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VOL. XXIV—No. 120?:
ATLANTA, GA„ SATURDAY, APRIL 8,1899.
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Price $2 Per Year.
Oglethorpe County, Ga.
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.SPIRIT
The Many Valuable Wed
ding Gifts to Young
Vanderbilt and Miss
Fair.
A MILLION USELESS CAPITAL
The Wealth of the Continent Vie
In Good Intentions to the
Young Couple—Person
ality of the Contract
ing Parties.
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If Miss Virginia Fair were a queen and
AY. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., a prince, it is very
unlikely that they would receive wedding
presents as costly as those that they,
simple young American citizens, will get
upon the occasion of their marriage.
There are hundreds of these presents.
It would be impossible to put an estimate
upon their value that would be at all ac
curate. At least one of them is worth
$150,000. All told, the cost of the entire
lot will be considerably more than $1,000,- 1
000.
Of course, neither the Vanderbilts nor
the Fair relatives have made any apprai
sal of the cost of the extraordinary as
sortment of diamonds and other precious
stones which have been worked up by
the cleverest and most artistic jewelers
In the world into tokens of affection and
wishes for the future happiness of the
young people. But it is certain that no
wedding in this country or ten weddings
combined have caused such lavish ex
penditure of money.
The gigantic wealth of the Fairs, the
Vanderbilts, the Oelriclis, the As tors, .lie
Shepards and till their relatives and
friends have been lavishly used to secure
the first diamonds and pearls to be pos
sessed. Money was absolutely no consid
eration. Those who sent the presents
could as well have afforded to bestow a
million-dollar necklace as one costing
$100,000. It wtis merely a question of what
appropriate or suitable or what hap-
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pcncd to catch the fancy of the donor.
The possession of such wealth has its
disadvantages, too. The care of such pres
ents gives anxiety. On their receipt they
are carefully guarded by servants and at
once shipped to the vaults of a trust
company, where they are guarded by the
latest things in the way of burglar proof
safes and patent locks. Not any are kept
in the house. Miss Fair cannot see her
jewels together without taking a trip to
the bank. In this respect she is much
worse off' than the happy bride whose
wedding presents are so simple as not to
tempt the cupidity of the burglar. As the
things are wanted they are sent, then
returned to the vaults.
The Journal is able to give the first au
thentic description of the principal pres
ents. There arc so many of these that it
is impossible to tell about them all, but
as a rule they are remarkable for their
unprecedented cost. Miss Fair, when she
becomes a bride, will have so many dia
monds that if she put them on all at one
time she will be practically one great big
diamond. If she tried to carry all her
jewelry from one room into another, in
all probability she would be unable to ac
complish the task, so great is the weight
of gold and silver and gems.
Among the very remarkable presents
are two huge solid silver trays, given to
the young couple by Mrs. Shepard. These
are so heavy that when they were
brought out for a visitor to see it took
two men to carry them. On the surface of
the trays, in relief, on an embossed
ground, are old English paintings, relig
ious in character. This combination of
color and silver is most unusual and most
effective. Few of those who have seen
the trays had ever before come across
anything of the kind. The cost of this
work, done as It was by the best ar
tists and best silversmiths in the country,
must have been enormous. The title of
one of the pictures—which is in itself a
magnificent work of art—is “A Visit to
the Cardinal.”
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the" mother of
the bridegroom, from whom something
magnificent was expected, fully justified
the ideas of her friends. She has sent
what is possibly the finest diamond riv
iere in the world, apart from royal and
imperial collections. It is made up of very
large stones, some of them as big as the
proverbial pigeon's egg, a hackneyed
similie, by the way, which it is very hard
to keep out of this article,for thepresents
include so many diamonds that are best
described in that way. These are old mine
stones, blue-white v They sparkle and
fairly dance in the sunlight. The riviere
was purchased from a princely house of
France, a family that had possessed the
gems through generations.
There tire thirty or forty stones in the
riviere, the smallest of which is as large
as an almond, and which in itself would
be worth a small fortune. The riviere is
sot in silver—the old-fashioned custom of
France. It is likely that it will be reset
in platinum, as silver tarnishes and must
be polished after each use. it is very un
likely that anything in the way of a riv
iere was ever put together that nearly
approaches in beauty or value this splen
did wedding present from Mrs. Belmont.
Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt, whose enormous
wealth allows him. if he likes to buy the
total output of a diamond mine and select
the very best for his daughter-in-law,
chose on tills occasion to purchase pearls.
He has sent her a pearl necklace that in
every respect excels any of recent collec
tion. The rope of pearls which the late
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plainest possible kind, and no one would
know the difference.
Mrs. Oelrichs. the sister of the bride,
gives a beautiful and costly collection of
silver and gold table ornaments.
There are hundreds of other presents,
the usual articles given to bride and
groom—jewels, gold and silver plate, and
dozens of duplicates. They have been
taken down to the Safe Deposit company
and carefully stored away. They may be
seen as a whole on the day of the wed
ding. and when they are arranged to
gether they will constitute a museum i:t
themselves. A more interesting collection
than any jeweler ever made.
A fact interesting to women is that
Miss-Fair cares little for jewelry, dresses
very simply and sensibly, and will prob
ably wear her elaborate jewels only occa
sionally. if at all.
CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
Page 1.—Gorgeous Presents.
Page 2.—The Glass Dagger.
or the:
WAGON YAR#^
Page 3.—Great South: News Notes—The
Idaho Pea—The South's Folly—Falls of
Toccoa—Intensive Farming — Various
Uses of Cotton—Light . Behind the
Clouds.
Page 4.—\Voman.'s Kingdom: Chat R‘
Roy—Chow-Chow Postscript—Our Le
ter Box.
August Belmont sppnt fifteen years in
collecting is the only one to compare with
it. Bach pearl is perfect. Comparisons in
the jewelry line are very difficult to make,
as experts differ, but in all human prob-
a bility no Indian or Persian princess
ever wore anything in pearls approaching
the necklace that will go around the neck
of Miss Fair.
A rather strange, quaint present came
from Mrs. Astor. It;is a brooch made in
imitation of a piece of the bark of a tree.
Upon the brooch are five small birds
made of sapphires, a jewel indicative of
affection. There is something quaint and
almost humorous about this gift. It is
beautifully designed and finished. There is
certainly nothing else like it in the coun
try.
From Mr. John W. Maeltay comes the
finest piece of jewelry ever made in
America, so experts say. It is a diamond
ornament, a sort of half stomacher and
half breast plate, to cover the whole front
of Miss Fair's dress. Diamonds have-been
employed in this ornament in a way sug
gesting that Mr. Maekay bought them by
the wholesale. In addition to this being
the finest and most artistic piece of jew
elry eyer put together in this country, it
is also the most expensive.
Mr. Macjfeay is especially interested in
Miss Fair. He and her father were old
friends together many years ago, when
neither lt*ul ever seen a diamond except
through the plate glass window of a jew
eler's store, and when neither would even
dream of buying one, even if they were as
low in price aB $t each. A few years later
both men. profiting by the fortunes of
mining, had "more money than they knew
what to do with.
On this ornament are flowers and pat
terns artistically -worked in diamonds
and gold. When Miss Fair wears this on
the front of her dress there will be no
room for any Other ornaments. In fact,
the dress underneath might be of the
Page 5.—Kingdom Continued: The Book
of the D«v—I Loved Her So.
Page 6.—Editorial: Georgians of the Fif
ties—The Filipinos’ Literature—The Se
cret of Happiness—The Point in Pun
ning—London and New York—Profit
From Waste—Shelley's Death—A Feat
of Memory—The First Silver Wedding—
Five Arab Maxims—Are Men Neator
Than Women?—In Love. With Celebri
ties—Conditions of the Hair—Sweet
heart, My Own—Fiction Pays Better.
Than a Gold Mine.
Page 7.—Adolph Ludwig, short story.
Page S.—Our Boys and Girls: Don't Cry
—What Could You Do?—Jack the In
ventor—Miscellany.
Page 9.—Youths' Page Continued: Sun
day School Lesson—A Photographic
Deception—Diplomacy — Kills Without
Hitting—The Puzzler—Money in Alaska
—Impersonal Writing.
Page 10.—Confederate Vet’s Page: Gen
eral Evans’ Orders for Charleston Con
vention—A Forged Order—The Bookish
Bootblack—Our First Fight on Water-
Feminine Vanity—A Bouquet.
Page ll.—For Love of Sigrid, conclusion.
Page 12.—Angels of the Grass, Dr. Tal-
mage’s Sermon—A Mummy Necklace.
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