The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-05-21
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Mrs. Vanderbilt, without any opposition
from Mr.. Vanderbilt, secured a divorce
from her husband on statutory grounds.
o Mr' vanderbilt settled 5000 900 or $780,
OUo upon his former wife, with yearly ali
mony of $500 900. With her freedom from
me marital bonds she thus became one of
T tne ,rlchest unmarried American women:
1MA, itmn few months the eldest child Of
William K. Vanderbilt, Consuelo, became
the bride of the Duke of Marlborough,
whose whose mother, the Marchioness of Bland
Ior1, had obtained divorce from the
Duke Iather, also on statutory grounds,
ana VINO mas lived in seclusion ever since.
MIS-. Nanoerollt almost Immediately after
of O. H. P. Belmont
o. H +; P, t, Belmont IT, was a divorced nan
from O. P. H Belmont and the Gus
tody OF their only child. a daughter who
Is now young woman.
Shortly after securing her divorce Mr.
Belmont's first wife married Mr.. George
Was Va EMS MISS soh wa0Gf5 %h09 e6 FIRST Me
Aston The Belmonts, Astors and Van
derbilts have long been intimate friends
up the first great social triumWrate. The
Vanderbilt divorce was the first actual
break in the trinity.
Mrs. George M Rives formerly Mrs. Bel
mont, was very intimate, as she is now,
with the Astors:
tor, and the present Mrs. Rlves are init
mate friends Mrs Wilson is the sister
naw Ct Mrs Ogden ate Goe eli vo anS Mrs Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt, The. Cornelius
Vanderbilt Jrs:, are ostraGised by the re-
so may amuse himself by untangling the
complications that followed;
Mrs. O. H. p. Belmont, formerly MRS.
W. K. Vanderbilt, was in maiden life Miss
Alva Smith. Her sister Jennie married
Fernando Yznaga, brother OF the present en-
lighted and came to the wedding with its
congratulations. Then came the divorce,
and Mrs Yz n, shortiy atter m, MARRIED rec,
graduated some more.
III, Then Fernando Yanaga MFF Wander
ETY., nothing daunted, again congratu-
City and got divorce and married Count
Bella Itchy. Society looked q little dazed,
but came to the front again with good
Clara Stephens when she married Will
lie Havemeyer was congratulated with
special heartiness. The Havemeyers are
another excellent family. But Mrs. VIII
lie got her divorce and married Jack
About this time the Dakota divorce
world Women of fashion disappeared
for a brief time and returned from. the
West re1uyenated in appearance, and d.
forth not only new leaves, but whole
branches of rank foliage in scandal and
accusation: The situation, once painful,
failing subject for jest. Men and women
of fashion gave up the task of trying to
invite to their homes people who wer0 not
involved in divorce and remarriage COM
plications. At the Vanderbilt-Fair nup-
tails there were assembled under one roof
plaintiffs, defendants, eX-wives and ex-
husbands in hopeless but undaunted con-
fusion. The AstorVanderbilt-B Belmont
Sloane tangle had to be unraveled in all
it's complications. The seating Of the
guests at that wedding breakfast was
feat worthy of Alexander the Great,
Then came the last big rent in divorce
society: On - A Pr q Mr.; Henry SIoane'
ed decree of divorce from his wife,
Jessie Robbins Sloane with the custody
of the two Sloane children