The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1914-04-28
VINCENT AsToRs BRIDE KNOWS
LITTLE OF SOCIAL CIRCLES
SHE IS ENTERING.
PRESENTS new TYPE OF
AMERICAN SOCIETY GIRL
Can Swim and Sail Boat Better Than
She Can Tango-Has splendid Edu.
cation But Has Never Been IdentI.

New York, April 2S.-Upon tall,
fair haired girl of twenty years, raised
in the country and loving it, knowing (,
little of society but destined to know (
much more. the eyes of the fashionable |
world are centered Just now. She is |
Miss Helen Dinsmore Huntington, who
this week is to become the bride of |
Vincent Astor, the head of the Astor
family in America and the master of
fortune of nearly $tOO,0O0,0O0.
The brideto-be of Mr.. Astor presents
new perfection in type of the Amerf
can society girl, having enjoyed tht
advantages of having been born anE
brought, up on a country estate, as do
the girls of the best English families.
From childhood Miss Huntington has
led an out-of-door life. At sixteen she
was sent to private school at Dobb's
Ferry, not a great way from her home
on the Hudson. After the first winter
at school came instructive tours of
Europe with her parents, two winter
seasons in this city, where the family
lived at the Ritz-Carleton, and sojourns
at the country homes OF friends and
relatives during the summer, spring
or autumn.
From Sturdy Stock.
. Miss Huntington came from sturdy
and athletic stock, and showed it as
soon as she was able to run about.
Her father, who was graduated from
, Yale in 1891, was tennis champion OF
, his university, and before she was ten
years old Miss Huntington began to
I take an interest in the tennis courts
She also, like most other girls brought
: up at country homes, became proficient
in swimming while scarcely more than
{ a child, and before she went away to
l the finishing school she was able tc
[ sail a sloop and to operate any motor
, craft, whether slow or swift. Since
: then she has, on several occasions
held the steering weel Of one or the
other of Mr.. Astor's swift hydroplanes
tearing up or down the Hudson river
to the delight Of those on trains OF
along the shore who may have been
spectators. In learning to drive heI
:, own automobile she was aided by Mr.
Astor, who has a thorough knowledge
of motor mechanism in all its branches
Vincent Astor represents the fifth
- | IS Actn h1
founder of the great Astor fortune. He
:, was a student In Harvard University
where his father had been educated
when Colonel Astor met his heroic
and tragic death in the sinking of the
Titanic in the spring of 1912. Or
November is of that year he celebrat
ed his twenty-first birthday and came
into complete possession of the Asto
estate. He did not return to Harvard
. to complete his course, but decided t
. devote himself to the management o
u his properties. Since then, except 70
l. short periods when he has found rec
" reation on board his steam yachts an
II power boats, or at the family countr
places, he has spent several hour
III each day in the offices of the Asto
u estate in West Twenty-sixth street.
~ Vincent Astor and his father wer
devoted, more like chums than fathe
and son." to use of words of war;
friend of each. 1t was logical, there
~ fore that he should follow in the foo
steps of Colonel Astor in taking an a.
tive interest in civic matters and pul
IL lie movements. He was appointed
~ numerous public committees by tn
er late Mayor Gaynor and has made 1t
at rule to attend such committee NEE
in ings, especially when details OF in
1t portant public celebrations or chari
fl. able movements have been involved.