social prominence of, 122-123, 140, 161-163, 164, 233, 250-256
violent temper of, 129, 158-159, 289
wealth of, 252
William H. and, 85, 131, 140, 141, 182
Willie and, 84-85, 87-89, 90, 100, 113, 121, 123-124, 126, 128-129, 141, 143, 144, 146-150, 152, 161, 164, 170, 173, 175, 182, 185, 248, 249, 250, 255, 282, 292
Willie K. and, 124, 168, 387, 389, 410-411
women’s suffrage work of, 254, 256-261, 284, 286, 289, 292, 294-295
world travel of, 142-143, 147-149, 287, 291
Belmont, August, 114, 143, 147, 248, 268, 299
Belmont, Caroline Perry, 114, 143, 248
Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry, 147-148, 254
Alva and, 149, 152, 248-252
Belmont, Perry, 287, 413
Berengaria, 294
Bergdorf Goodman, 394, 408
Bible Society, 180
Biltmore, viii-ix, x, 272-279, 305, 402, 412, 413-414
Biltmore Village, 276
Bitter, Karl, 276
Black, Jeremiah S., 59
Black, Starr, and Frost, 234
Black Tuesday (1929), 387, 389
Blair Castle, 252-253
Blandford, John, Marquess of, 289
Blenheim Palace, 148, 154-156, 163, 169, 174, 248, 251, 285
Blight, Alice, 189
Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, 18, 21
Blumenthal, A. C, 357
Bonheur, Rosa, 135
Boris, grand duke of Russia, 244-246, 301-302
Boston Herald, 62
Boucher, François, 111, 410
Bourbon family, 270, 302
Breakers, viii-ix, x, 143, 163, 185-188, 193-194, 202, 215-217, 221-223, 270, 303, 341, 392-393, 395, 412, 413
brownstones, 89, 98, 106, 132, 247
Bryce, James, 70
Burden, Evelyn, 230-231
Burden, Florence Twombly, 402, 403
Burden, William, 403
Burkan, Nathan, 357-358, 369-372, 378, 379, 382-383
Burnett, Waldo, 168-169
C
Cabanel, Alexandre, 113
Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft, 343, 350
Ca’ d’ Zan, 291
Caillot, Maria, 370-372
Calvin, Delano, 59, 60-61, 65-66
Camden and Amboy Railroad, 29
Canfield, Richard, 328, 329-332
Cannon, Harry, 227
Carew, John F., 367, 369, 370, 372-373, 376, 377-382, 383-384, 385
Carnegie, Andrew, ix, 77, 314, 417
Carnegie steel mills, 266
Carter, Howard, 291
cartoons, 71, 80, 123, 228
Catherine II, empress of Russia, 113, 141, 162, 170
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 257, 260
Central Park, 136, 183, 263, 272
Conservatory Gardens of, 394, 409
Chambers, Isaac, 82
Charles IV, king of Spain, 98
Château de Blois, 89, 113, 275, 282
Château of Amboise, 294
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 304
Chicago Journal, 228
Chicago Tribune, 79
Choules, John, 25
Christ Church, 269
Churchill, Winston, 310
Church of Strangers, 46
Ciro’s, 395-396
Civil War, American, viii, 27, 35, 40, 45, 86, 115, 203, 206, 223, 264, 266
Claflin, Buck, 42
Claflin, Tennessee, 42-44, 46, 61
Clark, Helen, 49-50
Clark, Horace F., 42, 65
Cleopatra, 13
Clermont, 8
Clews, Henry, 120
Clinton, Henry L., 59, 60-65
Coeur, Jacques, 89
Columbia College Grammar School, 14
Columbia Law School, 351
Columbia University, 180, 281, 282
Commission for the Blind, 284
Commodore Vanderbilt, 39
Comstock, George C, 59
Comstock Lode, 233
Congress, U.S., 10, 44, 85, 257, 266, 277, 298-299
Conqueror, 215, 270
Consolidated Rail Corporation (Conrail), 412
Converse, James Vail, 333, 344
Cooper, James Fenimore, 125
Corsair, 11, 141, 302
Cosmopolitan Hotel, 66-67
Cowes Regatta, 315
Craig, Dr., 363-364, 377
Crane, John M., 177-178
Crawford, Mrs., 44-45, 50, 51
Crossways, 239, 241, 245
D
Danilo, prince of Montenegro, 395
De Bildt, 5
Deems, Charles F., 46-48, 52
Defender, 280
De Lancey family, 94
Delmonico’s, 118, 234, 327
Demosthenes, 42-43, 44
Depew, Chauncey, 41, 65, 72, 77, 82, 181, 205, 279, 297, 332
Depression, Great, ix, 292, 354, 386-389, 390, 397, 405, 406
