THE VANDERBILTS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXV, Issue 979, 21 June 1902, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE VANDERBILTS.

—+— . The will ol the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, the well-known multi-million-aire, was recently made public, and showed the value ol bis estates to be £14,500,000. The bulk of this fortune went to Mr. Vandcrbilt's young? est son, Alfred, who has £9,000,000 as his share of the estate. His elder brother Cornelius received only £3OO, 000 having been disinherited for marrying Miss Grace Wilson, the daughter banker. His father was bitterly opposed to the match, and the relations between the father and son, after the match were always strained. Still, Cornelius Vanderbilt's lot is not an unhappy one. There are some of us who are simply longing for our father to cut us off with £300,000! Somebody with a craze for arithmetic has calculated that Mr. Vanderbilt paid no less than £700,000 per stone for his bride, or about one hundred times her weight in gold, Nevertheless the young couple live very happily together, and Mr. Vanderbilt does not consider that he has made an expensive bargain, although he may have been overheard addressing his wife as " precious dear I "