The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-20
VANDERBILT TO
WE'D MISS CRUGER
Young Son of willie K"
Wins Rarest Beauty Of
the Season.

NEW YORK. March 19.-Like his
brother, Willie K. Vanderbilt Jr., and
his first cousins, Cornelius, Alfred and
Reginald, young Harold S Vanderbilt,
younger son Of William K. Vanderbilt,
and brother of the Duchess of MARI
borough, has chosen his bride to-be,
though yet hardly out of his teens She
is the beautiful Violet d. Cruger,
debutante of the season which has
just passed into history.
No formal announcement of the en-
gagement has been made, nor will
there be one for some time Young Mr..
Vanderbilt is barely twenty-one and is
still at st. Marks school. Southbridge,
Mass, where the pretty girls two
younger brothers. BERTHE" and Fred"
are chums with him. Miss Cruger is
nineteen.
Beautiful Violet Cruger has been tha
belle Of the season. Born In New York
but brought up in the comparative
quiet of Tuxedo. she came in upon So
Ciety like a vision. No one had guess
ed that the modest little daughter OF
Eugene Cruger would be the beauty
that she is. Scores of eligible youths
have been paying court all winter, but
only one would she listen to-Harold
Vanderbilt.
He has been in New York almost
every Saturday and Sunday and con-
slant in his attendance upon Miss
Cruger at her home. No. 4 Lexington
avenue. At dinners that he could con-
veniently attend young Mr.. Vanderbilt
has managed to be at Miss Cruger'S
side, and never a dance Where he was
guest but he has monOpollzed tina
beautiful debutante's dances to the dis
may of everybody else.
OF course, no formal engagement IS
announced. But those close to thu
Vanderbilts were quietly told yester-
day that there was an understanding,
and If the young people should feel "a
they do a year hence, then the formal
announcement will be made. In this
event young Mr. Vanderbilt will aban-
don his plan to take the four-year
course at Harvard. His brother START
I'd there, but gave 1t up to marry tha
winsome Virginia Fair.
Harold S. Vanderbilt IS the only UNI
married child of William K Vander-
bilt Sr. He has lived with his mother,
Mrs. o. II. p. Belmont, when not at
school. but he stands to inherit his
share of his fathers fortune, now esti-
mated at $50. 100000 His father Is
extremely fond of the boy.
Miss Cruger is the daughter of Mrs.
]. Frederick Tams by her first hus-
band, Eugene Cruger. Mrs. Tams was
the handsome Blanche Spedden when
she was married to Cruger. Their life
was unhappy, and finally she got a
divorce. He then made Meta Bella
Kane his wife, but again the match
was unhappy, and she got her freedom.
She became Mime. de Mourichon in
Paris, and Cruger went through a third
marriage ceremony with Miss Olga
HeitZ, sister of a Paris restaurant
keeper
Cruger died at Fontainebleau,
France, four years ago, leaving his for
tune to Olga Heitz his third wife. Mrs.
Tams promptly contested the will in
behalf Of her three children by him.
The suit was compromised by tho
Heitz woman and now the three Cru
ger children enjoy comfortable pat
rimOny. Their contention was that
their father had married for a third
time before he was legally separated
, from his second wife.
Last night the Spedden and tina
Tams families denied the engagement,
but let it be known that at some later
date there might be some announces
ment