WEALTHY BABIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 130, 25 July 1911, Page 3

WEALTHY BABIES.

Q American society reads with approval the announcement in the fashion columns that “where Mr and Mrs Kdward Maclean will go this summer has not been decided, hut wherever they go they have decided that Baby Maclean shall accompany them.’’ Mr and Mrs Maclean are among the most popular young couples in Washington, and Bahy, by reason of .his inheritances, is probably the world’s richest infant. He is usually called “the hnndred-million-clollar baby,” and will actually inherit about £15,000,000. Now and then the Sunday newspapers describe ids golden cradle and “diamond encrusted togs,” but, in (net, the youngster, except for a big stall of personal attendants, fares much the same as other wealthy babies, neither better nor worse. Owing to the prodigious wealth of their infant, Mr and Mrs Maclean are obliged to submit to the ordeal of the publication of their photographs in the public press whenever a crisis arrives in the child’s life, such as vaccination, the first tooth, or measles.

As regards publicity, Baby Maclean is hotly pressed in the race today by Baby llaudolpli Hopkins, heir to £1,000,000, and known as “the five-miliion-dollar bahy.” Although only fifty-eight days old, “Young [loppy.” as he is called, has already acquired a national reputation. His father, an Atlanta millionaire, announced that he had just completed legal arrangements’ tb make his son the owner, so' far as possible, of a brand-new mansion in Fifth Avenue; According to the .same chroniclers, the new house will boast a wired-in roof, on which there will he many small animals and birds likely to amuse the child until he is seven or eight years of age. On the roof there will also be an open-air nursery, with all the accessories of a German kindergarten, including a sandheap.