Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-04-22
THE SONS OF RICH. MEN.

In city OF wealthy men there are or
course many sons of rich fathers. Some
are in business, and carefully following in
the same paths their sires trod on their way
to eminent prosperity and position, and
others, with plenty Of money, are engaged
in killing time with all the luxurious means
q great city affords. The fashionable pro-
menades are filled with them. They lounge
in the green rooms of popular, reigning
beauties of the theatres, and pay court and
tribute. They are constant patrons of the
gaming hells, and feed this vice with the
parental money. They exist only for dis
sipation.
1t is pleasant to know that New York
offers examples of the sons of rich men who
turn out we'll, and are not spoiled by aff1u-
ence. The two sons of William B. Astor
are fine specimens of young men untainted
by the surroundings of an immense fortune.
They are steady and regular at their busi-
ness, and always seen together. Whatev-
er one does, the other sanctions. They
we're never known to quarrel. Two broth
ers could not be mere bound together in
ties of affection than they are. Every night
they can be seen walking up town arm-in-
arm, very quiet and reserved looking, both
dressed alike in plain black suits, and with
nothing in their manner to denote that they
are the richest young men in America
Their office is in Wall street, and daily
from ten to four they may be found at bus
mess, working as if their very living depend
ed upon it. Then there is Vanderbilt's s
son. He is a worthy scion of a good stock.
The Commodore educated him carefully for
business, and his conduct has fully sustain
ed the fathers hopes and expectations.
The son is now well known as one of the
best business men in the city.
In the great shipyard of Webb, the fa-
nous master builder, there works a steady
young man, whose father, one of these days
in the course of nature, will leave fortune
so large that it would quite turn the brain
of an ordinary young man to think of. This
young apprentice to the shipbuilding trade
is the only heir. He might wear fine clothes
now, and have his stable of fast horses, and
go all the round of elegant leisure, if he
would. But every morning he leaves his
fathers splendid mansion on Twentieth
street bright and early, and joins the throng
of hurrying mechanics bound to their work.
When night comes, he washes off the trace
of work, and takes his position in society.
Why he does it is this: He wants trade,
so certain, so well learned, that if the fine
fortune of the father should ever take to
itself wings, his own living in the world
would be assured beyond question or doubt
What good son Aaron Kemp was. lie
has now name among bankers for his in,
tegrity. Wall street knows only his career
in the days when money was plenty, and the
road easy. There was a time when the
difficulty of getting on was almost too great
to be borne. His father, once rich, be:
came poor, in debt. The noble son assumed
those debts, and early in years tooku bur
dens few young men have strength tor. lie
paid these debts one by one, and to pay
them denied himself everything which is
pleasing to the young heart.
/ It is useless to talk of solid work to young
men who have all the money they can spend
Only a few of the better class ever avail
themselves of their fathers business inau'
ence. Seeing no need for exertion, they