The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-31
Vanderbilt Feud Is al
Strong as Ever.
Christening of Cornelius III
Unattended
BY ANY VANDERBILT
Except the Papa of the Young
Hopeful.
The Wilson Family Turned Out
In Force.

New York, Oct 31-Cornelius Wander
bilt the elder and Cornelius Vanderbilt
the younger are not reconciled. The
baby fingers Of Cornelius the young
est have not yet woven the sundered
threads of family affection, nor opened
the pursestrings of his obstinate grand
pa.
This important fact is known positive
" to the 400 now, because Cornelius
the youngest was christened and his pa
pa and mamma and himself were the
only vanderbilts in the church. Corne-
Illus the youngest did not seem to care.
There were no evidences that he con-
sidered himself d badly used baby be-
cause the future seemed to offer him no
better prospect than a share of his
Grandpa Wilson's fifteen millions, in
stead of his Grandpa Vanderbilt's four
hundred miliions-the sum which Corne-
Illus Vanderbilt, ST., once named as the
probable inheritance of his namesake.
Only once did Cornelius the youngest
seem to feel affronted, and that was
when a total stranger wet his forehead
with cold water Then he rasped out
little cry of indignation, but hushed II
when his mother took him in her arms
and pressed the third living Cornelius
Vanderbilt to her bosom. On his way
home in a soft rolling brOugham, he
PLAYED with the Ions strings of his
nurses cap, and drank with obvious sat
isfaction a half bottle of warmed milk.
Endowed with robust health, and never
having had the pleasure OF meeting the
head of the house of Vanderbilt, ne was
mercifully unaware of his deprivations-
deprivatiOns Of which all the fashion
able world is gossiping.
To persons less imperturba bic than
Cornelius the youngest, the Vanderbilt
situation is an interesting one, because
it hides q notable feud between the two
most powerful elements of society in
New YOrk-becsuse it foreshadOws
s'4OO'' divided against itself. 1t has been
told that AfE and Mrs. Cornelius Van
derbilt, jr., are about to establish them
selves on a large scale in the house OF
the late Ogden GOelet, at Fifth avenue
and FOrty-eighth street. Society was
hoping that their debut as entertainers
would be made the occasion for q de-
mDnstratiOn of friendship on the part of
Cornelius Vanderbilt the elder and his
adherents. The incident of the chris
tening was not generally known at that
time. for it was almost exclusively q
family affair-a Wilson family affair.
In the light of this event it will be APP
parent that the coming social season
will be distinguished by wars and ru-
mors Of wars. Students of such affairs
are wondering whether Mrs. Aston Will
allay herself with her relations by mar
rage, the Wilson's, or steer a middle
course between them and the Wander
bits.
The christening took place in St.
Thomas church at II o'clock in the
morning. Richard T. Wilson, the bank
er, Cornelius the yOungest's maternal
grandpapa, was there with his wife. So
was the daUghter-in-law, Mrs. Orme
Wilson, Mrs. AstOr'S daughter. Orme
Wilson, Richard T. Wilson, jr., half a
dozen relatives and a few intimate
friends made up the company.
There was just one relative of the ba-
by's papa there, and even she was not
Wand erbilt, but a Nissan. This was
Mrs Myles G. Bromley, sister of the
young fathers grandmother the late
Mrs William H. Vanderbilt, with whom
Cornelius Vanderbilt was a great favor
ite, although she made no provision for
him in her will.
The Rev. John Wesley Brown, rector
of St. Thomas read the service of bap-
ttsm- After the services the party was
entertained at luncheon at the Wilson
home, No. 511 Fifth avenue.