The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-11
William K. Vanderbilt, 64, Is
 Admirer of Beau Brun,mcI.

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 Sr.;- returned to America a couple of months ago for 8 visit to the land where his money comes from, the New York reporters sought to tap the fount of wisdom which is epopuIarIy supposed to spout whenever a dis tjnguished citizen returns from Eu- rope. In this case, however, the fountain seemed to have run dry, for Mr. Vanderbilt frankly admitted his ignorance. and indifference in regard to the tariff and currency questions which were than agitating the people of the United States. He was utter 1y indifferent to American politics, and this was enough to stamp him as one who had been weaned from allegiance to Uncle Sam. If any doubt rerrains
 ed in the minds of the reporters, it was dissipated when MT Vanderbilt declared that he knew nothing of the worlds baseball series, and didn't want to.
 "Tm no fan," he snapped.
 And that is the sort of man who de-
 rives an income of umpty hundred thousands of dollars a year from the toll and sweat of the American peo-
 pie. A man who hasn't the slightest interest in baseball. A socialist
 ought to make a lot of that argument
 MT. Vanderbilt will complete his sixty-fourth year to-day. His fath- CT was William Henry Vanderbilt, the
 third child and eldest son of Commo- dore Vanderbilt, the founder of the dynasty. Incidentally, this year marks the centenary of the marriage of the Commodore and Sophia Johnson. Twelve children were born of tho un- ion. The Commodore-he gained the title as the skipper of a steamboat which carried farm produce from New Jersey to the New York market-was only nineteen when he married, and for several years thereafter his bride kept an inn at New Brunswick, N. J., while the Commodore sailed back and forth between that port and New York, with cargoes. of grain and but ter and eggs and garden sass and country produce Besides helping her husband to amass a fortune, the Commodore's wife gave him twelve children to inherit his. wealth. The
 
 generations between shirt-sleeves and shirtsIeeves has missed fire in the case of the ,Vanderbilts, for the pres ent generation has more wealth than the old Commodore ever dreamed of.
 If MT. Vanderbilt is not interested in baseball or politics. he is not with out his interests. According to a re- cent report from Caen, Normandy, he. has appointed himself a committee of one to maintain and decorate the grave of Beau Brumme1 at Caen. It is alleged that Mir Vanderbilt has paid Iavishly for the splendid up-keep of the last resting place of the inl1rtortsgi dandy and dude of a former general tion. It is AIsos stated that MT. van- derbiIt possesses a wonderful colIcc- ton of Beau Brumme1 relics.
 George Bryan. Brummel, or 'tBeau.''' as he is commonly called, was a com temporary of the hard-working Com modore who founded the House of Vanderbilt. The Beau was born in TITS and died in 184O. His youth was a confectfoner in Bury street, London, who kept a Iodging-house as side line. One of his guests was MT. Jen- kfnson, safterward the Earl of Liver pool, who became interested in his landlords son, and got him a clerk ship in the treasury The place was a lucrative one, and it enabled him to accumulate a snug fortune. ''Beau," who had acquired that sobriquet wheo a mere urchin by his fastidiousness in dress, was sixteen when his father died. ortlysafterward he met the Prince of Wales, who took a fancy to him, and introduced him into the most fashionable society in England. For twenty years<he reigned as Lon don's most extravagant ''spender' and sartoria1 dictator, but debt and the disfavor of his royal. patron sent him an exile to France, where he died.
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