Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-09

deserve any of the series of tragedies which
made his friends wonder if he had been born
under an evil star? Though both Marmaduke
and Reggie died from dissipation the charac-
ters of the two were far from alike.
The Americans fortune was not to be COM
pared in size with the enormous fortune of the
Englishman, but there even greater diff
ference in the minds they inherited. Long
before coming of age, Reggie knew that he
was a dull-witted youth with nothing to in
terest anyone but his money and the glamour
Gus name of Vanderbilt.
Richard Garfield, the New York gambler,
who is said to have relieved Reggie of at least
one of his millions, nattered him to his face
but behind his back referred to him as 1.-The
drunken kid"
Reginald Vanderbilt ran through all of his
fortune that was not tied up in trust funds
Marmaduke, though giving little time to the
vast shipping interests built up by his father
preserved his Inheritance we'll that in spite
of taxes that were almost confiscatory he left
around 20000000
1t was not necessary for him to buy friend
ship or love nor did he start in early to be-
come drunkard Marmaduke, known to his
friends as Duke" probably had enough tai
ents' to have built up second fortune, as big
as his father had accumulated But what was
the sense in that when he already had more
than he could ever need?
He would devote himself to the pursuit of
happiness but in solid, common-sense Brit
ish way. Marmadukes father, the first Baron
Furness of Grantley who died in 1912, had
warned his son that keeping millions is some
times harder than making them. Therefore the
young Lord devoted just enough time and no
more to be the real head of the great shipping
business and others he had inherited,
Lord Furness was convinced of one thing,
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piness until he has the right wife and fam
iy This was his chief concern and he sue
ceed6d so well that it ruined his later life
When barely 81, he married beautiful Miss
Daisy Carew. in 1904, and for the next seven
teen years so perfectly happy in his choice
that ne often said:
IF should lose my fortune know many
places where ! could soon build up another.
But if should lose Daisy, would not know
where TO look for another like her"
This was a nice sentiment such as any rich
man might have said on his wedding ami
versary but it proved to be dreadfully true.
Fate, tired of this mans unbroken health
success and happiness, suddenly struck him
in his most vulnerable spot
In 1921, Lady Funess underwent a major
abdominal operation. OF course she had the
best surgeon and care and soon il was only
question of convalescence.
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take trip in the Mediterranean on their great
steam yacht the Sapphire" On the way
they into a storm of hurricane force,
which made the convalescent so seasick that
in her nausea commissions she burst the
stitches of the wound
The yacht was headed for the nearest Span
ish port, but just as land was sighted, Lady
Furness died.
There was no longer any reason for land
ing, so the yacht was headed for England But
the storm continued to hold them back until
the body reached condition which made it
seem advisable to have a sea burial.
Lord Furhess suffered not only from a
- broken heart but from a broken happiness
habit Of seventeen years. He must find
replacement for his lost love and new mother
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