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...when automobiling was a sport requiring goggles and a linen duster, William Kissam Vanderbilt II and some rich cronies who wanted to motor to their Long Island homes at 40 m.p.h. without scaring horses and infuriating the public, joined in buying a 50-mi. strip of land down Long Island from Flushing to Lake Ronkonkoma. On it they built a narrow, wriggling ribbon of concrete and macadam with bridges over every crossroad. Total cost: $3,500,000. The Long Island Motor Parkway was thus the first modern type highway. In 1908, 1909 & 1910 Mr. Vanderbilt & friends used five miles...
Married. Mrs. Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith, daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, granddaughter of California's late Senator James Graham Fair; and Henry Gassaway Davis III, coal scion, grandson of West Virginia's late Senator and Vice Presidential nominee, Henry Gassaway Davis, divorced last August by his new wife's cousin, Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter Grace; in the saloon of her father's $2,500,000 yacht Aha, moored at the Vanderbilt nine-acre Terminal Island, off Miami Beach...
Died. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 58, socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival...
Left. By the late Mrs. Virginia Fair Vanderbilt, divorced in 1927 from Manhattan Capitalist William Kissam Vanderbilt: an estate of $6,765,972; in Mineola, N. Y. It was found that she owed her onetime husband $14,945 in overpaid alimony...
...William Kissam Vanderbilt, 5,000 shares of Western Union, 2,000 shares of New York Central worth...