depressions, economic, 56-58, 266-267, 323
Desha, Joseph, 85
Desha, Robert, 85
Donon, Joseph, 404, 407
Douglass, Frederick, 44
Draper, William H., 212-213
Drew, Daniel, 11, 14, 30-32, 33, 35-37, 42, 49, 61, 78
Drew, Robinson and Company, 14
Drexel, Alice, 99, 240, 253
Drexel, Morgan and Company, 72
Duke, Doris, 310
Dunnington, Walter, 358
Du Pont family, ix Dutch East India Company, 12
E
Eagle’s Nest, 410
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 88
Edward VII, king of England, 207, 302, 310-311
Empire State Building, 409
Empire Trust Company, 283
Equal Rights party, 44
Equal Suffrage League, 257
Erie Railroad, 35-37, 56, 75, 78
etiquette books, 94
Eugénie, empress of France, 113, 141, 170
Exxon Research and Engineering Company, 414
Eze-sur-Mer, 287
F
“Failure Is Impossible,” 258, 261, 294
Fairbanks, Douglas, Sr., 406
Fairbanks, Flobelle, 406
faith healing, 43, 49-50, 61, 66, 68
Farley, James, 310
Ferncliffe, 97
Fish, Hamilton, 114
Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant “Mamie,” 114, 233, 234, 237-246, 251, 259, 260, 262-263, 268, 391
Fish, Stuyvesant, 114, 227, 233, 237-238, 241, 242, 251
Fisk, Jim, 4, 35-37, 78
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, χ Florham, viii-ix, 270, 401-408, 412, 414-415
Florham Farms, 402, 403, 407, 414
Foley, James Aloysius, 343-344, 345-346, 350, 356, 357-358, 361
Ford, Henry, ix
“Founding a Family,” 416-417
Four Hundred, 98, 99, 103, 112, 114, 123, 152, 226, 227, 229, 243, 244, 247, 263, 267
Frick, Henry Clay, ix, 132-133, 314
Fulton, Robert, 8, 9
Furness, Duke “Marmaduke,” 344-345, 382
Furness, Thelma Morgan, Lady, 332-334, 344-345, 348-349, 359-360, 373-376, 381-382
G
Gallatin, Albert, 102
Garrett, Robert, 136-137
Garrison, Cornelius, 24, 26-27
George V, king of England, 289, 345
George VI, king of England, 310
Georgia Historical Society, 91
Gerard, James W., 251
Ghiberti, Lorenzo, 305
Gibbons, Thomas, 8-9, 10, 91
Gibbons v. Ogden, 10
Gibson, Archer, 404-405
Gilded Age, vii-viii, x, 94, 238, 264-265, 269, 270, 276, 282, 296, 301, 387, 399, 408, 409
Gilmore, P. G., 117
Goelet, May Wilson, 203, 204, 206, 209, 210, 211, 244-245, 302, 311
Goelet, Ogden, 203, 204, 206, 209, 211
Goelet, Peter, 98
Goelet, Robert, 114
Goelet family, 24, 204, 206, 251
gold
rush, 21-22, 24, 91
gold standard, 388-389
Gould, Jay, 35-37, 72, 74, 76, 78, 141, 180, 395
Gramont, duc de, 150
Grand Army Plaza, 183, 184
Grand Central Depot, 38, 49, 58, 71, 82, 107, 131, 132, 141, 179, 275, 338, 410
Grand Prix de Paris, 149, 280
Grant, Ulysses S., 115-116, 221
Grant and Ward, 116
Greeley, Horace, 18-19, 63
Groton, 403
Gwynne Building, 395
Gypsy-Mitzie (dog), 361, 366, 375
H
Haggin, James Β., 255-256
Haggin, Pearl, 255-256
Half Moon, 12
Hammersley, Lilian, 156
Hampton Court, 401
Hardouin-Mansart, Jules, 145
Harlan and Hollingsworth, 141
Harriman Railroad, 304
Harvard University, 403
Hayes, Rutherford B., 57
Hearst, William Randolph, 291, 396
Henry, Barklie, 373-375
Henry, prince of Prussia, 299-300, 302
Henry VIH, king of England, 117, 275, 401
Herbert, Belle Wilson, 206, 208, 211, 311
Herbert, Michael, 208, 211
Herter Brothers, 132
Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Prince Gottfried, 345, 346, 347-348, 369, 372
Hohenzollern, 299, 302, 315
Holland, 5-6
Hollywood, Calif., 406
Homestead strike (1892), 266
Hoover, Herbert, 310
Hoovervilles, 387
Howe, Julia Ward, 249
Hudson, Henry, 12
Hudson, Stanley, 405
Hudson River, 7, 8, 10-12, 31, 33, 75, 77, 97, 270
Hudson River Railroad, 31-34, 37, 40, 41, 45, 58, 87, 179
Hudson River Steamboat Association, 11-12
