Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-11-03
BEAUTIFUL AND WEALTHY AMER.
icAN WON BY ENeLIsHMAN.
MAY HAVE S1OO,OOO,OOO
groom not Member of the Nobility
but Has $4,000 Year From a
~, Fortune Made in the Manufacture
" OF Ale-Bride's Father Owns Much
of New York.


Herbert Henry Spender-Clay today in
London. will be worth $1,000 900.
Pauline is sweet-faced brunette OF
"A, and has worn perhaps the most
magnificent jewelry of any girl in the
world. Her necklace of pearls at the
queens drawing-room in 1899 cost
$4,000.
Miss Astor weds for love because Capt.
Spender-Clay can bring her no title.
He is well-to-do, possessing quite
$15O,000 year, burt that is only a
trifie compared to the great wealth
that some day will be his brides
When one considers that her fathers
ambition has always been for a title
for her, that she could have married
any of Great Britain's most eligible
peers, the wonderment becomes null
tiplied a hundred-fold.
The brides father, William Waldorf
Aston is credited with a fortune of
much over $1OO,0o0,000. He is the
largest single owner of real estate in
increasing; if he lives another twenty
years experts figure that it will double.
Miss Aston may receive nearly $780,
100000 as her share of the estate. She
a daughter Of Mr.. Astor, the ex-
patriated American multi-millionan .,
whose money comes from his holdings
in New York. She is the oldest child.
She was born in New York City in
1879, little more than year after
her father married Miss Mamie Paul,
the belle of Philadelphia, and the
daughter of Dr. James F. Paul. There
are two other children-William Wal
dorf Astor, Jr., and John Jacob Aston
who will share the great Aston fortune
with her. Her name, Pauline, is an
ingenious twisting of her mothers
maiden name, Paul. Mrs. Aston died
in 1894 and is buried in Trinity Gene
terry, New York. When in 1882 her
father went to Rome as United States
minister, little Pauline was taken
along. But in 1885 William Waldorf
Aston dropped out of politics COM
pietely and came back to America and
little Pauline came home again.
Here and in Newport everything was
done to make the child grow to be the
grand pady she was so surely to be
come some day. She had English and
French governesses. She was taken
abroad whenever the family went.
Meanwhile William Waldorf Astor was
last growing to dislike the country of
his birth and the source of his vast
fortune. There were petty rows with
the tax-gatherers. The publicity which
his vast wealth gave him and his fam
lily irritated him exceedingly. When
he attempted to have his wife known
as Mrs. Astor and allowed her to give
such orders at the Newport postofice
there was at once a spirited family
discussion, for Mrs. William Aston,
mother of the present John Jacob AS
tor, claimed that title and won her
contention. Since then there has
been GOODNESS between the two Astor
branches.
more and more disguised with Ameri-
ca and Americans. Finally in 1890
he went TO England. Since then he
has never resided in the United
States, though on two occasions he
has returned for brief visits. He
bought the Pail Mall Gazette and the
Pail Mall Magazine and started as an
editor.
Mr.. Astor leased Landsdowne House
in London. the largest mansion avail
able. and then bought famous Give
den, the great place of the duke of
Westminster, on the Thames. In
these two houses little Miss Aston had
her bringing up. At Cliveden Mrs.
Astor died in 1894, leaving her mother
less fourteen-year-ol daughter TO
sovernesses and hghly-paid chape-
rones of title.
This presentation at Court which
Miss Astor enjoyed on March 4, 1899,
was a splendid soci,l triumph for her.
The court was in mourning, and all,
save brides and young ladies unmar-
ried. who were allowed white. had to
appear in mourning for Prince Alfred
CT sake CODuTS-UOtHo, 81 dhoooh VI ShS
queen. Though there were half a
dozen other American ladies presented
Miss Aston so eclipsed them that
their names were hardly remembered
the day afterward.
Miss Astor's gown cost $4,000. The
white satin of which it was made was
especially manufactured for the gown.
The priceless lace with which it was
trimmed once belonged to her mother.
The duchess of Buccleucn, Queen Vic
toria's mistress of TIE robes, was Miss
Astor's sponsor. She is a great court
lady. and the ruling head of the pow
erful though not over-rich. Hamilton
family. Her brother, Lord Hamilton,
was then editor of Mr.. Astor's Pail
Mall Magazine.
When the prince Of Wales, now
King Edward, paid the honor OF a
al