The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
The Inimitable But Crazy George
Francis Train Comm snting
- OF the Death of Van 60
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derbilt.


derbilt.
Ed;tor.-Well, Mr. Train, the flags are
at half-mast at lls.. No mistake this
time. The Commodore is really dead.
Mr. Train.-Eight moaths dying!
What magnifcent vital power KnIwl
edge of diet 7tnd Turkish baths would
have given fifty years more of life As
it was he killed two DEBTORS out of FIVE
and tired out preachers, reporters, family
and publi2. They are all glad the agony
is over. How cdd to see him go off
Bible mad at last when he tried to be
skeptic Tor a score of years.
Nearer my God to Thee, was the
last song, and "FatherS Sln and Holy
Ghos.l' his last words What a jubilee
for Deemsl What harvest for doctorI
What gold mine to the lawyer! What
relief to his relatveI The press and
the Stock Exchange! low glad every
body seems to-day. ~
The incubus of Croeu IS off the
public at last, These awfully rich men
retard evoIu-i ion.
The Property GobbIer, Astor, died
November, 1875 The Tape Gobbler,
Stewart, died April, 1876, and now the
Railway Corporation Gabbler,- Wander
bilt, pies January, 1871; all within a
twelve month in the Centennial year.
The Land King, the Cloth King and the
Railway King age is ended. Thus pass
away thu last of the Holy Trinity of
Hundred Miiionaires. All dead and no
body sheds tears. You could not sell
the whole outfit in the flesh to-day at
public auction for ten Millions. These
misers gobble1 nearly al, their gold in
the half century. While cutting the
pound of flash from the rich they
squeezed the drop of blood from tie
poor. When they gave anything to
CHARITY, it was done as advertisement, a
moral insurance policy rla
These Shylocks were three Dutch
ieutonie and Celtic squatters 'on New
! oTk city They squatted and aited
The city grew and their statue increased
with It's growth. Neither of Thorn were
painters, poets authors, seulptor5 ,sOra-
! tors, statesmen, inventors nor benefat-
tors. Possessing everything to make
them beloved, they were tnTe5 H9ating
ieeberg5 in the Pal87crystic Sen of
AEarice They eRj pyed- the battle for
gold and lditaned upon tn, booty.
! Neither Of tkem ever saw a Turkish
bath. -e-t-.4 -s
Eiitor.-W no will be Mr. Vanderbilts
pail bearers, Mr. Traiu2
Mr. Train.-Of course the New York
Mutual Admiration sound, who are al
ways on hand at three millionaire shows.
\ ears ago Vanderbilt appointed Ten
Friends They are all dead lie seems
to have outlived everything, and dies at
last before the ammo uncement of the New
ork Central bankruptcy lie was an
active business man twenty years be-
tween Ibis two marriages. The first in
1913. The last In 1863 He was tt
champion corporation ''bueker stock
waterer" opposition advertiser and stock
exchange washer of the world! q
His forty gears battle between his
lrectum and his bladder was an outrage
on common sense, but typifes the ignor-
ance of man on the laws Of life He
surrendered his infdelty to Dr. peems,
but not his stroHg cigar This proves
the weakness of his Biblical conversion
and the strength of ms appetite Just.
think Of Dr.. Dsens roasting oysters on
his bed rooms coal FIRE at midnight for
dying mans supper o. .Iat.
= His loving DOCTORS T4indsv, Uuns. e.
lott, BedenhammeF, VIII probably charge
the old man one hundred thous md dot
lars for curing him till he died. The
Comm odore prolonged his own life by
yamPlring two of his six physicians,
Hun5 and Geisehert to death.
Editor Wall street stands up Ike
man under the shock Has the street
discounted the Commodore exit? DID
you not predict his death would produce
! the coming erasb2 ss
Mr. Train4IIis death and Gnu!d's
failure! as they we're silent partners.
! William Vanderbilt Is slow-goine o'd
staten Island farmer, who never talzed
/ business till Redrig half "a century old,
land VIII be spring chicken for Could to
/ luck. Watch clcss the gold market,
down to six As it drops the fuse burns
j be magazine Of powder IS par, or ST e
I Gle payments. GOu d takes Vanderbiit's
place Tor short time, and then dow n
! goes the credit Of the Central house OF
cobS SAB
Miser, profane as bravo, unserupu-
/ lOus7as a gambler, bold as bandit, un-
feeling as a slave driver, coarse ia his
nature, vulgar IN his conversation, uC-
kind to his children, be was the most
lliiterate of the hundred milIi0naires BE
could only talk horse, poker, steamboat
and railway Sensible to the last he or
dered a plain funeral, saying extTaVagant
heral display made the poor seem poprer.
But the most remarkable incident IN q
LIE Of this extraordinary man, be delib-
erateiY closed his Ol0n eyes as he died
the first instance EH0soR III histoIY
Wkat wonderful will pOwerl By the
by, why do peoPla die with their ey
wlde open?