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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1929)
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Sine llwo few porta and othrr wrioua can-' didalee (or the title o( World't Greatrtt Lover have handkanped liirnMelvei to the extent of ignoring the Mediterranean com pletrlv. But there am toma thingi that work u at well backward at forward and tliii ro nantie Mediterranean tradition icemi to bt one of them. For bow America! wealthier! bachelor ia taking a Mediterranean cruttr net ia tearch of romance, but to avoid it. Or at leait to avoid that brand which it thnirt upon eligible bachelor by ambitioui mother! with mora or leia marriageable daughter!. IU ia John Nicholaa Drown, Jr.. who not to many yrart ago wai known aa Amer ica "Uaby Ooriua." On the day of hit birth, February 22. 1900. he automatically fell heir to a fortune of arveral millioni left by a recently departed relative. Within a few montht the infant' father died and willed 95.000.000 mora to the occupant of the nunery. Then, nine dayt later, aa uncle, Howard Drown, died and left another $5,000,000 for John Nich olai' china pig. Dy the lima young Brown reached the age of 21 theac three bequetta and otheri . that came to him from time to lima amounted to 1 30.000.000. Then there wai another large turn left him by hit grandfather, the lata John Carter Brown of Newport and Providence, who wai the founder of Brown Univenity. Coinervative ei time tea place John Nich olas preaent fortune at $100,000,000. com Some day thia will be further augmented hi - a coniiderabla fortune which will pan to him from hii mother. There are no other relative! in the immediate X i y . . . U till " i , ' 1 fl . " r - LI 1 - . .lev'-' 4 - x-x . . -. - v. . wuf a.iiS' "?ao Croeaiu" Irewn a. . . . UUn Wff Nicholas Btemu Jr. . . . Nfport'i j titninf doager ttith Jebulanlt a'aufhiera imitUj en navmf the heir. ... 7"foi bear . . A rM liem (A air. (U. and U. photo) (( (ne aumpiuotu V anderbitt-Cecil nuptial brcaifait. ica the attentive etcort cf Helen Moron. Bachelor Brown (indicated tp the arrov) Cormlia Vanderbilt Cecil ii young Br own t coutin. ... 3he, (oo. inherited mora than $50,000,000.: family. TD cynica thia Knaacial data would be tuficienl reason for young Brown'i deiertlon of Newport thia aeaton and it would explain hia itolation on a Mediterranean entile. But he baa other eocial grace! to make him the tar get of deaigning. dowagen. Summing them all up. hii mother decided to pan Up the luxurious comfort! of Harbour Court, her Newport place, in order to avoid those who, by the altar route, would de tour John Nicholas and a part of the Brown fortune to their own purposes. ' She and son John packed ban, and trunks and embarked on a ateanuhip for Europe. Not until they had made ar rangements to charter a yacht for the Mediterranean cruise did they tend back word that they would not. after all. be among those preaent at the Queen of American watering places during the season of tactal activity. . , , k . , And now mother and ton are following an itinerary in , which their personal freedom ia assured, and families with daughter! of marriageable age who had taken expensive Newport place! for the summer determined on making an intensive campaign to obtain voung Brown for their own hre aide gatherings are disconsolate and worried over the vast sums that they might just as well have tossed into the deep water off Bradley Beach. .... One young woman, who had established herself with a chaperone in an attractive rented villa, left Newport when word came that Brown would be absent, frankly explaining (lie causa cf her departure to some of her friends. BROWN it not of the type usually associated with the term "ladlee man." but has a personality that wins friends easily and keepi them. Ever thoughtful, gifted with a dry but spontaneous ense of humor, he u much sought after in his own eirdei where the matter of money doei not figure. Hii manner! are Chesterfieldian . and he Korea on that point alone with many of the fairer let In these dayt of eaiy-going cavaliers. - The young multi-millionaire n not a person who would be chosen as a model for a collar ad; probably not many young women would call him "good looking. He is tall, almost to the point of lankiness. with a rolling sort of a 1 ' t. ".' .. " ' V. ' MJ 1 ' - ' '' "" - i : 1 At St G e o r g e's, which, you know, is per haps America 'i most ex .elusive boarding school, he waa one of the honor students of his time. In asmuch as the school is located at