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JISS MOERBILT MR BIG PILE OF A WHIM BRIDE Wedded in the Grand Draw Produced $8,000,000 Worth ing-Room of "The Break¬ When Called Upon by ers," Newport. Banks for Collateral. Had to Have $2,000,000 Cash, Ceremony Was a Quiet One, for He and Guests Had Said, Offered the Only Sixty Bonds as Been Invited. Security. Then He Squeezed the Moores, and Bride's Father Appeared in an "In¬ It .Resulted in the Collapse of valid Chair, but His Elder Son Their Diamond Match Game. Did Not Attend. HIS NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY PLAN. MAGNIFICENT PRESENTS NOT SHOWN. Only the Present Stringency, It Is Said, De¬ Detectives Were on Guard, but the Guests layed It, and Decided Him to Wait Saw None of the Bride's Beautiful Until After the Election in Gifts.No Effusive Eloquence November. at the Breakfast. A New York dispatch to the Chicago Newport, R. I., Aug. 25..The wedding to¬ Lvening Post says: "They tell a story day of Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt, daughter down on the Street connecting Charles T. } the of Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Harry Payne erkes, Chicago street car magnate, in a curiously indirect, yet vital, way with the Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, was explosion of the Moore Brothers' specula¬ celebrated at noon. tive bubble in Diamond Match and N.Y.Bis- cuit. It is to this effect: When financial It was announced by the Vanderbilt the stringency began to be seriously felt, the family that it would be a quiet vedtfi'ng, Chicago banks concluded to call loans from but to those without the charmed New- Mr. Yerkes, who had a large sum, said to be about $3,000,000, borrowed from them. circle &*emed a of port if. ceremony regal They did not doubt his solvency, but could pomp and circumstance. It Is true tfiat not help thinking of the $7,000,000 cash he there were not many people at The Break¬ had recently invested in his 'L' road pro¬ jects, the $2,000,000 he had put into a ers, Mrs. Vanderbilt's visiting list though palace on Fifth avenue, and the $1,000,000 at Newport is a big one. She feared tbat additional In telescopes, paintings and what is known as a big wedding would other affairs. His surface road properties had declined, and the banks decided to re¬ much of a the nerves prove too strain upon duce their risk in that cuarter. of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who is now a par* "Imagine their surprise when Mr. Yerkes tlal paralytic and not able to walk. not only objected to reducing his loan, but asked for more. Bo to $2,000,000 the invitations the wedding break¬ '. 'I have no immediate need for the fast were limited to sixty. Having decided money and may have no use for it,' he that only these besides the Vanderbilt kith said, 'but a man should make himself in times like these.' and kin and Dr. who Is a whole stron'g In cash Depew, "When the bankers Inquired what col¬ family In himself, should be there, Mrs. lateral he had to offer, he produced $8,000,- Vanderbilt willed that accounts of the fes¬ 000 registered 4 per cent Government bonds tivity should not be printed to excite the worth $9,000,000, and told his financial friends to put the bundle in at 50 as se¬ of the ones in her set who envy worthy curity for his new loan and further forti¬ are not invited. fication of his old loans. Mr. Yerkes is Rooms Were Floral Bowers. to-day the largest individual holder of in the it is . The apartments upon the lawn floor of the Government bonds world, said. were transformed into floral bow¬ palace "In the conversations which led up to the ers. The aristocracy of flowers only was Mr. Yerkes No low-down azal¬ bond demonstration, casually present. commonplace, that as banks were drawing in eas and sweet but flowers with dis¬ mentioned peas, their he he would call on names such as and money, guessed tinguished longltlorum the Moore Brothers for $6,000,000 he had encharls amazonia and orchids that live on let them have on Diamond Match at 120. air. The "gold room," the scene of the This was a transaction the banks did not ceremony, was decorated all in and pink nor the which he white and it lost its know about, of $500,000 gold identity entirely. said he had heard they had borrowed from J, The hot houses in Newport, New York and and another delivered Columbus B. Cummings, $500,- Bostorf up everything they had A. Kent. In the of and white 000 from Sidney way pink orchids for "These disclosures made the hanks close