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...after long social retirement; of old age; in Manhattan. Born Alice Claypoole Gwynne, she was married in 1867 to the late Cornelius Vanderbilt (died 1899), grandson of the fortune-founding Commodore. Her only social battle (which she eventually won) was with her sister-in-law, the late Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont) for the supremacy of the Vanderbilt clan. In Newport Mrs. Vanderbilt built "The Breakers," the resort's No. 1 mansion; in Manhattan, with permission of the French Government a copy of the Chateau de Blois, razed from its Fifth Avenue & 57th Street...
...Vanderbilt, who commanded the Cup-winning Enterprise three years ago, has formed a syndicate to build a new defense yacht, as yet unnamed. The syndicate includes J. Pierpont Morgan, Gerard Barnes Lambert, Edward H. Harkness, George Fisher Baker, Frederick William Vanderbilt and Harold's brother William Kissam Vanderbilt. The syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard...
...knows of no union of household help in the U. S. No effort to cover servants has been made by the NRA. Individual employers are expected to act in patriotic spirit, like Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt who last week signed the President's blanket code with sole reference to her domestic staff...
...sporting sons, Harold Stirling and William Kissam II, were in the southern U. S., but her daughter Consuelo, one-time pawn of her most amazing social gambit, was there. Outside in the Rue Monsieur the dove-colored Paris dawn was brightening. The old lady, appearing to suffer no pain, lay comatose. But on her square, wide-mouthed face there was a look of concentration, as though, desperately pressed for time, she must reconsider, revalue the countless acts and decisions of her extraordinary lifetime. Suddenly, at 6:50 a. m., her features relaxed...
...cotton planter named Murray Forbes Smith at Mobile, was born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...