The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-12

the East-Prizes Worth the atten-
ton of Matchmaking Nsmmas.
From the Ne,o York Recorder.
The names Of Astor and Vanderbilt are
apt to be ruug in first when the talk is OF
the rich men II the future. There are some
always ready to wager that fifteen or
twenty years later there will be others in
the field with fabulous fortunes, aud that
Representatives Of these families may be
placed lower in the list. For all that. II
Baby Aston lives to grow up, and be is at
present the healthest of mortals, he will be
| financially well placed, beyond peradvent-
ure. Ohm Jacob Astor's infant is now IS
months old, and is named for his father,
! William Astor. with the Objectionable B.
| eliminated. The Astors are not
! the clanuish united family they were in a
/ former generation, when the two repre-
/ sentative brothers of the family each had a
! son and John Jacob Aston named his for
| his brother William and William had his
! christened John Jacob Aston. Waldorf
| Aston will probably be the first of the
! grandsons OF their own maine of these two
| affectionate brothers to come into colossal
| fortune, as he is now Is years old He will
! be thoroughly English, no doubt, as his
| parents. Mr.. and Mrs. William Waldorf
Astor, have lived in England since the death
/ Of the formers father, John Jacob Astor.
Though a few millions will, no doubt, fall
| to the portion OF the second son aud the one
| little daughter Of the family, Waldorf will
come in for the bulk of the fortune lt IS
! now nearly two years since Mrs. William
| Waldorf Astor's mother, Mrs. James W.
| Paul OF Philadelphia died, and this seems to
have weaned the couple entirely from any
| wish to resume a residence in America.
fortune of $50, 100000 from his father,
and lived somewhat simply for multi
| millionaire for years, and In consequence is
probably much richer man to-day than
then, The TWO Astors of the future, Wal
dorf and William, viii have had a very
| different bringing up. The former will be
educated like an English scion OF nobility,
and the latter in plain American fashion,
as John Jacob Aston is democratic and
American in his methods to degree
The Vanderbilts, though newcomers in
comparison, have combined their interests,
which would have been the really effectual
method for the Astors to adopt to keep we'll
TO the front. Only one year ago young
William II. Vanderbilt was regarded as the
weslthiest New York man Of the future
Cornelius Vanderbilt, his father, calculated
that by the time his son was 40 years old
the fortune TO come to him would, by nat
ural and unavoidable increase, have reached
Tue tOUoUOusOOO HRuTb. just NOW MI anu
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt have arranged
20 present a new dormitory 90 Yale College
in memory Of their son William, who was
student there when he died.
Cornelius is evidently the lucky Wander
bllt name, and so lie the present heir to oil
this filthy lucre called. He is 10 years old,
and last summer he passed his time cruising
about on his own yacht, not far away from
where his parents were located for the sea-
son, at Magnolia, Miss. Cornelius Wander
bilt has farm some four miles from New
port, and from this went constant supply
of fresh vegetables, butter, cream and other
country comforts to the yacht. Though the
butter, all churned from the milk of the
finest imported cows was sent in plain
bricks to the chefs of the Vanderbilt
cuisine, that forwarded to the youthful
heir was arranged in the most ornamental
little pats. Like the other children OF the
family, young Cornelius Vanderbilt has q
flue voice and great musical taste.
1t Is a mooted question with some If
William K. V0nderbilts eldest son and
heir, now - years old, will have as large a
fortune as his cousin Cornelius. William
K. Vanderbilt is credited with being more
speculative than his slightly older
brother, and lees conservative His
sons education will be less thoroughly
American than chat Of young Cornelius, as
he hat already been quite time abroad
bilt the younger brother Of Cornelius aud
William K. Vanderbilt, has more than one
little lad OF his own, and they will each have
their millions; though, as their father came
into but tenth of his elders fortunes, there
are a number OF other boys in town with
greater expectations.
A young American who will be one of
the future multimillionsires, and of whom
next to nothing is ever heard here, is the
| eldest son Of James J Van Allen, now nearly
20 years. Mr.. Van Allen himself is now at
Washington, and talked Of in connection
with "a diplomatic appointment. 1t is also
rumored that his second marriage with Miss
Hope Goddard, the handsome blonde Rhode
Island beiTess, is not at all en- unlikely event
| of the near future. Mr.. Van Allen
went through Oxford college, and
| is an anglomaniac Of the first
water. His wife, who lived but a few
years after the marriage, was the eldest
| daughter of the late William Astor, who
| never took kindly to his son-in-law. Young
! Van Allen, when he is 81, will come int a
lot Of money from the estate of his ma
| ternal grandfather. Mr. Van Allen himself
! Inherited an immense fortune from his own
| father, which he is said TO have increased
| greatly Of late years. IL young MIR Van
| Alien mRrries an American girl she
may be considered TO have made an in
| ternRtiOnal alliance, what with his long
residende in England aud Elton and Oxford
course. The Van Allen family home on the
| other side is at bennington, from which
Mr.. Van Allen can drive the friends who are
staying with him each day for quite time
to some different interesting historical 10.
| calitY. His English servants come over
with him every summer to Wakehurss, his
| Tudor establishment stsNewport, and re-
| turn again in the autumn.
! OF all the rich mems heirs who have
grown to mans estate John W. Mackay
JT., is the matrimonial catch par excellence.
1t Ia surmised by many that young Mac
kay's fortune will be sufficiently large to
make that of the sons of the houses Of Van
derbil5 and Aston appear quite trifing in
comparison. One very pleasant character
istio of young Maokay, now in his 23d year,
is that he is American 60 the
backbone. though educated on the cons
tinent. After passing year or more in
this CITY he rejOined his mother ia England
early last summer. he is such an accom-
plished violinist that he could easily make a
comfortable fortune by playing on the in
strument 10 public. Apparently he cares
little for fashionable society and the enter
tainments he gave at his luxuriously fitted
bachelor apartments on Fifth avenue last
year were mainly musioales, and his guests
OF the Bohemian circle, comprising promi-
nsnt painters and musicians.
OTHER GREAT MATRIMONIAL CATCHES.