WEDDING FEAST AT £32 A HEAD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 4 July 1907, Page 4

WEDDING FEAST AT £32 A HEAD.

UIiLLIOXAUIE To BE MAIUiiED ATI MIGHT, j . New York, May 1-. ■ A new record for lavish and eccentric ' t expenditure will be created at New York by the wedding of Win. E. Corey, tie president of the United Slates Steel ' Trust, and Miss iltihelle tlilmaii, on n r>K^yHie wedding was to have taken p.ace , to-morrow, but in order to avoid 1 lie consequences of the ''unlucky thirteenth," the ceremony will be performed ~ some time alter midnight at the Hotel (iotliam, rr „ A local magistrate will officiate, there being no religious ceremony. Miss tiilman will probably be attended by her • sister and by Miss .Mary Shaw, an Eng- , lishn'oinan. One of Mr Corey's rela- ;, lives will act a.-, best man. , Thirty guesls have been invited to the wedding supper, which will cusl X.SI ( a bead. The guests will include a number of iliss Cillinau's friends. ■ A lew Injurs alter the ceremony Mr Corey and his bride will sail for Ply- '!'• mouth on the .North German Lloyd liner Kaiser Uilhclm 11. They will occupy the captain's suite. „ ilr Corey denies that lie will resign 1( j the presidency of the Steel Trust in the S; e near future. He will remain abroad j. with his wife for four months, part of ,j the time being spent in England. d Mr Corey was one of Mr Andrew Car- ,), negic's proteges. He began life as a j, laborer in one of Mr Carnegie's mills, ls but was promoted rapidly, so that he became president of the Steel Trust in Ui ,j succession to Mr Schwab four years ago t —when he was just tliirty-eight—and to- Tt re day he is a multi-millionaire. _ Mr Corey's first wife was Miss Mary j (look, of llraddock, Pa., U.S.A. He met Miss Oilman in Pittsburg four years r<i »go, when she was starring in the comic opera, "The Mocking Bird."