church, New York, when Mr. A. B. Alsop, a millionaire I’ittsburg steel merchant, 75 years old, married Miss Effie Hill, 19 years old, the daughter of the late Dr. J. J. Hill, of Atlanta, Georgia. Mrs. Alsop is one of the most beautiful girls in America. She becomes the step-mother of Mr. Alsop’s two sons by his first wife, who died in 1908, one of whom is 18 and the other 22 years old. Both are students at Harvard University. , Mr. Alsop met Miss Hall two years ago, and fell in love at first sight. He proposed at once, but Mrs. Hill thought her daughter too young to marry then. It was arranged, however, to have the marriage next month A WED IN A HURRY; Mr. Alsop, with his two sons and Miss Hill and her mother, happened to be visiting New York. Mr. Asiop and Miss Hill were shopping together, when the elderly wooer suggested an immediate marriage. Miss Hill agreed, and they went to the City Hall and secured a license, and then, with the two sons, hastened to Trinity Church, where the ceremony was performed immediately. The bride was suffering from a bad cold, so Mr. Alsop, with paternal solicitude, took her to, the Hotel Latham, where Mrs. Hill was stopping. The bride and bridegroom and hiS two sons burst into Mrs. Hill’s presence and announced the marriage. The bridegroom delivered his bride into her mother’s care to cure her cold, while he and his sons returned to their apartments at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Mr. Alsop notified hi" friends of the wedding, and they gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria, awl held an allnight celebration, drinking to the toast that "the absent bride’s cold may soon he better.” A GRAND-LITTLE MATRIMONIAL TEAM. When the reporters became aware of the wedding some went to the WaldorfAstoria to interview the bridegroom, and others to the Latham to interview the bride. *‘A man is, as old as be feels,” said Mr. Alsop. ‘T feel forty. We arc going to nuike the grandest little tear: that ever came down the matrimonial homestretch. ‘‘.My sons agree with me on this momentous occasion for their dad.” The younger son, Edward, interrupted his father. "She is a peaeherino," he said. "If you don’t leol: out, pop, mother apd I will elope.” “I don’t think there is any danger,” retorted the old gentleman, "for I am still ahlo to lick sou.”

Meanwhile Mrs. Akop was receiving reporters herself., “I call Mr. Akop the Ragtime Kid,” she said. “He is the liveliest man I have met in Now York. I think my two sons are just darlings. I could love them to death.”