When the Astors Owned New York (19 page)

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OR THIER
encouragement and support I thank my literary agent of many years, Sterling Lord, and at Viking, my vigilant editor Wendy Wolf and her assistant Clifford Corcoran. Maggie Berkvist proved to be the Kit Carson of picture scouts. Many thanks to my old friends Marilyn McCully and Michael Raeburn for their hospitality in London and for a memorable visit to Cliveden. For courtesies along the way I'm also grateful to Daniel Aaron, John Y. Cole, and the staffs at Harvard University Archives, Harvard College Library, and manuscript collections at the Library of Congress and the New York Public Library. My deepest indebtedness is to my wife, novelist Anne Bernays, for her patient readings of the manuscript and invaluable editorial advice.

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“After Holbein” (Wharton)

Alexander, Prince of Teck

Alexis, Grand Duke of Russia

Alfred the Great

Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Ambassadors, The
(James)

Ambassadress
(ship)

American Museum

American Scene, The
(James)

American Tragedy, An
(Dreiser)

Anne of Cleves

Antoinette, Marie

“Après-Midi d'un faune, L'”(Mallarmé)

Architectural Record

Armstrong, Henry

Armstrong, John

Armstrong, Margaret Rebecca

Armstrong family

Arthur, Chester A.

Asquith, Herbert

Astor, Alice

Astor, Ava Lowle Willing

Astor, Bertha

Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn

Astor, Charlotte Augusta Gibbes

Astor, Gavin

Astor, Henry

Astor, John

Astor, John Jacob

see also

Astor House Astor, John Jacob

Astor, John Jacob

Astor, John Jacob

childhood of

divorce of

in
Fads and Fancies

first wedding of

fortune of

inventions of

Nourmahal
incident and

predictions of

proposed stables of

second wedding of

Spanish-American War and

on
Titanic

W. W. Astor's relationship with

see also
Astor House; Hotel Knickerbocker; St. Regis Hotel

Astor, John Jacob

Astor, John Jacob

Astor, Madeleine Talmage Force

Astor, Mary “Mamie” Dahlgren Paul

Astor, Michael

Astor, Nancy Langhorne

Astor, Pauline

Astor, Sarah Todd

Astor, Vincent

Astor, Waldorf

Astor, William Backhouse

Astor, William Backhouse, Jr.

Astor, William Vincent

Astor, William Waldorf

on America

British politics and

childhood of

Daily Mail
libel suit of

death of

as family historian

fortune of

genealogical research commissioned by

John Jacob Astor IV's relationship with

Milne's altercation with

as minister to Italy

newspaper clippings of

novels of

peerage sought by

political career of

premature obituary of

Sackville romance of

Waldorf's marriage and

see also
Cliveden; Hever; Hotel Astor; Sirena; Waldorf Hotel

Astor Court Building

Astorg, Isaac

Astor House

Astoria, Queens

Astoria (trading post)

Astoria Hotel

Astor Library

Astor Theater

Atlantic Monthly

 

Backhouse, William, Sr.

Barber, A. L.

Barber, Ohio C.

Barnum, Phineas T.

Baum, Vicki

Beard, Dan

Beaux-Arts Plaza

Bellevue-Stratford Hotel

Belmont, August

Belmont, Oliver Hazard Perry

Bennett, James Gordon

Billings, C. K. G.

Black Tuesday

Blavatsky, Helena

B'Nai Jeshurun

Boer War

Boldt, George C.

Boleyn, Anne

Borgia, Cesare

Borgia, Lucrezia

Borgia family

Bowery Saloon

Bowne (Quaker)

Boyden, Simeon and Frederick

Bradley-Martin, Cornelia Sherman

Bradley-Martin, Mr.

Bradley-Martin mansion

Brady, Diamond Jim

Brady, Mathew

Brann, William Cowper

Brant, Sebastian

Breakers Hotel

British Society for Psychical Research

Broadland Properties Limited

Brodie, Steve

Brown, Henry Cordis

Bryan, William Jennings

Bunau-Varilla, Philippe

Burrowe, Beekman Kip

Butt, Archibald

Butterick's Patterns

 

Cabot family

Carlton House Terrace

Carnegie, Andrew

Carolus-Duran, Emile

Carrere and Hastings

Cather, Willa

Chaplin, Charlie

Charles II, King of England

Charles the Bold

Chicago Journal

Churchill, Randolph

Churchill, Winston

Civil War, U.S.

