The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-25
THE VANDERBILT WEDDING,
Arrangements for the Ceremony To-
 Day-Some of the Wedding Pres

Arrangements for the Ceremony To-
 Day-Some of the Wedding Pres
 ents.
 Newport, Aug. 24.-Nearly all the
 guests who are to attend the wedding
 of Miss GeMrude Vanderbilt to MT.
 Harry Payne Whitney are at Newport,
 and nothing else is talked about but
 the approaching ceremony.
 It has been definitely decided that the
 number of guests will not be over
 one hundred, and probably not over
 seventy-five. Among the members ot
 the Vanderbilt family who are here are
 Mrs. William H. Vanderbilt, who is
 with her son at The Breakers; MT. and
 Mrs. II. McK. Twombly, Mrs, Elliott F. Shepard and Miss Shepard at Vineland, MT. and Mrs. William Jay Sehleffelin, MT. and Mrs. William D. Sloane and
 their family, who are guests of Mr. and
 Mrs. Henry T. Sloane, at the Astor
 Carey cottage; D, G. Gwynne, broth CT of Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, and
 MT. J. Rutgers Leroy, a cousin of Mrs. | Vanderbilt who are at the ocean House. The ceremony will take place at noon | tomorrow at The Breakers. Bishop Potter will be assitsed by the Rev. Dr, George J. Magill, rector of Trinity church.
 | It is said that the newly welded pair
 will embark on Mir w. K. Vanderbilts yacht the Valiant, and sail to New
 London or New Haven, where they will take train to the country home at Len
 OK, which MT Whitney has prepared 1 for his son.
 l Among the wedding presents receiv- ed by the bride are a necklace and btiara of diamonds from her father, a pear shaped diamond from MT. w. K. l Vanderbilt, collar of diamonds from 1 Colonel Payne, uncle of the bride groom, diamond star from MT. and 1 Mrs. A. H. Paget a silver tea service
 and salver from Mrs. William H. Van- i l.erbit, and complete dinner service of silver from MT, and Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly.
 The wedding cake will be placed in square boxes covered with white satin, on which is embossed in silver the monograms, w. w."
 The brides dress will be a watered silk with old duchesse lace trimmings 1 She will carry bouquet of pink
 roses.
 Miss Vanderbilt's dowery has, it is believed, been fixed at $5,000,000 As | has been said the rousseau alone is worth fabulous sum of money. ] A country seat in the Berkshire Hills l is to be established by MT. William C. Whitney for his son, and it is under stood that MT. Cornelius Vanderbilt | will build a town house for his daugh- | ter, but as yet nothing definite is known l of if. The wedding is to be quietly celebrated at The Breakers. MT. Van | derbilt's Newport home, and it is be- l lieved that Bishop Potter will perform l the ceremony.
 Of the bridesmaids Miss Emily Van- derbilt Sloane and Miss Lila Sloane are l first cousins of the bride. Their moth
 CT, Mrs. William Douglas Sloane is a I daughter of the late William H. Van- derbilt, from whom she inherited $10,- | 000,0 900, a fortune which has increased considerably. It will be evenly divided,
 as will their fathers fortune, between | the five children. Another cousin of
 Miss Vanderbilt who will be brldes-
 maid at her wedding is Miss Edith
 Shepard She is engaged to be married | to Mr. Ernesto G. Fabri in November,
 and her fortune will it is believed, be no less than those Of her cousins. the 1 Misses Sloane. Miss Angelica Gerry, whose fortune will probably amount to something in the region of $15000, ,000 l and Miss Minnie Taylor, who may in-
 herit six or seven millions. are like-
 wise included among the heiresses
 whom Miss Vanderbilt has selected to
 attend her. The only one among all her
 bridesmaids who canont be described as
 a great heiress is Miss Amy Bend | daughter of MT. George H. Bend. Miss | Gladys Vanderbilt, the brides younger
 sister, a child of fourteen, will prob