The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-25

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ffosflR sstseHble OF thoroughbreas, are said
q be the causes of the estrangement.,
y Oakland Farm, the Newport home of
the Alfred Vanderbils, is now closed,
and since Saturday workmen have been
engaged packing up Mrs. Vanderbilt $
effects to be shipped to Tuxedo.
Young Mrs. Vanderbilt is expected to
go to Tuxedo on Saturday. She will
there occupy the home of Amos Tuck
French, her brother.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt will sail
for England Saturday. 1t Is UNDER
stood that he has leased London
town house for long term.
He will tool his famous coach Ven-
ture between London and Brighton
during the coming season. Already his
stable of coach horses and hunters
have been sent to the other side.
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was seen
at the PIaza today. when asked II he
knew why Mrs. Vanderbilt has left
Oakland Farm he said;
al would gladly tell you IL ! knew.
but 1 do not. Mrs. Vanderbilt is free
to act as she wishes.''
The fact that Mr.. Vanderbilt will sail
on Saturday for lengthy stay abroad,
while the wedding of Miss Pauline
French, a niece of his wife, to Samuel
Wagstaf will occur in Newport on
May 5, is regarded as decidedly sig
nificant.
The rumors regarding q separation
have been well defined and current for
a year past. Indeed, persons close to
the Vanderbilt family declare that AL
fred @. and his wife have not lived to-
gether for the past twelvemonth. For
many months past Mr.. and Mrs. Van
derbilt have been seen but rarely in
each others company.
Mrs Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt is
one of the best types of latter-day So
ciety women of the -Four Hundred. She
is domestic in her tastes and cares
little for the lavish display and pre-
tense of the very rich. Her husbands
manner of living is said to have dis
pleased her. She has been Of the opin-
ion for long time past that he gives
too much attention to his horses, and
has felt wounded that he has gone
abroad on several occasions with his
stable of show horses and remained for
months at time.
stable Invaded Drawing Room.
According to one friend of Mrs.
Vanderbilt, these peccadillos of her
husband might have been easily for
gotten had not grievances of a more
serious nature arisen. In brief, she
has declared that in habits as well as
associations her husband has followed
too closely the standard of the stable.
Tales are told of trips of the coach
Venture to the races, when a stag par
ty would return in hilarious condition
10 the Holland House, augmented by
the acquisition of young women physi-
cally vivid but socially obscure, one
of whom, on one occasion, rode beside
the head of the house of Vanderbilt
on the box seat.
The Wilson -Schenck scandal, in
which Vanderbilts stable manager be-
came involved with a young woman of
great beauty, who is now on the stage,
is only another contributory motive in
the final conviction Mrs. Vanderbilt is
said to have reached that her ways are
far apart from those of her multi-mil-
lionaire husband.
Mrs Vanderbilt Is the daughter of
the late Francis Ormond French. She
married Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in
1900 after his graduation from Yale.
Less than six months ago he came into
possession, at 80 years of age. of $780,
aOo. 900. half of the residnary estate of
his father, the late Cornelius Wander
bilt. At s5 he will come into active
management of the remaining $30,000,-
coo.