The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-04-21
VANDERBILT RUTHERPURD
W. X. Vanderbilt rs TO RE-
MARRY AT ONCE.


Bride u ths sister q Oliver Hartman.
IT,. and Widow q Lewis M. Ruther.
furd-Wedd1ng t. Re Abresd-Csurt
Removes the Bar In Divorce Decree.
William x. Vanderbilt Il to be married
abroad very soon-to-morrow. II u said-to
Mrs, lewis n. Rutherfurd. sister Of OIL
YER Hartman. Jr
Tho fact that Mr.. Vanderbilt IL to marry
again was announced yesterday In the
Supreme Court. but the name Of his BRIDE
to-be was not announced here. and even
some people who are rather intimate with
MIR. Vanderbilt professed not TO know II.
Mrs. Rutherfurd II the widow Of the
eldest son Of Lewis Morris Rutherfurd. the
astronomer whose photographs Of the
moon were famous. Henry White, Score
tary Of the American Embassy In London.
married her sister-in-law. Margaret g.
Rutherfurd. Winthrop Ruthe1urd 10 her
brother-in-lsw. Hbe Ii some fifteen years
younger than Mr.. Vanderbilt. She 10 now
In Paris. Here her home has been at Tran
quillity Farm. Allamuchy, N. j., which has
been IN the hands Of the Rutherfurd family
for generations.
This will be Mrs. Rutherfurd's third
marriage. Her first husband was Samuel
s.. Sands, Jr
The announcement made In the Supreme
Court Game In the shape Of Q petition. which
seems to have been prepared with CONS
haste. since Mr.. Vanderbilt did not sign
1t hamsslf At his leisure. His attorney.
Henry B. Anderson. signed 'William X.
Vanderbilt to 1t for him. This u the
petition. which Justice Giesehch granted:
William X. Vanderbilt respe ctfully shows
70 the court that your D. titioner y q citizen
Of the United States ana OF the STATE OF New
York. but now temporarily residing In the
city OF Paris. France.
That on the nth day OF March. 1906. In an
action in this court wherein Alva Y. Wander
bilt was the plaintiff and your petitioner
was the PENDANT. q final judgment was
made and cDtc red at the special Term Of this
court he Id In and for tine STATE. City and
County OF New York. and on that day was
filed In the ofi1oe OF the County Clerk Of the
city anG county % New YORK. whersin and
among other 'thinss adjudged- and dscreed.
toner to marry again until the death Of said
plaintiff
That your petitioner desires 70 marry
and your petitioner desires before the con;
Of sss eSohS. sa'n 10 SAID decree 20 Dc
Ss, the snsas Tie S
iss section e. q. and the laws s&esasscry
thereof. 70 have said judsment modifsd as
% :. s. s.1s .nc
spPi.esiiSn e; an order asdlfyiss, "a
- WILLIS K vIsnsrsnr.
Mr.. Andsrsoo adess Z note 70 ne pstition
that on account OF Mr. Vanderbilt tempo
rary absence In France, and acting a. his
attorney. he has signed the name OF the
The application was supported by am.
davits made by United States Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew and Edward v. W.
Rossiter. to the effect that they have known
Mr.. Vanderbilt for more than twenty-five
years. and that ever since the decree was
entered in Mrs. vanderbilt's favor. Mr..
vanderbilt's conduct has been uniformly
good and such ~ to entitle him to the relief
asked for, and that mo grounds exist
for Withholding the relief prayed for
ton, and Justice dieserich signed an order
modifying the decree 40 that the prohi-
bition in II enjoinipg Mr.. Vanderbilt from
marrying again until the death Of his former
wife, now Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont. Ia stricken
out.
Under the law in this State such an ap-
plioation is invariably granted II unop-
posed and supported by affidavits OF good
conduct for hve years. But II has been the
practice for most divorced persons to evsde
this clause by having any subsequent mar
riage ceremony performed in another State
or country. Mr.. Vanderbilt might marry
In France or England without any n1odi-
hcation Of the decree, the prohibitions Of
which are valid in this State only. But
In such an event his marriage might not
be regarded A. binding In the courts here.
and. no doubt, II was to avoid such Q pos
sibility that the application was made.
william Kisssm Vanderbilt, the second
son Of william II. Vanderbilt, In In his 6fty-
fourth year s, In 1879 at e reception at The
he met Mise Alvs Smith, a young Southern |
girl. They were married within q year.
They built the Vanderbilt house At Fifty |
second street and Ftfth arenue and large |
house at Newport and NJ Vanderbilt had
he and his wife and their fr,ends made ,
many tripe until she was sunk by collision, !
in i6o7. Mr.. Vanderbilt at once built an |
other. the Valiant. Mr.. and Mn. Wander |
bilt started on a ten-month cruee In that |
yacht In 1898. but the trip ended abruptly !
before four months had passed. There |
after, Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt lived apart. !
and in March, 1895. she obtained the divorce I,
from him. Nellie Neustretter OF Paris was |,
named az correspondent. and II was under |
stood that the woman, a notorious demi- !
mondaine. had been brought into the case |
merely to enable Mrs. Vanderbilt 20 obtain
the decree.
Nire months after the divorce Mrs. VAN I
dcrbilt married o. II. p. Belmont. Mr.. I;
the Duchess Of Marlborough; william X,
Jr.. and Harold e.. who W. IS years old and /
who is nov living with his mother. MIS-. |
Belmont.