EDISON'S FIRST MARRIAGE. Forgetting All About His Bride at the Appointed Hour.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 266, 23 May 1888, Page 6

EDISON'S FIRST MARRIAGE. Forgetting All About His Bride at the Appointed Hour.

An old telegraph operator wlio was stationed al Menio Park wl.en Edi.sou first came there, cnteitained <> 'Tribune' reporter the other day with some sfcoiie,s about, ilio wi/aid. He i-*an ofldity, doinc nothing in the common way and .sotting at naught all the oi'iiventionalitie.s. Tho filst Mis Edi-on w.r- an operator in the Newaik Jao'oiv wh"r<) lOdison was making the machine-, to fill hi-, ihst ordrr for the .stock indicoxoi which biought lnm into notice and fonne'l thod'si^of his ioi tune. Bhc was a tall, lino-looking girl—one of a dozen sitting at a bench winding magnets. One day as Edison wa-> walking down the lino that j^iil -.poke up and Ivdc him goodmomiug without lai&ing her eyes fiom her .voj k. '(iood morning,' said the inventor. ' Ifou did you know it was J f ' Oh, I can always toll when you'ie near,' w.t - ihe i eply. 'oielicic, .-.riid the man of in\entions, 'I'm iiolk ed you a good ('oil ot laic ; sup-po-c \ou ,ir (i [ not mail ied? ' J in 11 sdv." ' When -h.dl it Ik- ' Thicc week-> ii hid tonight. 'All »i <411 L4 11L ' and the inxentor went on his lomids while his intended biide menily wound ,i\v;ij upon her bobbin ot wiie. <hi tho wedding d,iy the fn.-t consign mciit or iloek indiuitois cam: back fr -m the |.n.clKi-"i, inopciatixf. When Mr J; id'!,, loi who has alw.iy- been Hdisou'.s li'.'pb ii.md in i.i, wot down Lo the shop idler 'iippfr, he found the imentor there in hi-. di> he-h -.hop clothe-, tinkering away /.I th^ nuehi.ics. Didn't he remembei lhat if w.i-, his redding night? JSTo, he'd foi <_'Ol ton ,dl about it. Batchclor diajged l!io lading uioo'n out to the neaiest clothing <-toi c, w>{, him into a new .suit, Mien to ;i b.ii bur shop, and finally put him on a cat aiid ,-hipped him off to the house o{ the bide. 'fien he wont back to the shop to \w>ik. suppo-ing that that was tho last of lOdison tor that night. In an horn oi two, liovmu, Edison inched in again, thiow hi-, new coat down on a gica-^y lathe, hung his waistcoat upon the gispipe, kicked his shoes under the bench, .sei/ed a hie and went at the defected Mock indicator as if theie were no such thing as marriage and giving in mania;4e, and theie he stayed with his lailhTul lieutenant till the morning sun looked in on two vveaiy toileis and an ele(tiic s(ook indieitoi tliat uoi ked like a cli.v m. When wealth din'o to them Jsh-Edi&on No. J betiayed a tendency to branch out in the soci'd woild, but it had no efi'oet on the iincntoi^ habits. One ot the largo?o entei tainments Xewmark e\cr saw %\as gi\en at hoi house. All the leading men of the lidi-on woiko were there, but lie was now heie to be j li^ subordinates grew a little uneasy. A committee of them went o\ei to In-, laboiatoiy about midnight, and thoiowas, the imentor, tip])ed back in a lickety old chair, m his shirt .sleeves, hi-> shock--, feet hij»h up on tiie woik-bench, >ii"4iny awa\ into hi^ phonograph at the top of in- voice, happ) as a clam at hijjii tide Tilt; pro-cut Mi- Kdi-on sticks (o her lin-ban I hko a shadow. She i'-ahun.-at hi- elbou !u woikmg houis, with book and pencil, taking down his ideas and experiment-. She ]-, m fact, a helpmate in c\eiy way worthy of hi- abilities.