The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-08


of an inheritance to put him second on the
list of young millionaire hopes, and he is
classed among the handsome men in soci-
ETY.. He has well-moldedJ head. covered
with crisp curling brown hair. is athletic
and very much fonder of his outdoor sports
than ball rooms and opera boxes. Perhaps
in the eyes of the little debutante he is
none the less admired for his shyness. and
for the fact that his heart is said to be
very obstjnately fixed on pretty maid
in Baltimore, whom he met at a college
commencement, and who is still too young
to be out The gossips don't hesitate TO
say that when she is old enough he will
again go ACQUIRING the sweetheart of his
undergraduate days.
Perhaps Of the young set, among those
whose names rank next in the dowager' 5
list is Louis Lori.lard, Jr., graduate Of
Yale, heir to the famous villa Vinland at
Newport, that was built by his cousin,
Miss Catherine Wolf and of a fortune
from his father of a million. Great as is
the influence of wealth and social posi-
ton, young Lorillard would be sure to f1ut-
ter the hearts in debutante-dom because
of his decidedly romantic beauty. Hunt
ing and books are rather more absorbing
interests TO this eligible than frivolity and
it is well known that whoever his wife is,
she will enjoy the wearing of some of the
most gorgeous of the Wolf jewels
More of a distinct favorite than any of
those among the dancing girls is Reggie
Brooks, par excellence the smart society
youth. Without boasting tremendous in
teLectual force or overpowering good
looks what he says and does is carefully
repeated everywhere, and the mothers re-
gard him as the brightest fish in matri-
monial waters He is simply a capable
wholesome kindly youngster, whose dot,
20 to speak, is round million. He leads
the younger generation AT the Knicker-
booker Club, is admittedly the best dressed
man in New York, and is frankly fond of
dancing and fleeing flirtations
Somewhat older than these products of
Yale and Harvard training are a couple
OF interesting and good looking men who
belong to very rich Catholic families They
are Nathaniel Reynal and Tom Kelly
The first is a mighty country rider.
with cool million in his pocket. and the
second is slender fellow with beautiful
Irish blue eyes, a couple of million as his
fortune and a marked devotion to music
He lives in luxurious bachelor quarters.
and hires Melba, Edouard de Reszke and
Theresa Correno to sing or play at his
sumptuous musicales, given under his sis
ter's or his mothers chaperonage.
quite equal in wealth to any of these
- Aheii 0Alfili INSIuOCudIl, related on all
sides 10 the bluest blood in New York
city, the only heir to his mothers and
his aunts millions. and a clever pianist.
The dowagers all look on him graciously.
for he is exceedingly social in his taste.
as are the blonde and athletic young
Burdens, l. Townsend, Jr, and william.
who will be able to support wives on their
respective fifty thousand each a year;
while to swell the list of eligible beaux
must be added the only son of Chauncey
DepeW Chauncey, Jr., has fallen heir to
all his fathers gifts and graces, and ulti-
mately will come not only into the pa
ternal fortune, but as well that of his
mother, who died some years ago, leaving
her marriage portion almost intact to her
only child Add TO this reckoning William
c. Whitney's second son, Payne. who has
come into society this winter, is one of
the heirs of his enormously rich uncle is
sharer in the great estate his mother
left and you have got Of the cream of the
younger beauX.
If a girl who is pretty, clever and bent
on placing herself well, fails to carry of
a prize from this group. she need never
say die so long as the older bachelors are
left These are the men, after all, whose
attentions give a woman an enviable sort
of social placing, for to be taken out at
a dance by Lispenard Stewart, Woodbury.
Kane or Robert Hargous, TO accept thea