The Washington herald., 1907-06-16

for the newspapers a few years ago by
giving out that he considered college
training all nonsense for man who
wished 70 go into business. The four
years that he spent i'm New Haven, he
thought, were four years wasted. He
made himself famous after the opening Of
a certain ultra costly hotel in New York
by being the first tenant Of its most ex-
pensive suite and also by the skill with
which he escaped the officers Of the law,
who wanted 20 arrest him for running
his automobile az "a sixty or seventy mile
rate. through the streets of Brooklyn.
Although no descendant of old John
Jacob Astor in tho male line Is especially
interested ia racing, William AstOr Chan
Ter, who has some OF the AStor dollars.
has few horses 20 race this year, and
has been a turf figure of more or less
magnitude for some time He Is q broth
er OF Louis Stuyvesant Chauler. Hughes
lieutenant governor, who was elected.
along with all the Hearst State ticket.
except its he3d, last fall, and Of Jshn
Armstrong Chanler. Amelie Rives irst
husband. who is now seeking TO establish
his sanity.
ChaniCT Hs Public NInu.
William Astor Chanler was once a
public man. He went 20 Albany from
New York as member Of the legislature
in 1897, while Crokers star was still in
the ascendant served I'm the Spanish war,
and, In 1899. was elected to the Lower
House OF Congress. defeating Lemuel z.
Quigg Possibly this young Chsnler-he
IS only forty--has the bluest blood in his
veins OF an the turf supporters Of these
DAYS
His ancestry ON hls fathers side Is
Older than on his mothers, although the
family fortune came 20 him through her
The original American Chanler was a
colonial doctor first president OF the
Medical Society OF South Carolina. Vii
liam Astor Chauler's mother, Margaret
AstJr Ward. was descended from two gem
erals-Armstr0ug one of whom fought
in the revolution, and tine other i'm the
War os 1872 The latter was Minister 20
France before this war and. later Secre-
tarv OF War under Madison. So that the
racing member OF the Chanler family has
genealogical warrant for being IN public
life.
4 Hunter of Big Game.
William Astor Chanler first won fame
by going to Africa % hunt big game
and do q little exploration. iu I02 He
remained in Africa two years. He had
with him Lieut. Won Hohnel. OF the
Austrian army. and they had lot Of
adventures. on reaching the village Of
Rugoi. near Mount Loraghi they found
the rillagors short Of food. Although shy
as first, they We're soriabia after "a little
aud ready TO do almost anything for the
two white men If they would only shoot
a few elephants and so replenish the viii
Iaee Iarder.
Elephants were plentiful I'm the jungle
thoreabout but hard TO find because Of
the iunEla.z density, and hard for the ma
tves 20 kin because they had no firearms
Chanlor and the Austrian were glad OF
the chance % be guided 20 the bauuts
Of the big beasts, and succeeded IN killing
several This was IN July. 1894 and Al;
that time Chanler's friends and family
had given him up for lost having had no
tidings OF him for months
Wrote n Book About HIS Travels.
He really was IN straits a little later
Many Of the donkevs. sheep. and cattle Of
his outfit had died. most Of his people,
guides. porters, cooks. &c, had deserted
him and he was himself III for weeks. He
was heard from az Mombasa, on tho east
coast. in September. however. where he
arrived almost alone. after having suffer
ed many hardships. Upon his return %
America he wrote a book about his ad-
ventures. Chanler served as captain M
der command Of the late Gen. Joseph
Wheeler. I'm tho Spanish war. lie married
Miss Minnie Ashley, a light opera singer
in 1904.
Not an Astor. nor even the son-in-law OF
an Astor. like his older brother Orme. r.
T Wilson jr. is a third young racing
Midas He has been interested In the
turf some seven or eight years. His chief
distinctions have been the success Of HIS
horses, his lucky hits In business with his
father and HIS beautiful 15o00-acre island
estate on the coast. between the May and
New rivers, in South Carolina, which he
has named Eden.
4 Big Game Preserve.
Five thousand Of its acres are devoted
70 a game preserve. The old mansion.
which stands near the sea. is one of the
finest examples Of 'vpically old-tlme
South Carolina architecture now to be
found anywhere along the coast. Until
the year he bought Eden. Wilson possess
cd a third distinction-that Of being the
only unmarried child Of the best match
maker in America. That year he married
Miss Marion Mason, not so rich as the
Astors or NanderbIlts, perhaps, but Of
the bluest Massachusetts blood.
This story told about young Wilson
should be prcfaced by the statement that
he never was a reckless driver He was
out I'm a single rig one day when his
horse became fractions and began TO run
Wilson saw possible danger ahead and
climbed out over the back Of the vehicle
leaving the horse % continue on 10 It's
destruction. A friend asked him why he
didn't stick TO the reins and save the
animal.
It's this way he replied; Il can buy
another horse about as good as that one.
bat I haven't any idea that 1 could buy
another r. T. Wilson. tr.
No American society woman owns n
racing stable, though women Of the high
est social grade start horses on the Eng
lish tracks. Mrs. II. p. Whitney and Mrs
II. b. DUryoa tried the experiment under
the name Of Mr.. Roslyn,' but had to
give It up.
Oxnard, the Beet Sugar King.
Henry T. Oxnard. the beet sugar king.
who owns the Albemarle stable, IS an
other Midas" by inheritance. whose
name counts for something in the turf
world to-day, but he doesn't belong ex-
actly TO the same class as the Chanlers,
the Wilson's, the Whltneys, and their
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