The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-23

the old commodore awake the first night
he heard il. He recorded a vow that Il
should not be so I'm his family. When
near his death he made his son William
promise that the bulk OF his fortune
should be given 10 his eldest son. ana
William in turn exacted the same prom
Use from Cornelius. IN this way the fam
ily fortune was kept intact where an
equal division would split Il into ribbons
too slender 10 bear financial weight. Cor
nelius has managed for all the family.
But all roads turn. and this Is 10 be vio-
lated IN the present generation. The eld-
est son Of the house Of Vanderbilt died at
Yale four years ago. a noble young fell
low, whose purse supplied the money for
many a needy boy. a young man so demo-
cratic and sympathetic that he could not
| bear to keep a pony because so many Of
| the boys had TO 90 without such a luxury.
Inc enviOus remark OF a fellow student
made the lad send his pony home to stay.
The next son IS Cornelius, the young
man now cut off from his family by what
is to them an unseemly marriage. 1t IS
said that his father has a superstition
about the name OF Cornelius. A brother
named Cornelius once went the way of the
dogs. and this lad. though fine Of habits,
Is sickly and unfortunate. Next comes Ger
trude. 1t is now nearly certain that the
fortune Will be given TO her TO manage for
the family, and that she will get the So
/ 10000 portion that belongs to the mana
ger.
The Whitney fortune is represented in
active business interests. If the truth were
| known there are western interests paying
/ tribute as lucrative as eastern ones, and
| a great Ohio fortune hangs round this
| young man from the name he bears and
| the promises that were made his mother
] when he was born
And how will this couple expend this
wealth? VIII it pour down upon those
who might profit by it. or will it only leak
/ upon the multitude from the rental of
| safe deposit vaults for boarding?
The tastes of both are for expenditure.
! The young man. after graduating at Yale,
| took Columbia college course. He viii
manage the law interests of the railroads
| that net the whole country. His recrea-
| lions are shooting in the Rockies, playing
| polo on Long Island and sailing off New
| port. He does not like Europe. Neither
| does his bride.
This young woman is actively interest
| ed in charity to the extent of giving $4,000
a year to the St. Bartholomew Guild,
| a widely philanthropic charitable asso-
| citation, near the New York central sta
| ton, where it catches all needy wayfar-
| ers. She is interested in the Improved
| Dwelling Association, and in the Eye and
Ear Inhrmary, in the Sloane Maternity
| hospital in the Margaret Louise Home
| in the Orphans Outdoor Society, the
! Fresh Air Fund and the Floating hos
| pital There is a charity list so long
it cannot be placed typewriter upon a
sheet of legal cap paper. She spends her
| income upon public institutions and in
| her own country.
The trousseau of this girl has been
| very carefully and deliberately made
| Most of it has been done in this country
| 1t abounds in the fads of the day, for
| this is not a couple whose wedding clothes
! 1oe for A
| ter will not be an impossibility with
| young Mrs. Whitney. Her outing dresses
| are the prettiest of the trousseau. These
| are numerous and are planned for every
| known game, for the young people are yet
| in the full enjoyment of games. Mr..
| Whitney is "a years old and Miss Wander
| bilt about a year younger. Neither have
| been "out" enough yet to be stated with
| the good times of the world and neither
have digestions spoiled from dinners.
| The rooms of the bride will be in the old
] corner of her fathers town house. They
| are furnished with white enamel and
blue, without a speck of gilt. The disttn-
| guished mark of beauty of these rooms is
/ that the mirrors are oval and set nat into
the walls. They are framed with a fresco
Of vines and flowers.
For their entertainment there will be
| three bathrooms from which to choose.
| The ballroom in the town house is an inn
| mense gold room, opening into the con-
| servatory on one side and the dining-room
| on the other. At the Breakers it is wing
| reaching out into the magnificent
grounds 1t, too, is gold. In the Whitney
! house the ballroom occupies the upper
floor, and the grand staircase leads into
| it. 1t is arched and fitted with electric
lights. Ball nights the elder Mr.. Whitney
| always lined the room with yellow roses
| and blackbirds in flight.
! The wedding is set down for Newport.
! The bridal couple will pass out though
| the famous.iron gates that were two years
| being wrought and which took 100 men to
transport and set them in place at the
| Breakers. These gates will be mass of
| foliage, and when the bridal couple de-
| part through them they will literally step
| out into a powered world.
Should this young couple turn from
! their sworn allegiance to home and, car
| ried away by foreign possibilities, spend
| their time and their money far from
home, the disappointment IN them would
! be great.
But their instincts are so genial and
| their interests so binding that they will
| inside the honeymoon begin to walk the
path of "noblesse Oblige" to which their
| millions pledge them.
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