75 MARRIES 19.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1057, 15 June 1912, Page 4

75 MARRIES 19.

EAGER MILLIONAIRE WOOER.

LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT,

A romance of December and June culminated at Trinity Church New Yerk, when Mr J. B. Alsop, a millionaire Pittsburg 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 beaulitul girls in America. She became the step-mother of Mr Alsop’s two sons by his first wife, who died in 190 S, one of whom is 18, and the other 22 years old. Both are students at Harvard University. Mr Alsop met Miss Hill two years ago, and fell in love with her 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 the next mouth. Mr Alsop, with his two sons and Miss Hill and her mother, happened to be visiting New York. Mr Alsop and Miss Hill were shopping together, when the elderly wooe r suggested an immediate marriage. Miss Hill agreed, and they went to the City Hill 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 parental 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. Alsop notified his friends of the wedding, and they gathered at the Waldorf-Astoria and held an allnight celebration, drinking to the toast that “the absent bride’s cold may soon be better.” When the reporters became aware of the wedding some went to the Waldorf-Astoria to interview the bridegroom, and others to the Latham to interview the bride.

“A man is as old as he feels,” said Mr AlSop. ‘‘l feel forty.” We are going to make the grandest little team 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 peacherino,” he said. “If you don’t look out, Pop, mother and I will elope.”

“I don’t think there is any danger,” retorted the old gentleman. “For lam still able to lick you.” Meanwhile Mrs Alsop was receiving reporters herself. “I call Mr Alsop the Ragtime Kid,' ’ she said. ‘ ‘He is the liveliest man I have met in New York. I think my two sons are just darlings I could love them to death,”