COLONEL ASTOR'S MARRIAGE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1230, 12 September 1911, Page 5

COLONEL ASTOR'S MARRIAGE.

0 i A SECRET CEREMONY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright New York, September 10. Colonel John Astor, whose intended marriage to Miss Force had to be postponed on account of the refusal of a minister to marry a man who had been divorced, was subsequently married secretly. nc left with his wife immediately after the ceremony in his yacht for an unknown destination. Before leaving, Colonel Astor gave a statement to tho press in which ho said that, as ho was now happily married, he did not ca'ro how difficult the rc-raarriage of divorced persons might be made. Amcricitn society was thrown into a flutter of excitement last month by tho announcement of the engagement of Colonel John Jacub Astor, the millionaire whose incognito divorce in November, 1000 (writes the New York correspondent of tho "Daily Mail"), is still fresh in the memory of newspaper readers, to Miss Madeleine Talmago Force, the eighteen-year-old daughter of a wealthy New York exporter. The attentions paid by Colonel Astor to • Miss Force were tne of the social surprises of last winter. With her mother sho was a frequent occupant of the famous liox in the "Golden Horseshoe" at the Metropolitan Opera House, where tho late Mrs. Astor (Colonel Asfor[s mother) was able by a nod of recognition to admit a new member into New York society. Mr. Astor is forty-seven years of age and a director of corporations whoso capital amounts to ,£40,000,000. lie has tried his hand as a fiction writer and has some reputation as an inventor. Miss Force is a tall and graceful girl with a mass of brown hair and tho strong features of the type magazine illustrators select' as a representative stylo of American beauty. Sho is a year younger than the colonel's son Vincent and but a littlo older than his daughter Muriel, who is now in the custody of her mother, who lives in London.