People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1895 — A QUIET WEDDING. [ARTICLE]

A QUIET WEDDING.

Goestß Dance on the Sidewalk to the Music of a Machine Piano. A quadrille in the middle of the street by young society people and in broad daylight was one of several novel and amusing features attending a south side wedding reception recently. Miss Clara Agnes Middleton and Collins F. Huntington were married at noon yesterday in St. John's Church, Vincennes avenue and Thirty-seventh street. After the ceremony forty or fifty intimate friends were invited to the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Middleton, at 140 Thirty-sixth street, to a reception. The bride is well known in south side society and musical circles and has often appeared as soprano in operas presented by the Carleton Club, of which the groom is a member. No sooner had the bride and groom left the reception rooms to prepare for their wedding journey than a street piano carted on a low express wagon, and driven by a woman with a gayly colored shawl over her shoulders, drove past the house. Hailing the driver, who was accompanied by a man who might be her husband, the Carleton Club boys engaged their services for an hour. Selections such as “Daisy Bell” and "The Sidewalks of New York” were given. Then the best man decided that the circus was a trifle slow, and, boosting a pretty young woman in a pink dress and a pair of ten-acre sleeves upon the seat, ordered the chief operator of the outfit to run alongside of the machine and turn the crank, while he drove up and down the street. After making the circle three or four times the queer combination drove to the front of .the house again; the “head guy” of the organ was again subsidized, and then a quadrille was organized in the middle of the street. Here, to the inspiring strains of “Sweet Marie,” ground out by the traveling professor, four pretty girls in their prettiest gowns and four young society men, adorned in all the raiment necessary to make a church wedding a success, tripped an old-time quadrille. The fun was kept up until the pretty gowns of the girls and the immaculate linen of the young men began to wear a wearied look. The music was continued until the bridal couple drove away in a carriage neatly draped in white ribbons and adorned with a coat of arms hanging to the rear axle in the form of a muchworn and generous-sized shoe.