Clarendon Hotel

Clay, Henry

Cleveland, Grover

Clinton and Russell

Cliveden

Cliveden Set, The
(Rose)

Clouet (painter)

Cockburn, Claud

Columbia College

Columbian Exposition (1893)

Columbus, Christopher

Conkling, Roscoe

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's

Court, A,

Conservative Party, British

Consolidated Gas and Electric

Choral Society

Cooper, Peter

Copley Plaza

Corcyra

Cranach

Crockett, Albert S.

Crockett, Davy

Croker, Richard

Crooks of the Waldorf
(Smith)

Cuba

Curzon, Lord

Cushing, Mr.

Cust, Henry

 

Daguerian Miniature Gallery

Daisy Miller
(James)

Dakota Apartments

Damrosch, Walter

d'Astorga, Comte

d'Astorga, Count Pedro

d'Astorga, Jean Jacques

David, Arthur C.

Davis, Jefferson

Debs, Eugene V. Delaware and Hudson Railroad

Dewey, George

Dickens, Charles

Douglas, Stephen

Dreiser, Theodore

Dryden, John

Dunne, Finley Peter

 

Earle, Ferdinand

Edward VII, King of England

Emerson, Isaac F.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Empire State Building

Eulalia (infanta)

 

Fads and Fancies
(Mann)

Ferncliff

Fish, Mrs. Stuyvesant

Flagler, Harry

Flagler, Henry M.

Flagler, Ida Alice

Fleischmann, Julius

Fletcher, Horace

Force, Madeleine Talmage,
see
Astor Madeleine Talmage Force

Force, William

Fountain of Love
(Story)

“Four Hundred,”

Frederic, Harold

Frelinghuysen, Frederick

Frenzied Finances
(Lawson)

Frick, Henry Clay

Future in America, The
(Wells)

 

Garvin, John

Gary, Elbert

Gates, John W.

George V, King of England

Germany, Nazi

Gibbes, Charlotte Augusta,
see
Astor, Charlotte Augusta Gibbes

Godkin, E. L.

Goelet family

Golden Bowl, The
(James)

Gould, George

Gracie Mansion

Grand Hotel
(Baum)

Greeley, Horace

Greeley-Smith, Nixola

Griffiths, Clyde

Guggenheim, Benjamin

 

Haan, R. M.

Hailey, Arthur

Halleck, Fitz-Greene

Hammerstein, Oscar

Hardenbergh, Henry Janeway

Hardy, Thomas

Harper's Bazaar

Harriman, J. Bordon

Harrison, Benjamin

Hathaway, Anne

Havemeyer family

Hay, John

Hayes, Rutherford B.

Head, Franklin H.

Hearst, William Randolph

Hendrick, Burton J.

Henry, Prince of Prussia

Henry I, King of France

Henry IV, King of England

Herbert, Victor

Herford, Oliver

Hever Castle

History of the Great American Fortunes
(Myers)

Hitler, Adolf

Holbein, Hans

Hone, Philip

Honoré, Bertha

Hornaday, William

Hotel
(Hailey)

Hotel Astor

Hotel del Coronado

Hotel Knickerbocker

House of Commons, British

House of Mirth, The
(Wharton)

House of Representatives, U.S.

Houston, Sam

Howells, William Dean

Hubbard, Elbert

Hughes, Charles Evans

Hunt, Richard Morris

Huntington, Collis

Huntington family

Illinois Central Railroad

Interborough Rapid Transit Company

Ireland

Irving, Washington

Ishiguro, Kazuo

Ismay, J. Bruce

Ivanov, Eugene

Jackson, Andrew

James, Henry

James, William

Janson, Cobb, Pearson and Company

Jefferson, Thomas

Jefferson Market Police Court

Johnson, Edward

Journey in Other Worlds, A
( J. J. Astor IV)

 

Kaltenborn, H. V.

