Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-12-24

all that. 1t soon became whispered
about that he was the richest man In
the country, particularly when he made
that famous exhibition OF S50,DOO,OOO
worth of securities. Every since q keen
rivalry and bitter jealousy has sprung
I'D between the two moguls. "When
brains and capital has fight, the brains
will always have the best of it."
Vanderbilt Rampant.
Cyrus w. Field said, when the IA
NOUS battle between the American
Union and Western Union was ia pro-
gress, Vanderbilt, with all pretense Of
cunning and scheming, Is a very dull
man, and he was easily euchred by
Gould, who captured the Western
Union from him with the utmost ease.
Thatincensed Vanderbilt tremendously.
Ever since then when asked If Gould
is not very rich man he shakes his
head in q very doIeful fashion as though
he meant to say: "That man will
come to grief YETI Somebody once
told him about the report that Gould
was worth $4,000, 900 and asked Van
derbilt whether he thought it was true.
Vanderbilt shook his head as usual in
an ominCus manner and said: "Weli,
| tell you, twenty-five million dollars
is a great deal of money" And as he
did so he struck his legs on the table or
issitting room in his most beautiful
palace, and went on to tell about his
own operations in stocks; how he got
control of the MICHIGAN, Central while
pretending toward everybody that he
was selling stock, and letting certlti-
Gates 90 out in his own name, and again
how he had defrauded investors in in
ducing them to believe he was buying
Lake Shore when he was really secretly
selling it, etc. Vanderbilt takes the
greatest delight in recalling these fl
1apcial exploits. He thinks 1t IS very
clever to get the best of people, partlcu-
larry those who speculate in wall street,
under the pretense that they deserve to
lose because they are only gamblers al
ter all
There is only one thing he does not
like. He does not relish being outdone
by Gould. He wants to be the very
| first man-not the second; and the
thought, in fact the mere suggestion
that Gould is plucking the laurels from
him, as we'll as the dollars, sets him
wild. Whether it be this annoyance OF
other disappointments in not having
made another 800, O00, 900 as he expect
ed, it is quite certain that Vanderbilt:
health has been very poor oflate. Hi:
digestion is very bad, and his diet has &c
be of the most frugal sort. He dimes a.
6, and is hardly an hour at dinner, anC
| at 9 he goes to bed. But even this vir
tuous and humdrum life cannot keel
the gnawing pangs of Jealousy away
from him. The big steam yacht which
Gould has been building himself ha'
given him renewed twists, and still III
is not happy.
He cannot he happy while he thinks
that Gould will be taking a trip arounC
the world next spring and be trotted on
to all the people of the earth as the rich
est man in America, when he, the rea
bona fide, Simon pure richest man II
America is sitting at home and taking
digestive medicine at quarter to sever
O'Clock, after dinner. A conspiracy De
tween these two men against the puoll
interests would certainly be very dan
gerous. Combined they could buy eV
erything that remains honest In the leg
isiature, the judiciary, and everywher
else, except, possibly, our Board OF Al
dermen, but while they remain at Gag
gers drawn, and each one is incensed a
the other because he is afraid that TN
sceptre of the moneyed empire Will 0
wrested from him, the people are com
paratively safe.