Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-01-16

Mr. GEORGE l.. VAN BLARCuM has route
in the upper part of the city. Orders may
be left at this Office. Mr.. WILLIAM G. JONES
will supply those AT the Port.
Copies may be obtained at the Post Office.
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COMMODORE VANDERBILT.
No man is felt in Wall street more
than Commodore Vanderbilt, yet he Is
seldom seen there All Of his business
is done in his Office in Fourth street
Here his brokers meet him, receive
their orders and give reports. Here
the plans are laid which shake the
street, and Wall street trembles ut the
foot of an invisible autocrat. If the
reader would care to visit the court
of that great railroad king whose name
has become the terror Of Wall street,
he may accompany us to Il plain brick
residence in Fourth street, near Broad
way, and distant from Wall street near
ly two miles. No sign indicates It's i'm
perial occupant except that tue upper
story being occupied as millinery es-
tablishment bears Legend Of that char
acter.
However. as we enter the hall we no.
tice the word ''olfice. and open the
door thus inscribed Here we see = ia
bic, few chairs aud desk at which
solitary clerk of middle age is standing
ut work. The walls are bare with the
exception of u few pictures OF those
steamships which originated the title
of Commodore. This is the ante
chamber, and pair of folding doors
screen the king from vulgar gaze. He
is closeted with his marshals. and this
privy council will last an hour or so. -
One after the other they depart, and
before three o'clock the effect of this
council will be not only felt in Wall
street. but will be flashed over the
Union. At length you are permitted
to enter, The folding door is opened
and you behold an Office as plain in APP
pearanco as the one just described. 1t
contains few arm chairs and 81 long
business table thrown flush before you,
on the opposite side of which sit large
man with his face fronting you. He is
writing, and his eyes are fixed on the
paper, SO that you have a moment to
note the dignity of frame and the vast
development of brain. In a few min
utes the coutenance raises, and yon
meet its expansive and penetrating
glance. You face the king. He smiles
IN pleasant and whole soulod manner.
and in moment puts you Mt ease. No
stiffness nor formality here. His king
ahip is in himself not in etiquette. He
is ready for pleasantly and will init
ate one if it comes i'll the line Of con
yersation. You note those wonderful
eyes, bright and piercing, and SO large
and rich that one is fascinated, and does
not know how to stop gazing into them.
Such is the appearance of the railway
king, and you take your leave con-
scious that some men, as Shakespeare
says. ''arc born great. Indeed, we
know a man who would rather give five
dollars to sit and look at Commodore
Vanderbilt than to see any other sight
i'll the city. Every afternoon lie is
wont TO take an airing, and after tea,
II game of whist affords az evening
amusement The Commodore is sim
ple in his manners and habits. He is n
representative of former age, when
men lived less arti6cially than at the
present time, and when there was more
happiness and less show. As for bust
nessAit is his nature. He cannot help
being king. He is but developing him
self. and any other mode Of ifc would
be painful. He has in the Central af
forded third wonder, the Harlem and
the Hudson River beng the first a0d
second and if he gets the Erie he will
soon show the world another wonder.
On Sundays the Commodore attends
pr Hntton's church on Washington
Square, and here his till and dieniiied
fern laay be seen head aud shoulders
above the rest OF tho congregation.
He is Il friend Of the pastor, WHO takes
Il deep interest in his welfare. and we
hope will meet him in better world.
He stood by tho Commodore's side
when his wife was laid in the tomb, and
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