Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1902, Page 27

Some New York Millionaires and Their Horses MR. AND MRS. J. J. ASTOR HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY ON HURRICANE . D MORGAN'S CONCORD STAGE l coacH - ; 5 g | 3 P ¥ 1. W. C. Whitney; 2. H. H, Vreeland; 3. Miss Whitney; 4 H. H. Beresford; 6. Miss Randolph, ALFRED GWYNNE VANDERBILT AND PAIR. WATCHING PRIVATE RACES ON W. C. WHITNEY'S PLACE. (Copyright, 1902, by Paul Denby.) better than hie father, William H. A man hotels to some point up the Hudson at not agree with this, but for all that Mr. seven miles from the Westbury station, on ¥ I 8 O VANDERBILT since the old who has known four generations of Van- regular intervals every spring. Morgan loves the horse for his own sake the Long Island railroad, which in its turn commodore has been his equal as derbilts says that Willlam H. was little of His polo playing is said to have been be- as do few professional horsemen and still 18 twenty miles from New York. Mr. Mor a horseman, and only one of the a horseman in reality He rode as a young gun because he is not very robust and it fewer millionaires Besides, Mr. Morgan gan's visitors are often conveyed from the members of the family now liv- man—the romance which culminated in his was expected that the strenuous game knows the horse and his points thoroughly railroad station to his home on the top of ing, Frederick W., is devoted to mariiage with pretty Mies Kissam began would build up nis physical strength. This He has a rule not to go into a business Lis “"Concord’ coach, famous in society and the trotting horse. Frederick W. loves in a fall from a saddle horse in Albany expectation has been measurably fulfilled; enterprise of any sort without thorough in millionairedom, if not with the public the sprightly steppers quite as fondly as but he never understood horses.. He hadn't he is stronger now than ever before and vyestigation and he carrics the rule out in Morgan's Antigue Conch, \ either the founder of the family or his son @ tithe of the commodore’s dash and nerve besides he has contracted a genuine lKing gelecting his horses, never taking any one's He is especially proud of this vehicle and , William H., to whom Early Rose and the 85 & driver and it was always his tralners for the game Iuwnjl.\ he has enlarged judgment but his own when buying. This frequently himself handles the reins from peerless Maud S. were as the apples of his that got close to his horses—not William his polo grounds at Newport so that they was true of old Commodore Vanderbilt, but its box. There is an iwpression that the two eyes :I’_ ( "”‘"]""" the second “,“- never a are now of the "”’"'_”“‘ on size, and the ¢ has not been true of his several sons-in- vehicle is at least a century old, but ex Mr. Frederick's fondness for the trotting (l.ux\‘ man and the .\.nm.‘ may be said |.:I I.H,nm'l and lighter | in which he and J,w or of any of his descendants save perts in coach architecture declare 1t to be horse is of a different brand from the com- "€Or&e the youngest of the commodore's s intimate 1‘||-|1ll If'_’l"‘f' Livingston pregerick W Like the latter, Mr. Morgan of the vintage of about 1820, and there is modore's He undoubtedly got as much grandsone ‘I’”’” K "\{ Elbridge T. Gerry, commo- s gyerse to publicity and never makes a warrant in tradition for the statement tha: pleasure in making a public show of him- Alfrcd Gwynne and Reginald, sons of the 'l re of '“""~ 'f‘(_\_"‘]" \“‘“"." 'I“I" and best 4wy display of his prowess as a driver, 1L was pui in commission as a regular stag. self and his horses as he did out of the act commodore’s grandson Cornelius, are the "HOWD ‘)l‘ o 2 ‘l“ 4 ”““ Man, {hough he tools a four-in-hand with much coach about cighty years ago. Mr. Morgan of driving. Consequently, he used to speed best horsemen of the family's fourth gen "}:' u“h Illillll"ll‘:”“lll” ]:;:‘_";‘1\]]“:[”_'[” ”““‘h skill, ran across it in Maine some years since is steppers invariably i § eration, Their brother Cornelius, who has ‘ il o " Ko . SPAROL, % as & § 3 ( ) his steppers invariably in New York, 4 [ rot he orneliu o has Sotng Mo (lesry. by (he whys Onivas the It wae B. D. Morgan, by the way, who It was still in use, or had been only a where he cculd see and be seen, whers been discountenanced by his family be- A - ' " hort time before, but to see it was to « : 4 “Pioneer” generally when Alfred Gywnne made the famous “four-in-hand trip around ' e both he and his nags could receive the in- Ccause he married Miss Wilson, is no horee- ks ’ S5 covet it with him, and after that it was a . : d 7 finds it inconvenient to do so, and chanced the world” a few years ago. He did not ’ A as & spiration that is furnished by an admiring. man at all, almost never being scen either g question of price only . . 