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Died. Mrs. Virginia Fair ("Birdie") Vanderbilt, 55. first wife of William Kissam Vanderbilt II; of pneumonia ; in Manhattan. Daughter of James Graham Fair, Irish immigrant boy who went West with the '49ers, bought into the Comstock Lode and became a U. S.. Senator. "Birdie" Fair followed the footsteps of her elder Sister "Tessie" (Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs) by making a brilliant marriage to a top-flight socialite. A devout Roman Catholic, she got a Paris divorce in 1927, assumed the name Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt...
...took 1,500 Manhattan businessmen, financiers and politicians over the route. At one point where their special train was going at only 5 m.p.h., the hose of the air brakes broke and stopped the train instanter. President Williamson's chair leg broke, spilling him on the floor. William Kissam Vanderbilt landed on his nose. Arthur Hays Sulzberger of the New York Times careened against his august neighbors. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, who was along "to take care of my biggest taxpayer," tottered. Arthur S, Tuttie, New York State engineer for Federal public works, went through the observation...
...butt of his father's jests and contempt until one day he skinned his father on the price of a scowload of dung from Staten Island. William Henry more than doubled his inheritance, left $200,000,000 to be divided between his two sons, Cornelius and William Kissam. Last week when the will of Cornelius' widow, Alice Claypoole Gwynne Vanderbilt, was probated, liveliest news was that she had left her residuary estate to her onetime estranged second son, Brigadier General Cornelius III. His father had cut him off with a paltry $1,000,000 when he married Grace...
...drawing room sat other kin of the late Mrs. Vanderbilt: Nephews Harold Stirling and William Kissam Vanderbilt and William Seward Webb; Brother-in-law Frederick K.; Sisters-in-law Emily (Mrs. Henry B. White), Edith (Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, widow of George Vanderbilt), Lila (Mrs. William Seward Webb), and Florence (Mrs. Hamilton McK. Twombly); Nephew Erskine Gwynne; Grandsons Cornelius, George and William Henry Vanderbilt and Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney; Granddaughters Gladys and Sylvia Szechenyi, Barbara (Mrs. Barklie McKee Henry), Cathleen (Mrs. Lawrence Wise Lowman), Flora (Mrs. G. Macculloch Miller), Grace (Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis III) and Cornelia (Mrs. Eugene B. Roberts...
...midst of the 15-acre Vanderbilt plot adjoining the Moravian Cemetery at New Dorp, Staten Island, there arose almost 70 years ago a great mausoleum (see cut) in which lie 54 coffins including those of the old Commodore; his son William Henry; his grandsons Cornelius, George Washington, William Kissam; his great-grandson Reginald and his great-great-grandson William K. Jr. Last week Mrs. Vanderbilt was put away with those who, in the words read by Dr. Brooks from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer, "are henceforth blessed . . . for they rest from their labors...