Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-10-19
WlI| Fall Heir 10 twenty-five
Million on us Birthday
Tomorrow
Older Brother was Cut OF
Because Marriage Dis.
pleased Father
Vincent Astor Next Youth
to Receive MiI|iocs by
Fathers viii

Special TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Oct. ia birthday
present of twenty-five million dollars!
That Is certainly going some, even III
these days OF high prices and big fig
ures. Nevertheless, $4,000, 900 is apr
proximately the amount that Alfred
Gwynne Vanderbilt Is to receive by
virtue of the fact that he reaches his
thirty.hftl birthday anniversary 10
morrow. This sum represents the
half of Vanderbilt's p%atrimony wtlled
to him by his fatlcr, Cornelius Van
derbilt. The latter was displeased
with the marriage of his oldest son,
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., and when he
died in 1899 he left a will that cut Cd
Cornelius. Jr., with a paltry million
CIR two and gave the bulk of the fam
lily fortune to the second son, AltreG
G. Vanderbilt. The fortune was esti
mated in round Ggures at $4,000 900.
Half of 1t came into the possession Of
young Vanderbilt on his thirtietl
birthday. The other half he is now tc
receive upon attaining his thirty.tifth
year.
With the addition Of $25,O0O 900 X
his personal fortune the suzerain Of
the hotse of Vanderbilt will be pro
noted to the first grade in the school
of American mu,ti.millionaires. After
tomorrow he will be the richest ma
Of his ago in all the country. Blu
things move very rapidly nowadayt
aud the distinction of being the wea.
thiest man will not long rest witt
young Vanderbilt. Less than one
month hence Vincent Aston will at
tain his majority and in consequence
wEl come into possession OF thu
wealth left by his father, the late Johi
Jacob Aston. According to the mos.
authoritative estimates the fortune o
Vincent Astor will amount to- 500,
O00, 900 Or more, which will give him
a rating above that of almost every
other American millionaire excepting
John d. Rockefeller.
In the opinion of those who keer
tab on such matters, A.lred G.. Van
derbilt has probably come closer t
living up tC, his income than any o.
the other "big" New York millionaire.
such as the Rockefellcrs, Goulds
Astors and Morgans. In common par
lance, Alfred G. Is what is known a.
a good spender." He maintains town
and country houses on both sides OF
the Atlantic, has II Of the finest
establishments CT show houses In thu
world and goes the Limit in about ev
cry variety of expensive pastime from
Yachting to automobiling. According
to popular report he pays u rental II
Of $4,000 for his suit G.
apartments in the new Hotel Wander.
bit In this city. for the pleasure OF
occupying rooms six or eight weeks
In ,.- year. SO, a. things consider
ed, the income that will fail frcm hif
additional $25, 600, 900 will probably be
very welcome to q young man of MIR
e%xtravagant tastes. And
the more SO since his family expenses
been increased by the addition
Of a little daughter, bern only u few
weeks ago to the second Mrs. Alfred
G.. Vanderbilt, who before her mar
was Mrs. Smith Hollis McKim.
and before that was Miss Emerson of
Baltimore, daughter CT the man who
sold out his little drug store and went
into the business of making a vel!
cure for that morning after"
feeling, and whose wisdom has been
rewarded by q fortune of several mil
lions. dollars reaped from the erie of
The little blue bottles and their con.
tents.