that room. on the Moores so When Mr. It is a down sharply. stately apartment 40x60 feet, Yerkes's crossed the lines of the with a feet ceiling thirty-flve high, Moores, t tter suffered. Be? " his and its every-day dress cost-, it Is said Mr. X'orktu wva $80,000. it is a fit in departure Europe Truly apartment of a great trust which to celebrate such a thinking establishing wedding. At its in New York and making him¬ south end there is a bay window about the company self the head of it. The Vanderbllts, As- size of a Harlem flat. The windows of the Goulds and all are Gi'ecian columns and tors, Morgans, Vermilyes, ha.v separated by millionaires wanted some the effect is that of the- chancel of a the gin-edged church of considerable size. Before this of it, but Mr. Yerkes finally decided to after the election." bay window and beneath a chandelier en¬ drop the matter untTT veloped in flowers the representatives of these two rich families were wedded. BILL" DOOLIN KILLED. In the smiling faces and happy prepara¬ Shot tions there was abundant evidence that this Oklahoma Highwayman Twenty-seven -was a marriage upon which Cornelius Van¬ Times by Members of a derbilt looked with favor. Cornelius Van¬ Sheriff's Posse. derbilt, Jr., It had been said, would be present, and issue for his father's forgive¬ Guthrie, O. T., August 25..The body ol ness, but he did not come. The wedding "Bill" Doolin, outlaw and highwayman, oe party assembled in the room to the south whose head were Government rewards ag¬ casket at of the central hall at 11:30 a. m. gregating $6,000, lies in a rough Bride s Father Present. an undertaking establishment in this city. It had been said that the excitement inci¬ This evening it was placed in a large show dent to the preparations had caused Mr. window, and for three hours the remaina Vanderbilt's relapse on but that were viewed by thousands. Monday, It was about 1 o'clock this morning when proved false. Dr. Depew found him, upon Doolin was killed. He was surrounded by his arrival Monday night, cheerful and Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas's posse at hap¬ was in the act or mount- py, and interested in every detail of the Lawson. Doolin inj,* a fine horse which he hail stolen from approaching There was some when the officers fired a volley at marriage. a farm, Winches¬ doubt as to whether or not he would be him. Z>oolin fired once with his ter, but tie work of Thomas's men was able to give the bride away, but it was rapid and effective. When Doolin was laid then settled that this man of many mill¬ MRS. HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY, NEE VANDERBILT, WHO WAS MARRIED AT NEWPORT YESTERDAY. in a wagon teif minutes later, it was found ions, who Uliat twenty-seven bullets were lodged in o\yns drags, breaks, laudaus and his breast. Thtv man wore the same broughams enough for the whole social contralto, and she Is a singer of no little were of white satin tied with white satin been hired for the occasion took them AMERICAN FETE FOR LI. to visit Annapolis and the Naval Academy. If he had on when he overpowered the so it would me to welcome him to clothes session of a small and merit. ribbon, and also bore the silver monogram aboard and made straight for the Valiant. give pleasure and escaped from the United States city, yet cannot the capital of Maryland. gunrds six weeks ago. Officers are walk, should be carried downstairs and to The musical programme for the wedding W. V. Going down the slip from the wharl! to Ex-Ministers to China and Other Eminent Jail, this city, Showered with Rice. Is the under¬ ¦still on the trail of Doolin s stage-robbing the chancel rail in a wheel-chair. The ceremony wag as follows: the float Mr. Whitney led the way, assist¬ Citizens Will Tender Him a Ban¬ Washington, Aug. 25..It "Dynamite Dick" and Qulncy The bridal the in at that companions, family awaited his coming In the Wedding Music Adolph Jansen couple left Breakers the ing his wife. He also got on to the naph¬ standing the Navy Department Lewis. ^ "gold old-fashioned way, the rice quet at the Waldorf. Admiral Bunce will no Doolin was the last member of the origi¬ room," and four footmen in new liveries a. Festival Procession. accompanied by tha launch first and then assisted Mrs. require specific and Cook b. Bridal Song. and old shoe salutes. As Mr. and orders from Acting Secretary McAdoo re¬ nal Jesse James, Dalton. Younger carried their master down the broad mar¬ parting Whitney in.

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