Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1908 — LEAVES VANDERBILT HOME [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LEAVES VANDERBILT HOME

MILLIONAIRE’S WIFE REMOVES EFFECTS FROM MANSION. She Will Make Her Home with Her Brother, While Husband Goes ° to London. New York, Mar. 26. —It became known here Wednesday that Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt has removed her personal effects from Oakland Farm, Newport, her husband’s country home. Her home during the summer, it is understood, will be at the residence of her brother, Amos Tuck French, at Tuxedo. Mr. Vanderbilt, who recently came to New York from London; is now at the Hotel Plaza. It 1b said he will return to London soon and occupy a house he has rented for the season. The announcement that Mr. and Mrs. Vanderbilt will not make Newport their home this summer has occasioned much surprise in society circles. Mrs. Vanderbilt, with her brother, Mr. French, who has been at Newport much this winter, superintended the moving of her effects from the farm. She then came to New York, accompanied by Mr. French, her little son, William Vanderbilt, Miss Pauline

French, her sister, and her sister’s fiance, Samuel Wagstaff. She did not go to the Plaza upon her arrival in New York. Neither did she or her sister go directly to Tuxedo. Mr. French, however, went to Tuxedo to make arrangements for the goods that were to come on from Newport. Mrs. Vanderbilt was Miss Elsie French, daughter of the late Francis Ormond French, president of the Manhattan Trust Company and director in many railroads. She married Mr. Vanderbilt in January, 1900, after he had been graduated from Yale a year. William, their only child, was born in 1901. Alfred Vanderbilt inherited upwards of $60,000,000 from his father, the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. Much of his time has been spent abroad during the past year.

Alfred Vanderbilt.