Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-03-03

The NZnaga complicatinS were unusu-
ally fruitful in this respect. An in
stance of this kind occurred some lit
tie time ago at great reception given
by the late Mrs. William {. Whitney,
who received her guests in the main
drawing-rOOm of the red brick man
sion on Fifth avenue. In the long line
OF guests waiting to make their ac
acknowledgements to their hostess were
Nj Yznaea. the first and second Mrs.
Yzuaga and the new husband, Mr..
Tiffany, and unkind Fate had placed
one couple Immediately behind the
other. What Mr.. Yznagas thoughts
We're when he glanced at the new wife
on his arm and at the old one on the
arm of another manner husband
can merely be conjectured. 1t can only
be said that poor Mrs Whitney con-
fided to her friends afterward that it
was one OF the most embarrassing mo-
ments of heE life when she welcomed
this strange quartet to her house.
A COMPLICATED FAMILY.
But there are many other subjects
of the divorce habit Society has not
yet settled what it is to do in the Will
lie k Vanderbilt matter. Mrs. Willie
K. with her handsome. dark-eyed
daughter of Consuela, is taking more
active interest in New York society af-
fairs than for many seasons past, while
her husband, to avoid unfortunate
meetings. is ple5suring abroad. Right
here it might be mentioned that quite
recently Mr. Vanderbilt cherished the
ambition that Miss Consuela would one
day wed the young Duke of Manches-
ter. His mother, the Duchess of Man
chester. is a sister of Fernando YZnaga,
whose first wife was q sister of Mrs.
Willie X. Vanderbilt OF course, Mrs.
Willie X. sided with her sister in the
divorce proceedings against Yznaga,
and wether her family animosity eX-
tends to the Duchess of Manchester is
a question. Anyway, such a marriage
would only tend TO further entangle
family relations of an already compli-
Gated nature.
Mrs. Vanderbilt has still another
sister who has figured in the divorce
courts. She was Julie Smith and is
now the Countess de Fontilleat When
she married the titled Frenchman her
family were delighted and thought it
a great match. These illusions were
soon dispelled. 1t seems that the
Frenchman thought he was marrying
a great American heiTess, whereas the
Smith family of Alabama, of which
his wife was a daughter, had little
his wife was a daughter had been i'm
poverished by the war and had little
money. All the wealth the family had
consisted in the relationship with the
Vanderbilts. 1t has been said that for
a time Willie X. Vanderbilt made a
generous allowance to the titled couple
but the French nobleman accumulated
debts at such pace that it was al
most impossible to keep up with them.
Then came the separation. and for a
time the titled lady talked Of going
on the stage This resolution was OBJ
noxious to the Vanderbilt family. es-
pecially her wealthy brother-in-law
and fat income was settled upon her
There is one more sister in the
Smith family-Miss Mimi-but she is
unmarried and lives most ofthe time
with Mrs. Willie X. Thus out Of four
sisters the three who married have
been unfortunate
THE ASTOR SCANDAL.
1t is hardly necessary to call 10 mind
the divorce proceedings in the Astor
family. that of the Coleman Draytons.
The suit which Mr.. James COLEMAN
Drayton instituted against his wife,
who was Miss Augusta AstOr, a sister
of John Jacob Astor, is still pending in
the Jersey courts. This suit caused
more unsavory talk than any of the
others, because OF the sensational con-
duct of young Alsop Borrowe, the CO
respondent in the case, who was chal-
lenged to fight duel by Mr.. Drayton.
The introduction of that picturesque
personality. Harry Vane Milbank. the
most noted duelist Of Europe, as the