The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-30

RACQUET. Country. Meadowbrook and Sea-
wanhaka Corinthiar Yacht clubs. and OF the
Sons of the Revolution He owns two spien-
port. and the great whitney mansion at
Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue. just
across the street from his fathers magnin-
home when he was married. buying another
at Fifth avenue and Sixty-eighth street. he
has brother. Payne Whitney, and three
sisters. but he gets the bulk of the estate
The others will enjoy few millions eacn.
WILLIE K. JR."
There is a third member of this trium-
virate of Vanderbilt millions-William X
| Vanderbilt, jr. To him will fall the proper
| ties of his father. William K. Vanderbilt.
This young man got himself into the papers
some months ago when he married Virginia
| Fair, who has several millions in her own
name. This favorite of fortune will come
into something like s1O0,o0o.0oo.
| Everybody in Newport knows willie X.
| jr" He tried Harvard College before his
marriage, but tired in sophomore. year and
| gave up his studies to get married He Is
handsome, curly haired and unassuming,
| with the Vanderbilt characteristics stamped
on his face. His rooms at Harvard were
| fitted up in fine taste. but there was no
| luxurious display in them.
| He showed. too, that there was some OF
| the Vanderbilt executive ability in. him.
| The weekly Harvard Advocate was on its
last legs when he took hold as business
| manager of the paper. He not only made II
| pay expenses. but earn enough more 10 es-
| tablish three scholarships in the name OF
| the Advocate for needy students. This Is
| the young man who will inherit 500 200 0oO.
| With his wife's fortune, in quarter of
century he VIII control nearer Sin,Vo.ov;
| All New York almost pays tribute 10 the
Astors. Under the title ''Astor estate Is
| grouped more real estate than under any
| other name in New York city. The vast
prfi 61a 70 he n
| inal John Jacob Aston, are kept as a unit;
| but the John Jacob Astor of to-day mas a
son, William Vincent, born Nov. 10. 1891
who will inherit it all. That fortune in 1919
will be more than S257. 100000.
Little Astor has as g0yern h;s ano spenG n
| Newport and his autumns in Rhineclin,
where the Astor villa is the show place.
he has nc brotherS ana sisters .ne IKE
most small boys, laxative, freckle-faced;
| fond of playing in the dirt. In time he Will
go to Harvard and will be the head of the
Astor house and controller of the Astor
fortune in this country.
Gould-another name that breathes mil
lionsl George Gould has so multiplied the
fortune that his father left less than seven
years ago that he stands rated at $4,000, :
900. George Gould has four children. King
don. Jay, Marjorie and Vivien. Kingdom
Gould will get the bulk of the Gould for
| tune as his father did before him.
Kingdom Gould is a precocious boy. ne
| speaks French and German as We'll as he
does English He is eleven years old, and
| from his trips on the Atlanta, his father $
floating palace, he has learned more about
yachting than most men know. kingoon
get beaten too much at athletics. He is a
| slender. black-eyed boy. who wears duck
| sailor suit as If he came straight from the
forecastle. He paints ships and yachts when
| he gets the chance. The horse doesn't walk
| on four legs that he fears to mount. He Is
the apple of his fathers eye and some day
| wi ha Western Union Tele-
| graph Company, the Missouri Pacific Ran.
road and the Manhattan Il" He should
| come into $240, 900 II his father lives TWEEN
| ty-five years more
In due time he will succeed to membership
| in the New York, Atlantic Larchmont and
| American Yacht Clubs as we'll as of other
clubs to which George Goulds millions have
| given him the entTee. Doubtless, too. ne
will be admitted TO the charmed circle of the
| -Four Hundred
w. G.. ROCKEFELLER, JR.
John D. Rockefeller, jr. is not the only
young man of that name VINO is in training
| to manage millions. He has a cousin who
will be one of the ten richest men a quar-
ter of a century hence. This is William
G.. Rockefeller, jr., son of William Rookie
Teller, brother of John D. This young
man is married. His bride was Miss Elsie
| A. Stillman. They were married on NOV.
/. 1895, with all the eclat that Bishop Pot
ter could give the, ceremony. This young
| mans education has been largely what
the Vanderbilts are giving their boys, globe
| trotting. He was graduated in 1872 from
YALE where ne was % a Entered the
class of 81. but was not able to keep the
! pace and took up his studies with the sue
ceeding class. He gained no prizes and was
not member of any of Yale,s fam-societiss;;
He was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi
fraternity in the first year Of its organ
| iZation as a chapter at Yale.
| Since his marriage Young Rockefeller has
| taken up the business of the STANDARD Oh
Company, of which his father is shining
light He lives at No. 292 Madison avenue.
| a fine house given to the newly married
pair by Mr.. Stllman as wedding present.
He is not REGARDED as having the aol b,r,
from succeeding to his fathers vast IN
terests.
He is of medium build, with a short mus
diffdence and dresses. rather carelessly
The clubs see him seldom, though he be-
Alpha Delta Phi, University and Calumet
He does not drink or smoke.
Perhaps the least known of these ten null
| i-millionaires-to-b Is j. Pierpont Morgan
| jr He has never done anything to get nj:
name often in the newspapers-he doesni
ttit" orr or win golf championships. Besides
| he lives in London. Twice his name ha:
been printed-once when he married Jane
| n Grew, OF Boston, and once when hi:
father took him to London to make him hi:
| representative In the London banking nrn
| of j. >. Morgan q 90. InlS quiet yOuHe
| man will some day succeed to the mighty
Morgan millions.
Young Morgan is trifie over thirty ant
| popular with his intimates. When in New
| York he lives at No East Thirty-sixtf
| street and can be found at one of his club:
in the afternoon-the metropolitan. Cen
| fury, City, New York Yacht, University OF
| Harvard. He is Harvard man, class o.
| 49, By the time he is fifty he will have th'
| MANAGEMENT of $171 900, 900. In London so
| ciety his fathers wealth, his wife's beaut!
| and his own manners make young Morgan
| a favorite. His is the most practical train
| ing-an intimate acquaintance with th'
handling of millions and the financing o.
| vast enterprises. .
Theodore A. Havemeyer, jr., SON of th'
| late head of the sugar trust, Is the onl,
| one of the ten who is fatherless. When hi
| wealth comes it will be $40, 600 600. At presen
| he gets along on a beggarly 100000 year
| This young man is married, too, but he ant
| his wife live with his mother in the Have
| meyer palace. No. A4 Madison avenue. III,
| manages his fathers estate at No. III wal
street and works five days week. From
January to May he lives at Hampstead an'
| plays golf and polo. Young Havemeyer be
| longs to the clubs that the young men o
| the smart set affect-the Metropolitan
| Country, Racquet, Manhattan, st. Anthem.
| and Meadowbrook. Once he served as
| juror in Recorder COTS court for 81 day
| Last in the list is William p. Burden
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