The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-19
VhNDERBllTS ASEEVILLE
HOME.
The Multi-Millienaire and His Fads
and Fancies.
Richmond Times:

| OF New \ Ork. lie must be worth az
least SD, 100000, but he might walk
the leDgth Of the entire city without
being recognized by half dozen per
sons. lie has never been prominent
in any public movement. He has nev-
er attended public function where
crowds OF people congregatcd, and when
he goes to the theatre or to the opera,
he hides himself in the rear OF box.
But he is a most interesting man
| nevertheless. Just now he is at Bar
Harbor where he has a beautiful cCun-
try home, and where he entertains the
members of the Vanderbilt family, and
perhaps a few personal friends. He is
great object Of interest to the pretty
Young unmarried women, and the
| matchmaking mammals who congre-
hearts at this gay resort. One day Dame
Rumor has it that he is going to mar
rv, and another day Miss Grundy just as
assiduously denies the report. And so
it goes While the young man is get
ting older, his fortune is increasing rap
idly and the marriageable daughters and
the matchmaking mammas become
distracted
Young Vanderbilt has many fads.
First of all, he is bOOk-wOrm, and in
a wav a woman hater. He seems to
have great regard for women in the
aggregate, but Il great deal OF love
for his mother in particular. He
spends much of his time in her society,
and it may be truthfully said that the
He is essentially "a mothers boy lie
is the only unmarried grandson OF old
Commodore Vanderbilt.
Formerly he was rated as being next
to John Jacob Astor, the wealthiest
Young bachelor in the United States,
having a million dollars in his own
right and control for every past year
of his life Now as John Jacob Astor
is husband and father, George Van
derbilt stands at the head of his class
alone
In the society columns, and once
in a while too, in the general news
and police reports OF the New York
newspapers. YOU can read much OF
other Young men Of wealth, but there
is hardly ever any mention made OF
this scion of the house OF Vanderbilt.
Above all his other possessions
George Vanderbilt prizes his country
seat near Asheville IN North Carolina.
1t is a fact that may not be gain
said that all the Nanderbilts have
faculty Of making their investments
sclf-s,lpporting, and although George
Vanderbilt has never seemed to care
much about family millions. his ven
lures even in the purchase OF old books
ana violins have been such as might
be made profitable. But in no invest
ment made by him has more shrewd-
ness been shown than in the purchase
and improvement of his mountain es-
tate in the South. Better still, he has
shown in it that in him there is a love
Of the artistic, the poetic, the roman
tic if YOU will, that has been singularly
lacking in other members of his fam
lily.
As has before stated, George Wander
bilt Is many sided man, and this
mountain estate of his furnishes the
best of proof that this is so.
There is no home in this country
that can equal it in natural
beauty. Austin COrbin, the railroad
magnate, has magificent deer park in
Vermont. DR.. Seward Webb, Van
derbilt by marriage, has in the Adiron-
dacks farm and game preserve that is
the wonder of all who see it. But Nj
Vanderbilt's place down on the border
OF the Tennessee mountains s,rpasses
these. There are old castles on the
Rhine, impressive in their wild and
half ruined condition. There are white
chateaus that one dreams of after
seeing them There are stately do
mains in England with their avenues
of oaks and waving elms that have