The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-01
VANDERBILT SENSATION.
What Is Said in Newport and New
York Of the Affair.


compatibility.
From the New York Press
Newport, R. l., Aug. 29.-The contem-
Mated separation Of Mr. and Mrs Willie
K. Vanderbilt announced by ca BILE TODAY.
does not strike society here with great
surprise. Intimate friends of the dis
united couple talked of nothing else at
the Casino this afternoon, and it was the
general opinion that a legal separation
was inevitable after the episodes here
last season and on board the Valiant
during winter cruise. Mr. and Mrs.
Vanderbilt were then entertaing a large
party on their yacht in the Mediterranean.
That another woman is seriously involved
in the case is declared to be i'm
possible by the friends of the family.
lncompatibility OF temperament alone is
believed to be the cause. A society man,
who begged thai his name be withheld.
said: Mr. aud Mrs. Vanderbilt are to-
tally untitled for each other, and for sew
eral years they have led an unhappy ex-
istence, disagreeing upon the most trivial
matters. Yet Mrs Vanderbilt is a clever.
even brilliant woman and a person that is
well liked by many friends. Mr.. Wander
bilt is a most agreeable man with whole
Souled ideas; and yet upon matters unim-
portant as well as important, they failed
TO agree"
The speaker added that Mrs. Wander
'bilt was strong-minded southern woman.
with exclusive ideas. Mr. Vanderbilt
was open and free. He failed to agree
with Mrs. Vanderbilt in the exclusive
character of their house here, and es-
pecially with his wife'S idea of surround
ing it with high, almost uimpenetrable
walls. Yet she had her way
NEWPORT HOME IS HERS ALREADY
Mr.. Vanderbilt is known to have in
dulged his wife in many ways here and to
have surrounded her with every
possible luxury. Her slightest wish
was gratiied, even at extraor-
marble house is hers, as well as its fur
nishings. 1t to-day is the grandest pri-
vate residence in America. Statements
that she had asked that the marble pal
ace here be part of the settlement upon
her are, of course, without foundation,
for, according to the Newport tax asses
sor's report, she holds the deeds of the ele-
CANT house and spacious grounds, all of
which are in her name. The property is
assessed al $3.50, 900, and is worth 81 ,25O,-
600. In this alone Mrs. Vanderbilt has a
fortune, although, of course, if she de-
sired TO turn ii into cash, it would have
to be a great loss.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT WOUNDED.
The family episode is very humiliating
to Cornelius Vanderbilt, who is recognized
as the guiding spirit in the family, and
the guardian of its honor. He is pious,
modest, generous man, an atfectionate
husband and father and good man. He
hates notoriety. He has appeared greatly
troubled all summer, and has appeared
but little in society. The whole matter is
the talk of society generally, and at the
Casino ball tonight and at the several
olnnerS preceding II IL was openly dis
cussed with warm interest. 1t is said
especially that there has never been the
warmest of feeling between Mrs. Wander
bilt and the other women of the family,
but this appears to have been due to an
agreement to disagree.
WHAT Is SAID IN NEW YORK
1t was reported in the fast fashionable
set four weeks ago that Mr. and Mrs. w.
b. Vanderbilt would separate for life,
and that Mrs. Vanderbilt would receive
a settlement of Sl0,000,000. The Press
did not publish the rumors because it
does not spread pri ate scandals or in
wade private family secrets. The report
OF legal separation was confirmed by
cable yesterday and was not denied by
the family lawyers here. 1t became a
general topic of conversation in New
York and Newport.
Last season the stories of family infe-
hcity in the Vanderbilt house had ema-
mated from Newport. but were confined
to the ultra fashionable circles. While
such stories We're going the rounds, Mr..
Vanderbilt left for England to superin-
tend the furnishing of his new English
built SlZ5,000 yacht Valiant, the Alva
having been sunk in Vineyard Sound
short time before.
Stories of the fast life he was living in
England were soon whispered about the
clubs The efforts of Cornelius Wander
bit and Mr. De Peu were exerted to heal
the breach for time and Mr. Vanderbilt
returned to this country to take a
party of friends through the southern
seas on his new yacht The trip was
very successful, when the party suddenly
oroke up before the cruise for which it
mad been invited was ended. This alb
rupt termination of the trip was caused
by an open disagreement between host
and hostess
Mr.. and Mrs. Vanderbilt returned to
Paris, where she was preparing their
Parls house for the season. She planned
changes which would have cost $1,000
ms her husband objected to- and she
IeIt Paris for England, where the medee-
val estate of Scout Murray at Deanville
mad been rented for her use Mr. Van
uerollt, IL is asserted, remained in Paris
ana lived such princely existence that
even the Parisians wondered at his great
expenditures. The latest dispatches say
mat in his house presided Nelly Neu-
stretter, known in Paris as the Queen"
and on her Vanderbilt lavised the rich
ness OF the French capital
.. When his wife heard of his manner of
nVlng she wrote her New York friends
mat she must have an understanding as
10 10 what were the ties that bound her to
william K. as wife. Friends assured her
mat the reports from Paris were grossly
exaggerated
Fearful lest she might apply for a
uIVorce, MIR. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
tehed to England and France to ad ust, if
posslole, the differences. He did not sue
eeed, however, except that he extracted
promise from each that they would not
larry their grievances into court. William
"a vanderbilt was soon afterward re-
ported to have won 200 francs on the
grand - Prix race, and TO have given all of
II 70 Nelly Neustretter OF course his
we heard these stories, and they may
nave hastened steps toward a separation.
THE FAMILY LAWYER.
Mr.. Vanderbilt's attorney, Col William
Ny Oh the firm of jay, Gambler & Co., of
40 4S Wall street, is in Europe now, os-
SSuSloly TO adjust matters for his client.
~ az MS ONCE w. II. Gambler, q member of
eue hrm, said that they had not received
aul word from Col Law in relation IN the