Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-08-04

How Two FINANCIAL GIANTS LIvr.-COn-
modor. Vanderbilt's breakfast, writes a cores
pondent of the provincial press, would do for
an anchorite-a cup of collee, plain toast, and
the white of an egg. Ills dinners are equally
frugal. lie takes the air every day rain or
shine. lie keeps no late hours. Company or
no company, he moves of to bed at ten. lie
prefers the society of a few friends to Il hot
soiree The simple Moravian airs Of his boy
hood played by his accomplished wife on the
piano. is sweeter music to him than the crash
and fury Of the opera. In his busines, lie is
cool, collected and set-rcliant. The iume, fret
ting and wasting ofeXciting business is done by
others, and not 10y himself He never sells What
he does not own, nor buys what he cannot pay
for, and If lie will, look up, he reads men with
the intuition Ola prophet. He locks his business
affairs in his own bosom, and, lie says, changes
his mind when he chooses, without being ac-
cused of yacliation.' lie touches nothing that
he does not control He is at nobody'S mercy;
nobody can hetray lin, sell him out, buy linn
oil OF tlwdrt him.
At the funeral of Horace +. Clark was Noses
Taylor. lie is over sixty, one of the hardest
working men in New York, neat TO Stewart,
Astor, or Vanderbilt and is doing more business
than any other man III the city. lie is rugged,
hearty, full of the vigor of youth AMI seems
good for quarter OF a century OF rough, tough
| toll. lie runs cne of the largest banks of the
| clty. lie Is mOic tndh lfesiichI-lc ~ uulo-
| crat Of the concern.
He has been for years his own book keeper
and should anything happen TO the books ofhis
business down. town lie could duplicate them
from under his own hand. lie has kept re-
| cord of his business since he was boy, aud
can show you the profit and loss, day by day
| for fifty years. His style of business has pre-
served his health and perpetnated his fortune
| Ills great point has been to make money. Hor
| T,st ;vi. 1ti n MI IuuOrS
| Watching, ocean and mountain travelling, seven
| by nine rooms at fashionable water places
| races and clubs, have no charms for him. Mr.
| TAYLOR takes his recreation i'll tiiis wise: llC
rises early; takes bath eats simple break
fast, and Is down to the bank before the clerks
He is never excited, never in hurry; is self
possessed and master of the situation. Busi-
ness over, most men find recreation in quie
game of billiards; in a dash over the waves n
Sandy Hook; little spend over the road, whcr'
| the riyalary is sufficient 10 make the bottom Of
horse worth gold. Not 50 with Mr.. Taylor.
The man who has made twenty dollars il
Wall street spends half OF it for Il ZACH To ride
uptown, and II dinner at Delmouicus. MI
Taylor worth $40, 1000, 900, rides up town in nj
, omnibus, takes a frugal dnncr-iakes Il bath
goes to bed aud has refreshing sleep gets NJ
| writes down the business of the day until tel
, | and then goes to bed. y man who wants to 50
Moses Taylor in the evening won't look tu
, him in the concert hall. theatre cr club-r )On
He will find him in his own room, sccon
story front, pleasantly and cheerfully at wor
=, till bedtime. The prevailing style of busines
Is entirely unlike these .pe,imens. The yomu
business men OH the street copy Jim Fisk, llol
ace +. Clark, and men Of that stamp. They n
prematurely old. Boys OF thirty are older tina
their fathers at sixty. breakfast at clever
t heated lunches, with abundance of drink r,lsl
Ing Into wild speculatons. This takes the la
S of the top OF their head-knocks their unde
= pinning out-gives our boys incipieut paralysi
and makes them walk around the streets vii
canes. 81 can't sleep nights get very lit
/, sleep after twelve O'Clock; get up a, three
get q bath, and read aud lay round.'