116. Clews, Fifty Years in Wall Street, p. 366.
117. Belmont Memoirs, p. 110.
118. New York Times, March 27, 1883.
119. New York World, March 27, 1883.
120. New York Sun, March 27, 1883.
121. New York Herald, March 27, 1883.
122. New York World, March 27, 1883.
123. Andrews, The Vanderbilt Legend, p. 286.
CHAPTER FOUR
1. New York Times, August 5, 1883.
2. New York World, March 6, 1895.
3. Amory, Who Killed Society?, pp. 50-51.
4. Clews, Fifty Years in Wall Street, p. 387.
5. Balsan, The Glitter and the Gold, p. 10.
6. Ibid., p. 12.
7. Ibid., p. 12.
8. Ibid., p. 14.
9. Ibid., p. 10.
10. Ibid., p. 14; Belmont Memoirs, p. 93.
11. Balsan, p. 14; Belmont Memoirs, p. 95
12. Belmont Memoirs, p. 95.
13. Balsan, p. 19.
14. Ibid., p. 15.
15. Ibid., p. 11.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 11.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., p. 6.
20. Ibid., p. 7.
21. Ibid., p. 25.
22. Ibid., p. 13.
23. Belmont Memoirs, p. 70.
24. Balsan, p. 13.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., pp. 8-9
27. Ibid., p. 9.
28. Ibid., p. 5.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid. Soon after Alva’s fan cy dress ball, at a time when Willie and Alva Vanderbilt were attending every fashionable event in New York, there was gossip that Willie was rebelling at being forced to attend so many balls and dances, and to officiate at so many affairs at 660 Fifth Avenue. (New York World, December 10, 1885.)
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid., p. 11.
34. Belmont, “Why I Am a Suffragist,” p. 1178.
35. Balsan, p. 6.
36. New York Times, October 14, 1883.
37. Croffut, The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune, p. 232.
38. New York Sun, December 10, 1885.
39. Croffut, p. 232.
40. New York Times, December 9, 1885.
41. Croffut, p. 200.
42. Fiske, Off-hand Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers, pp. 329-330.
43. New York Tribune, December 9, 1885.
44. Maher, The Twilight of Splendor, pp. xvi-xvii.
45. Schuyler, ‘The Vanderbilt Houses,” p. 43; Elliott, Uncle Sam Ward and His Circle, p. 619.
46. Harvey, Frick, pp. 269-270.
47. Strahan, Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection, Vol. 1, pp. v, 9.
48. McAllister, Society as I Have Found It, pp. 369, 371.
49. Croffut, p. 166.
50. Churchill, The Splendor Seekers, p. 41.
51. Croffut, p. 170.
52. Churchill, p. 53.
53. Croffut, p. 171.
54. Ibid., p. 293.
55. Ibid., p. 213.
56. Ibid., p. 262.
57. Hoyt, The Vanderbilts and Their Fortune, p. 266. The shock of witnessing the death of William H. Vanderbilt, coupled with heavy drinking, caused Garrett to lose his mind. He imagined himself to be the Prince of Wales, a delusion his wife supported, transforming their mansion into a replica of the Court of St. James’s and hiring actors in appropriate costumes to impersonate court officials. Harry Lehr enjoyed toying with the poor man, coming to visit him dressed as the crown prince of Germany and speaking to him in broken English, much to the delight of the befuddled Garrett.
