The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-28
NEW YORK SOCIETY.

| NEW YORk SOClE l Y.
A great deal of sympathy is expressed
for Pierre Lorilards widow. Whatever
Pierre LonlIard's faults were. they We're
well known but the browning fault of ali
Is one which has done him no honor. 1t
was ungcnerous. unchlvarous to spread On
the records a slight to his widow and his
sons to impose SO srevous wound on
family pride MS he did In such sections Of
his VIII as related to the disposition Of
the Rancocas farm and his famous str ng
of thorOughDrcds
Several years ago, when Miss Emily
Lorinrd was young lady, Mrs. Pierre
LOrlllard entertained very splcnIidly. she
was bcauDiul woman, possessing Il smile
that was bewltchlng ana winning | re-
member her well. How often nae ! seen
mother and daughter enter opera box r
bah room looking Ire sisters; indeed ut
a short distance the mother 10 king even
younger than the daughter. The beauty
Of Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, her personal
charms, her grGciousness and gtntlpness
did as much to win for the family spci
position as Pierre Lorlllard's wealth and
lavish expenditure.
Those were not the days "a great show.
Families like the Astors, Guels Bemo -
and others Of great wealth lived SIMPLY.
II WAS considered vulgar 70 be too lavish,
! Mr.. Belmont and MIR. Gordon IlammcrsleY
| had each man servant. No men scrvnuta
| were employed In tho hc%es of the Kun $,
/ JSeluh, AStOfS or hhluelnuuefS. lnute l,
! In any other OF the great houses. The
/ William G, WhitncAs. Nandcruilts aud
scores Of others had not bobbed up at al
on the social horizon.
when Pierre I.orlllard located his fam II
At the corner Of Thirty-sevcnth street ana
/ Futh avenue, established his great .hrlng
stable, took to racing and yachting an D
began his career leading TO a promin MT
place in society, thr exclusive old families
began to shiyer, The question was SOON
put fought we TO visit Ihem?'
II was then Mrs I.orllard's charms be-
gan to tell Young people Wis ted helr
children. The Breakers their country
scat at Ochre Point, Newport. was n d >
sirnhle place to visit The Kernochan c n
ncction helped them greatly james II.
kernochAu, whose family connections were
of the best, had married Pierre Lofllllld $
sister. The Kernochuns were " the swim;
the Lorlllards were net Miss klttie Kerno
chan was strikiuglN handsome girl ana
went everywhere, Her fricnls helpct the
Icrillnrds ON when Miss Emily was intro
ducod Well 90 make long Story shn T.
The LoHllards became fashionable. Mr..
William Kent a grandson or he famous
Chancellor Kcnt married Miss Emil Tho
younger daughter Miss Maud, WAS "A child.
two sons. Pierre and Griswold
Young Pierre married a most charming
and gracious young LADY, u Miss Hamilton.
The Young couple went TO Tuxedo TO live.
Grlswold went abroad to make thu az
of the world, with 1aIhoys, an American.
. tied Lnglishrnan. On his tour he contracted
an Illness which deicd medical skin an d
he returned to become It's victim. The
IlONS OF npf son broke the FOND mother Il
heart It shattered her cherished dreams.
Society became dun and vain and profit.
less and she retired In her grief tn mnura.
During this period Of distress, Mr.. Pierre
/. LCrtllard, man who loved the bright
things Of this world. who hated the clouds
that hung dcprcsslngly over his home,
gaNctics he craVed.
Mrs. Lorllard said recently; 1T lsAsaid
M M 1f rs 4nd a T dTgas 0GE9us q lni
Is another wicked lie Withdrew from
society because Of the death OF my So
She met him several years after ! ceased
i to occupy Mr. Lorluard's home"
, The trouble IN the Lorllard home ante.
dated the meeting of Pierre Lorlllnrd and
heemsion Of mourning kept the secret OF
: the estrnngemcnt,
| wife and the children on one hand. d
Mrs lille Barnes Allen on the other, &c
! talnly surprised and startled Pierre Lori
lard's Intimate friends. Especially MS
gave 10 Mrs Allen that portion of tht
! ehtate which was to the family of Lorillalt
what title Is to family in England
HHLcOrnS farm and the Lorillard stable Ia,
hecn the emblem Of the family, IL h,
r carried their colors and their name bafor
them, i mas separated the Pierre Lnrilard,
a from all the others, As Mrs. Loriilnrd SAYS
{ ,'fhere Is every sentiment to me ana min
there. The name 81 Lorillard has alwNy,
2 been associated with Rancocas. | pray
, that Il always may he So" And agoin III,
mother, proud in her famny in her dignity
I
~ myself and daughters at these disco
ures made In this viii. We are over
Such Is the pitful condition. Pierre Lorll
lard the gallant sportsman, the man -,iti
| . proud record, has made an awful error
He should have arranged these matter, II
such way as not to have left Ia GOSSIP
mongerS q public record Of his nets un(
place, PLACED in Incn legal doen me lasting M
suit TO his postcrity
Newport Is having some sensations thl,
: year, one cottagcr contributed a smallpo,
scare by having maid taken with tn,
! dI ead disease, and another has afforded
Z, burglar scare. When Royal Phelps Carol
: arrived few days ago with Mr.. and Mrs
Clarence MaeSay, they were Informed tina
g burglars had visited the cottage the pre-
3. ceding night and had stolen jewelrY Of con
siderable value. Mrs Carroll was I'm III
s house at the time, but like Il phllosophe
n she slept through the burglars raid an
only learned Of the visit on the following
K spected, aud Mayor "Fritz' GarrCtsan /
. hauling over the local police aud detectives
~
I" AS announced some time since Howar
Gculd's intention 70 build a grand countr
+, home at Sands Point has gone on and
n now In another stage. Building has be
gun The new estate Is tc,be Castle Goull
e Tho castle VIII be OF stone, situated ON
) hlU1 seventy five feet above the level III IN
u waters OF the sound. Four hundred acre
are included In the present property. Their
10 will he fifteen farm buildings and the
y are now being erected Toe cas- h lt.el
p promises 20 he one Of the most magnhcep
structures In the country, and Will cos
upward ~ S20OO.0ON.
~ ~
y oliver Belmont is In some hot watc
with his neighbors. lie undertook 10 carr
il through some improvements, and opene
u up some roads, expecting that Lakewoo
= avenue and Lege road, upon which hi
~ place. Bellcourt ahuts, Nwouid be merge
MO one, giviu~ him an unbroken iaNl
y But some o. the PROMINENT properly hol,
ie ers went down 10 the board ol nderm
., aud protested, claiming an injury woul