The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-01-18
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George Francis Train on Wander
bllI's Death.
From George Francis Traln'a Weekly.l


time. The Commodore is really dead.
Mr.. Train.-Eight months dying
What magnificent vital power. Know
ledge Of diet and Turkish baths would
have given fifty years more Of life. AT
it was he killed two doctors out Of five
and tired out preachers, reporters, family
and public. They are all glad the agony
is over. How odd to sec him go of Bible
mad at last when he tried to be n skeptit
for score Of years
The Incubus Of Crwsus is of the public
at last. These awiully rich men retard
evolution.
Mr.. Train.-The Property Gobbler
Aslor, died November, 1875; the Tape
Gobbler, Stewart, died April, 1876, anG
now the Railway Corporation Gobbler
Vanderbilt, dics January, 1877; all wiihir
a tWeitemonh in the Centennial year Til,
Land King, the Cloth King and the Rail
way King age is ended. Thus passes
away the last Of the Holy Trinity o.
Hundred Millionaires. All dead, and
nobody sheds tears! You could not sci
the whole outfit in the flesh to-day a
Public Auction for Ten Millions! These
misers gobbled nearly all their geld il
the half century, While cutting the
pound OF flesh from the rich they sqneezet
the drop Of blood from the poor! Whei
they gave anything to charity, ii wa
done us an advertisements moral In
surancc policy.
These Shylocks were
THREE DUTCH TEUToNIC AND CELTIC
SQUArTERs
on New York city. They squatled ant
waited. The city grew and their slatur,
increased with It's growth. Neither o
them were Painters. Poets, Authors
Sculptors, Orators, Statesmen, Inventor.
nor Benefactors Possessing everything
to make them beloved, they accomplished
nothing TO win affection! They were
three floating icebergs in the PalroCrys
tic Sea OF Avarice! They enjoyed the
Battle for Gold and faltened upon The
Booty. Neither Of them ever saw a Turk
ish Bath.
Editor.-Who WILDE VanderbillsPal
Bearers, Mr.. Train2
Mr.. Train--Of course the New Yorl
Mutual Admiration squad who are al
ways on hand NJ these millionaire shows
Years ago Vanderbilt appointed Tel
Friends. They are all dead. lie scem
to have oullived everything, and dies n
last before the announcement OF the New
York Central's bankruptcy. He was Al
active business man twenty years befor
! was born Think OF placing iiity.Si,
years between his two marriages TIL
first 1913. The last 1869. lie was tn
champion corporation, Quicker Stool
Waterer" Opposition Advertiser ant
Stock Exchange "IraSher" Of the world
His forty years battle between his rec
tum and his bladder was an outrage OF
common sense, but typifes the Ignorance
of man on the laws Of life. He surren
dered his lnlidelity 10 DR.. Deems, bai no
his strong cigar This proves the weak
ness Of his Biblical conversion and III,
strength of his appetite. just think o
DE-. Deems roasting oysters on his bed
room coal fire at midnight for dying
mans supper.
Ills loving doctors, Linsy, Hunt, Elliott
Bolenhammer, will probably charge the
old man one hundred thousand dollar,
for curing him till no died The Com
modore prolonged his own life by Van
piring two Of his six physicians Hun
and GeisChert to death.
NO CRASH TILL GOULD FAILS.
EIitor.-WalI street stands up like 9
man under the shock. Has the stree
discounted The COmmOdOrcS exitY Di,
You not predict his death would producI
the coming crash?
Mr.. Train.-liiI death and Could
Failure rs they were silent partners
William Vanderbilt is n slOw-going ole
Staten Island Farmer, who never talket
business till nearly half n century old
and vii! be aspiring chicken for Goult
toplnck. Watch close the gold market
now down TO six. As ii drops the fus
burns. The magazine Of powder is par
or specie payments! Gould takes Van
dcrbilt's place for short time, and thel
down goes the credit OF the Central housu
Of cObs
Miser, profane as bravo, unscrupulou
as y gambler, bold MS u bandit, unieelinl
asa slave driver, coarse in his nature
vulgar in his conversation, unkind 10 hi
children, he was the most illiterate OF tn
Hundred Millionaires. lie could only
talk Horse, Poker, Steamboat and Rail
way! Sensible to the last, he ordered I
plain funeral, saying extravagant fora
display made the poor seem poorer. Blu
the most remarkable incident in the lii,
ofthis extraordinary man, he deliberate
ly closed his OWn eyes as he died, The frs
kaoWn in history! What u wonderful vii
power! By the by, why do people di
with their eyes wide open?