News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1893-09-07
OLD FAMILIES STILL LEAD.
Newport Society Wants to Know Who the
SweIIs Are Now,

| Newport Society Wants to Know Who the
swelIs Are Now.
There has been much discussion in
Newport of late concerning the leader
ship of society-as to who are entitled to
take prominent positions in it and carry
it on. The multimillionaires are unques-
tionably doing most of the entertaining
| now, and one constantly hears the ques-
tons: ''Who are the swells?" Have the
nobs all died out and disappeared, or are
they yet exercising a controlling infiu-
ence in society," The principal old
Knickerbocker immortal families are rep
resented in society at the present time
by the Livingstons, the Van Rensselaers,
the GARDENERS of Gardeners island, the
Morrises of Morrisania, the Van Cort-
landts, the Floyd-J oneses, the Thomp-
sons of Sagtikos, the Beekmans, the De
Lanceys, the Pells and the De Peysters
The heads of the Livingstons are Harry
Walter Livingston and Johnston Living
ston, men e fashion. The head of the Van
Rensselaer, IS Bayard Van Rensselaer,,
the PATRON by right, who married de-
scendant ofithe GARDENERS of GARDENERS
island. The head of the Morrises is A.
Newbold Morris. The head of the Gar
diners of GARDENERS island is Colonel J.
Lyon Gardiner, twelfth lord of that
manor. The head of the Van Cortlandts
is Pierre Van Cortlandt in one branch and
Augustus Van Cortlandt in another
Colonel De Lancey Floyd-Jones repre-
sents the family of that name, and Fred
erick Diodati Thompson represents his
family. The Beekmans are represented
by Gerald Beekman, the De Lanceys by
Edward T. De Lancey. The Pells are
headed by George Washington Pell and
Rowland Pell, and the De Peysters by
General ]. Watts De Peyster, the Stuy-
vesants by Rutherford Stuyvesant, the
Duers by James G. K. Duer, the Jays by
John Jay, the Hamiltons by Schuyler
Hamilton, the Winthrops in New York
by Edgarton L. Winthrop, and in Bos-
ton by Robert G. Winthrop; the Schuy-
lers by Philip Schuyler and John Schuy-
Ter, secretary of the Society of the Gin
cinnati; the Lawrences by j. @. K. Law
renee, the Roosevelts by James B. Roose-
Welt and J. Roosevelt Roosevelt, and the
Kings by A. Oracle King.
All of these people hold high positions
in the fashionable world of today, and
notwithstanding the assumption of the
multimillionaires that family is of no
Importance in New York they are still
regarded in an entirely different way
from the new people This family pride
has had a new impetus given to it lately
by the formation of the societies of the
Sons of the Revolution, the Sons of the
Colonial Wars, the Colonial Danes, etc.
Even in our republican country Stuy-
vesant, Livingston or Van Rensselaer,
commands social position if he is at all
fitted for it, while other mortals must
work for and make one themselves.
Many mothers are better satisfied if
their daughters marry representatives
of the old Knickerbockers with moderate
fortunes than if they marry into wealthy
families which have recently secured
places in fashionable society. This has
been illustrated by several notable in
stances of late years. The old Colonial
stock was never so much appreciated as
at presentl-Cor New York World