Show HISTORY Or OF o I lived Like Uk a Prince Yet Added to toRim tol Rim His Fortune New York Tork Journal If If unluckily Pierre ties lies on j his hl death bed he be hs has one comforting I thought He Be can ean say sey 7 to h ma tf 1 r I I have havo lived Dyed I have enjoyed life Ute I And h he on can Cin e nay ay so I although he Be has i not Dt ben bean la 11 god goad p health for ten years Havn Having inherited rte a princely prIncy fortune Pierre Pere Lorillard Lra t has haa b ty ae ed to it Jt and aDd has b kept ket on en o spending ending db it like We Je a prince pre If I the fashionables faS of o the t ha have any gratitude they must mul be b pray p pea lug tI that Pierre er Lorillard will wili l recover re He Hf has hl given them many entertain m mt which still tl stand as am a models of sty sal styLe I sad and elegance el c they tey have been ba his Jl guests at on his yachts abts and ad hou house boats for them te he b created crate Tuxedo Teo As part of his inheritance Pierre Lorillard came camE Into possession of sev mev several s serl eral erl era thousand acres of rough r up and d dI seemingly I land amid aid the te teP P hills hl No one on out but tnt a genius genum in divination and a Napoleon ic ii ir execution would have even thought of turning this waste land lad into a garden garie But Bt there were pere fre very ver lakes on be the very VeT w of the woods Moods and Ind hiis hi hUl Is was wa as fascinating the te climate e It I was m in l v when hen everyone rae SUP sun suJ posed ose that thet tat he h was W going over the plans pan for or founding Tuxedo Tue for eb establishing lishing a great get game p and a fishing pre pee preserve pe serve fre there tr for fo building und a great g club clubhouse lu house bouse ouse and lot foi oi selling off building plots pt to t those t who w would become bm members m br or of f the organization and subscribe to tots t Its It ts laws laws a Everyone Everone said the th plan was wa grand but not feasible fele chimerical a dream Mr fr Lorillard only oly went on with wit his hi plans The Th Th original orin outlay otay in buildIng ros roads oads laying layng water and ad gas gaa I pipes pip and d hauling material over miles of moun mun tinous tinous roads ros was wa tremendous But there here was an iron irn will wi and an an elastic elute pocketbook behind the t enterprise Look Lk at the Tuxedo of ot today toay only fifteen years Yer old Od and be b convinced that t at Mr Lorillard was Wa no D more rash in pre pro pre that tat a garden would wold grow gow from froma a desert than th he was wa in sending adl Ire Iro I quota to t England En land to s win wn the Derby Derbys Dery I I For or awhile Pierre Pr ruled Tuxedo ae as the te czar cr rules rles Russia Mr r wanted want only those these whom he would ask as to his hie h house at Tuxedo Te Mr Mra or orad a ad and d Mrs r James ames Brown Potter had ha a cottage at Tuxedo Kyrle Bellew Blew was Instructing Mrs n Potter Pott In dramatic art art She or 01 her husband invited invie Bellew Blew to the te Tuxedo dub club cUB house hou When Mr Lor Lr LorIllard Illard learned learne of this he be was wa furious furus When Kyrle Kyrie Bellew Belew learned lerned what hat Loril Lorilard Lorl Lorillard lard ard lard said sid to t Potter Bellew lew In turn was wu furious There Ter was gossip of or a aduel aduel aduel duel between Lorillard and Bellew Blew but butt it t was only frothy gossip Pierre wife wile was the beau beautiful beautiful Miss Emily Taylor Having mar married married ried nod her he bought the house at the northeast corner cornet of or Fifth avenue and street and behind it he erected a beautiful ballroom There were not so many multimIllIonaIres multimillionaire in those days there were not so 80 many superb ballrooms in private residences only the the Asters Astore and Marshall Marshat O 0 Roberts R berts could boast of or them hem In his house Mr Lorillard gave a series of the most I beautiful balls and ind dinners ever seen mean in New Newyork York He bought Ochre Point at Newport and built what was then the grand grandest est eat cottage e on the Cliffs The Breakers which he afterwards sold old to Cornelius Vanderbilt Mr 11 closest friends know that he is even k t better judge of a wine than of a horse which is a high com corn to him hint In the tM last few years lie he te has given many dinners But Butr for r many years yur he be paid a chef a 1 year when other millionaires were hir hiring ing ng cooks cooba for 50 a month To give a 8 dinner ting costing o 1000 was an ordinary event to him He delighted in stag dinners to w which he invited invariably o of ot his friends The mildest of these the e cost coot He thought nothing of spending 1500 to 2000 2000 on a lunch luncheon luncheon luncheon I eon fera fora few of his women friends frien 6 It is an actual fact that when hi his bin wife was In society and the family was undivided there was more money spent in the Lorillard home or homes hom than in any aBY in America The favorite dishes of the master of the house was wan Baltimore terrapin and aDd canvasback duck Nothing but the rarest rare t wines were served s I He was a stickler on wines wine His sherry was served at a temperature of or oro M o degrees his dinner claret between K Ii and 70 7 He had a temperature fixed tor for all hie his rare wines and woe to the butler who departed depa ted from fr m the rule I One One of or the few re American institutions in which bich Pierre Lorillard has delighted d I Is poker He has always 8 been ready to I I bet on a good hand and when he had hadnot hadnot not Rot a good hand to bluff His cool bluffs have made many a richer man manlay manlay manlay lay down the better hand About twelve years ago Mr Lorillard held a hand against J 1 B Haggin that I was the talk of ot the town There were five millionaires in the game and I Frank Work Vork dealt the cards Mr Hag Haggin Haggin gin opened a jackpot and all dropped 1 I out but Mr Kr Lorillard When there was about 1106 1100 in the pot Mr dr Haggin i j called He bad had a straight flush in din dia j I I Mr Lorillard with a placid Ismile I Ismile I smile displayed a royal flush in hearts I I and took the tha money H His friends say y that he has held more royal Hushes in I poker than any living man Mr famous cherry cherr and black racing colors are re famous on the tracks of or two continents f He lie li Is s one of I Ithe the few remaining of or the I American Jockey club days when old Jerome park was at its zenith senith He lie began racing in 1873 Free Lance and Saxon being the first members of his afterward important stable table He established established established Rancocas farm comprising 1800 acres at Johnstown N J at a net out outlay outlay outlay lay of and aDd stocked it with the most roost royally bred br thoroughbred horses of at that day The fruits of the same saYne were the principal stakes of that period and the capturing of or the English Derby of 1881 1381 by b an American horse |