9 . 2 4 o 2 24111 c to be on the box the other day when a circumnavigate the earth on the box of a o cheering crowd Frederick drives his riding or driving. His cousin, William K., b Guests who are particularly favored re i A § - - Y » R ' “Cruelty to Animals" officer held up the coach, of course, the circumnavigation being LeSmtey. 4 horses solely for his own pleasure and that JI though owning horses a-plenty, owns b : ¥ ceive photographs of the old coach a L rialls v S a ST e e coach, claiming that one of the horses was ¢ftected on board the big English steam # . i of his friends He doesn't care for the them chiefly because as a rich man it's the ouvenirs on departure sometime Ons e ¢ ? thing to do: he cares much less f the suffering from a galled shoulder. yacht Amy, but he took along with him a " 4 v applause of the groundlings and virtually thing to 4o, Rhe cares much jess lor them « Bin} 3 tous \ | o g 2 photograph shows Theodore and Mrs r‘" never shows himself behind a speedy trot- than for his various motor cars and other Reginald Vanderbilt is a better horseman ¢oach-and-four, and wherever he landed a1 ia Roouscvelt as inside passengers., M M . ter except on the secluded roads near Hyde horseless vehicles. W. K. Vanderbilt, his than Alfred Gwynne, perhaps, and a more there landed also his driving establishment b i8I0 DRAREN I Ir. Mor . 4 gan himself has the veins, while Center Park, his Hudson river country seat, or in father, takes an immense interest in racing, daring polo player, but this is due almost MF. Morgan has driven his own four-in the vicinity of Newport He has rarely '© be sure, but no true horseman conslders ullfu.:mhrr'lu stronger physique and greater l‘“_'.‘d in l'\"_\lun, ‘llf" suburbs Ur""xlll utta, f\:::;“::It‘:l{\".:lu"hlll"‘llnl, l:: lllll;‘lll‘l:l‘lll "“ll“dli‘:.dll“::: been seen driving in New York of late “Willie K.”" a lfu'lnlur of the horse-loving weight. .\9110 of the “younger ‘Amd lighter” AlAl\ir the I‘().ulu near Hong Kong, Tokio and Siandine ob ths year axle af the vombl 18 years and it is doubtful whether he was and horse-knowing fraternity. set 1”,‘“‘“““"“ to play polo with the Fox- \,u““l“l" and nedy '”“: r strange piaces Brady, Morgan's superintendent, the same ever on the Speedway, a bit of glorified Nor is Alfred Gwynne's fondness for the hall Kepne sob. :nu “.lxl::ur s ?"”"f-":. gea h'”_""““' who acted as his coachman during the trotting horse road that would have driven horse at all like the feeling entertained for 1, D. Morg , Horseman. hn: vl -.‘:lm‘m“, o t ,mll :‘!‘,“r “"“ OWIour-in-hand trip 'round the wor.d.” Mr the old commodore wild with delight, and the noble animal by his great grandfather e N “"“""_‘v“ HIH‘ ol Il" way reglons ny o, ean believes Maine is the best place to upon which he would have shown himself and his uncle. It is considered the proper _‘\ man who "“‘f“" the various sets of \ L o J- . ?“‘f'“ keeps his own horses buy coach horses and it was while he daily had it existed in his lifetime. thing for a rich man of the inner circle to New York millionaires about as well as any fLhore Are forty or ity af them) at his fine looking up horscs for his own stables X drive four-in-hands, tandems and pairs, Obe says that in a certain sense E. D b00-acre place In the Wheatley hills, on that he found the old coach Vanderbilt Horse Gossip. and therefore he takes interest in coaching Morgan, grandson of the famous war gov Long Island. It was the second of the ; Frederick W. drives quite as well as and the like, among other things driving ernor Morgan, is the best all-around horse splendid millionaire Mr. Morgan is almost as proud of his his grandfather ever did, however, and the coach ‘Pioneer” from establishments to be one of the blg man of the lot. Horsemen generally might set up in that region and is situated about (Continued on Eighth Page.) Remarkable Photographs Which how the Formation and Flight of Tornadoes,"Taken at S C. e | bner, N¢b. CLOUD THAT WENT NORTH, SHOWING TWO FUNNELS LARGEST OF THE FUNNELS OBSERVEI WHICH SAME CLOUD ABOUT ONE MILE EAST OF VILLAGE, SHOWING WHICH FORMED ALMOST SIMU [ANEOUSLY. FORMED DIRECTLY OVER THE VILLAGE THE SNAKY TAIL REACHING FROM CLOUD TO GROL