Keeler, Christine

Keene, Foxhall

Kennan, Mary Lily

Keppel, George

Kidd, William

Kipling, Rudyard

Kitchener, Lord

Komura, Jutaro

Kossuth, Louis

 

Lambert, John

Lamb House

Langhorne, Nancy,
see
Astor, Nancy

Langhorne

Lapidus, Morris

Lawrence, T. E.

Lawson, Thomas W.

Leaves of Grass
(Whitman)

Lehr, Elizabeth

Lehr, Harry

Leiter, Joseph

Leng, John

Lick, James

Lick House

Liebling, A. J.

Lincoln, Abraham

Lind, Jenny

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Livingston family

London Daily Mail

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Louis XIV, King of France

Lusitania

 

McAllister, Ward

Mackay-Bennett

McKinley, William

Macmillan, Harold

Macy's

Madison Square

Maine

Majestic

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Mann, William D'Alton

Margharita, Queen of Italy

Martin, Frederick Townsend

Martin Dressler
(Millhauser)

Massachusetts, University of

Melba, Nellie

Menschen im Hotel
(Baum)

Meredith, George

Metropolitan Hotel

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Opera House

Michael, Grand Duke of Russia

Millhauser, Steven

Mills, Isaac

Milne, Berkeley

Morgan, Anne

Morgan, J. P.

Morgan, Pierpont

Morison, Samuel Eliot

Morris, Lloyd

Morton, Levi P.

Murray Hill Republican Club

Muschenheim, William C.

Myers, Gustavus

 

Napoleon, Emperor of the French

Nation,

National Trust

Nevill, Dorothy

New Netherland Hotel

New York American,

New York City, N.Y.

New York Globe

New York Herald

New York Life Insurance

New York Public Library

New York State Legislature

New York Sun,

New York Times,

New York Tribune,

New York Yacht Club

Niagara Falls Power

Nicholas II, Czar of Russia

Nicolson, Nigel

Noma,

North American Review

North Star
(yacht)

Nourmahal,

 

Old King Cole and His Fiddlers Three
(Parrish)

Olmsted, Cotton Mather

Olmsted, Frederick Law

Olympia

Oppel, Albert

Orford, Lady

Osborne

“Oscar of the Waldorf”

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,

 

Pacific Fur Company

Paderewski, Ignace

Palace Hotel (Brown's)

Palace Hotel (Ralston's)

Pall Mall Magazine

Palmer, Potter

Palmer House

Palm Garden

Panama

Parrish, Maxfield

Parton, James

Passing of the Idle Rich, The
(Martin)

“Paul's Case” (Cather)

Peerage,
Debrett's

Pepita (dancer)

Pershing, John J.

Philadelphia Public Ledger

Philippines

Ponce de Leon Hotel

Profumo, John

Prohibition

Pryor, Roger

Pullman Sleeping Car Company

 

Rainsford, William Stephen

Ralston, William Chapman

Recamier, Juliette

Red Cross

Remains of the Day, The
(Ishiguro)

Remington, Frederic

Representative Americans

Republican Party

Revenue Cutter Service

Ribblesdale, Lord

Richardson, Amy Small

Richmond, George Chalmers

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Rodin, Auguste

Rogers, Isaiah

Rogers, Will

Roosevelt, James, Mrs.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Rose, Norman

Ross, Ishbel

Roswell Pettibone Flower

“Round of Visits, A” ( James)

Royal Poinciana Hotel

Russell, Lillian

 

Sackville, Victoria

Sackville-West, Lionel

St. Mary's Hospital for Children

St. Regis Hotel

Santos-Dumont, Alberto

Schermerhorn, Caroline Webster,
see
Astor, Caroline Webster Schermerhorn

Schermerhorn family

Scientific American

Scott, Winfield

Sebright, Olive

“Secret of Olympus, A” (W. W. Astor)

Selfridge, H. Gordon

Senate, U.S., Commerce Committee of

Sforza, a Story of Milan
(W. W. Astor)