The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-08-17

McKim and their daughter, Margaret, IS
an old one. That trip was planned solely
for the purpose OF letting propinquity
work its way until DR.. McKim would fall
a captive to the charms of Miss Margaret
and ask her to be his wife. DR.. McKim
at that time represented to the Emersons
the highest point OF social attainment
that could be looked forward to- 1t Is on
record that the moment Or. McKim pro-
posed to Miss Emerson and the glad news
was given TO her parents, the yacht was
turned around and made back for Balti-
more.
But Mrs. McKim soon saw that there
were heights far beyond her husbands po-
sition, She cast her eyes upon Newport
and Alfred Vanderbilt. Alfred was d.;
vorced from Elsie French, and Mrs. Nc
Kim was divorced from her husband after
the payment to him Of a large amount of
money for his complaisance. Then they
went to England. No doubt her reception
at Newport has been an enormous shock
to the second wife. OF course one season
she was there before and was ignored
by society. because society resented her
friendship for young Vanderbilt. lie was
not then divorced; the divorce followed
that season. And yet Mrs Alfred Number
Two displays astonishment to find that
her husbands first wife is chosen over her
head; that she has not married into the
Newport set by marrying Alfred.
"You cannot enter here says Mrs.
Robert Goelet as she orders the gates OF
Eastbourne closed to the Alfred Wander
bllts. Nor here, either" says Mrs. Ell
bridge Gerry, as she tells her butler to say,
mot at home" should the Alfreds call
There are degrees Of ost-acism. This
Vanderbilts will be put through them all.
They felt their first great pang when they
were not invited TO Mrs. Fishs fairy tale
ball, to which three hundred of Al7red's
former friends were asked. These same
three hundred sat themselves down to
dine In Mrs, Hermann Oelrichs's superb
dining room before going on to the ball.
but Alfred and his wife were not among
those present,
Oakland Farms was left to Alfred by
his father, 1t Is one Of the most luxuri-
Gus places about Newport It holds to-day
two Of the uDhappiest OF mortals What
means their great wealth il they have no
friends to lavish it on? They are ma
rooned amid Its luxurious contents Does
he blame himself or does he blame the
young woman he married, for there is no
doubt that his family at least would re-
ccive him If he had not remarked
When ne drives along Bellevue avenue
and comes face to face with his former
wife, what happens? Mrs. Vanderbilt
looks at him but does not see him, looks
at the woman by his side and does not
see her. When he meets the women he
used to be friendly with. what happens?
If he Is alone there are some women who
will stop and chat few moments with
him, but the spirit Of cordiality Is gone,
Mrs. Joe Hartman. meeting him In
front Of the Casino the other day, said:
why, hello, Alfred, where did you drop
from? Pleasant weather we are having.
aren't we?"
In the early days she would have wrung
his hand and begged him to Come home
and have bite OF luncheon with u.s."
II his new wife Is with him, the women
turn to look the other way. If brought
face to face, they speak to her in the
most casual manner. Being a man, Alfred
does not sec all the many Sights ad-
ministered to his wife by the women who
were his friends, and WHO are friends of