Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-31 | Page 1 | Millions in a Marriage

MILLIONS IN A MARRIAGE. Two Great Fortunes to Bo United in Wedding- to Soon. Occur. NEW YORK, July 20. The fortunes of tho richest young bachelor and the greatest heiress in New York will bo united in marriage If the reports received re-ceived from England In regard to the engagement of Robert Walton Goolet and Miss Gladys Vanderbllt are true. Robert Walton Goelet has already 510,000.000 In his own right, and will Inherit In-herit 530,000,000 more at the death of his mother. Miss Vnnderbllt received $7,600.-000 $7,600.-000 from the estate of her father, tho late Cornelius Vandorbilt, Sr.. at tho time of his deaths and Is hciresn to a portion of the ?100.000.000 representing his entire fortune, bo that she will ultimately ulti-mately be worth about S30.000.000. Both young people arc studious and unaa-aumlnrr, unaa-aumlnrr, and each would be quite as well eontontcd with $1,000,000 as with $300,000,000. The report of tho engagement probably prob-ably originated In tho fact that Mra. Cornelius Yanderbllt and Miss Gladys Vanderbilt are tho guests of Mrs. Robert Rob-ert Goelet a.nd young Robert Walton Goelet for n cruise to the North Cape In the magnificent yacht Nahma. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Goelet are great friends, and this fact, taken In connection connec-tion with the presonee of the young people peo-ple on the cruise, is assumed to be an indication that Miss Vanderbilt and Mr. Goelet are Intended for each other by their mothers, oven If they are not xictually engaged. Both Miss Vanderbilt and Mr. Goelet are very young. Miss Gladys is still In her leeus, and is under the careful tutelage tu-telage of governesses nnd masters. She vrill not come Into her fortune for almost al-most three years. Robert Goelet ls only five years older. It was less than four years "ago that he was playing "Juliet" and "Rosalind" in Harvard amateur theatricals and managing the Harvard Corcle Francals productions with all the zeal of a professional.