The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 9, 1900, Page 19

SUNDAY CALL. 19 omantie \lfeddir)g of a Los Angeles Society (irl and a Japanesg ANC WA, TN BT W e from I am tion was n lifornia en The best au- ot include to seems to me, marriage ir but hers, A man 1 his honey- t e consider imong gods e time 1t 15 nd of the best woman that in any land. It ADACH]) SUKE EPPERSSN S BuT = 1 & Whir because Ada- has taken'a soclety girl mmon enough, but this 1 wedding, filled’ with =EFLSE MARRIACE - D \CE A NCE mance and sensation. A Japanese novel- ist, a litterateur of distinction, contrib- utor to the blg New York magazines, a protege of the great publishing house of the McClures, graduate of the Vanderbilt to make the fami nich 1 belong ome of the murai, or nobility -of Japan. For ent its members ilfl:‘e -”("f‘” among the good and wise and great y comnt They have made cognize them. Their knows them. Fate has e from them and brought me to this land and has done many, many other strange things with mie. And I am not sorry for many rea- sons—my wife is one. Several years ago, after graduating from the Vanderbilt University in Nash- I came to Southern California and decided upon letters as my life work. 1 thought I saw the possi- lity of writing fiction, which often tells a truer truth than history, which should give the English- speaking peoples of the world a new impression and idea of Japan I have begun that task. It has been approved by the heavenly powers apparently, for friends have been raised up among the literary men and women of the country who have seen fit to encourage the mis- re ADACHT KINNOSUKE HAS TO Yy ABOUT HIS MARRIAGE. sion I undertake. The magazines and the publishers areacquiescentin the plan. The Japanese stories I write are apparently welcomed in these quarters, and I am grateful, because their publication brings nearer the fulfillment of my ambi- tion—the hope of providing other nations than Japan with a new knowledge of my country's career and character. As for my mar- riage, that should not be discussed before a million eyes. It is accom- plished and there is a great deal of happiness in Los Angeles accord- igly. My marriage will not inter- fere in the slightest with my plans or hopes of a carcer. It is possible that we shall go East soon. The McClure publishing firm has want- ed me to write for them a work, “America Seen Through Japanese Eyes.” To do so it will be neces- sary to travel extensively through America. That would be a charm- ing bridal tour, perhaps. Do 1 think the legality of my marriage will be questioned in California? Certainly not! An Educated Little Brown Man From the Land of the Tlikado Defies the State Law Prohibiting Marriages of Whites and Mongolians. tversity, and descendant from a Japan- #se family of noble , has flung defi- ance in (ne teeth of the ¢ law of Call- tornix. A Ja: mairied one of Lue Siate's Tu. Chirza May Epperson Lus A.geles has vi maigen toom its m and A as dack of seemingly insurmountable obstacles had to be brushed aside, one by one, before the two hearts, one from the Orient and one from the sunny south, were allowed to beat as one. The tale of the marriage, with its ante- cedent courtship, its stormy path to the altar, its promise of future sensational de- velopments, and the past history of each party to the unique marriage, is one of romantic {mterest. Miss Epperson, that was, has the blood of one of the great familiés of the South in her veins. She is beautiful, 20 years oid and a favorite of soclety. Adachi Kinnosuke is considered by cool, keen critics one of the rising and prom- ising men of American letters. Sprung ?H% Sofeorfofot ettt 4444 @ ool amurian family lcbieman 1n of the t Japan, land of t k section of His Jap- by tue trom e hign nes wiihin the past ern magazt ¢ same fashion that Frank Norris cack London wooth Tarkington gold ains to_the Me- Adacnl Kinnosuke s kept. ‘The McClures hed a compiete book of r the titie of “Iroka: or, dachi s Engush litterat of the populatio him a4 Mongol marry a C Japanese scholar and an cur, but the biggest part of California would caul and when he came to white girl of good N Sald it em- phatically, too. Adachi s handsome as a young god, wiih features fin chiseled, eyes that gleam with the light of superb intelii- gence, and in whose depths glint the soul of a poet, but a puny clerk of Los Angeles County declared him imcompetent to mar- ry an American girl Adachi can take the hearts of his read- ers down with him into the deeps and up with him to the heights, thrilling the cold- est intellect with the fervor of great thoughts fitly to!d—but they wouldn't Ist him marry & Los Angeles girl in Los A geles. Great scholars vie !n doing honor to thls young Japanese chap whose grip of Japa- nese folklore and modern literature and tongues is a marvelous thing; but schol- ars do not is arriage i censes in Cali- fornia, else Adachli's pursuit of his lady lm,";idmlghl have ended much sooner than it did. What the Bride Hereelf Rag to Sak. HOPE that *every girl may win so noble and good a gentle- .man as Adachi Kinnosuke, my husband. Where he goes, I will go. His country shall be my coun- try. I know him so well and trust him so fully, and—that is the whole story. the cable steamer o jus- 4 1s not cal corregidor n his rocky ed to stop some night, but it re- mericans one vessel ker when she f combinatio co; on the out- ph wires re- stantly under quires be k to 7 waler to prevent it from cracking after OLLOW THEC Hre J&panese foelaefucieelsefeelufeufoniorfofonionfosfosforfocferiefuviocfuciosfocte dfoferleteielo @ Mongolians? +eee When Adachi Kinnosuke came to love with all sion of glicized O son and w her 1aother’s consent came face to face with the S California, forbidding the union golians :\n;l Cau of the Clerk “We cannot i by sue you a asked law says no Mongollan shall asian.” intended for Ch am not a Chine 103 crie ; I am not mist ¢ Clerk of was obdurate, In_a gen way, of course. He was 5orry What could be done? Over on cights of Los Angeies City ousiy furnished - girl who expected. to of the Japanese youngster. the marriage had been given, grudgingly by the proud m heir to a name re- vered in Americ 1 t had been a task—oh, a very we sk—to have the mother of Thirza May Epperson say “Yes" to Adachi's suit for the hand of her daughter. And that hardly consent 80 won ckly withdrawn at the tifings of Adachi’s plight in the County Cierk's office. 