The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1865-10-18


it not wholly relieving them from the press
ure caused by these unanticiPatet iiaolli-
ties. Withou. something OF this kind is
done we cannot see anything but enforced
insolvency among useful and energetic
class of citizens, to say nothing OF the sa-
cri6ce of widows and orphans estates.
Wilmington JoaraGi.e
NY. Cor. !" B urleigh.." in the Boston Journal.
THE RIGA MEN enc OF NEW NEW yoRk-Rw
Ne bank clerk on salary Of a thousand
dsllars year gees to his bank as regular
", or works as many hours, as WIN. b.
Astor, who counts up his forty millions.
His little one stsry Office. step or two
from Broadway, on Prince street. with its
iron bars, making il resemble police pri-
son, Is the den where he performshis dai.
| " tell, and cut of his wealth and labor gets
only his yictuals and clothes. He attends
personally TO all his business, knows every
dollar of rent or income that is to become
due, pays out every dollar, makes has en-
I tries in his own hand, and sbiises his sub
ordinates TO come 10 him for Information
while he does not 90 to them. tie gene.
rally comes -dswn in the omnibus AZ an
early hour. 10 the day and remains closely
absorbed in business until five O'clock. tie
| rarely sakes exercise. and 6nds his plea
sure Ia the closest attention 10 business.
i 4 friend Of nine rode 10 Washington with
him in the same car from New York. He
neither spoke nor got out Of his seat. and
hardly moyeds from Jersey City 10 Wash.
lington. He usually leaves his oifce al i've
o'clock, and walks slowly up Broadway y
LAFAYETTE place. lie IS over six feet high
lheayily built, with decided German look
small haay eyes, as il he was halt asleep
head round as a pumpkin and about as des-
titute OF. hair. He is exceedingly hospita-
BILE. and in the !" season" gives dinner q
his friends weekly, at which the riches
yiauds on services Of gold and silver arr
presented By liyeried servants TO kls guests
Commodore Vanderbilt never worked
harder in his life, never worked more hour:
: than now. He mas confidential clerk
who works like pack horse, who has been
. in his employ for thirty years. Besides
. this, Vanderbilt does his own business,
makes and executes his own contracts. and
this, With the business he does on twenty
! millions, Is no small toll. The Connie
dore goes down 10 his business regularly
/, every day, and can be found Il certain
!. hours. His only recreation, euchte ana
!, fast horses.
! Moses Taylor, whose dividends from hi
: coal stock alone this year reached the pref
! ~ little sum Of million Of dollars. begul
lbusisess in New York when ne was s,steel
: years OF age, kepthis oaB books with h
own hands, and has done 70 ever since
His library in his swn souse or Fifth ave
! nue. is a regular work shop. Essry nigh
; he brings up his business with his ovi
= hand. His vast business as trustee, Or
: kept BY himself. He mskss all the erigi
!, nal entries Of sort and kind, and goss :
: his Office tor no information, and he know
juu now things must be thereto be righ
;. And skonld every record kept BY HE beck
y keepers and clerks be destroyed, il veal
n make no difference vita him, for he has n
" original 10 his own hands. Many met
y chants spend the afternoon in riding. or
games, or in the ercitenent Of the ever
Ing stock board but Mr. Taylor finds b
= recreation 10 bath. good dinner, eou
i Portable sissta. and an evening devcsrt
i work