Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1883-04-20

thlld-bearing women. They do uot bclor
!. 10 the race OF cheap-retai- merchant. .begotte
. women In our time, who think that one chi
10 more than enough unless the father has
!. bear 1t. They bring their children into II
n world timely and frequently and consequen
= the Vanderbilt house is not like I'll
u Chuzzlewit house, full Of meanness and tres
: son and backbiting. William the great sir
!, OF all, does not really know how many CRANE
! children he has. When he drives his horse
q out on the road, and is rallied on that que,
q lion at times by his compeers, he tries, fror
q mere good nature, to sum up hls grand-chi
= dren, and finally says: 81 really don't kno,
q how many have. | know
: Tho Mothers arc all Doing Well,
and tue fathers have new grin on their face
, every time see them" What q happy fam
I ny that is! Wealth does not scrimp them
! Income does not stop its outcome. 1t pre-
serves the two'grcat laws OF increase and mul
, tiplcation.
Mr. Shepherd, who married the oldes
naugnter, Is queer character. lie is nov
finishing a building on Fifth avenue occupy
ing part of the old Rutgers Institute
which has for its signs the Safe Deposit Bank
the Rutgers Bank, the. Bank of Banks. w,
all slop and read that last several times ant
ask what the Bank of Banks is. Tn,
friends of tho Vanderbilt family smil,
and say: "Ihat is one OF Shepherds
cranks."
The next daughter is Mrs. Sloane SLOANE
lsthc leading carpet man in New York. liz
constructs articles on which mankind and
womankind walk. That rather gives him 9
black eye in the superstition of New York az
one Of the Vanderbilt family. If he could
only make ceilings on which people could
tul.t t,. a, L..
beautiful articles under our feet seems strange
from such very rich person. So on tho
whole the Sloane element of the Vanderbilt
family is IA little looked down upon, particu
larry by the William X. element. At the
same Time Tic Sloancs rank very high in the
mercantile woild. The magnificent building
OF the Sloane family, on upper Broadway,
hardly has its match in the world TOR a store
OF any sort, and as carpet st ,rc 1t is beyond
comparison.
The third daughter is Mrs Twombley.
wombley was in the paper making business
II massachusetts,, and was not worth $40, 900
when he married one OF William Vandcrbilts
daughters but he was a gentleman. The
'andcrbllts say they do not demand money
AS qualification to come into their family.
but they do demand respcctability, good
nature, good manners and good feelings. 1t
is to the credit of William Vanderbilt and his
wife that they regard their own fortune as
amply
sufficient for all their Postority,
hut they will not have advcnturers, vulgar.
lans or c)d-hearted people of the world to
marry their children. The nearest approach
10 worldly person who has come into that
family is Mrs. William X, who gave the
great ball the other night. Twombley was
"a Il. =
Nandcrbilts daughter and when the old
folks were satisfied that he was true hearted
toung man, they asked no further questions
" hen he entered their family they set about
giving linn large and creditable occupation at
once.
lear that in the Vanderbilt household the
sons, the daughters, the sons-n-law and the
daughtors-in- law all stand on the same foot
ing-respectcd, beloved, and all given an
equal chance hy the fine old Knickerbocker
who is SO much richer than any of them.
Williams fortune is at least 5000, 900, 900.
lie has $50 OOO, ,0O00 in government bonds.
lie told some OF his friends about four years
ago that bis income was $4,000, 900 a year.
lie has never been beaten by any stock
operator, and has made every one Of them
who tackled him squeal. So would not he
surprised If he had an income OF $50, 600, 900
a.year, which is about equal to the capital of
any OF his competitors
The youngest daughter Of William, the
sire, married DIR. Webb, the son of James
Weston Webb. Old Mr.. Webb, who is still
alive, but a daily candidate for the obituary
cululnn-was great editor of New York
city before the advent Of tho elder Bennett
lie had nothing To speak Of. He probably
had enough money TO rent his office and buy
a second d-hand gig to drive around and see
his patients. He struck the heart of the
youngest daughter of Vanderbilt. Size was
lall, 1.-THE girl, who could roll tenpns mag.
nliiccntly. She could stand up in the tcnpin
aiIey al Saratoga and beat her father, her
mother, all her brothers and all her sisters,
aud all the company that was brought in
playing tcnpns. Every time they rolled
with her they had 10 pay the shot. Not par
licularIy beautiful, but of fine, healthy fig
ure, splendid horscwoman and ready for
any exeicsc. she had the good sense not to
PICK out money grub, but bright young
professional man.
When DR.. Webb entered the family they
made 1t pleasant for him at once. He saw
clearly enough that it would no; do for him
to be going around New York practicing on
smallpox patients, scarlet fever children and
m,lmps when he had a wife worth at least
s2'OoO, 0OO. So they put him into banking
house Of some kind, and made it nominal for |
him. Thus.
With the Mi.ts ana Phantoms
dispersed from his mind, he ceased TO feel
strsngc in that household and has had at |
least one child il not more. The philosophy |
OF the Vanderbilt family is to take the scare
out OF the sors-n-law and daughters-in-
law, so they will speedily produce al n-
crease.
The question may he asked whether Mr..
and Mrs. Vanderbilt prefer this or that son
or daughter understand that there is no
discrimination at ull among the children by
The parents. The children, while genial and
wholesome take up their own career; and the
pare mis-, In the American style, lot them run
lhelr race. A fine democracy exists in the
Nanlerbllt circle. William, the sire, is
chiefly occupied driving his horses, keeping
disease away and making his postcrty hap.
py. His wife Is a thorough mother, wife
and woman. She has no affectatons no
passions for ecstaic society She has borne
"A large family of children without flinching,
and loves them all, and her husband takes
his cue from her She is not much concerned
about HE worlds opinion, but hopes and ex-
poets her children To be honest, faithful,
pure and To avoid scandal
The cXcrcsccncc in the family is Mrs.
William X. Vanderbilt, who gave the great
party recently. She was Miss Smith, and
hcr ialher was named Murray Smith IIe
lived a. Mobile, Alabama. and had an Irish.
mans face. lie was worth nothing, or next
10 nothing, lie loved the South, and came
here as cotton broker after the war. His
wife, However, was Virginia woman, and
to Smith, Of a good family. Mrs
William X. Vanderbilt inherits the parvenu
from her father and the blue blood element
from her mother. 1t was she who guided
her husband into building the magnificent
house where the late ball was given, a house
la, probably has not its equal as private
IcsiuCnCe In lhn world LAYING heen ihe