The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-22
MILLIONAlRES' HORSES.
ONLY ONE DESCENDANT OF COM
MODoRE Vanderbilt a Dew
OTEE OF THE TRoTTER.

Horses to the General Public-Oth-
er Vanderbilt HOrsemen-The Pres
ent Cornelius Not IA HOrseman at
AII-Dr. Seward Webb, Wander
biIt SOn-in-Lav, Has the Finest
Harness Room in America-E. ID.
MOrgnn's Harness Room Comes
Next-Hfs Eighty-Year-OId Con
cord" COnch and It's Famous Pas
senEers-WiIIiam c. whitney, King
of the Millionaire HOrsemen and
His SON Harry Payne whitney Who
May Properly BE Termed the
Crowned Prince.
Copyright. 1902, by Paul Dandy.
New York. June 2O.-No Vanderbilt
since the old Commodore has been his
equal as a horseman, and only one of
the members of the family now Nv
ing, Frederick w, is devoted to the
trotting horse. Frederick w. loves the
sprightly steppers quite as fondly as
either the founder of the family or his
son William H., to whom Early Rose"
and the peerless Maud s." were as the
apples of his two eyes.
Mr.. Fredericks fondness for the trot-
ting horse is of a different brand from
the Commodore's He undoubtedly got
as much pleasure in making a public
show of himself and his horses as he
did out of the act of driving. Conse-
quently, he used to speed his steppers
invariably in New York, where he
could see and be seen, where both he
and his nags could receive the inspi-
ration that is furnished by an admir-
ing, cheering crowd. Frederick drives
his horses solely for his own pleasure
and that of his friends. He doesn't
care for the applause of the ground
lings ard virtually never shows him.
self behind speedy trotter except on
the secluded roads near Hyde Park, his
Hudson river country seat or in the
vicinity of Newport. He has rarely
been seen driving in New York of late
years and lit is doubtful whether he
was ever on the speedway, a bit of
glorif1ed trotting horse road that would
have driven the cid commodore wild
with delight, and upon which he would
have shown himself daily had it ex-
listed in his lifetime.
Vanderbilt Horse Gossip.
Frederick w. drives quite as we'll as
his grandfather ever did, however,
and better than his father, William H.
A man who has known four genera
lions of Vanderbilts says that William
II. was little of a horseman in reality.
He rode as a young mantle romance
which eliminated in his marriage with
pretty Miss Nissan began in a fall
from a saddle horse in Albany-but he
never studied horse nature closely and
he never understood horses. He hadn't
a 1.-THE of the commodores dash and
nerve as a driver and it was always
his trainers that got close to his horses
not William II. Cornelius the second,
was never a horseman and the same
may be said of George, the youngest
of the commodore'S grandsons.
Alfred Gwynne and Reginald, sons
of the cOrnmodores grandson Corne-
Illus, are the best horsemen of the fam
ilys fourth generation. Their brother
Cornelius, who has been discounten-
anced by his family because he mar.
ried Miss Wilson, is no horscman at
all, almost never tcing seen either rid
ing or driving. Hts cousin. William *,
Jr., though owning horses a plenty,
owns them chiefly because as a rich
man it's the thing to do; he cares much
less for them than for his various mo-
tor cars and other horseless vehicles.
w. K. Vanderbilt, his father, takes an
immense interest in racing to be sure,
but no true horseman considers willie
K" a member of the horse loving and
horse knowing fraternity.
Nor is Alfred Gwynne's fondness for
the horse at all like the feeling enter
tanned for the noble animal by his
great grandfather and his uncle. 1t is
considered the proper thing for rich
man of the inner circle to drive four
in-hands, tandems and pairs, and
therefore he takes interest in coaching
and the like, among other things driv-
ing the coach Pioneer from one of
the big hotels to some point up the
Hudson at regular intervals every
spring.
His polo playing is said to have been
begun because he is NOT very robust
and it was expected that the strenu-
Gus game would build up his physical
strength This expectation has been
measurably fulfilled; he is stronger
now than ever before and besides he
has contracted a genuine liking for the
game. Recently he has enlarged his
polo grounds at Newport so that they
are now of the regulation size, and
the younger and lighter" set in which
he and his intimate friend Robert Liv-
" L.
ry, Commodore of the New York Yacht
Club and best known as the Cruelty
to Children" man, are such important
factors, will do much of it's playing on
this field this season. Young Mr.. Gerry,
by the way, drives the Pioneer" gen.
orally when Alfred Gwynne finds it
inconvenient to do So and CHANGED to
be on the box the other day when a
Cruelty to Animals" officer held up
the coach, claiming that one of the
horses was suffering from a CALLED
shoulder.
Reginald Vanderbilt is a better
horseman than Alfred Gwynne, per-
haps, and a more daring polo player,
but this is due almost altogether to
stronger physique and greater weight.
None of the younger and lighter" set
is qualified to play polo with the Fox
hall Keene set.
e. ID. Morgan, Horseman.
A man who knows the various sets
OF New York millionaires about as we'll
as any one says that in certain sense
f. d. Morgan, grandson of the famous
war governor Morgan, is the best all
round horseman of the lot. Horsemen
generally might not agree with this,
but for all that Mr.. Morgan loves the
horse for his own sake as do few pro-
fessional horsemen and still fewer mil
lionaires. Besides, Mr.. Morgan knows
the horse and his POINTS thoroughly.
lie has a rule not to go into a bust
ness enterprise OF any sort without
thorough investigation and he carries
the rule out in selecting his horses,
never taking any ones judgment but
his own when buying. This was true