St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-30
Dry Bones in the Family
Closet Are Taken Out
and Aired.
WILLIAM X. WAS TOO RAPID.
His Career in Paris Was a
Trifle Too Giddy to
Suit.
HIS WIFE NOT "A SAINT.
If Allegations From the Other
Side Are to Be Accepted
as True.

Side Are to Be Accepted
as True.
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-The World to-
morrow, in confirmation of the report of
a rupture in the domestic relations of
Mr.. and Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt,
will say:
A gentleman claiming to he familiar
with the facts and the gossip in the
case, made long statement yesterday,
which was published, and which is
given in such detail as to indicate that
he knows whereof he speaks. He
says that the first seriuus break
was in Newport in 1899, but that trouble
was all patched up. When they started
on the cruise on the Valiant with Oliver
II. P. Belmont, Fred Beach and several
other friends, everybody thought that
they had come to thorough under
standing. Mis-. Vanderbilt's presence
on the yacht seemed to prove that.
Continuing, the gentleman says:
"Mrs. Vanderbilt is woman with a
very strong will. She objects to men,
bers of the yachting party going ashore
and staying all night. or even later than
10 o'clock in the evening. When the
gentlemen wanted to play poker. Mrs.
Vanderbilt always insisted that one of
them should stay out of the game to
entertain her. They used Is cut the
cards for the sacrifice.
Mr.. Vanderbilt did not like this con-
duct OH the part of his wife. Then the
yachting party was broken up. and Mrs.
Vanderbilt went to Paris, where apart
ments had been secured for her
accommodation. The house was
as handsome place as money
could procure. but Mrs. Vanderbilt
did not like it. At first she said she
would not occupy it, but finally said
she would if it were altered. The
alterations she ordered were so elabo-
rate that they cost Mr.. Vanderbilt 100,
900 francs. MIR. Vanderbilt objected to
this, and
There Was Another Row.
After that row Mr.. Vanderbilt rushed
off to Londofi to see the Derby run. He
returned to Paris and witnessed the
Grand PriX on June Z. The turning
point in the affairs of Mr.. Vanderbilt
and his wife was reached at the Grand
Prix. At that race he won &C. 1000 francs.
Almost Immediately after receiving his
winnings he was introduced to a
woman celebrated for her beauty and
for her following of wealthy swells.
She is Nellie Neustretter. She immedl-
ately fascinated Mr.. Vanderbilt, and as
appreciation of her beauty and society,
he presented her with the 10000 francs
which he had won that day. Several of
his friends demonstrated with him for
making her such gift, but he insisted,
and, OF course. she yielded to his de-
mands that she should accept it.
''The story of how he fitted up mag
nificent establishment for her in Paris,
and subsequently gave her a residence
at Deauville, with servants and every
luxury she desired, is true. 1t
shocked and Surprised
the American residents of Paris. but
Mr.. Vanderbilt was so open in his at.
tentious as to puzzle everybody. One
of the most surprising things he did was
to allow the servants of Nellie Neustret-
ter to wear the same livery as those
worn by Mrs. Vanderbilt's servants.
This fact has been noticed and COM
mented upon by every person who saw
her and her eQuipage in Paris and
Deauville.
when this news reached Mrs. Van
derbilt she Immediately communicated
with her friends in America and set
about to procure divorce. Cornelius
Vanderbilt went over to Paris hastily
to patch up matters, and the story is
that he met William K. his brother,
with whom he has great influence. and
hearing his story, secured from him a
promise not to make the details of his
differences with his wife public.
Cornelius Vanderbilt also saw Mrs.
w. K. Vanderbilt and heard her story.
He made every effort to
Bring About reconciliation,
but failed in everything except the
stopping of divorce proceedings. 1t was
at this time that Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt
began to suffer from nervous prostra-
ton. During the illness 1t Is gen.
orally understood that she changed her
thlltO obout Solh6 w suO SOusbS, dilQ was
willing to do anything to avoid the pub
licity that must follow a suit for di-
vorce.
"Col. and Mrs. William Jay, both
friends of Mr.. and Mrs. William K. VAN
derbilt then went over, and they are
even now trying to effect recoacilia-
tion and save the publicity of scandal,
but are not meeting with exceptional
success.
II have found that Mrs. Vanderbilt
has made propositions to her husband
to provide her and her children with an
income and the use of their town house
at Fifth avenue and Fifty-second street
and the Islip house. The marble man
sion at Newport is hers and in her name.
That William K. Vanderbilt gave her
outright.
at is the general impression on this
side of the water that Mrs. Vanderbilt
will
Not Seek a Divorce.
and I have heard that Cornelius Van
derbilt has promise from William K.
that he will not attempt proceeding of
that nature on his own behalf.
Nellie Neustretter Is one of the most
notorious women of the upper class of
her kind in Paris. She is acknowledged
to be one Of the handsomest women in
Paris. aud has been for some time one
of the gayest of the gay set. Who in