The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-04-11
The New Generation
of Croesuses
Don't Differ Materially
from Their Fellows.
No Better, No Sweeter, No Dearer, No
More Useful-They Are Simply
Richer.

A million-dolDar baby differs in no
way from ~ hundred dollar baby.
Weigh then, one is as heavy as the
other; measure them, they are of equal
height; touch them, and the satin soft
skin shows not the slighIte ST difference.
The dimpled hands and the pudgy little
toes are as beautifully formed by
Dame Nature for the little fellow who
has to fight his way and make his mill
ions by hard lc1s, as for the baby
whose gold money bags have been filled
amid securely tied UP by a doting grand
father.
There are baby millionaires in the
big City of New York as well as mill
ionaires of the grown-up kind. and |
MANY of them have more money spent |
upon them than the fuM-fedged men |
spend upon themselves.
The colony of infant Croesuses is a |
big one, and is growing in more senses |
THAN one lit covers a wide range, eX-
tending from the ordinary little baby
who has a single million to his credit,
to the TINY aristocrat who will one day
be the master of hundred millions or
more
VI uhe rlch nfan1s on tne meIropoEs'
the most interesting one is the two
year-old SON of J. Hooker Hamersley.
A halo of romance hangs over the mill
ions of this tiny bit of humanity, and
| We're he to die a vast estate would be
nsiheliDereu anu ule poqaacIs dropped
inUo 'Une eoIers on score on Dig cnaf-
| liable institutions. He will celebrate
his third birthday On July Il next
Ilhe way the little chap came to have
SO much money is unique. His father
was cousin of the hate Louis Ham,
ersLey, VINO was the first husband of
nhe present DoWager Duchess OF MARI
borough. When LOUIS Hame1sley died,
ABOUT ten years ago, he left curious
VIII. h he was possessed OF fortune on
SIX millions, and ne Left the income OF
ll TO hls WldoW Tor lre. He mad a
sreau many reiaulves, Dut une Iavor1te
one WAS lis COUSIN, >. HooKer dadlers-
ley. His wild provided THAT II the lat
Ter marleu ana nad mEle issue has son
or sons We're to Inherit the whole OF
the fortune upon the death of his
WIDOW. HOOKER Hamersley was un-
mafTled ah the tlme OF the death Of his
COUSIN, Dun about a couple OF years
Latter ne met a handsome Southern
girl, Miss Chisholm, courted and mar
rled her
In uue ulme DaDy was born, but it
ndppened 10 De a grd, and the HAM
erSley naLnaly We're no nearer getb1ng
lolu on une Wea1un OF their eccentric
oo'esin unan DeIore. Ills VIII provided
haa ,aaSt IN uae eVenu H0oker Hamersley
llId no maie issue uhe whole estate
upon une deaun on ms widow was to
go 10 NUMBER OF charitable institu-
OlOns
I"o Years a1uer une pfrtn or uhe Little
gIn announcer DalDy was born ITO the
) Ioher hhiieTSleys, ann THIS time ii
was dlso gnu. Inere was Woe In the
housenoid aflter this second disappoint-
l,IenI, Dil In announcer TWO years, on July
IL 1917, announcer baby was born. The
eveno LOOK piace att Newport. and the
nrse lnao11nholon OF 1T to New Workers
cane unmough President Williams, o1
uile one1nlcM NdtlOnal bank, who is
!, ulle prlnchpsl manager OF the Ham
, eisiey les esGt1e.
!, Un u,Ie uay OF the birth he received
ienguny telegram from the over-joyeG
iaalIer Uo t.ns erect:
ureae Joy mas come TO us In the
SNAPS VI a pounclng boy, who from al
~ ~"ppeaia anlpoes, a Has cOdle 10 stay.
1usu a0 unau ume all the other rela
tlVes on LOUIS Hamersley We're abour
, 10 contest mis- Will on occount of the
clause which bequeathed the fortune
to charity in event of no male issue of
Hooker Hamersley. The relatives had
apouC abandoned all hope of the lattel
senoienfan ever having a son, when the
ilotle CHAP arrived and put an end tt
uhe proposed liTtigaltion.
LII may be great many years be
Iore the Hamersiey baby comes in fol
, ulse Ionulne, as tine Dowager Duchess
VI dhrIporousn Is Dut rOrUy years OF
, ase anu nhay 1--we long time.
, Ills WoNDERf'UL klNSFOLK.
nne onhy greau gIandch1d OF Mrs
Wiiiani %: vanuerDllt Is the two-year
Sld Doy OF Mr. and MIS- William j
1ell.e1e I.a el,n. a1. Mrs. SchleHelln was Miss
louise Shepard, whose mother was the
efoesI uaugnOer OF Mr. and Mrs. Will.
ram ID. vanderbllt
Inns Auuie paDy Is certain OF five
. nififfons on une vanderhlt money and
I've nlay coihe IN Tor a GOOD deal more
AS NE is une nrst OF a new generation
l sanuerDdlns, he has had great
illany ginus snoWered upon him by the
hainy members OF the family.
"A pecullar thing about this infant is
ohat he has -great-great- great
grhnunouner living. Old Commodore
Gorneilus Vanderbllt, the founder OF
uile Ioroune. In uhe LATTER years of his
me Hparrled second time, his choice
Deins Miss crawford, Southern girl
i1el nionler, NIIS. CraWIord, a very
paeostDnu olu lauy, WHO likes to talk