EASY TO GET MARRIED THERE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue V, 29 January 1898, Page 137

EASY TO GET MARRIED THERE.

An American journal, which has been making inquiries'on the subject, concludes that in all the world there is no place where it is so easy to get married as in New York.

I have asked many of the city clergy (writes a member of the staff of the newspaper) for the purpose of ascertaining just what requirements are to make one eligible to the married state and to induce a clergyman to perform the ceremony. I find there is but one requirement, one great essential —a bridegroom.

Any couple may call at a clergyman’s house and have the nuptial knot tied for the fee which the bridegroom thinks his bride am. his purse justify. The first’ call I made was upon the rector of the Church of the Ascension, the Rev. Dr. Percy Grant, because he belongs to a ‘set,’ and has a Fifth Avenue church and an aristocratic parish.

‘You are the rector T I asked. ‘The rector,’ he said. ‘Won’t you marry me ?’ ‘Certainly—this morning ?’ ‘Well, no ; but any morning I may drop in T ‘With pleasure, if I am here.’

‘Any preliminaries ?’ ‘None, except a man and woman and a strong desire. Did you wish any friends T

‘I hadn't thought. It isn’t essential V ‘Not at all.’