St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-07

i shape of bouncing boy, who, from
| all appearances, has come to STAY"
Just at that time all the other rel
atives of Louis Hamersley were
about to contest his will on account
/ OF the clause which bequeathed the
/ fortune to charity in event of no.
! male issue of Hooker Hamersleyi
! The relatives had about abandoned.
| all nope OF the latter gentleman!
| ever having son, when the little
| chap arrived md put an end to the
proposed litigation.
1t may be great many years be4
, lore the Hamersley baby comes ins
Tor the fortune, as the Dowager
duchess of Marlborough is but fortv
years of age and may live a lone.
| time.
HIS WONDERFUL KINSFOIK +
The only great grandchild of Mrs.
william II. Vanderbilt is the two
year-oid boy of Mr.. and Mrs William,
| Jay Sch1effelin. Mrs Schieffelin was
| MISS Louise Shepard, whose mother
was the eldest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt.
| ms iiCIie cdDy ms certain Of five
inlliions OF the Vanderbilt money, and
ne may come in for a good deal more,
AS ne is the first of a new genera .on
OF Vanderbilts, he has had a great
many gifts showered upon him by the
many members of the fomily.
A peculiar thing about this infant
Is that he has Observation-Disclosures
grandmother living. Old Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the founder of
the fortune, in the latter years of his
life married a second time, his choice
being Miss Crawford. a Southern girl.
Her mother, Mrs. Crawford, very
pleasant old lady, who likes to talk
about the ante-bellum days in the
South, is still living in a pleasant home
facing Washington square.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS HERE.
Harry LIE Grand Cannon, famed as
the most expert and ingenious cotiIlon
leader in swelldom, has a three-year-
old baby girl who will be a great
heiress some day. The Cannon
wealth Is considerable, but the moth.
! er is the richer of the two She was
formerly Miss Elizabeth Thompson
of Detroit, and a granddaughter OF
Brush, of electrical fame. At the
time of her marriage it was said thai
Miss Thompson would inherit six mill
ions; so that the Cannon infant car
take a front rank among the baby
! heiresSeS.
THE ASTOR BABY.
A rosy-cheeked little lad who viii
have one hundred million dollars tt
his credit some day is William Vim
cent Astor. He is the only son anC
heir of John Jacob Aston, the head OF
the famous Astor family in America
William, who looks like his mother
lovely Ada Willing, of Philadelphia
was three years old the Sd of last
November. He has arrived at the
dignity of kits, coats with Jackets
leather leggings and kid gloves. His
affections are divided between a tiny
, little Shetland pony and a bicycle
which he rides with little assistance
from his nurse. This little lad is very
, dear to his fathers heart, and the
millionaire with his seventy millions
finds his greatest pleasure in the
great, sunny nursery at Rhinebeck
on-the-Hudson, playing and teachins
the little son who is to be, in his
turn, the head of the American Astors
Edwin Gould Jr., the youngest grand
, child of the late Jay Gould, is just one
year old. If all goes well, he will have
, $25, COO to do with as he pleases. jay
Gould left his son Edwin, who married
Miss Sarah Cantine Shrady, $4,000, OC0
which will probably double itself be-
. fore the little one-year-oId reaches his
majority.
He is a handsome little fellow. ant
came close to winning the beauty prize
in the baby portrait exhibition for the
! benefit of the Messiah home for chill
dren, which was lately held
A lucky little boy is Theodore A
Havemeyer, third grandson of Theo
dore Havemeyer, the sugar king, who
is supposed to be worth $50, 900. Fol
the especial benefit of the baby, mag
nifcent place in Westchester county
! has been purchased, and there the baby
lives all the year round. He is as ros,
and chubby as any little farmhouse
baby for he spends most of his. watkins
hours out of doors, and his Diet Is
bread and milk, Sundays and week
days, all the year round.