Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1912 — Wireless Used by Cupid On Steamer [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wireless Used by Cupid On Steamer

SAN FRANCISCO.—-A prank of Cupid with the wireless aboard the Pacific Mail liner Mongolia the other day basely betrayed to an indulgent world afloat and ashore the plan of Lieut. Edmund Spence Root oC. the navy to marry Miss Maude May Radcliffe, daughter of E. F. Radcliffe, electrical manufacturer of Portland, Ore., and to surprise his relatives and friends’ with the news. The Mongolia was plowing serenely toward San Francisco when the god of love began to get busy With' the key of the wireless apparatus. Other vessels far at sea and a few of the land stations received the persistent call of the Mongolia’s operator, but the receiving stations did - not pay much attention until the words “marriage license” clicked forth in the dispatch leaving the Mongolia's aerials. The aerogram was addressed to

Miss Radcliffe at the Palace hotel, and after a few phrases, important only to the parties directly Involved, explained that the liner would not arrive until late, and that unless a license were procured Saturday a wedding could not take place in San Francisco. The lieutenant was hurrying home from the Asiatic station, under orders to report at once to Washington, so Miss Radcliffe used the more discreet and secretive telephone to beg Grant Munson, marriage license clerk, to hold the office open until the Mongolia arrived. The gallant Munson did even better—he promised to return to his office and issue the license at any time she and her fiance should appear. At 7:30 o’clock the officer and the girl were at the official trysting place and soon were in possession of the coveted permit. The" lieutenant gave his address as Cincinnati, 0., but explained that the residence was purely theoretical, he having a sister living in that city. Miss Radcliffe gave her address as. Portland, Ore., where the navy man first courted her. Lieutenant Root soon located a minister who tied the knot '