Newport he spent most of his waking hours at home when not in classrooms. Upon finishing x his coursg at St. George's he took up hii advanced studies at Harvard. He was graduated in 1922 but has returned .for . postgraduate .courses upon a number of occasions since then. DHN NICHOLAS mother betora her marriage was ranks hmh among the moneyed clans of the land. She Society Uented a romance, bat Helen married another. TjlROM earliest childhood religion has J played a prominent part in the life of Social Reguteritu Sir. and Ars. Snotoden Fahnettoclc- . . . Before her marriage Ars. Fahneiiock tvas Helen Moran . . . the one girl to Xehom the boy multi-millionaire vas compic ' uouiu attentive. . J Natalie Dresser, a member of the Dresser family which rs a sister ot the former bdith U reiser, who was a widow ".! . . - - - .... appearance wrni inw m. .-..-.... - , , From his earliest childhood BrOwn has been an tnduttnoui tudent. Nursemaids and private tutori long before he wai entrusted to the ministrations of the instructor! at St. George i School, found him to have a bright ana reienuve mina. of George W. Vanderbilt until her marriage several years ago to Peter Goelet Gerry of Washington. The former Cornelia Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Ger ry, is a cousin of John Nicholas, and it was at the time of tier wedding several years ago that reports spread that John himself would be the next of that camp to make a pilgrimage to the matrimonial altar. Cornelia became the bride of the Honorable John Francis Amherst Cecil. . John Nicholas and Helen Moran, then one of the most popular debutante! of the town, were teen constantly to gether at the various functions which preceeded this notable nuptial. They teemed inseparable, and news of a probable romance made its way into tome of the papers. Later events proved that there was nothing more than a deep friendship between Mrs. Brown's son and the daughter of Mr. and Mis. Charles Moran. She subsequently became the wife of Snowden A. Fahnestock and has taken her place as one of the foremost of the conservative matrons of New York and Newport, where with her husband she has hither to leased a place from season to season. The Fahneitocks, however, just recently purchased an ex tensive plot of ground upon which they plan to build a large villa. When they move to this place they will be close neighbors to Harbour Court, the Brown abode, which, many insist, Helen Moran could have presided over as John Nich olas wife, had she Chosen to do so. (Copyright, mi, NBA Mf allns Printed la U. B. A.) the roumr multimillionaire. Certain ly Emmanuel Church, Newport, would be without many of its fine furnishings had the roster of the parish been minus his name. Any appeal from the church officers finds- ready response and the money, do nations, aside from many separate gifts of other eorts, have been on an exceedingly large scale. Even in Newport the extent of the devotion which he feels toward the historic Emmanuel Church is not generally known outside of die Congregation. It has been young Brown I wish that his financial aid as well as the personal efforts which he devotet to the work of the institution should not be exploited to bring attention to himself. John Nicholaa inherits a deep religious sense. ' His aunt married the Rev. Dr. George Granville Merrill, a distinguished clergyman, who now lives with his family mostly at their Berkshire home in Stock bridge. Otheri of the Brown clan have devoted much of their time and fortunes to church and religious cause! of various kinds. The debut of Miss Natalie Bayard Merrill, daughter of the George Grenville Merrill, is remembered in Newport as the outstanding social event of a season a few yean back. Mn. Brown took upon her self the responsibility of introducing her niece to Newport society and spared neith er money nor thought to produce a notable entertainment. - Harbour Court, of course, was the set- - - ting for the festival. . Rooms of the house were lavishly decorated with elaborate floral specimens and the grounds Were lighted with a multi tude of electric lights of various colon. Music and enter tainment features were imported from New York and the evening was marked down aa one of the most successful debu tante launching! that vintage Newporten had witnessed. Natalia Merrill, since her coming-out party, has been a frequent guest at the Brown home. The return parties have been many. Albert J. Wright, neighbor of the Browns, two yean ago, gave the largest supper dance of the season in her honor. The guest list