Show WHAT MRS VANDERBILT SAVED Appeared at WaldorfAstoria In Hat of Gardeners Wife Ness York Journal Irs Willie K Vanderbilt jr is the most radiantly happyIookins and beaming bride of the season The terrible shock she must have eXperienced eX-perienced when Idle Hourher honeymoon honey-moon homewas destroyed by fire and I when as Is now known she and her husband had really tL narrow escape from death has left no outward traces I and certainly Miss Birdie Fair was never more attracthe to look upon than Thursday last when with her old friend Mrs Kempformerl Miss Baby Neilsenshe drove up Fifth avenue and through the park Irs Vanderbilt was charmingly gowned in black with a violet hat and f carried an immense bouquet of her favorite flowers wood violets The papers have noted with many I favorable comments the fact that Mrs Vanderbilts maid was so thoughtful as to provide her mistress with an elegant hat which Mrs Vanderbilt carefully placed upon her head before Heeing from the burning house The truth is that Mrs Vanderbilt escaped bareheaded and very hastily dressed with some articles of her apparel ap-parel distinctly missing The only bit of jewelry the bride saxed from the fire was the ruby pendant and necklace presented her by her husband on her marriage which was also the only jewel she wore on her wedding day This bloodred ruby is very precious pre-cious to the young wife who cherished it with a peculiar sentiment which Jhe has for no other gem in all her magnificent magnifi-cent collection The night of the fire the ruby necklace neck-lace rested under Mrs Vanderbilts pillow pil-low and in her haste to escape from the danger the little bride did not forget for-get her precious love token from her husband When 111 and Mrs Vanderbilt reached the lawn after fleeing from the house the gardeners wife met them Irs Vanderbilt was hatless and the hardeners wife with many apologies begged Mrs Vanderbi1e to accept the protection of her own new spring hatH hat-H was this modish piece of millinery with its many quills and feathers that young Mrs Vanderbjlt made her ap noarnneo In when she arrived at tIme I Astoria and likewise thIs hat that rc calved such unusual and complimentary attention from reporters Mrs Vanderbilt In speaking of her own and her husbands appearance when they reached the Astoria the I morning of the fire says she could think of nothing they resembled so I much as a pair of stranded vaudeville artists I Mrs Vanderbilt is herself a tiny little woman and uually wears small toques The gardeners wife 011 the Contrary I is rather above the average In height and naturally selects a hat of Imposing Impos-ing build I 1lr Vanderbilt and his wife both laughell heartily over the amazement their unexpected appearance evoked at the Astoria where the servants and the people connected with the hotel know them both very wen and arc l1ston cd tl1 see hem attIred in the most manner fashionable and irreproachable I |