Hunt, Esther, 191-193, 196-197, 200, 201, 217
Hunt, Mrs. Richard Morris, 274, 275, 276
Hunt, Richard Morris, 88, 108, 120, 135-136, 170, 183, 186-187, 191, 247, 248-249
Alva and, 89, 136, 143-144, 186
architectural philosophy of, 89, 249
Huntington family, 123
I
Idlehour, viii-ix, 88, 89, 124-125, 146, 164, 174, 251, 281, 288, 412
Illinois Central Railroad, 227, 233, 237, 304
India, 148-149, 152, 248
Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 299
Interstate Commerce Act, 411
Interstate Commerce Commission, 411
J
James, Henry, 99, 277, 412
Janeway, E. C, 212
Jay, Lucy Smith, 159-160
Jerome, William Tavers, 329-331
Jones, Mrs. Pembroke, 263
Jordan, Marsh and Company, 35
K
Keener, Dean, 351
Keislich, Emma Sullivan “Dodo,” 346-349, 354-356, 360-370, 381, 382, 383, 385
Keyser, Isaiah, 131
Klunder, Charles, 110-112
Knickerbocker, Cholly (Maury Paul), 224, 332-333, 335, 336, 338, 345, 384
Knickerbocker Club, 202
Knickerbocker Theater, 301
L
La Bau, Marie Alicia Vanderbilt, 58-59, 68
La Earge, Amy, 114
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Company, 74, 78, 122
Lander, John, 112, 118
Leeds, Mrs. William B., 253
Leeds, William B., 253
Lefebvre, Jules, 134
Lehr, Elizabeth Drexel Dehlgren “Bessie,” 100, 233-237, 242, 244, 254-255, 259, 260-261, 263, 288, 294, 301
Lehr, Harry, 144, 229-237, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254-255, 259-260, 261, 268, 294, 301, 331, 391
appearance and personality of, 230, 231-237, 240, 246
Mrs. Astor and, 231-233, 234, 237
Mrs. Fish and, 237, 238, 240, 241-246, 262-263
Leiter, Joseph, 242
Life, 228
Linsly, Jared, 2-3, 5, 25, 48, 49-52
Littlejohn, Abram Newkirk, 168, 172
Livingston, Robert, 9
Lloyd’s of London, 389
Loew, Marcus, 394
Loire Valley, 89, 90, 275
London Chronicle, 268
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 314
Lord, Scott, 59-61, 65-68
Lorillard, Mrs. Pierre, 114, 121
Lorillard, Pierre, 114
Lorillard family, 23-24, 143, 185
Louis XIII, king of France, 401
Louis XV, king of France, 267, 283
Lusitania, 332, 342, 392
M
McAllister, Sarah Gibbons, 91
McAllister, Ward, 107, 115, 117, 119, 225-229, 238, 266, 267, 390-391
appearance of, 93, 114, 119
as Autocrat of the Drawing-Rooms, 93, 114, 134
background of, 90-91
Commodore and, 90, 100-101, 104
death and funeral of, 228-229
Mrs. Astor and, 96-98, 100-101, 104-106, 114, 118, 228-229
personality of, 91, 93, 94, 226-227, 229
social activities of, 91-93, 95-98, 117, 152, 225-228, 246
social rules promulgated by, 93-94, 96, 98, 104-105, 119, 157, 226, 227-228, 229, 398, 417
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 264
McGowan, Bridget, 253
McKim, Charles F., 89-90
McKim, Mead, and White, 90, 400
McLane, Dr., 216, 218-219
Mandeville, Lord, 88, 126
Mandeville, Viscountess (Consuelo Yznaga), 248
Alva and, 87, 88, 101-103, 113, 116
appearance of, 87, 113
marriage of, 88, 126
Manhattan Club, 2, 42, 45
Manning, William T., 288-289
mansions, Vanderbilt, ix, x, 40, 154, 263-264
demolition of, 281-284, 397-399, 409-410
459 Fifth Ave., 40, 131-135, 139, 399
660 Fifth Ave., 89-90, 101, 103, 108-124, 128-129, 132-133, 143, 164-165, 182-183, 281-284
742-746 Fifth Ave., 183-184, 223, 393-394
10 Washington Place, 1-2, 4, 21, 27, 42, 48, 50, 53, 85
see also specific locations and names of mansions
Marble House, viii-ix, x, 143-146, 157-163, 164, 185-186, 187, 248, 250, 252, 258-260, 285, 286, 287, 291-292, 295, 351, 412, 413
Marie Antoinette, queen of France, 116, 246-247, 390, 410
Marlborough, John Churchill, first duke of, 154, 155
Marlborough, Sarah, first duchess of, 155-156