58. New York Herald, December 12, 1885.
59. Clews, p. 388.
60. New York Sun, December 10, 1885.
61. Croffut, p. 308.
62. Ibid., pp. 181-182.
63. Belmont Autobiography, p. 33; Belmont Memoirs, p. 101.
64. Balsan, p. 15.
65. New York Times, October 1, 1886.
66. Hoyt, p. 282.
67. Balsan, p. 16.
68. Ibid., pp. 15-16.
69. Baker, Richard Morris Hunt, p. 352.
70. Belmont Memoirs, p. 110a.
71. Belmont Memoirs, p. 125; Belmont Autobiography, p. 75.
72. Belmont Autobiography, p. 41.
73. Hunt, The Richard Morris Hunt Papers, p. 243.
74. Belmont Memoirs, p. 92.
75. Stein, The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt, p. 167.
76. Belmont Autobiography, p. 38.
77. Belmont Memoirs, p. 92.
78. Hunt, p. 243
79. Lehr, “King Lehr” and the Gilded Age, p. 175.
80. Belmont Memoirs, p. 1.
81. Belmont Autobiography, p. 44.
82. Baker, p. 352.
83. Huntington Library, C.E.S. Wood Papers, Sara B. Field to C.E.S. Wood, July 29, 1917, Box 280.
84. Belmont Memoirs, p. 110.
85. Ibid., p. 111.
86. Belmont, “Why I Am a Suffragist,” p. 1176.
87. Belmont Memoirs, p. 162.
88. Balsan, p. 7.
89. Ibid., p. 29.
90. Balsan, p. 29.
91. Ibid.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid., p. 30.
94. Ibid., p. 31.
95. Ibid., p. 40.
96. New York World, March 6, 1895.
97. Ibid. It was speculated that Nellie Neustretter was merely a decoy used by Willie Vanderbilt to hide the real object of his affections, Alva’s best friend, the beautiful Consuelo Yznaga, duchess of Manchester, who at that time was a widow. {New York World, March 6, 1895.) It is interesting to note that in Alva’s subsequent trips to England, it was not the duchess of Manchester who acted as her hostess; nor does it seem from her memoirs, The Glitter and the Gold, that Consuelo Vanderbilt, when she became the duchess of Marlborough, saw much of her godmother and namesake, as one might have expected for a young girl seeking a friendly face so far from home.
98. Huntington Library, C.E.S. Wood Collection, Sara B. Field to C.E.S. Wood, Box 280.
99. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 44.
100. Belmont Memoirs, pp. 151, 154.
101. Lehr, p. 121.
102. Maxwell, R.S.V.P., p. 104.
103. Balsan, p. 6.
104. Ibid., p. 36.
105. Ibid., p. 33.
106. Ibid., p. 38.
107. Strange, Who Tells Me True, p. 26.
108. Friedman, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, p. 97.
109. Balsan, p. 34.
110. Ibid.
111. Belmont Memoirs, p. 143.
112. Balsan, p. 40.
113. Andrews, p. 293.
114. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 45.
115. Brough, Consuelo: Portrait of an American Heiress, p. 58.
116. New York Times, November 25, 1926.
117. Balsan, p. 40.
118. Ibid., p. 41.
119. Ibid.
120. Ibid.
121. Ibid.
122. Ibid.
123. Ibid.
124. Ibid., p. 42.
125. Thorndike, The Magnificent Builders and Their Dream Houses, p. 191.
126. Balsan, p. 42.
127. Ibid., p. 43.
128. Ibid., p. 81.
129. Ibid., pp. 82, 83.
130. Ibid., p. 82.
131. Ibid., p. 83.
132. Ibid., p. 84.
133. Thorndike, p. 190.
134. Quote on Lilian Hammersley in Margetson, The Long Party, pp. 56-57. Churchill, Marlborough, pp. 7-8.
135. Balsan, p. 45.
136. Ibid.
137. Ibid.
138. Ibid.
139. Ibid., p. 2.
140. Eliot, Heiresses and Coronets, p. 46.
141. Balsan, p. 46.
142. Ibid., p. 24.
143. Ibid., p. 46.
144. Belmont Memoirs, p. 88.
145. Ibid.
146. Ibid.
14
7. Belmont Autobiography, p. 87.
148. New York Times, November 25, 1926.
149. Balsan, p. 46.
150. New York Times, November 25, 1926.
151. Balsan, p. 47.
152. Ibid., p. 46.
153. Ibid.
154. Wecter, The Saga of American Society, p. 408.
155. Balsan, p. 47.
156. Andrews, pp. 293-294.
157. Brough, p. 218.
158. Balsan, p. 47.
159. Ibid.
160. Ibid. Alva’s tactics in getting what she wanted at any cost were refined from her youth. As a child, she wrote in her memoirs, she reached a point “when I decided I was too old to longer sleep in the nursery. I wanted a room all to myself. Off of the nursery was a little room I had long coveted and for this I made petition. I was refused. I returned to the attack. Again I was refused. After argument, persuasion and attempted arbitration, all to no effect, I declared war.
