“I WILL” BY WIRELESS.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 October 1919, Page 2

“I WILL” BY WIRELESS.

An air wedding was the fieature -of -the New York Police Athletic Meetirig, \\'hell iVIisS Lily Sehaelfer, of that city, and Lieutenant ‘George Burgess, of the United States Aviation Corps, wt-we In:2u'l-ied in, nlid~a,ir with the assitzuice of a. wireless telephone. The CL-remony was perfornledr_ by a clergyman, in =the presence of 1000 people, at 21. height of 2000 feet. The young couple "ascended in one machine, the clergyman being a passenger ‘in a second, from Which, using a wireless telephone, he read the marriage service, and‘ heard the bride and ‘bridegroom exchange vows. The Witneses and -the best man. end the bridesmaid remained on terra. firma, where, together with the ‘érowid which filled the grandstziud, they heard every Word of the service by megaphones attached to the wireless telephone receivers. ' The most audible words of all that were spoken Wo‘-‘e the bri.de’s “I will.”