The age-herald., 1901-10-13
Old Families at the Livingston Wedding

00 Ew YORK, October 12.-I ought
 IMI not to feel as do about going
 IIVt to the weddings of young peo-
 pie just becuse I happened to be at the weddings of their parents. AL most anybody would feel old under those circumstances. I suppose, but it doesn't make me feel old. but devilish queer. went down to Tslip to ssee Miss Caroline Livingston married to young Maxwell Stevenson a few days ago. We'll. it seemed only yesterday that went down on a special train to Islip to see Jennie Smith married to Fernando Yznaga at Willie vanderbilt's place. I know have not changed since that day, but Lord of Gentle Love, what a change has been brought about since then. The matrons of today were the unmarried belles of that bright summer day. Miss Caroline Bergman. after whom the young bride was named, was a beautiful young girl then, with wavy light hair. pink cheeks. the most dashing hats and a gorgeous red silk dress At the wedding a stout
 matronly. beautiful woman of forty, and tall sprig of a son. with college swag- ger about him. Dear, dear.
 And the bride of the Vanderbilt we'd ding-bless me. Jennie Smith, Mrs. Van derbilt's sister. Divorced from Yznaga and now the wife of Tiffany Yznaga dead. after marrying Mabel Wright. who also got a divorce and married a count, or something of that kind. over in Rus sia- Poland. Hungary, or heaven knows where. And my hostess Mrs. Wander bilt? Divorced and married to Oliver H. F. Belmont, and now engaged in christening boats and doing the grand mother act to a dukes eldest son and old Fairs pretty daughter. We'll, we'll 1 life is full of interest when you look il over.
 But what has that to do with the wed.
 ding? Only this: that at weddings now
 a-days you have to think about what you say, because you don't know exactly | what anybody's marital record was, is 1 and may be. Miss Carry Livingston, 1 daughter of the late Robert Cambridge l Livingston, whose wife was a Miss Whit
 ney of New Haven. Everything now-a-
 days is the William c. Whitneys; in those
 days 1t was the Stephen Whitneys. It
 made no confusion then as nobody ever
 heard of William c; but it does today, as
 very few ever hear of the Stephen Whit 1 neys. Well, the wheel goes round, does 1 1t not?
 Robert Cambridge Livingston was quite l a parsonage in his time. All the Living stons were. They were the real things then; tody they are become middle-class folk with remarkable rapidity. The Liv-
 ingstons became Islip people and when Cambridge was gathered to the group where went the, ancient chancellor Mrs. Livingston went on living at Islip, bring ing up her family.
 It was a pretty wedding The young man is Mrs. Jimmie Kernochan's brother and there you are. But with Living ston in the family 1t Is different, very different. The connection is excellent, and 1t brings in all the old New York families. When a Livingston or a Whit ney of the fourth or fifth generation mar ries, a fine lot of ex-fashionables are trotted out It Is like the Faubourg St. Germaine turning out in lNapoleons time. The Vanderbilts, Twombleys, Keenes, Sloanes, Rockefellers, Crockers, Fairs | feel that the real thing has the center l of the stage, but they see they won't 1 last long,. They are a little bedraggled l by the old wheel in turning keeping then | down so long.
 To be frank, 1t was like going through
 a ghosts walk to see the young peopl,
 with the old names strutting in the sun | shine as we all strutted way back ir
 the eighties. So many faces were tn,
 faces of long ago. It seemed to be tn, l old set, just the same old set that danced l at the P. c. D. C.'s, the Patriarchs, tht 1 Cheap ard Hungrys, and at privat, l houses. The days of Grace church, tn. l Academy of Music and Jerome Park | Now and then I was tempted to asl | where So and So was when the though | came to me that they were dead ant