The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-08-20
S1QRk VISITED ISELIN's.
Cup Defenders Managing Owner MADE
Father on Eve Of First Race.

New Rochelle. N. Y. Aug. Coon
rrtulations to Mr.. and Mrs. c. oiiver
Iselin upon the arrival OF son at their
home. All View. Premium Point yestef-
day morning are pouring In. The oapy
veighs eight pounds and six ounces ana
Il was reported that Mrs. Iselin and the
chfid were doing nicely.
Az o'clock. when the baby arrived
Mr. Iselin was on the Reliance on Sandy
Hook A message was sent 10 him and
ha hurried home reaching New Rochelle
at 4 p. m.
Mrs Iselin has not missed an inter-
national yacht race since her huspahu
has been interested In cup defenders ana
hAr mother will report every movement
~ the Reliance and Shamrock today from
DE time they cross the line to the finish
of the race.
Mr.. Iselin's daughter communicated
thu news TO their friend Miss Alice
Roosevelt. at Oyster Bay. ana MISS
Roosevelt and the president sent then
heartiest congratulations. The baby is
the drst to arrive at the lselin man
sion In Is years.
Mrs Iselin was MISS Hope Goddard Oh
Providence. daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs
william Goddard She has been mar
rfed to the yachtsman about nine years
and this is their first child. The yachts-
man has four other children. but they
are all by his first wife
HEIR TO BIG FORTUNE.
Tn. Iselin baby is destined 10 inherit
a very large property and 10 be weaith-
ier even than the Brown baby its re-
mote cousin, now a fine boy OF three
years.
The Brown bay Is the molly son OF the
late John Nicholas Brown. The latter
ara his brother Harold Brown. both dled
IN New York after a few days OF illness
Of pneumonia and within week OF eaeh
other. Just after the child was oorn'
The boy became heir TO his father ana
,ncIe and was Immediately rated as the
Richest baby in America John N1cnolas
nrown as ne was named after his fore
bear. Is the only living male oescenoah.
aaye one bearing the family name OF
John Brown, who founded Brown uni
versity.
Nicky Brown already wears the badge
of the Order OF the Cincinnati, whicn was
conferred upon him a year ago.
One of the marriages which was con-
trsrted in the Brownies family was
that of Professor William q. Goodaro,
the father of the Goddard brothers. noted
as foremost in the cotton manufacture
OF New England. and by marriage ana
business affairs directly connected with
the Formidable manufacturing houses of
brown q. Ives every member or ~mcn
"a a millionaire His wife was Char
lotte Ives whose mother was daughter
of John Brown.
The boys were william, Moses b. l.,
Tnomas p. l., Robert II. l.. and Francis
g. Goddard. There were two daugneers,
Mrs. William Binney and Mrs. Thomas
p. I. Shepard. Colonel William Goddard
married Miss Edith Jenckes. daughter OF
yhe late CONGRESSMAN Thomas Jenckes OF
this city.
Hone Goddard was the only ohfld born
20 them Moses 3. I. Goddard is still
alive and his wife never bore him cnll-
| dren. Thomas p. /. Goddard died child
less. Colonel Robert H. Ives Goddard has
one son. Ives. and a daughter. Madelin'
one other son being dead Francis God
dard is dead.
His wife bore him one daughter. who
married A. lockwood Danfelson. one
con was born Of this last marriage and
he died last year after ~ divorce hso
been granted his mother.
This left Ives Goddard, son OF Col. r
II L Goddard. as the only prospective
hesr 10 the large estate which was grad
,,ef1y and by reason OF death centrlnR
toward him. Mr. Goddard's daughter
was married 70 c. Oliver Iselin about Il
years ago. That tne faoleo etork mac 80
failed TO ahght on the chimney top a'
New Rochelle was a matter OF deep re
oret on the part OF the family and ol
Mrs Isein's many friends here
Nobody knows how great the estate o.
the Brown Ives Goddard family is.
is such that the late Mrs Elizabetf
Gammell who was Prof. Gammell's wife
v,s the richest woman IN this country
ner holdings OF government bonds alone
being fabulous,
There are cotton mills. upon cottor
min. with whole villages, everythint
but the air that is breathed within them
that belong 20 the select and narrow cir
Gle of people who own government oonds
rsEroaa stocks ana piles or gHt-edge'
securities.
col Goddard. grandfather OF the new
y..,ir bahv has been an excellent liver
a arend entertainer and a gracious host
and Mrs. Goddard wears exquisite gowns
vet they have never been pronisate' an
sn the sunset of their lives they have a.
,mmense fortune. which Will fall TO the.
daughter and eventually to Master lse
I'm, the younger.