Show iII HOW THEY GOT r ii f i n INTO SOCIETY 1 q t i Some Famous Moves Made by I the Great Families < 3 Fami-lies f I i I GEORGE GOULDS SCHEME 1t 1 OTHEOS HAD A STRUGGLE NEARLY H r r AS ITARD t Health wealth and Nerve Qf Various f Vari-ous Kinds Are Requisite to Succeed fZ Suc-ceed Like Other Esteemed Luxuries 1 i Luxu-ries the Price Paid is a high One l Social Sponsors I i i Wtjitlen for The Herald Open sesame and the jewelled doors of New York society fly open on their I If golden hinges and behold you are one of the family Providing great I t r many things You must have wealth to do your t share of the heavy spending you must i have health to keep up with the never I ending round of amusements and you must be a jolly good fellow else they will have none of you Above all you f Ji L must have a social sponsor a kind of I l fairy godmother to strike the barred i f i doors and give the password and falling fall-Ing her your other qualifications will l avail you nothing I I Would you believe it that fifteen L it years ago the great and powerful Van I derbilt family with more than 200 f 000000 at their disposal were numbered amng the outsiders Mrs Willie K Vanderbilt who is now so delightfully exclusive that she has only one hundred hun-dred and fifty of the howling swells on her visiting list sighed in vain for an invitation to the Patriarch ball then as now the social court of America But when William H Vanderbilt the father of Cornelius Willie K Fred and George got ready to enter society he opened the way in a magnificent fashion and landed his family in the front ranks where they have been ever since Every one remembers the gorgeous Vanderbilt costume ball which reads like a fairy tale now in this year of marvelous entertaining Diamonds rubies emeralds and pearls decked the hosts and the guests and gleamed in the draperies and hangings of the palatial house All society was bidden to the feast and all sotIety donned its best bib and k tuel r and straightway came and the < VandTbilt entrance into the most exclusive ex-clusive circles by what was afterward to be the Four Hundred was a thing L < accomplished Humble Beginnings It Is interesting to note those who most vigorously opposed the Vander bilts giving as their reason that the aristocracy of this new world should not be based upon dollars but a combination com-bination of blue blood with of course some money There were the Astors whose dear old grandfather came over from a little townWaldorf in Germany Ger-many and peddled pelts and furs to such advantage that today the Astor family has 260000000 of increasing wealthproducing properties J There were the exclusive Livingstons who are so proud of their name and of I dating back to Colonial days when their honest old ancestor Philip Livingston Liv-ingston in 1769 sold sugar loaves and pounds of tea and made out neat bills for the same in pounds shillings and pence William and John De Peyster i tn 1786 not only sold cloth and buckram I and buttons and thread but charged good round prices for the same Nicholas Stuyvesant sold handkerchiefs handker-chiefs and caps and Peter Goelet dealt In slates knitting needles and eteel I I kneebuckles which must have been a profitable business as the old mans descendants Robert and Ogden Goelet are many times millionaires Frederick Fred-erick Rhinelander whose descendants now own castles on the Rhine as well a < > palaces In New York sold cups and Bailees and teapots spelt pott I whle William sold yards of red and yellow calico James Roosevelt was a I grocer and Cornelius Roosevelt sold 1 such plebeian things as lampblack linseed l lin-seed or and window glass Jonathan Fish was a weigher and weighed tons of logwood but this was back In 1769 The list is madefrom an old package of receipted bills belonging to the last I They are authentic and all century I j of the names ire high up in the book I of American Peerage today This proves beyond all question that eF 4 s r cal prominence is founded upon J Health and the fortunes of the Knickerbockers I t Knick-erbockers were made in the same sub J stautial manner and4 > y the same hard i apfi n i J d I c > c r Q 1 < < T strokes that the Vanderbilts Austin Corbin Gould and the more recent millionaires mil-lionaires dealt in making theirs A number of the most delightful society so-ciety leaders recognize the fact that the colonial dames and other American Ameri-can aristocrats who trace straight back to colonial days usually find that the organ of their stately name and princely fortune can be found in some neat clean little milk and butter or calico and thread store and these wise men and wiser women welcome a great many delightful people into their circle of friends and eventually into that greatlytobedesired position a component com-ponent of New Yorks swell society A Great