Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-03-28
New York Infants That Are
Wealthy With Thsir
First Breath.
Six. IN THE Y FAMILY
Accusation Of Replenishing the Earth
Does Not Lie at This Door-Lit-
tie RoeksfeiIers Who Will
Have Millions.

eRANae 41S oAu toSAS
suggests that the highly educated part
OF the American people does not in
crease the population at all, but on the
contrary fails to reproduce itself"
Coming upon the heels of a similar
one by President Roosevelt ~deploring
conditions which are not conducive to
rearing large families, but which e
TO race suicide, the world has been
made to pause to investigate the sub
Ject OF race propagation.
All infants inspire more or less in
terest, though that of the general pub
lie toward them frequently finds Its
source In rather sordid soil. Blu the
offspring OF wealthy parents claim
attention where children of the poor
are permitted obscurity.
1t might be interesting to note that
Mr.. and Mrs. George Gould, who have
been married seventeen years, have six
children; Mr.. n Mrs. John Jacob AS
tor, who were married in 1891, have
two children; Mr.. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, tr., whose wedding oc-
CURED In 1896, have a little family OF
two; Mr.. and Mrs Parmalee Prentice
were married In 1901 and have one
child; Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Mackay,
who were married in 1898, have one
child; Mr.. and Mrs. Percy A. Rookie
Teller, whose marriage was celebrated
In 1901, have one child; Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt have had
n child In the two years of their
married life.
Not so very many years ago 1t was
considered a most unusual thing for q
child to possess millions, but in these
days OF enormous personal fortunes 1t
Is by. no means uncommon to hear of
infants scare able to creep who actual
ly have in their own names bank ac-
cunts md ~ r,,t l.
several millions. When boys are born
to millionaire parents their names are
put on the waiting lists of exclusive
clubs, sometimes before the infants are
a week old. 1t is the only way for them
to gain admission.
There have been over a dozen babies
born since the beginning of the TWEEN
teth century whose fortunes range
from s1,00G, 900 to 500, 600, 900. Sup
pose a million were put away in a bank
at compound interest for each child I'M
I'll 1t became OF age, the sum at the
end OF twenty-one years would be
more than doubled-each one would
have about $2,27S,768 to his or her ac-
count.
Little Miss Mackay.
One of the most fortunate children in
this century is Katherine Duer Mackay.
the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Clarence H. Mackay. With the pros
poets of one day possessing $50, 900, 900
or more, little Miss Mackay has start
ed out in life like a veritable princess.
h was born three years ago on Feb
ruary s, and no royal infant could have
handsomer or costlier frocks and frills
than this baby girl possessed. Her
christening robe was of fine lace, VAL
ued at 81, 500, and gold and rare gems
were literally heaped upon her tiny
head. On each OF her birthdays she will
receive a beautiful pear-shaped pearl,
costing not less than SIG, 900. so that
when she Is Il she will have a marvel
ously beautiful necklace worth $315, 900.
Even greater than this child's for
tune is, perhaps, that Of William Henry
Vanderbilt, the infant son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt.
Though this baby is scarcely more than
! year old, it has been said to be heir
to q fortune of 500, 900, 900. This, of
course, means that the child will, in all
probability, inherit such an amount, If,
after the custom of the Vanderbilt fam
lily, he should, as the eldest child, re-
ceive the bulk Of the Vanderbilt mil
lions. 1t Is a delicate subject to dis
cuss, this one of the Vanderbilt mil
lions, without touching upon the will
Of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, which
has served to deprive the children of his
eldest son of the wealth which would
otherwise have eventually fallen to
them.
Ava Alice Muriel is the name of Mr..
and Mrs. John Jacob Astor's youngest
child, born July Z, 1902, at their New
York home. Little Miss Astor, with her
alliterative name, has lived an extreme
quiet life far, spending part of her
babyhcod at the country home Of her
parents, at Ferncliffe. She was named
Ava for her mother and Alice for her
maternal grandmother, Mrs. Willing.
This little Aston heiress has one
brother, William Vincent, about IL
years old, and even should this boy re-
ceive the lions share of the Astor mil
lions, there would be upward of $25,-
coo, 600 left for his sister.
Two Rockefeller babies have come
into the world to claim their share Of
the wealth of the Standard Oil mag
mates. About the middle of last Deem
Der a son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Parmelee Prentice. Mrs. Prentice was
Alta Rockefeller, daughter of ohm D.
Rockefeller.
Except for the burglary recently COM
mitted at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Prentice. which brought them before
the public, this little scion Of millions
might nave passed the teething and
creeping stage without the world, ex-
cept their w intimate friends, being
aware Of his existence. Now that there
is known to be a youngster, who 1t Is
believed will be christened John D.,
speculation has already begun to weave
a romaIice about his future inheritance.
II would be difficult to form ever a
rough estimate of the number of mil
lions which is gradually piling up
against the rainy days which may come
into the life of this little one. 1t is
enough to say that the figure In the
hundred million space will be some-
thing greater than one.
Others in the Rockefeller Family.
william Rockefeller, the brother Of
John d. Rockefeller, is also a proud
and happy grandfather. Isabella Rock
e~feller, daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Percy Avery Rockefeller, Is not many
months old, and besides being heir to
her p%aternal grandfather's wealth, she
will, no doubt, inherit a tidy little sum
from her mothers father, who Is James
Stillman, president OF the largest bank
In America.
William Clark, third grandson of Sen
ator William A.. Clark, claimed a mill
lion dollars with his first breath just
because he was a boy instead of a girl.
This little infant was born December i,
In Butte. Mont. The world is already
familiar with the account of Senator
Clark's hurried return from Paris to the
cradle of his baby heir, of the illness Of
the little ones mother and Of her sad
death only a few weeks after the birth
of her son. Though the fortune already
the right of baby Clark reaches an en-
viable figure, 1t will never compensate
for the great loss 1t feels even in It's
baby hours.
Quite as romantic, though in a diff
ferent way, Is the fortune which Is just
beyond the reach of Edward Rayne
Herzog. Because this baby's mother
married against her fathers wishes
she may lose an inheritance reaching
the twenty million mark. The will is
to be vigorously contested, and already