The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-19

matrimonial cluster of overtime
grapes In the first place there is
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., more
famlllarly known as ''Neel-"a boy
who will soon leave college. Then
there is his sister. Miss Gertrude, now
come home from abroad and who.
though young. is in society. What
they will inherit is q mystery. but they
will probably inherit something.
William K. Vanderbilt has an in
teresting group of comparatively
poor relations growing up around
him, he being the only mem
Der Of the family who in
terests himself in the unprosperous
branches of the house. Let not Miss
Consuelo be forgotten. either. daughter
of Frederick ", Vanderbilt. lovely and
brunette. Collateral to their yet-to-be
welded cOterie are the MAI offshoofs
OF the same railroad stock mo pun in
tended) the Shepard and Sloan lam
lies. Elliott Z. Shepard, Jr., is heir
to five million dollars, the rest of
the family millions going to his three
sisters, of whom Miss Edith is so
far best known. Elliott is now shv
young man. tall and slender, little
known IN society, but very noble in
appearance and giving promise of be:
coming fine-looking man when he
has beard. He spends much time
with his mother at the Shepard country
seat on the Hudson. The widow has
not ceased to mourn her husband. but
the daughters are beginning to show
themselves here and there. Miss Edith
will inherit three million dollars, at
least. and three other Shepards are
down for something in proportion. we
may conclude. Altogether this familv
seem destined to make matrimonial his
tory one of these fine days
The Sloans are in the Vanderbilt CO.
terie and have quite an assortment of
Ediths and Williams who, less FORUM
ate than the other branches of the
family, are too numerous to come in
for more than million apiece. Speak
ing from the fortune hunting point Of
view, they are what you might call
small game. However, the preserves
are well stocked. The Webbs are at
tractive, as all know who have had anv
opportunities of finding out The son
of Mrs. Seward Webb, now quite a lit
tie man, will be worth ST.. 200, 900.
1t would be surfeit particularly to
do more than a1lude to the Goulds.
There are imprimis, Miss Helen, rated
at $50, 100000: secundum. Miss Anna,
s15, 000,0 600; tertium, Master Howard,
The Croker family has vet to be
ranked among those capable of fur
nishing the fortune hunters of the
world with available game, but there
Is Mr.. Richard Croker, Jr., heir to one
million dollars. The young man has
six geschwister, as the Germans sav,
but there will be enough left to sup
port them after the scion of the house
of Croker has been allowed the lions
share of the family fortunes, according
to his political papa's expressed inten-
tons.
Let rs now consider a family in
which there are three daughters
Weightmans. These people are worth
forty million dollars, all to be divided
among the young ladies, only one of
whom is married. They are in the
early twenties, and, like other rich
Philadelphians, very susceptible. Lale
Dolan, son of Thomas Dolan, the
trolley car king, will inherit six mil
lion dollars one of these DAYS. He does
very little but spend money, as his IA
Their has been heard to admit in an out
burst of confidence. Another interest
ing person in Philadelphia is Mr.
James w. Paul, Jr., son-in-law of the
late Anthony J. Drexel, a widower
these past few years, and sorely in need
of good wife to take care of his grow
ing children.
The Whitneys as matrimonial catches
have already been alluded to, but deli
cacy forbids the mention of a parent
in the same paragraph with his chill
dren as rivals to them in a market
where money counts for so much. New
ertheless William c. Whitney would
himself be a most desira bic catch. He
Is in the prime of manhood, fine look
ing, rich beyond the dreams of avarice,
and what is more, has already been ru-
mored as an engaged man But here
tofore he has always denied the soft
impeachment.
However, list like this might be
prolonged TO infnity. For instance,
there are the sons of eighteen United
States senators, each of whom will in
Lerit over one million dollars apiece.
There are daughters of eleven other
senators who have an equally happy
fate in store for them There are the
children of the Goelets, of the Orme
Wilson's (AIiss Orme is a four-million-
dollar heiressl. and of Spreckles, the
sugar king. One could compile a di-
rectory of these prizes, a sort of mat
rimonial Bradstreet's. Nav, it is whis-
pered that the art of fortune hunting
has given rise to a private inquiry in
dustry, designed to supply patrons
with the latest ratings of all avail
abilities. The marriage market is less
OF figure of speech than it was wont
to be.