The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-06-16
About Vanderbilt.


Commodore Vanderbilt--so called by
courtesy, although ne was never sea
captain, but m ,reiy merchant skipper,
employing other captains at starvation
way kes-has been sick good while OF
stomachio and digestive diseases, botn
bladder and rectum. he can not long
survive, as he is eighty-three years old.
Commodore Vanderbilt, without going
rom home, and merely improving the
century's great opportunities as they
began and consolidated in the waters OF
New York, gaineda gigantic fortune. He
was as brave, obstinate, selfish and
grasping as Peter Stuyyesant.
Wander bilPs father had been a very
ordinary huckster and boat-saiier; his
moLner was of Covenanter-ScoLch Lch
descent, from Scotch Plains, N. ia
superior woman. She had been wo-
man hired out. His first wife and
mother as well kept taverns. He WAS
bred among rough crew-systermen,
'longshoremen ana their girls-and had
no education nor ASSOCIATION other than
passed through his ferry and boat. But
he possessed the power of making
women leel his will and talent. Men
dislIked and we're AFRAID OIL him. He
nad no manners, and mashed mis- way
10 fortune. Gboons, a LoDacco-clewlng
Aaron Ogden, first employed him. From
MIN Vanderbilt got the idea OF Oppose
tion as standard principe and max
ing standard lines buy MIN off. His
WnoIe scala ing lie Was an nerolc form
uf Observation-Disclosures Duyal. After
fifty years OF this sort OF WORK he co..
ciudeI to abandon the seas and take TO
railroading. ~
- HIS JOBS.
The grandeur o. Yeuuerbilps financial
trausac IONS was SHOWN in has Harlem
corner, at the close OF the war. Tue
STOCK was selling at Az in the market,
par at 5O. Ii there were 10000 shares, it
required only " wv, 900 TO pay the whole
sLock. ALpar NAnuerDlt ~ GO, bought
Up The whole sLock, wnlIe .,he "snorLs"
offered 81. Having got the stock, it
went up gradually to lS0, at or about
which fgure the brokers and tpeir
principals mad TO settle or break, max
ing profit to the VanderDIlL pool of
say 80 DO0 UD0, or nearly three times the
whole amount OF tue inyes .inent. OLe
VI his greatest days was late in Decem-
Def, 1868. He mad purchased OF con-
,rolle4 about 100, ,o0J snares Of New YorK
| Central stock. Getting Lo-ehter u
quorum of directors III nj gut ses ion, they
declared a alvIJend OF ~ per cent. and
an4ounced il nexs mornlns. Tns stock
Almost Instantly jumped from l2O 70 l95,
aua the SHORT Interest mad 70 pay Owes
%. .0U0, ,009 " the Commodure's co terie.
GA anuther OCCASION he Was con-
yenIenIy unable 10 remember in a court
| vi justice Gral,s .cGlou where he sold ,oi
81 wv, ,U0J premuum a ''calf' Ior 5O,0JC
snales VI Erle i'll four months. lne
lnagnlLude o. sucn u privilege and the
OPERATORS cool head AMI indifferent
memory surprised The Court and even
| the prosecutor. He was not dlsaOnest
yeC responsible, particularly to the Gun.
stiLuteu power Ol the law and tue tax
collector. Tie SperlH of Richn Jnli
Couney told me that 'ue denied poinl
bank OWNING a piece OF property Oh
Staten Island wnlcn was universally
aAd a m Jst immemorlally his. Henevel
arr.
A well-informed gentleman says thai
Vanderbilt h " OF stock, clieiy Central
AMI Lake snore. He gave $l00, 900 to tht
huance OF nis son George, wuv ATTENDED
DR.. Chole's scuool AZ Newport, an,
aiterwa West Point, and uIed abou
Jhe age OF twenty-six, IN France. Thl
son was the finest appearIng offspring
"a cuOl, dare-aevI tehow, not very warm
hearted, but natural leader OF me :,
lie attached people to him wituod
cozeniny Lnelr sympathies. People sa.
tnat the ConimodOre lelt this BLOW al
much as anything tnat mas eyel
happened; he promptly provided Tor III
Unmarried 1aIy, and sne is stll IlyiuI
on the properly. near Fort Washington