“I made up my mind to be so hateful and disagreeable in that nursery that there would be a clamor from the nurse and governess to have me put out. One night my sister and I were hitting each other with a bath towel. On the mantel was an assortment of little china animals, artistic and valuable, and over them hung a large picture. I suddenly conceived the idea of militantly breaking my way out of that nursery. I took the towel and with an awful deliberateness knocked down and smashed every one of the china ornaments. Then I attacked the glass in the picture with such cool and vicious strength that it, too, was shattered. There, now, I’ve seen the last of this nursery,’ I thought and went to bed. Presently my Mother came in. She had been out. As soon as she entered the house she was told of my rebellion. She grabbed up her leather riding whip and came straight to me in the nursery. Naturally I received one of the worst whippings I ever got. But I accomplished my purpose. There was a demand from the nursery authorities that I leave and I was given the little room of my heart’s desire.” (Belmont Autobiography, pp. 26-27.)
161. Ibid.
162. Balsan, p. 25.
163. Ibid., p. 6.
164. Andrews, pp. 293-294.
165. Balsan, p. 48.
166. New York Times, August 29, 1895.
167. Belmont Autobiography, p. 64.
168. Balsan, p. 48.
169. Ibid., p. 49.
170. New York Times, September 22, 1896.
171. Brough, p. 73.
172. New York Herald, August 29, 1895.
173. Belmont Memoirs, p. 146.
174. New York Times, August 29, 1895.
175. New York World, August 29, 1895.
176. New York Times, August 29, 1895.
177. New York Times, September 20, 1895.
178. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 46.
179. Balsan, p. 25.
180. Ibid., p. 51.
181. New York Times, September 22, 1895.
182. New York Herald, November 7, 1895.
183. New York World, March 6, 1895.
184. New York World, March 6, 1895.
185. Belmont Memoirs, p. 108.
186. New York Sun, November 7, 1895.
187. New York World, November 7, 1895.
188. Ibid.
189. New York Herald, November 7, 1895.
190. New York Times, November 7, 1895.
191. New York World, November 7, 1895.
192. Ibid.
193. New York Times, November 7, 1895.
194. Ibid.
195. Ibid.
196. New York Times, November 14, 1895.
197. Churchill, The Upper Crust, p. 179.
198. New York Times, November 3, 1895.
199. New York Times, November 8, 1895.
200. New York Daily Tribune, November 7, 1895.
201. New York Herald, November 7, 1895.
202. Ibid.
203. Belmont Autobiography, p. 92.
204. New York Sun, November 7, 1895.
205. Ibid.
206. Balsan, p. 53.
207. New York World, November 7, 1895.
208. Balsan, p. 52.
209. New York Times, November 25, 1926.
210. Balsan, p. 53.
211. Ibid., p. 52.
212. Ibid., p. 53.
213. New York World, November 7, 1895.
214. New York Times, November 7, 1895.
215. Balsan, p. 54, p. 53.
216. Wecter, p. 410.
217. Ibid.
218. Balsan, p. 54.
219. New York Sun, November 7, 1895.
220. Ibid.
221. Thorndike, p. 191.
222. Wecter, p. 410.
223. Balsan, p. 53.
224. New York Times, November 7, 1885.
225. Brough, p. 74.
226. Ibid., p. 218.
227. Balsan, p. 56.
228. Ibid., p. 66.
229. Ibid., p. 45.
230. Brough, p. 218.
231. Balsan, p. 54.
232. Ibid., p. 58.
233. New York Times, November 17, 1895.
234. Ibid.
235. Ibid.
236. Eliot, p. 79. The American press had a field day with this marriage. “Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duke of Marlborough will be married before the end of the year,” wrote the Toledo Blade; “the date of the divorce is yet uncertain.’ After the marriage, the Washington Post noted that “the roof of the Marlborough Castle will now receive some much needed repairs and the family will be able to go back to three meals a day.” (Montgomery-Massingberd, Blenheim Revisited, p. 116.)
CHAPTER FIVE
1. Churchill, The Upper Crust, p. 179.
2. Belmont Memoirs, p. 147.
3. Logan, The Man Who Robbed the Robber Barons, p. 243.
4. New York Herald, September 13, 1899.
5. New York Sun, September 13, 1899.
6. Ibid.
7. Croffut, The Vanderbilts and the Story of Their Fortune, p. 115.
8. New York World, December 10, 1885.
9. Pound and Moore, More They Told Barron, p. 116.
10. Elliott, This Was My Newport, p. 161.
11. New York Times, July 16, 1896.
12. New York Sun, September 13, 1899.
13. Churchill, The Splendor Seekers, p. 69.
14. Friedman, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, p. 50.
15. “Mr. Vanderbilt’s Expenditure,” p. 128.