wai made up mostly of young colonists, and the decorations, the feature of which was the illumination of the gardens surrounding the house, attracting attention, of writers in Newport and elsewhere throughout the east) A NOTABLE family connec tion of John Nicholas liv ing oversea! it his aunt, the Viscountess d'Osmoy, whose home is in Nice, Franco. The Vit countesi wai Susan Dresser be fore her marriage to the titled Frenchman the year before her moneyed nephew was bom. Directly after becoming a bride, in 1899. the and her husband estal home in France. Jol first met his aunt on trips he made when yet an infant with his mother. For many yean the Viscountess continued living in Europe and mad her first visit here since net ' departure 27 yean previous, ia 1926. when she isited the Browns at Newport and returned some of the other visit! which her girlhood riends had paid her in her European home. " .Mention of the early Atlantic crossing! of .oung Brown brings to mind the bygeaic pre tuition which were taken by those persona who were intrusted with his care. The lather of the infant had not been eteedingly healthy and.. -. therefore extraordinary care was taken that hia -ion should be guarded against microbe. ; . Steamer suites which were taken for the Srown party were consequently treated to such borough sanitation processes as the boat auuSori va had never witnessed. 1 A T home the infant's food waa prepared with 1 A extreme care. A part of the Newport aa tate'wat enclosed ia a high fence and . '-.tinted with the finest clover to be found. Sufficient pasture ground and appedxinfl zreenery wai provided to furnish DAurisbaent ' for large herd. But only one cow was turned loose there, the pick of a great bovine eollecrjoa. and this animal furnished milk for the baby which prattled in the nursery at the "big bouse. . Astounded Newport villager! of the rJaw esti mated that milk for the youngster cost $15 a quart to produce. A special flock of chickens wai act apart and only eggs from that approved feathery clan were served to young John. . Only bome-grown vegetable! were used and in the winter time these were produced in Urge greenhouses on the estate. But all this attention in early life failed to produce the mollycoddle that dubious villagen thought with shaking heads would certainly eventuate. Sporta occupy t considerable part of the time of John Nicholas.' He never seeks fo push himself forward at thavr" field, however, and refuses to partake in contests that jarvor , at all of the spectacular. Swimming seems to be his favorite sport. . 1 Social shams have never held an appeal for young Brown. ' Pretention! are distasteful to him and he has dropped many an acquaintance whom he believed snobbish. Ha has never forgotten the pony which brightened many of the hours of hii earlier youth. The animal hai far out grown all usefulness, but there ia nothing that any equirie creature could desire in old age that is not provided for thia ' one. To this day an attendant aces that the pony is teth ered out where the gran is the richest, St. George's has also benefited by the high esteem ia which it is held by John Nicholas. A short time ago he donated a new million-dollar chapel to the institution. T-iE most recent undertaking ot young Brown is the re conditioning of Newport's old City Hall, one of the most important structures historically on the Atlantic seaboard. Built in 1763, the edifice hat passed through various generations with various results and when it wai taken over this spring by Brown'i agent! it suggested none of the fine architectural points of its early day. Plana are under way to restore th building to its original state, mak ing it one of the best example! of colonial architecture ia the country, i . But John Nicholas has entrusted the City Hall and all of hit other interests for the time being to his aides. The yacht trip will not be over until fall, and before then be will visit among other placet, Athens, Constantinople and perhaps make trips to points inland in Asia and lo placet in Africa other than those bordering on the sea. Life really isn't altogether unattractive for a young multi millionaire, even though he hat been tagged aa the "Baby Croesus." And matrimonially free young women can hardly be blamed for wishing to share his joys, sorrows and money bags, even though they do provide the pestering flea in hit ointment of happiness. . r Viscountess Jf U VA? Wished their" fl 11 ttTcts el an infant Wl II" iii a -i j : i a.-: - ! US 3 g i3 33 F3 S3 Sn a II v '! n s r 3 i u iiniiniiiiib: J