Sponsor Society is greatly indebted to ilrs Paran Stevens for having the independence inde-pendence to make friends of whom she pleases and of introducing her I new friends to the extremely conservative conserva-tive society people who are so glad to know and to make much of the newcomers new-comers after Mrs Stevens has as it were vouched for them This jolly goodtempered godmother met the Goulds in England last summer and found them delightful to know good looking happy and altogether agreeable agree-able and she had an enjoyable time on their yacht Atalanta and when she came to New York in the autumn she returned the hospitalities and not only made Mr and Mrs George Gould have a jolly time at her marble palace on Fifth avenue but also made them the i fashion Jay Tried to Get It Not three years ago Jay Gould gave a grand reception for his daughter Helen Gould the list of invited guests contained the names of all the Four Hundred besides a very large list of personal friends who were not of the fashionable set Not one of the society people came and here not three years afterward and two of those years spent in mourning and the most exclusive ex-clusive and aristocratic scions of the Knickerbockers are out in full force at the CastellaneGould wedding and Mrs George Gould told an intimate r4l t ri I f fJ 1 j A i AIIL5ff I IIihJAjR1q5 I 11111 I IlI I m M I V H i f rr ry r f y t i i 1 I ins PARAN STEVENS I friend the other flay that she had had requests for invitations from society people whom she had never seen Mrs Stevens must be flattered to think that in less than a year she can if she so wills not only introduce a family into i society but put them in a position I where they can assume the leadership I if they choose I The Corblns Hard Fljrht I Pretty goldenhaired Miss Annie Cor bin daughter of Austin Corbin the I railway magnate is another of Mrs I II I I 14t I qJ J T I HOW GEORGE GOLLD GOT IN Stevens recent proteges and she gives the most delightful and unique entertainments enter-tainments in her fathers magnificent home and society finds Itself wondering wonder-ing now and then what they did during Lent and other dull times before Sponsor Spon-sor Stevens gave them the pleasure of knowing her How Mrs Cleveland Got In Lovely Mrs William C Whitney whose sad death is still a sorrow to n I I I MRS IV K VANDERBUT AT THE FANCY DRESS lULL those who knew her was the most delightful sponsor New York has ever Icnowna When Mrs Cleveland came to New York to live as an expresidents wife society wondered if they should visit her McAllister was interviewed and so were the reputed society leaders lead-ers and some said yes and some said no Mrs Whitney said nothing at all but she gave a grand reception in honor of her friend invited the fash ionable set and Mrs Cleveland became I again the first lady in the land i The Leiters of Chicago and WaShI I ington were introduced in New York society by Mrs Whitney and beautiful j I Miss Mary Leiter the daughter of the i western dry goods king became the I belle of the Patriarch ball set and re I fusel more of the young scions of the Knickerbockers than any maid whoever who-ever came to Gotham from north south east or west Now she is going to do what so many of our girls do every day and that is exchange her beauty and her millions for an aris tocracy which is the real thing for her future husband is down in Burkes Peerage and there is not much going on beyond that I think it was the Iselins who stood sponsor for beautiful Mabel Wright who had no claim in social distinction except her marvellous blond beauty And she was beautifulfair as a lily and queenly and stately beyond all the women who danced the hours away at the Patriarch ball seven years ago N I 7 t 1 iT MRS WILLIAM ASTOR when she made her debut into society She lived in a boarding house with an invalid mother and could make little return for the lavish hospitality which was poured upon her except by her j brightness and beauty which were a constant joy to those who knew her i This goldenhaired Cinderella found her fairy prince in the person of Fernando i Fer-nando Yznaga the divorced husband of Mrs Willie K Vanderbilts sister I and the brother of the Duchess of Manchester Five years have gone by since the wedding disillusion has come and the ocean divides them until another an-other barrier separates them forever The social sponsors whose proteges are popular and good and prosperous congratulate themselves and smile and stroke themselves and I suppose when the reverse is the case they feel a corresponding cor-responding amount of sorrow and disappointment dis-appointment but fortunately it does not harden their hearts and they will be ready to perform the same offices for us when you and I are prepared by culture beauty and millions to enter en-ter in MILDRED MOORE |