Marlborough, sixth duke of, 156
Marlborough, seventh duke of, 156
Marlborough, eighth duke of, 156
Marlborough, ninth duchess of, see Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt
Marlborough, ninth duke of, 177, 258
appearance of, 162, 169, 173
Consuelo and, 148, 151, 154-157, 159-164, 168, 169, 172-175, 215, 248, 285-286
Marshall, John, 10
Martin, Bradley, 267-269
Martin, Fred, 239
Martin, Mrs. Bradley, 267-269
Mayflower, 328
Mead, William, 400
Medici family, 146
Mellon, Andrew, 132-133, 314
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 180, 291, 394, 410
Metropolitan Opera, 124, 299-300, 303-304
Metropolitan Press Bureau, 79
Michigan Central Railroad, 123
Milford Haven, Lady, 372
Millet, J. F., 134
Millionaires’ Row, 263-264, 282
Mills, D. Ogden, 114
Monte Carlo, 344, 345, 395
Moravian Cemetery, 135-136, 137-138
Morgan, Charles, 24, 26-27
Morgan, Consuelo, see Thaw, Consuelo Morgan
Morgan, Gloria, see Vanderbilt, Gloria Morgan
Morgan, Harry Hays, 332-333
Morgan, J. Pierpont, 72
, 77, 141, 232, 244, 302, 310, 320, 333
Morgan, Laura, 332-333, 346-350
campaign against Gloria by, 346-350, 354-360, 365-368, 373, 376-378, 385
Morgan, Thelma, see Furness, Thelma Morgan, Lady
N
Napoleon I, emperor of France, 134, 276
Napoleon III, emperor of France, 86
National American Woman Suffrage Association, 257, 260
National Woman’s party, 257, 293, 294
Neilson, Mrs. Frederick, 331
Neustretter, Nellie, 149
Newport, R.I., 91-92, 143-146, 157-163, 185-188, 231, 243-245, 248, 250, 253, 270, 300-302, 412
Newport Horse Show, 341
Newport Morning Telegraph, 231
Newport’s Social Strategy Board, 233
New York, West Shore and Buffalo Railroad, 75-78
New York American, 332
New York and Harlem Railroad, 30-33, 37, 40, 48, 178-179, 221
New York Botanical Gardens, 180
New York Central Railroad, 35, 87, 210, 220-221, 298, 304
bonuses issued by, 58
Commodore and, 32-34, 37-38, 44, 52, 56, 69-70, 73, 75, 78, 136, 410
consolidation of, 411-412
Cornelius II and, 107, 123, 126, 178-181, 410
decline of, 410-412, 415
early development of, 32-33
employees of, 57-58, 78, 135, 149
labor-management relations of, 57-58
Neily and, 210, 220-221, 298
profits of, 57, 58, 76-77
railroads competing with, 73-78, 411
state investigations of, 34, 72
stocks and bonds of, 33-34, 39, 57-58, 72, 77, 79, 173, 279, 281, 389
William H. and, 40-41, 49, 55-58, 68, 69-80, 87, 122-123, 129, 410
New York Daily News, 62
New York Harbor, 6-7, 8, 9, 21, 77, 136, 299
New York Herald, 24, 26, 37, 53, 121, 321-322
New York Herald Tribune, 404
New York Journal, 200, 210, 222
New York Journal American, 384
New York Republican Convention (1900), 298-299
New York society, 91-123, 134, 227, 228, 267-269
Astor-Vanderbilt rivalry in, 90, 100-106
Chicago society vs., 227-228
court jesters in, 224-246
criticism of, 263, 264, 265-267, 269
decline of, 390-395
divorce and, 149-150, 161, 255, 396
economic revolution feared by, 388-389
European aristocracy and, 85, 88, 97, 102, 103, 113, 126, 175, 206, 211, 302, 310
excesses of, 262-266
exclusiveness of, 26, 90, 92-93, 94-96, 97_98, 99-100
old vs. new money in, 94-96, 98, 100, 101, 229
prominent families of, 94, 95, 96, 114-116, 123, 152, 229, 233, 268
tradespeople and, 98, 102, 150
urban poverty contrasted with, 108-109, 264, 266-268, 386-387
Vanderbilts and, 12-13, 26, 88, 90, 98, 100-123, 140, 164, 224-225, 399-400
see also Four Hundred
New York State Legislature, 31-32, 34, 37, 72, 129
New York Sun, 80, 120-121
New York Times, 23, 39, 57, 66, 103, 104, 120, 141-142, 168, 210-211, 258, 279, 298, 322, 400