New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-28
MEMORIAL SERVICE
FOR VANDERBILT
Victims Body
Committed "to the Deep
at Mothers Home.
DIVORCED WIFE IS
IN MOURNING PARTY
Will Contains No Surprises, II IS
Said, and Is To BE
Filed Soon.

Neither Alfred G"Ynn" F"''''
name nor the fate Of the Lusitania
was mentioned Yesterday morning ~
the memorial service in the home OF
ri. mother. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
West Fifty-seyenth street.
I, was an unpretentious serYice IN
stately. high-yaulted surroundings
differing from the ordinary house iu-
neral in no lturgical detail until me
Rev. DR.. Leighton Parks. rector OF -.
bartholomew Church reached '"e
regular Episcopal committal service
With the utterance Of the sentence
~ committal for burial Of the dead
at sea there arose in the lmaciha'io"
Of relatives and close friends a VISION
If the seas toll as 1t affected one Ne"
York family famed the world over
Eve. therefore. commit his body 20
tho deep" read Dr. Parks. gazing AZ
tho hower-bankcd altar where the COZ
fn should have rested. looking Ior
tho general resurrection IN the ia'O
day and the life Of the word 10
conc. through our Lord Jesus ChrSt'
AZ whose second coming IN glorious
majesty to Judge the world. the sea
shall give up her dead; and the cor
r,,ntihIe bodies Of those who sleep IN
Him shall be changed. and made IKE
unto His glorious body. according 20
the mighty workings whereby ne Is
able to subdue all things unto HIM
self"
Large Hall Chapel.
On entering the house through the
front marble corridor, friends OF 'n ~.
family noticed that Mrs. andero''
/ had transformed the large ha4I ih'o
/ chanel. At the further END was d
/ hank OF red roses ana white a|a'e"9
representing the altar. when ooie
cross from the chapel OF D. barUho'o,
news Church. No other flowers were
displayed. 80. .,..o.,.oJ
In the first row Of chairs reserved
for the immediate FANNY were J,an
Vanderbilt. Mrs. Alfred GwyhRle an
derbilt and her two children SiF' AuJI
NJ, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Mr.. and
Mrs. Reginald Nanderbllt ana 'h tI.
Janobtcr, kathleen; " X. Vanderbilt
ir. and Mrs. French NanderblIt' His'
wife of Alfred Gwynnee HahGeIp;ii.
and her son. william II. NanderolII
All the women were dressed III uee'
mourning. ~ coolr,on
,oc+or Of -. Mary's Episcopal Church
~ Newport. Of which congregation
Mr. Vanderbilt had been a member
came 70 New York at the request o
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt, ST., 70 as
800 DR. parks in conducting the ser
vice The facade and doors OF 81
Rartholomew's Church fronting OF
Madison Avenue were given IN mem
orv Of the late Cornelius NanderOll
and his widow attends this church.
Stationed at the top of the grea
stairway. nigh above the altar and IN
mourners. was the quartet OF -
Bartholomew. under the direction o
Arthur S. HYDE. organlst and choir
master. The solOists were Miss Grac
Kerns. soprano; Mrs. Benedict ones
alto; william Wheeler, tenor; hdga
Schofeld. bass. and Frank Sabbatinc
ma A. I'm intervals during the service tn
Quartet sang three hymns Lea
Kindly Light" "Peace, Perfect Peace
and abide with me" the antheT
, ~ Heard a Voice from Heaven D
Coss The two clergymen alternate
in reading the order for burial OF IN
dead from the Episcopal prayer boo
Yale, '99. Represented.
Several members of the class OF g
% Vale from which Mr.. Nanderbi
waa graduated, attended the servlc
Amonp those present were Mr. an
= 1trs Harry Payne Whitney, Mr.. an
, Wrs william +. Shepherd, Freder
-. Ta;lson Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey
Denew. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank ;. WIZ
erbee Mr.. and Mrs. +. Won der hor'
, Koch. Mr. and Mrs. J. Gordon Dou'
los Mrs. Hermann Oelrlchs, Edmun
I Ravlies. Preston Gibson, Elbrldge
; Gerrv Miss Mabel Gerry, Robert
10 Cerrv DR.. Austin Flint, jrr Mr
charles b. Alexander, DR.. Robert Coz
> man lanes. J. Henry Alexandra, Frai
$50. Rnrke Roche, W Rhineland'
> stewart Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Clews.
Wrs' PAYNE Whitney, Mrs. j. Ii
y Toiier Mrs. william d. Sloane, Ma
u COIN d. Sloane, Mrs. Elliott F. She
7 I'D Mrs |. Townsend Burden, Mi
u Fvelvn Byrd Burden, Mrs. James
Rrrden ir. Mrs. Hamilton Mel
= Twombiv. Miss Ruth Vanderbi
= Twombly, G. Louis Boisseyain. Charl'
A Baudouine, John Mel. Bowma
l. John Clinton Gray, jr, William
Burden, Charles Dana Gibson. Ham
!. ton W. Cary. Austen Gray, Worthin
ton Whitehouse, Mr.. and Mrs. CHAR
! de l.. Oelrichs, Monson Morris, Afr
r. Conkling, william J. Schieifel
= Mrs. r. Fulton Cutting. Lawren
a Waterbury and W. De Lancey kountz
= Mrs. French Vanderbilt's presenC
with her son, gave rise 70 rumors th'
{ as the divorced wife of Mr.. Vanderb
she would benefit from his will. Pc
= sons close TO the family said. howe''
y that she received an ample sum
money when they separated, and IN
: il was highly improbable that s
% would receive any share Of his esta'
e II is reported that the vii! contai
II no surprises. Roy c. Gasser. OF t
firm Of Anderson & Anderson, 10 Bro
} Street, lawyers for the Nanderb
e family. said yesterday that Mr.. Va
derbilt's will would be filed soon. !
n could not give the date.