The Bessemer indicator., 1894-09-08
GLOAT OVER SCANDAL
MoHsEL FOR NEWPORT roossIPs
Society sympathizes with "wini~ ~" In
His Dinicultiea with Mrs. Vanderbilt
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His Difticultiea with Mrs. Vanderbilt
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Newport, II. l., Sept. 5.-Noboiy here
Is surprised at the publication of the
Vanderbilt scandal The people nre
only astonished that 1t has not got into
the newspapers before. for the hotel
porter- and the BARRIERS have known
all about 1t for months ana have been
hoping that the divorce suit would he
tried here instead of in New York.
There has scarcely been dinner party
at which the affair has not been dis
cussed, aud when any of the ladies re
ccived Il letter from London or Paris
all the neighbors rushed in TO see If It
/ contained anything new about Mrs.
! Nanderbilt's nervous prostration OF Mr.,
! Nanderbilt's attention TO Nellie Neus-
/ tretter in France,
The other man" N The story is OH.
yer Hazard Perry Belmont. the young
est son OF the late August Belmont.
| who has the reputation Of being the
social leader aud the most popular man
I In Newport lie has been here ali
[ summer, more active and entertaining :
l than ever. He has organized all the
coaching parties ana picnics and polo
games and cotillons and the town talk
does not appear TO have DESTROYED his
peace of mind or injured him in the
estimation Of g.lded fools that come
here TO proclaim their folly But Mr.
Belmont has had experience in such
matters, and is regarded by society
here somewhat a. the cowboys and
miners out West regard eomrade who
has Killed his man, He is still young
not more than 30. and yet he has been
the defendant in one divorce case. and
has been involved IN several Scandals
that have never reached the courts.
HE tormer Wife, now Mrs George l..
Rives, resides here. ana meets him
frequently without emotion on either
side. which illustrates how easy il Is
for tile aristocrucy 10 get along to
gethcr
The sympathy Of the people OF New
port Is aluast entirely with Mr.. Van
dcrhil' although OF course they can
not approve Of the manner in which
he has been conducting himself with
the Ncustrctter woman In Paris 1t is
going little too far. they think. to
allow her servants to wear the same
livery that the servants of Mrs. Van.
derbilt wear and that he ought not to
let her PM the Vanderbilt crest upon
the door Of her carriage and the har-
ness of her horses But AZ the same
time everybody agrees that Mrs Van
dcrbil' began It," aud made her hlls-
band unhappy ever since they were
ina. st..sIa H.
whim that happened 10 enter her head.
even at the cost Of millions: that he
has been patient and generous. ana
has overlooked several excuses for 20
ing into TIE divorce courts, and that
his extraordinary and unnatural con
dnct this summer has been for tiic pur-
pose OF driving his wife To file Il peti-
tion for a separation from him. His
habits of late years have given her no
cause OF complaint. although at one
time he was considered pretty gay.
and his friends cannot offer any other
explanation of n behavior that Is very
unlike him
Willie k." * popular but very few
people like Mrs. Vanderbilt She was
southern woman. Her father was a
cotton factor" NJ Mobile His maine
wn- smith. and he was poor. But her
face was her fortune. She had two
sisters who We're also beauties and
married foreigners with titles but no
money, and Willie n" has had to sup
port them all. He did not care So
much for the money. they say, but his
wife's relations kept getting into hot
water, and disgraccd themselves and
the family Mrs Vanderbilt would al.
ways conhoue their ofrcnses and give
l,..t mol 1,
she coaScd him. paid their bills and
set them up again. hut lie could not
keep them out OF mischief. and finally
refused to have anything more to do
with them. Since then they have been
going about abusing him. and it is said
that his own brothcr-in-law had him
blackballed NJ the swcllest club in
Paris.
The women say that Mrs Vanderbilt
Is naughty aud hcartless. and has done
50 many unkind things that She has
very few friends Her follies and cX-
travaEauces ~ described here would
make tremendous book Catherine
the Great WAS never more autocratic
in her demands upon people around
her and never more selfish in exactiur
tribute and admiration. Her sisters-in-
law, Mrs, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mrs
Fred Vanderbilt. Mrs Sloan and Mrs.
shepard. are said TO he very different
women and have not belonged 10 her
set" Her pace has been considerably
too rapid for them. and She kept her
husband very tired. Like his father
Willie" Vanderbilt Is fond Of business,
and If his wife had not been 80 rest
less and wanting TO go about all the
time he would have taken an active
mart i'm tnn tuDnup.tnnrtt ,f tho "a
railways, but he gave up everything to
her, and since two years after their
marriage has done nothing but follow
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