2 For if this suftor for her daughters hand, despite his fine breeding and schol- arly attainments and nis name in Ameri- can letters was deemed by aepublic offi- cial in authority incompetent to marry the girl, what eise might, follow? lmagine 1f you pieuse, the feelings of Adacni and his malden fafr, with this prospect ahead of them. The District Attorney of Los County was consulted by the frai anese lover. The cle license so0 ard shopld so ad But the attorney hesi- tated. Then Adachl poured In broadside aftcr broadside of argument to prove that the most expert ethnologists do not regard the Japanese as Mongolians. All the dic- tionarfes and encyclopedias had to say on the subject was at Adachi's tongue's end and Attorney Rives got benefit of it. But still he was obdurate. it test the ngeles 1 ic Jap- k agreed to issue the d, it the attorney u will bring a suit to aid the conservative attorney, is decided in your favor, all wili ’ uoth the Oriental plead- “You might persuade a man who was perishing of thirst on a desert to bring suft to test his right to drink, but you can't per: ade me to do so."" That sounded very well, but when offl- cials have the upper hand, logle is some- times wasted on them. It was € in this ca No license was forthcoming. Then what to do? Miss Epperson was ~wery nearly prostrated with the éxcite- ment and the fatigue of the affair. And Adachl. comparatively ignorant of Ameri- can legal technicalities and political ma- chinery, a scholar and not a practical fellew—what was there for him to do? A great deal. Right there he showed the stuff that is in him. He proved that brave heart deserves and usually will win fair lady. He developed a plan that was in the naturs of a campaign against those who 1d bar a Japanese e love just be ause any restrictions s of their pe gates. their >nce,* cried istice of the married at the old roman he, with a the br tain when we love and is a He poet, you 1t y always ve a w mother didn't know, hesi- es, int he r articularly or of scrimmage »f their moves wa 3 fnent counsel . d aiwavs pig e together. ot able While it 1s aged, man hero L and 'bearing the maide safety to the ancestral But he had never imag: where a Japanese knight would joust with an American State law gle with pigheaded officials and ¢ hysterical mothe in_order that “light of his eves,” the object of his votion, might become his lawful and ing spoil. The Mexican profect was given up. Acachi cast one last longing look at the soil of Mexico and then hunt for a complaisant fun n tolerant priest. The wires were made to burn wit sages from him to the G o1 State and to his lieutenant, the Governors of other Sta phone bell rang vigorously hest, and communication wa with functionaries throughout entire West. Then came succes: It came in an Insignificant tious way. There was not a solita ticle of romance at the end. No state nor foreign law was invoked Adachl Kinnosuke wed the American g from Los Angeles. In a very ner the new rimony bent Bernardino Courty would license. Somebody, in a fit of desperation, had included this County Clerk in the list of those queried for informat - ing their opinion about a Ja dent’s marrying a wh girl This County Clerk was wil Oh, joyful tidings and great import to two fond hez The _trains of Southern whirled the young people to Riv precious license was obtained struggle. Rev. A. C. Willlams, one of the most prominent t ministers or California, now in_ Riverside, united Adachi K and Thirza May Epperson in th of holy matrimon: And so thes arried . happy ever after ich last, remains to be se What the Bride’s Mother Thinks. T is natural for an American mother to wish her daughter to marry an American gentle- man. Miss Thirza’s family is a distinguished one and it was with great reluctance that my consent was gained to her marriage to Mr. Adachi, though I admire him greatly and esteem him as @ high- minded man, a scholar and a bril- liant author. Upon consultation with my father, who advised that the marriage be permitted if Thirza really loved Mr. Adachi, I gave my consent and was present at the cere- mony. 1t is once p place. To preserve the cable properly the Etes was fitted with two Immense tanks one in the fore and one in the after hold, each of which was big enough to hold one hundred and ten miles of shore cable That amount of deep-sea cable would not be a heavy load, as it is made being far removed from the tive neces of surging waves, ng rocks and marine animals, to say n of vessels, which are uctive to the shore ends of all : cak en the cable was colled into the ship, vast weight centered in the two spots caused ber Lo sag out of shepe and begin king. ave gone to the bottom had d her up internally with beams and trusses. Ve left Manila on August 11, to work on the Hongkong cable, and were passing through a rather ticklish narrows between Corregidor and Caballo islands in the mouth of Manila Bay, when the haze began to thicken and the steamer was put under a slow bell. The sea was perfectly calm, so there were no waves or breakers to mark the CABLE STEAMER HOOKER, rocks with their white suds. The threat- ened danger caused us to take unusual care on the lookout ahead as she forged into the narrow channel. Suddenly came that terrible cry, the most frightful of all known among the many terrors of the sca: “Breakers ahead!” Before a thing could be done we had gone on the rocks with such force that the vessel took a heavy list to star- board. Cur tender, the former Spanish gunboat Espana, came up and ran out a hawser to help us back off. In trying to tow us clear she fouled on the rocks her- self and received some damage. That ended all chances for us. A typhoon came up and struck the ship, lying helpless and immovable. The storm increased rapidly until the channel was churned into seething foam and the sea drove In roaring masses over the wreck, which was trembling and groaning from stem to stern. The day after the storm decreased and some of us went back on board, ventur. ing the hazardous trip for the purpose ot taking these photographs for souvenirs of the vengeance of El Corregidor on our once beautiful ship. M. BRUST. = WAVES BREAKING °VER THE PoRT =IDE AFT : HoORKER