The New York herald., 1877-01-05

His in paying per dividend upon all this
s,ock established for him great reputation
as railroad hnancer Among his latest
cnases OF Western Union aud the assistance
rendered to the Lake Shore IN ls73. which helped to
rc-csiablihh the Union Trust Company after it's failure
during the panic The Commodors came compara-
lively seldom down to Wall street. prcierring to give
MS orders 10 ms brokers' every morning at his home
Ihe last time he Was seen In Wall strees was during
the panic
vAxprRBLr's PUBLIC orrrs
The institution which will be principally associated
with The memory OF the deceased the Vanderbilt
University, situated In the western suburbs OF Nash
University OF the Methodist Episcopal Church, SOUTH
but the Efforts TO raise funds TOR organization
unsuccessful Its condition was IN critical Juncture
when, IN 1873 Cornelius Vanderbilt gave TO the
PRISE $oo0. 0OO and the institution named In his
honor. subsequently he increased this amount to
nearly $780, O00 $500 900 OF which Is TO remain as
permanent invested endowment On October L. 1875
the institution was opened for students. II has
Theological department. with lour professors
a law department with threo. n medical department
with eleven and department OF philosophy science
and literature with eleven. The total number OF stu
umcs scientific apparatus that than $50 000
and extensive geological and mineraogical cabinets.
Tuition is free to al IN the theological department. and
in the literary and scientific departments 10 ali pre-
pairing for the ministry.
HIS WEALTH
While VanderbilL's railroad wealth Is estimated at
$4,000 900 his accunulaons OF real estate COM
paratvey small His house IN East Washington place Is
$4S OJO; his Office stable &C. on Fourth street
S5l ,000 his property in Bowling Green $27 600; IN
Cortlandt stroet $3l 000 and In Twenty street.
$l5,O 900 He was also said TO have owned Gilmore's
Garden, worth about Sl,0O0,000 HIS personal
estate for 1915 was assessed at ss OOO 600
On Staten Island no owned n park and
hotel, worth $2OaO00 and several thousand Of
Wild land. Or. Deems church, which will also revert
to the Vanderbilt estate DR. Deems has life OF
~ is worth 100000 Vanderbilt was the richest man
IN the world who ever made ms own fortune, unoss
possibly. Krupp, the German gunmaker should have
outstripped him
HIS PERSONAL APPEARANCES.
Commodore Vanderbilt generally described
most kngIy looking man Of about feet one, with
fine large bold head fair complexion aud rudiy cheeks
aquiline, powerful nose and lively, dark eyes OF keen
expression. HIS hair was beautifully white, and
now the bankers in Wall say, He rs the finest
and carried himself in imposing manner. He gen.
orally wore black, with white silk necktc, and IN
winter a peculiar heavy, iur trimmed ovcrcoat, by
which ho was generally known about Wall street.
HIS
The first Mrs. Vanderbilt died 1858.
The COmmodores second wife Miss Frank
Crawford, of Mobile, Ala, and hc seventy nve
and she thirty -four at the time OF the marriage.
his CHILDREN
BY his second wife he had children. BY the FIRST
he had several Ono oi his daughters married the ate
Horace +. Clark, an eloquent lawyer and able rail-
rond nnancer. Another daughter married Daniel
Torrance. successful and wealthy railway manager.
One OF his sons was graduate Of West Point engaged
In the WIN and died Of malaral lever. Another son.
Cornelius Jr., never excced in HIS fathers calins
The eldest son, William H. Vanderbilt, succeeds to tho
character During tho later of tho Com odorc =
l'ie William managed great part of tho railway
business.
''Do BUSINESS WILL"
Commodore Vanderbilt had few maxims OF life
When he was asked Tor he would reply, .'Do your
business welLn And he sometimes fond Of add
Ing "Don't tell anybody what you going to do
until you have done it,"
ADJUSTMENTS
He was very fond OF games with cards, and he spent
a great sum OF money for fast horses He himself was
an excellent driver.
ENDURANCE DISEASE
II was said of hun just iatoly ale has heon sick
for forty years. aud especially for the past twenty
years having received railroad shock twenty years
ago from which he has never recovered. During part
OF his forty years illness he has bcen afflicted with
Inflammation OF the bladder, piles and rupture, ana
from ali OF these he Is st moro less, suffering, In
addition TO which he has to bear the weight OF over
eighty summers and winters. "
AGE
Commodore Vanderbilt was eightY-two years old on
the 9th OF May last.
PLACE or BURIAL.
The body OF the dead Commodore will go back To
Staten Island. whence he came. Amid tho large Van
derbit estates tho island the family burial ground
Four miles IRON the lower ferry landing is the old
MOravian church, and there, the slope OF q hill
Is acre OF ground used The Vanderbilt
At the highest point Is the tomb Of the Commodore,
subterranpan vault about thirty feet square, laid In
cement. To reach 1t ono must pass through u small
granite temple In the Doric STYLE above which
shalt thirty feet high. In the temple Is elegant
aud costly statue of 'Grief" Within the inner vault
the remains OF the Commodore will bo laid.