Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-05-29

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fifty. His dress is plain and neat, all dis
play being studiously avoided. He stands
five feet six. Forty years ago he COM
menced trade in this city in very small
way; but such man could no more be
confined to a small business than Napoleon
could be kept on Elba. He has thousands
of employees, uses millions of dollars, and
deals in an enormous variety of goods but
so perfect is his system, SO complete his
method, that | doubt if he ever losses a
dollar. Each clerk has his special duties,
and those duties are so interviewer with
others that the slightest sin of ommissiOn
or commission must eventually be discover
ed. He lives plainly, though well, and
has doubtless many long years before him.
Where his money will go to, no one can
form an opinion. He has no relatives this
side of the water; and with those on the
other side he has had no connection for
years. He is building an enormous insti-
tuition up town, which, it is supposed. he
intends TO use for ''Girl's Lodging
House, but this is not certain. The pro-
liability is that he will keep on, intending
to do some great and good thing, but if he
dies suddenly before bis plans are completed,
and that his enormous fortune will enrich
his Irish relatives. Our only comfort will
be that the estate will have to go through
the courts in New York, which will keep
the most of it in this country.
VANDERBILT
is another man who has seen eighty, but
who enjoys vigorous health. Old as he is,
it was only 4 few years ago that he mar
ried young wife, and Notwithstanding he
attends to the detail of his enormous rail-
road business, and play whist as regularly
and methodcally as ever. lie controls
more miles of railway than any man but
one on the continent, and his lines are all
important. He is an iron-gray old fellow,
who worked up to his present position from
nothing, and who bids fair to double his
already colossal fortune before he passes
out. But have gossipped long enough
about the old men. 1t will be noticed that
every one of the rich old men in the city
commenced very poor. 1t was in poverty
that they got the strength and the habits
that to-day sustains them. this is the
moral to it. If could start, again should
start poor.
BUSINESS
is horribly and fearfully dull, SO dull indeed
as To be no business ut all. The merchant
looks wistfully out into the street. The
salesman wears panied look, for his Occu-
patton is gone, and the ok-keeper bal
lances himself and reads newspapers. The
West is not here, the South stays away,
and the North refuses to invest. The
theatres are losing money, the hotels are
well nigh empty, and the bar-keepers
mourn as those without hope. Let us hope
for revival.
ONE HUNDRED EDITORS,
all from the little State of Indiana, are in
the city at the present time, comfortably
quartered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.
They have been to Cincinnati, Washington
and Philadelphia, and, after doing the me-
trOpolis, will go home to their respective
papers and grind out wisdom again. Gen
orally speaking they are goodlooking set
of men. They are making 4 thorough
thing of New York, and enjoying them
selves hugely.
THE WEATHER
is absolutely glorious. The rains have
gone, the voice of the organ grinder is
again heard in the streets, the air is balmy,
clear and bright, and everything looks as
beautiful as it can. The Spring is always
delightful IN New York after the rains are
over. Now let business come to the city
and it will be. happy. Come, merchants
with money, and buy. Make New York
glad. The chink of money and the rustic
of bank-notes should accompany the songs
of the birds in the Park, to make every
thing serene.
PIETRO.