The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-09
RICHEST BUD OF ALL.
Miss Gertrude YandeTbilt'S Coming
Debut.


Debut.
/ Gertrude Of That N anne Whose Father
is Worth SIIo, 100000, win Make
/ Her Formal Entree Into Society
Soon "a Sensible, Handsome,
/ Healthy Girl.
From the New York World.
/ The yvealthiest young girl, prospect
/ lively, in the United States is soon to be
/ introduced formally into society under
conditions of magnifcence such as are
I likely TO surprise social veterans. The
young girl referred to is Miss Gertrude
Vanderbilt, daughter Of Cornelius Van
. derbilt. the present head Of the famous
family of that name, and no young wom-
an within the recollection Of the Oldest
gossip on matters appcrtaiuing to social
exploits has been able to come out on a
scale so magnificent as viii this slender
slip Of a girl Of scarce eighteen summers.
Miss Vanderbilt is said to be lovely in
/ person and charming in manners, and un-
der the circumstances her debut, which
has been delayed beyond the usual time,
is a matter of more than ordinary interest
| TO society.
Cornelius Vanderbilts wealth was
quoted the other day upon good authority
as being more than Sll0,0UO,000 and rap
/ idly growing. As he Is no uiggar0, the
ball at which his daughter will make her
bow to the circle in which she will thence
forth figure win be one that Will long be a
subject Of talk, especially as il will be
held in a house that is maintained to be
ia ffr--s.
many noble mansions. The debut of Miss
Vanderbilt will also mark the public re-
entrance of the Cornelius Vanderbilt
family into New York society, from
which it has been long absent owing to a
series of unfortunate events, The family
is only now going out of mourning for
a young son who was stricken to death
by typhoid fever last year at Yale Col
lege, and prior to that, other children had
died.
The present head Of the Vanderbilt
family is a man singularly domestic in his
habits, and in this his wife resembles
him. He has felt deeply the loss Of his
children, and has steadily refrained from
having anything to do with social mat
tiers; instead ne has devoted his attention
outside Of business cares to religious and
educational matters. He has. however,
concluded that his young daughter should
not be shut out from the scenes that her
youth and beauty fit her to figure in, and
so he win place her lin the swim" with
all the wealth and prestige behind her
that the Vanderbilts control There
need be no speculation as TO how Manhat-
uan's famed -Four Hundred will look upon
the debutante. The Vanderbilts have for
ten years been regarded as legitimate
members OF that exalted circle, although
Cornelius Vanderbilt has never seemingly
taken any interest in such matters any
more than did his father, or his grand
father. whose boast it was that he had
opened clans, killed hogs, help work his
farm and run his boats with his own
hands.
TRAINED on COMMON SENSE METHODS.
Miss Vanderbilt is a true Vanderbilt.
The men of the stock have not been
especially handsome, but strong, sturdy
and self-reliant. Nor have the women in
the main been renowned as beauties; as a
rule they have been healthy women of
average Comliuess and always of sterling
good sense, conservative in their views
transformations in their manners, devoted
to their homes and with a turn for re-
/ ligious and benevolent work rather than
social pre-eminence. Those who know
/ Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt aver that in
! her are merged the good qualities of both
the women and men of her family In
| addition she has more beauty than has
! usually UtGu tOUAtElGu upon lnc NanQGH-
/ ALT women, or, as the writer on matters
social would put it, she is 1.-The beauty of
! her family She, is about the medium
/ height, perhaps little above it, Her
/ form now is slender and girlish, but when
/ her lines fill out and her form is fully de-
/ veloped she viii be a woman of striking
/ appearance She has the large, express
/ i've eyes, neither exactly gray nor blue,
/ that most of the family have, and the
/ square forehead of her father combined
/ with the mobile features and small mouth
/ of her mother No milk-and-water beauty
/ is the coming debutantc. No dainty pict-
ure in red and white Instead she is a
healthy, handsome girl, who will develop
! into noble womanhOOd and who shows in
manner and carriage the effects of sound
common sense home training, such as the
mothers Of the present generation of Van
! derbilts have always given their chill
/ Gren.
Miss Vanderbilt is highly cultivated
/ young woman. Her education was begun
almost before she had left the nursery
! Her mother took personal charge of it /;
! the goyerness was but an assistant. Next
! the young heiress was sent to a swell
! private school for girls near the Wander
| bilt house so that she was never beyond
home influences, but was educated and
trained practically under the eve of her
mother. The results have been all that a
mother could wish. The heiress to many
millions is as unaffected as though riches
were unknown to her. Trained in the
main by mother who is both refined and
highly cultured, she has acquired the
same gifts. Given these accomplish
ments and given beauty, a strong brain
and perfect mental equipoise, Miss Van
/ derbilt might be expected to easily win
her way in or out Of society, even with
out her fathers hundred millions.
LEARNING THE SOCIETY ROPES NOW.
She is more than ordinarily good
horse woman; her father was careful to
put at her disposal horses that one could
/ not well ride without falling in love with
the pastime. She has inherited the love