Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-09-27
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VANDERBILT AT sEvENTY-EIGHT.

VANDERBILT AT sEvENTY-EIGHT.
yo,der ia Vanderbilt with nm ipcome of
SO 600 a dov ne one of bis family admitted
to me. He refuses all teleprapb dispatcbes.
yy;Il 500 roro Of h;s rbord;ro,os on brs;
ness n,ovs 6vo.bondod eucbro ,vico n
dav for two borrs and baIfat each stretcb
takes ono corriaoe ride with bis wife and
Mrs. Craweord his motber-ip.low who is
obor, voupc enouob ,o he his grand daugb-
tor. and talks with bjs cronies He ia "a
vears old and If he sbould ondeavor IN re-
alize cash from his nersonal railway STOCKS.
bonds and mortgages. Tomorrow. there
,rould be n financial manic There il notb-
inc successive about vanderbilt. except his
ia tbe sunerfuous and yuIpar burden of A
lonp-extended life of money. seekinp-use-
less 10 him. useless TO his fcllow-mcn. and
useless to his cbildren-except that he de-
monst rates in his life how faith can grow
richer than fear. He was born bull, in
the stock sense: that is. one who bet that
whatever he bought would win. Every
railway security he ever touched seemed
to grow buoyant from contact with his
grim Mohammedan will, and pedestina-
ting confidence. All that he ever did with
the property represented by such stocks
was to give orders TO manage it as meanly
as possible, SO that it should cost the least
for the most return; but, to the stocks
themselves. he was the uplifting bull, toss
ing them alort, and representing a broad
er religious faith than he ever knew, in the
es. No bear. in the history of the world
ever touched the mark of prosperity; and
il would seem that the materiaist who bets
systematically that all things must lose,
had no better luck than the sceptic who
sometimes grows rich in wisdom bv pur-
suing his doubts. but at last. with all his
wisdom, doubts himself.
Vanderbilts life at IS, though always
and essentially a gambling life, selfish and
single to his own interests, is still what
one might expect of such a bull. He is
never out of spirits he is never above spir-
its he is Cornelius Vanderbilt, the bull.
"All is clear gain above TO-" he saws TO Wis
itors. "My life is eight wears ahead" And
he saws ii in the cool tone of the man
would ia Ike his own ace even now. tbourb
prolonged eight years beyond the dispen-
sation of God TO other men. and over issue
stock upon II. and bull IL nm 10 he n securi-
tv. II is n secu,itv. The STOCKS of his rail-
wavs will show n when death ,be great
hoar oo,s vo,dorhiI, down Thoso ,ro,Iav
and dissimil,r noonle ,yho-, Inv rre,ts and
.,o,Is no ,a,,oI ID ~. o,,,,io,o,,, w.
,ao,ion and o,ardod Ill his nontr,o,
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a"u enJoys 'no 'o"so 'ou'"'1S VI =. "I'""'
'ii""hiu'ness Ut eso',s"' 'o'" -,o, ''''o.
VINO Keeps 'ne c'uo-house ao""u 'uo oo'
no'' eau se' nioney i'oih h'"'' WIN 'uo "n
ue's'ahuins 'na' u Is W oo s""'o'ns 0"P'
tai certain 10 win py 'ne percentase III IN
vor OF the player-capiIallst' ana 10 DC re-
PAID at lhat ra'e OF proht' as Ns"uero"'
himself were the proprietor OF the mousse
lie has no scruples ABOUT laws OF "ppe"