Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE KINSMAN OF VANDERBILTS SUNDAY MORNING s OCTOBER 3 1937 AND ASTORS 3 How tjie Aristocratic Had to Settle The Question of Whether One Could Be K Gentleman on $25 a Week and Other Disclosures Taxi-Driv- er 9 — y-y-- ' ' ' v f - v:- N - V - i" - 4xj v v5 'v' 1 vv ' ’ 4 W v) $J y fi r 'III 'O ' : H'I t pM '£”A P 7W7 if :i-- V £ I O 'Tir o ¥ va Z$ xS4 ft V 7 Mj' A xv wAvikfcifcKi Edward Tuck “Uncle Ned” French Refers of Paris the Whom Mr in This Article “Tucky” French’s Mother Leaving Her Daughter’s Wedding to John Jacob Astor Which She Opposed as Told by Mr French in This Story He Also Reveals That She Refused to Have His Name on the Invitations to (Continued from Preceding Page) AT those times Tucky told about meeting Eileen Gilles- one of pie who once had been engaged The meeting wad friend whom she to Jack Astor through her girl called “Impy” ‘‘Impy told Eileen I would be there” said Tucky to me "and Eileen said: ’Grand! Would love to see her’ But she must have decided not to speak to me for we didn’t speak All my friends and their mothers are furious at her d And gone are my feelings toward her There’s a girl that’s going to be firmly squelched and put In her place Eileen has asked Impy if she can sit at our table at the subscription dinner dance we all go to soft-hearte- Impy told her that she’d talk it over with me and under the circumstances I didn’t feel as if I wanted her to sit with us Did that burn her up? Because all of our mothers are patronesses and all of us being the patron- esses’ daughters sit at the same table If Eileen doesn’t sit with us it’ll show the general public that I have the upper hand” A year had passed since my daughter’s marriage meanwhile and I was expecting every day to hear the glad news that I was a grandfather When on July 19 1935 a telegram came from Jack saying: “Tucky had a boy o’clock this afternoon are well at five Both ’ next morning when Mary and I were paying a second visit to Tucky before we went back to Newport Then he dashed into the room very excited and nervous and Irritable He paced up and down the floor and scarcely spoke to me Mary and I left sifter a few moments and went back to Newport But promptly on our arrival there one of the servants from “Chetwode" brought a note of apology from my which he had sent by hand from New York The note revealed his true character as nothing else could have done In it he asked me to understand if I could how a man would feel who was very much in love with his wife and who had been a father for only two days Wasn’t it to be expected of him he asked that he should have a flash of resentment at finding anyone with his wife — even her own father? Of course it was! I understood perfectly That summer the Enzo Fiermontes arrived in Newport and I hoped to an acquaintance that I had formed years ago at Bar Harbor where I met Madeline Force and her sister Katherine now Mrs Lorillard Spencer Enzo Fiermonte Italian prizefighter of humble origin divorced his Italian wife to marry the former Madeleine Talmage Force whose first husband John Jacob Astof sank with the 19X2 His moBt-rsee- nt appeal ance in headlines was when he served a jail sentence in New York on a son-in-lg- w Dr Ernest “Putsy” Hanfstaengl (Left) and the Author Strolling In Newport Before the Astor-Frenc- h Wedding read in a column of a newspaper: ENZO SPOTLIGHT DIMS TCCKY’S TAXICAB DAD The story went on to say: "Asailey’s Beach becomes an in- creasingly friendly strand to Enzo Fiermonte stepfather of Jack Astor it becomes a less and less familiar one to Francis Ormond French father of Mrs Jack Astor Mr French is in but decidedly not of Newport” And that brings d up the adventure I had as a New York much-discusse- 'i Te-ne- w ln four-year-o- ld Mary and I set out immediately for New York and the Doctors’ Hospital The boy I thought looked all right —about 95 Astor and 3 French The other 2 were wrinkles and furrows Anyway I assured Tucky I had no complaints to make and her promptness had made me the first member of my class at Harvard to become a grandfather My father had presented his class of ’85 with the class baby the Frenches’ my sister Pauline record was holding out! I did not see my until the speeding This aavice was poured' into my ears charge—Editor Mary ’ and I frequently noticed the good-looki- Italian as he passed us in his smart motor one day Then I son-in-la- w by the driver who was ‘delegated to take me out around Central Park for a lesson in the art of chauffeuring a taxi He added that if I was lucky I might make $25 a week by driving during the daylight hours If I worked atnight I might earn as high as $42r Two questions came to my mind: Can one be a gentleman on $25 a — — — week? taxicab driver It Can one be a gentleman and still happened after Ela tip? eanor brought suit accept I decided on my first day at work against me for di- to put it to the test I drove my car vorce in the courts along the Avenue and parked in front of Newthe Y ork al-— of my cousin Bill Vanderbilt’s house law where I figured that before long Bill would lows but one cause for divorce (More be coming out feeling expansive after about that later) The interlocutory a well rounded breakfast and Judgment on default was given on Feb be inclined tahtke a drive down might town 23 1923 My wife received the custody But somebody in the house complained of our daughters Ellen and Virginia to the police and an officer ordered me The divorce and the publicity atto "move out of there” tendant on it alienated me still furBut the” law was not so observant of ther from my family Though with me that when I was resting Aunt Elsie’s and my father’s examples after my evening work and my landlady day’s before us no one could say that I told me a and gentleman were started the French family toward the downstairs lady and wished to see me I divorce court Also alas it cost' me found me in the lady's parlor awaiting securities my ap elegantly dressed woman and a man I had never before laid eyes on either My finances now touched rock bottom I had need of a job any job one of them that paid a living wage I began to "We have read about you in the cast fearful glances at the men I saw newspapers Mr French” the woman on benches in the parks and to said "We have a business sitting proposition wonder if and when IguldJgUtJth£m — to y“ou that may lnure'sCyou' There One day I redd the advertiseI agreed to' talk matters over with ment of a cab company for drivers and then I became acquainted I filed an application giving the names them with a racket — not aa subtle as the of three bank presidents as references! society racket I suppose but just as And was accepted on trial deliberate cold and calculating "Keej) an' eye on the fare” I was told “so he can’t hit you on the head with a gat The women are worse Next Week: Mr French re than the men Don't bw fooled by -- counts strange adventures and the girls who cross their legs high so as to get something off the reading reveals more reason why he be- ij i -- f M if ' - w ' & A Job-rselll- ng The Dowagers Who Have Dominated the Newport Scene Since Francis Ormond French Became a Figure There Frown Upon “Shorts” as a Beach Costume But Nevertheless the Marquees of Donegall Ode of the Notable Visitors of This Besson Named Miss Eleanor Young (Above) as Newport’s No 1 Glamour Girl of Today Join the Brotherhood” lieves “Society la a Racket' 4 A x vx-- s v V V “The Breakers" Newport Residence of “B1U” Vanderbilt to Whom the Author Refers in Ty§ Article as It Appears from ths Air - f dopyrlght 1n7 '1 |