16. Churchill, The Splendor Seekers, p. 72.
17. Vanderbilt, Farewell to Fifth Avenue, p. 11.
18. Andrews, The Vanderbilt Legend, p. 347.
19. Knickerbocker, ‘The Vital Vanderbilts,” December 1939, p. 76.
20. Strange, Who Tells Me True, p. 103.
21. Vanderbilt, Without Prejudice, p. 93.
22. Ibid., p. 94.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid., p. 111.
25. Churchill, The Upper Crust, p. 230.
26. Churchill, The Splendor Seekers, pp. 159-160.
27. New York Times, November 26, 1892.
28. Elliott, 77ns Was My Newport, p. 161.
29. Hunt, The Richard Morris Hunt Papers, p. 287, p. 298.
30. Decies, Turn of the World, p. 87.
31. Lehr, “King Lehr” and the Gilded Age, p. 290.
32. Vanderbilt, Without Prejudice, p. 104.
33. Friedman, p. 4.
34. Ibid., p. 5.
35. Philadelphia Press, March 25, 1895.
36. Friedman, p. 6.
37. Ibid., p. 48.
38. Ibid., p. 69.
39. Ibid., p. 5.
40. Ibid., p. 62.
41. Ibid., p. 46.
42. Ibid., p. 47.
43. Ibid., p. 70.
44. Ibid., p. 48.
45. Ibid., p. 55.
46. Ibid., p. 72.
47. Ibid., pp. 72-73.
48. Ibid., pp. 73-74.
49. Ibid., p. 92.
50. Philadelphia Press, March 25, 1895.
51. Friedman, p. 52.
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p; 52. Ibid., p. 70.
53. Ibid., p. 67.
54. Ibid., p. 83.
55. Ibid., p. 91.
56. Ibid., pp. 82-83.
57. Ibid., p. 100.
58. Ibid., p. 104.
59. Ibid., pp. 105-106.
60. Ibid., pp. 98-99.
61. Ibid., pp. 88, p. 105.
62. Ibid., p. 99.
63. Ibid., p. 108.
64. Ibid., pp. 108-109.
65. Ibid., pp. 110-111.
66. Ibid., pp. 109-110.
67. Ibid., p. 76.
68. Ibid., p. 97.
69. Ibid., p. 93.
70. Ibid., p. 111.
71. Ibid., p. 99.
72. Ibid., pp. 113-114.
73. Ibid., p. 116.
74. Ibid., p. 115.
75. Ibid., pp. 118-119.
76. Ibid., p. 119.
77. Ibid., p. 133.
78. Ibid., pp. 133-134.
79. Ibid., p. 135.
80. Ibid., p. 142.
81. New York Times, June 11, 1896.
82. Friedman, p. 38.
83. Ibid., p. 5.
84. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 37.
85. Friedman, p. 101.
86. Ibid.
87. Ibid., p. 102.
88. Ibid.
89. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 35.
90. Eliot, Heiresses and Coronets, pp. 98-99.
91. Friedman, p. 102. According to her grandson, Alice Vanderbilt “used to think that every young woman in America was trying to marry her sons,” and perhaps many were, for as her grandson later found out, “There is always a great change in the attitude of the young women I meet as soon as they hear my name.” (Vanderbilt, Man of the World, p. 293.)
92. Friedman, pp. 102-103.
93. Ibid., p. 102.
94. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 48.
95. Friedman, p. 137.
96. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, pp. 48-49.
97. Ibid., p. 49.
98. Ibid., p. 50.
99. Ibid., p. 3.
100. Ibid., pp. 49-50.
101. Friedman, pp. 115-116.
102. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 52.
103. Ibid., p. 53.
104. New York Times, June 11, 1896.
105. Ibid.
106. Eliot, pp. 97-98.
107. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 56.
108. Ibid., p. 58. Compared to the time some months before when Cornelius Vanderbilt had moved his bed into his son’s room during Neily’s attack of rheumatism, Alice and Cornelius now evidenced no obvious concern with Neily’s health. They were seen strolling down Fifth Avenue, and chatting with their friends after they had dinner at the Metropolitan Club.
109. Friedman, p. 140.
110. Vanderbilt, Queen of the Golden Age, p. 55.
111. Ibid.
112. Hoyt, The Vanderbilts and Their Fortunes, p. 306.
113. Goldsmith, Little Gloria…Happy at Last, p. 97.
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