Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-22


will have made very great mistake
unless be gets somsthing very fine fol
that income.
THE DAUGHTEEs.
As 20 the Vanderbilt daughters, they
are child bearing women. They do NOT
belong TO the race Of cheap retail mer
Granddaughter women in our time. who
think that one child is more than enough
unless the father has TO bear il. They
bring their children into the world
timely and frequently, and consequently
the Vanderbilt house is not like the
Chuzzlewit house, full OF meanness and
treason. and aek-biting. William, the
great sire of all, does not really know
now masy great grand children be has.
When he drives his horses ont ON the
road, and is rallied on that question at
times by his compeeTs, he tries from
mere good nature to som up his grand
children, and finally says: Il really
don't know how many have. / know
the mothers are all doing well. and the
fathers have a new grin ON their faces
every time / see them" What happy
family that is Wealth does not seri,np
them; income does not stop its outcome.
1t preserves the two great laws of in
crease ana multiplication
Mr. Shepherd, who married the Oldest
daughter, rs a queer character. He is
now finishing building on Fifth ave-
nue. occupying part of the old Rutgers
institute block, which has for its signs
the Safe Deposit bank, the Rutgers
bank. the Bank of Banks. We all stop
and read that last several times, and
ask what the Bank of Banks is. The
friends of the Vanderbilt family smile
and say: THAT is one of Shepherds
cranks."
The next daughter is Mrs. Sloane.
Sloane Is the leading carpet man In New
York. He constructs articles on which
mankind and womankind walk. That
rather gives him black eye in the SUI
perstition of the Vanderbilt family. If
be could only make ceilings. on which
people could not walk, Il might be differ
ent, but to put beautiful articles under
our feet seems strange from such n very
rich person. So, on the whole, the
Sloane element of the Vanderbilt fam
lily il little looked down upon, partic-
ularly by the William X. element. At
the same time the Sloanes rank very
high in this mercantile world. The
magnificent building of the Sloane fam
lily on upper Broadway hardly has its
match in the world for store of any
sort, and. as a carpet store, it is beyond
comparison.
TwoMBLEY TAKEN IN.
The third daughter ID Mrs. Twom-
bley. TwoEbley was in the paper-mak
ing business in Massachusetts, and was
not worth $4,000 when he married one
Of William Vanderbilt's daughters; but
he was a gentleman. The Vanderbilts
say they do not require money as a quail
iiication to come into their family. but
they do demand responsibility, good ma
ture, good manners and good feelings.
IL is TO the credit of William Wander
bilt aud his wife that they regard their
good fortune rs amply sufficient for all
their posterity, but they will not have
adyenturers, vnlgarians or cold hearted
people of the world to marry their chill
dren. The nearest approach to world
ly person who has come into that fami-
ly is Mrs. William X, who gave great
ball the other night. The old folks say
nothing about her operations, but her
father-in-iaw went to that ball in a plain
black suit, and was the only person
present in such o suit. From what
pick up, he does not think much of fan
cy balls; but he cannot control his own
sons in everything, much less his daugh-
ters-in- law. Twombley was Boston
young man, who struck the heart of
Vanderbilts daughter, and when the
old folks were satisfied that he was a
true-hearted young man, they asked no
further questions. When he entered
their family, they set about giving hius
large and creditable occupation at once.
hear that in the Vanderbilt house
hold the sons, the daughters, the sons
in-law, and the daughters-in-law all
stand on the same footing-respected
beloved, and given an equal chance by
tue fine old hnickerbocker, who ia SO
much ricker than any of them. Viii
liam's fortune is at least 500, ,000,0 600.
de has $60,0o0,00o in Government
bonds. He told some of his friends
about four years ago that his income
was Sl0.00,0O0 year. He has never
been beaten by any stock operator, and
has made every one of them who tack
led HIM squeal. So | would not be sur
prised IL be had an income of 80. GOO, :
600 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 Watson Webb. Old Mr.. Webb
who is still alive, but daily candi-
date for the obituary column-was a
great editor of New York city before
the advent of the elder Bennett. Webb
made Bennett possible. Webb was of
Connecticut stock settled in New York
State, son of a revolutionary colonel or
general, tine-looking, aggressive, saucy,
and he took the great Whig organ in
his days, the Courier and Enquirer, and
made il the principal Wing paper in
America. The Richmond Wing, the
Louisville Journal, the Cincinnati Ca
Sette, and the Philadelphia .aHericda
were second fiddles to it. Webb was
the political father, to some extent, of
VIM. IL. Seward. He had all the in
trepid and vain qualities which have
since boen abused by the Bsnnetts and
others. He fought n duel with Tom
Marshall of Kentucky and suffered a
wound and conviction in the court.
He was spleniid-looking old man
not too good to live, but Just good
enough. He thought the iaborer was
worthy of his hire. He was twice mar
ried, and ran of with his second wife.
pR. wEnB's WIFE.
The son of this wife is DIR. Webb, who
has married Vanderhilt's daughter. He
had nothing 10 speak Of. He probably
had enough money TO rent his office
aud buy second hand gig to drive
around and see his patients. He struck
the heart Of the youngest daughter of
Vanderbilt. She was a tall, lithe girl,
who could roll teapins magniioently.
She could stand up in the tenpin alley
at Saratoga and beat her father, her
mother. all her brothers and all her SIS
ters, and all the company that was
brought In, rolling tcnpins- Every tims
they rolled with her they had 10 pay for
the shot. Not particularly beautiful,
but of fine. healthy figure. a splendid
horse woman. and ready for any exsr-
cise, she had the good sense not TO pick
out money grub, bat bright young
professional man.
When DR.. Webb entered the family
they made il agreeable for him at once.
He saw clearly enough that il would not
do for him 10 be going around New
York practicing on small pox patients.
scarlet fever children. and mumps,
when be had wife worth at least xs,-
o0ooU. So they put him into banking
house of some Kind, and made Il ncnal-
nal for him. Thus, with the uiists and
phantoms dispersed from his mind, he