A RICH GIRL'S CONVERT.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1365, 16 February 1912, Page 3

A RICH GIRL'S CONVERT.

MARRIAGE IN A RESCUE HALL.

A romance of New ork mission work culminated oh December ;2I m the novel spectacle of ;> wealthy and bcaiiliml lady «iviii" h*r hand in marriage to a burly denizen of the Bowery slum quarter whom her missionary zeal has converted to a life of Christum industry. The wdi)m (savs the "Daily Mai.") was solemnised m the Hartley Rescue Hall amid a chorus of pravers ami fervent ejaculations lroin ii coa""rc!'ation of rough human derelicts to whom the bride hail ministered consolation. , . When the couple stepped before the oliieiatin:,' minister a spontaneous cheer burst from the lips of ti>e great throng of outcasts, on whesu faces the lights from a huge Christmas tree shed atranje and iitful glomus. One ageu derelict, who a few moments provioiir.lv hud bei-n Riviii" U-jiiiKiwiy to his conversion, ro-v\ and in un exuilant voice cried: "We have all got to (hank tin- Lord for one tinny to-dav. That la that 'Sunny Jim; and our deai-'iriumt Butler are going to bo iinuried. May the Lord bless them and keep them happy." The bride, a dainty figure in a blue silk dress, then placed her hand in the giant palm ot Mr. Kronenherg, her iir.-t convert, and the liov. Philip Waters pronounced the couple man and wife. The a"-o of the bride was given as twenty-one and that oi' the bridegroom us forty-five, ilvs. Krnnenberg announced that there would be no honeymoon, but her husband would resume immediately his po.-t, as one of the guards of the Hudson Jfiver tunnels which i-ho was instrumental m procuring for him.

BIUDE'S EESCCE WORK. .Her own wealth, which is considerable, she will devote tci ini»*iou work in Hie slums. It is a little more than sis mouths since Mis* Anna Butler, lmvin;; her magnificent home at Pitts-field '.Mass.), called one uioniing at the Fescue Hall in the Bowery aiuf iiiforint-d the superintendent, Mr. John Callahan, that she wished to be enlisted among the settlement workers. She speedily made friends among the outcasts. None was too low for her, none too confirmed a backslider for her words of cheer and encouragement; but her attention from the first was specially directed to Charles Kroucnbeig, a giant no'ev-do-well whom hi-, fellow unfortunates niclc-namcd "Sunny Jim." After she had secured him the job at the tunnels .-lie indiiced' him to become a member of the Washington Square Methodist Church. In his hours of leisure «lie was constantly iit his side exhorting him to repentance. Jwanouberg, the sot-1 Uoinent worker- are all convinced, is now a. perinnneiilly reforined man. He says thi' one ambition of hi-- life is to assist his wife in livr missionary work and show by deeds his jfi-.iti'incle fur the happiness he ha« nnd'-ierviHtly won. While I lie inornate was being solem-ni-ed an ei|iially novel -icm> was pruceedini; at tin- limvci-r Mi--iun. n-ill.in n stone'- ihroiv of the Kestue Hall. The mis-ion v.-a- filled with (lie raided habitues of New York's "brerd line," who. alter a Mtiuptuou.- meal. were, listening curiously to speeches on the brotherhood of man delivered by prominent members of I lie plutocracy, whom Mr. Frederick Townseud -Martin declares no longer deserve Hie epithet "idle rich." The unfortunates cheered Mr. Ma.vtiu's sentiments lieiirlily; but the mo.-l vigorous clic:m- was stimulated by the words o f a bearded convert whu. introducing the plutocrats to the "broad liner-." exebimcd: "Hear in mind that dicsc ladies ami gHuticinen live most of their lives mii in the Howery bill in a dillercnt atmo-phc-ie in which it is far more dillieuU to be rishbeouV-