Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-07-07
PRIZE GOLDEN GIRLS.
Rich Catches that the Summer Man
Will Try 10 Land.
VERY DAZZLING Ii
LIST.
Many to he Found ut Gay Newport
Hut the Bar HarbOr and Hudson
River COntingents Will Attract
Armies of Wooing SweIis.
written for the Dispateh.)


II YOU are a young man. blessed with
FIVE good things to your credit, you can
make four fortune and have a jolly, good
time this summer. You must have good
looks, good health. good family. good
manners, and good morals, and the for
tune IS yours. with a fair, young rose
bud slip of a girl thrown in for good
measure.
The foreigners have about had their
day, and it Is now quite the thing for
American girls to marry their own coun-
trymen; so. II you have these qualities
named, don your best and bravest gar
ments, borrow all of the available
cash in the family, and HE we away to
Newport, Bar Harbor. Lenox, and any
other place on the map where the mil
lionaIre girl is dancing and flirting the
summer hours away.
Newport leads easily in the number
and wealth of eligible young maids, and
to Newport you are advised to go with
all possible dispatch, for the summer
with it's golden opportunities has way
Of neeting, and besides there is always
an abundant supply Of suitors on the
spot.
THE PRIZE GIRL.
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt is by far the
richest of all the Newport bellies.
Some day she will have $50 Zoo to her
credit but TO many a young fellow she
would seem well worth the winning II
she had not penny to her name. She
is so sweet and grave and womany that
before she had made her debut one fine.
young chap had laid siege TO her heart.
IS l..- oil
and bestowed brother. whose loss a
short time ago is a great and heavy cross
TO the Vanderbilt family
Miss Vanderbilt is an enthusiastic golf
player, and holds the ladies' champion
ship for the LenoX Club. She plays ten
mis-. rides. drives, tandem, and goes in
for all of the sports favored by the end
of-the-century girl. except bicycleriding:
so. young man. be prepared to talk 10
this pretty, young, eligible on the sub
jects nearest her heart. when you meet
her at the Casino hop this summer
WILL A DUKE CAPTURE THIS GEM?
II IS said that dainty Vanderbilts
young affections are bespoken. or, rather,
that her mothers ambition for her seems
likely to be Fratl1ed in her marriage with
the young Duke Of Marlborough 1t Is
10 be hoped that the good common-sense
cue. and that instead OF gliding the walls
Of Blenheim with more American gold.
she viii marry In her own country. MISS
Vanderbilt will have $i5,000.0C0 on her
wedding-day besides the great white mar
BILE palace on Fifth avenue in which she
was born eighteen years ago.
A CALIFORNIA BEAUTY.
Miss Virginia Fair is a third Newport
belle. who is handsome, healthy. wealthy,
and wise. She has about twenty mill
lions from her fathers estate to add TO
the three millions which she inherited
from her mother. Mrs. Herman Oelrichs,
her sister. chaperOns the young Cali
fornian, and it is safe to say that none
of the society girls have a gayer and
happier time that Birdie Fair. as she Is
known to those who know her best.
Miss Helen Brlce, daughter OF the mil
lionaire senator. will spend the summer
at Newport where her father has leased
william Waldorf Astors villa, Beau
lieu" for the season He Is paying $500
rental for two months. which is rather
steep figure, as the house is solid and
comfortable. but not unusually snowy or
elegant This very indulgent father who
allows his family $4,000 a year. can be
counted upon to do the handsome thing
by his lovely young daughter on her we'd
ding day.
RICH YACHTING GIRLS.
Miss Angelica Gerry and her sister,
Miss Mabel, can claim to be Newport
girls, as they spend their summer on the
magnificent yacht Electra. which Is owned
by their father, ex-Commodore Elbridge
T. Gerry This palace Of yacht is around
and about Newport all Of the season, and
the entertaining on board Is right royal.
The Misses Gerry will not come empty
handed to their husbands on their we'd
ding-day, for pr0spectively they are
heiresses to about five millions each.
Miss Elsie Clews, who is summering at
her fathers Newport palace, THE
Rocks" is another OF the richly-endpwed
summer girls. You will have to rub up
your Latin and Greek IL you hope TO find
favor in Miss Elsie's soft, brown eyes,
for she Is a student above and beyond
everything. She has just finished a post
graduate course at one of the famous
womens colleges. and it is said, IL she