Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-06-30

and rooms for the grooms. All the
horses can be used either in harness or
under saddle. The stable boat was con-
suucted so that il can be towed astern
oy the housebOat, and it is fitted with
q long. wide gangplank, allowing the
horses and wagons to be put ashore at
any spot on the rivers bank. Mr.. Lor-
lizard has found this to be an ideal
way TO spend the winter months. and
the few fortunate friends who have en-
Joyed the hospitality Of the h0useboat
say the same.
A HUNTER OF SOLITUDE.
George Vanderbilt is a peculiar Young
man. His health has never bee robust.
ana as his brother Cornelius manages
ms fortune for twenty millions, ne has
little 20 do but TO devise means for the
spending of the income Of $4,000 or
more year. Mr.. Vanderbilt is a great
. lover Of solitude. Perhaps that is the
reason he has never married.
When he built the great palace at
Ashevllle, North Carolina. he thought
that he could bury himself there amid
It's Injuries during the inter months.
while his brothers and sisters were
mlnghng with the gay thrOng Of the
social world. But he found that Q great
many Of his acQuaintances were in the
habit or spending the winter at Ash
Vile. and they were generous in their
visits 90 the big palace. In fact So
iicitOus mammas with nice daughters
thought it shame that the young man.
should DE left alone so much in a big
house, with jus, a horde of servants
about him.
nir Vanderbilt found that the Ashe-
vile residence did not develop as he had
expected. lie was looking for q place
where he would not be talked to and
where be could not talk to anybody.
So ne went TO japan He didn't know
q word Of Japanese when he started,
bU- ne is naturally studious. and he
soon picked mp a knowledge Of the Ian
guage. When he got into donal
form ne came home.
The winter just gore he spent in Rus
STA. He knows nothing OF Russian. and
euiC-ei his Qe- solitude 20 the full. No
one talked TO- him. and even if they did
be didn't understand what they said,
so there was no use of his talking back
EUGENE HIGGINS ASTOUNDS
CAIRO.
Eugene Higgins. as the richest Young
bachelor i'm New York. finds il neces-
sary TO flee from the metropolis every
little while 70 perpeuate his single
state. He was in Cairo all winter. as
tonishing the Egyptians with his mod
ern m2gnidcence. He and several
friends had Yacht in which they cruis-
ej through the Nile collecting all kinds
Of curious things. Mr.. Higgins's Nor
ristOWn house in New jersey is already
something Of a museum. and when the
Egyptian collection is added il viii be
q very curious place
Pierp0nt Morgan. the financial doctor
of sick corporations. finds himself in
need of q rest every few months. He
works mo steam engine pace and then
finds himself upon the verge of break
ING down. Then he gets on board OF
@ transatlantic steamer, and the trip
across builds him mp wonderfully
Sometimes he only spends few hours
I'm London consulting with the heads
5f the English banking concern, and
/ returns here on the first steamer he
. can catch. Mr. Morgan has made so
many trips across the ocean that he
has lost an track Of the number.
Frederic D;odati Thompson always
/ fees To- Cons-ant.nople whenever New
/ York pals on him. The Sultan was
/ once presented with a finely bound
I book that Di0dati wrote about Turkey
and in return the author was presented
with the Order Of Medjdi. Mr. Thomp-
son M once wrote another book which
threw numerous bOQuets at the Sultan,
and i'm return he got another Order with
some name much longer than the first
Mr. Thompson also refers TO the Sultan
as my friend"