The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-05-11

Murtol Mrs. Aftof Obtalncu q ulNofcc \
from Col Astor In 1909, having separ-
ated from her husband n year or 80
before. The court awarded her the
custody Of the daughter, while .ths
custody OF the son went to the father.
Since the divorce she hes lived abroad
Last September Col. Aston married
Miss Madeleine Force. the twenty. year
old daughter of William II. Force,
chipping merchant. After considerable
difhculty in finding a clergyman to
perform the ceremony the marriage
took place at Col Astor's Newport
home, Beechwood
Col. Astor, like his father and UNI
like his grandfather, was fond Of the
sea. Most of his yachting was done
on the Nourmahal the immense steam
yacht built for hts father. A year or
80 ago he sold the Nourmahal and
bought the Mona from the estate of
william b. Leeds.
William Vincent Aston, Col. Astor's
only son, on whom the care of the
Aston estate here will eventually fall,
is not yet twenty-one years old. He
wss born on November 10, 1891, in the
old William Astor mansion at Fifth
avenue and Thirty-fourth street, where
the Waldord-Astoria now stands.
Shortly after his birth his parents
moved to the new Astor residence at
Fifth avenue and Sixty-sixth street He
was not strong as a child a until
last fall when he entered Harvard he
spent half of every year at his fathers
country home on the Hudson, three
months at Newport and three months
at the town house. He is tall and
slim with dark, straight hair and dark
blue eyes, He bears a marked resem-
blsnce to his father.
His father, wishing to keep him out
of doors on account of his delicate
health, encouraged his fondness for
}, yachting and automobiling. He ac-
!, companied his father on the Nourma-
|, hal on a voyage to the West Indies
two years ago when a storm interrupt
J, ed communication and the Astor yacht
was not heard from for several weeks.
1t was feared that the yacht had been
lost and revenue cutters were de-
} spatched to hunt for it, but it turned
out that the Nouhmahal was safe in
harbor at San Juan.
AS an automobilist he has a reputa-
r ton for fast driving. Just before he
/. went to Harvard last fall he was call
1 ed up before police magistrate in
! Newport and lectured about his habit
Of driving through the streets too
. rapidly. Once while driving his car
3 near Tarrytown he ran it into tree
!, to avoid striking a man on a motor
Y cycle.
4 There has been many rumors OF
a Vincent Astor's engagement to various
e. young women in society and out. Last
month he had occasion to deny re.
r port that he was to marry girl in a
s Broadway musical comedy. He said
n then that he wasn't engaged and didn't
e intend to become engaged for a long
IS time to come.
il 1t is understood that following the
II Aston custom Col. John Jacob Aston
e made marriage settlement of cash
and securities on both of his wives
they in turn giving up their dover
4 rights in the estate. The purpose Of
q. the settlement was to keep the Aston
o estate intact If this was the case
% then neither Mrs. Ava Willing Aston
Is nor Mrs. John Jacob Aston will re
n ceive a widows third OF the estate
g which will be shared by Vincent Aston
9 and his sister Muriel, who is now ter
10 years old. Muriel, it is said, was
# provided for in the settlement thai
n Col. Astor made on her mother The
al amount was never made public, bu
' it was said to be $1O,OO0,OOO, with q
"a provision that it should later rever
N to Muriel
Te Through his fathers cousin, Mar
If garet A3tor Ward, who married JohI
n Winthrop Chanler, Vincent Aston il
in related 70 John Armstrong Chanier
divorced husband of Amelie Rivers
Il Robert Winthrop Chanler and Lewis
a. Stuyvesant Chanler. Through othe
,e cousins he is related to the De Stueri
70 and Cary families.
d.