The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-02
The Vanderbilt Affair.
From the Philadelphia Press.

New York, Aug. 30 How far the rela-
tious of Mr.. and Mrs. w. K. Vanderbilt
have been sundered and how far the legal
proceedings have gone are two questions
still interesting New York. The lawyers
in this city who are believed to be counsel
In the case keep mum and laugh at all re-
ports.
A friend of the Vanderbilt family, who
is familiar with most of the details of the
disagreement between w. X. Vanderbilt
and his wife, said to-day:
The family has long expected that the
whole story would be made public, but
the shock is neverthele severe. [ hear
that Fred Vanderbilt, who has been at
Newport, but who is now in the Adiron-
dacks feels the publicity given to the
scandal very keenly. He has completely
isolated himself. George Vanderbilt is
at Bar HarbOr, and Cornelius will arrive
at Newport tomorrow morning | do not
believe that any definite arrangements
have been made as yet for a separation
between MIR. and Mrs. Vanderbilt,
although there is Titled doubt that such an
arrangement is to be made ultimately.
NOT MAKING A SETTLEMENT.
81 have heard that Mr. Vanderbilt has
lately expressed sorrow that the scandal
has reached the proportions it has, on
account of his children who must suffer
from it. The story that Mrs. Vanderbilt
is TO receive $l0,000,000 is hardly to be
credited, and if it were true, would not be
made public. Mr.. Vanderbilt could make
a settlement of Sl0,00O,0O0 upon his wife
easily, as he is worth 1925, 600, 600, but he
/ IS hardly in the frame of mind to do any
thing OF the kind at the present time.
! - should not be surprised if Mr. VAN
| derbilt returned to America at any time,
| from what l have heard 1t is not inn
| probable that he will arrive here in the
/ oil art > !, lie
| for society, and the fact that his return
| might embarrass him socially on this
side of the water would not deter him.
1t is generally expected, however, that
Mrs. Vanderbilt will remain in England
for some time to come"
| MRS. VANDERBILT UNPOPULAR.
Mrs William X. Vanderbilt has been
unpopular socially for a long period.
/ Winter before last one of the most prom
lnent men in town spoke of her as the
most unpopular woman in society. She
IS norat all lavish outside of her own
/ family. She does not entertain to any
extent but likes occasionally to give a
grand affair a clergyman who is con-
nected with the public charities on
| Wards Island worked very hard to in
| duce her to help near relative in q hos
| pltal, whose family was in great need, a
! Mr.. Barney of Brooklyn, and she finally
] oCAlU q CllCCh IOI FDO. Inc Barney IdUlllY
had helped her along before she married
Mr.. Vanderbilt.
People say that marble house, the
million-do mansion built by w. K.
! Vanderbilt at Newport, was ill-omened
from the start. IN appearance, with the
massive walls surrounding it, capped
! with funeral urns, it is ghostly mauso-
leum. More than 100000 of the interior
| decorations in tapestries were destroyed
/ by damUneSs. One of the first incidents
that occurred in the house was of pain
full nature. A German governess went
crazy and imagined that she was walled
In by the white marble.
Mrs. Vanderbilt has two sisters. One,
Miss Smith, is kindly disposed, practi-
cal single woman, who lives in New
York and takes little or no interest in
worldly vanities. Mrs. William George
! Tiffany, her married sister. resides when
in America at rs East Fifty fourth street.
Her husband is celebrated as a sport and
whip on both sides of the water. She
was Mary Virginia Smith when she be-
came the wife of Ferdinand Yznaga aud
the story of her divorce and remarriage in
one of the uptown hotels to Mr.. Tiffany
can be easily recalled.
Two summers ago at Newport the com
ment on the Irritation between Mrs. Van
derbilt and o. II. p. Belmont was very
general and very unfayorable, and only
the immense wealth of the family kept
the condemnation down They were con-
stantly together and he was one of the
few visitors constantly admitted to Mar
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