Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-14
vASDERBILrs FAMILY.



rs Vanderbilt an educated man ?'
Not much. He can talk very well,
however. His father was guilty Of q
gross injury 70 him by meanly keep
ing him on tlc little old farm within
sight Of New York, and making him
stay there until he was n man OF more
than forty years old, under the old
fashioned delusion that II you keep a
child hungry ne will deserve fortune
better. Consequently, the time VIII
liam Vanderbilt should have spent at
college he had 10 spend throwing up
hay and sh0vclIng dung. He regrets
the loss of better educational advan-
tages. but he has picked up good
deal from intercourse, and from the
refining instincts OF his wife, who IL
the best person that ever entered into
that family. She was, ! believe, a
clergyman's daughter, or something Of
that kind. Vanderbilt takes great
pleasure in his family at home. They
are as happy IA family as their old
Dutch ancestors In the valley Of the
Hudson River, where divorces were
never known.
WILLIAM Vanderbilt, with the means
he possesses. might be n very injurious
man to his times by the bad example
he would set. On the contrary,
think he does as little evil with that
evil amount of money a. almost any
man TINT could he picked out of the
United States. He does not belong to
anything rare In the human type, Is
moderately worldly, Is n little timid,
has his fears, perhaps, that he will be
a failure in life, or even lose his prop
erty, but take him all in all, he has
preserved the wealth his father left
him as successfully ms any man you
might select, and made 1t the least pos
sible iDfiiction, perhaps, upon other
people. There Is nothing whatever NJ
fected about him. lie loses his tenn
per sometimes, and can be very severe
for a few minutes, but me rather re-
grets 1t afterward. have heard men
say that when he got mad ne could
make them feel meaner by his re-
marks than any other person in the
world coud do
what kind OF children has hc-his
sons, for instanceW
. Az to that, 1t is the current impress
sion that the ablest son he has Is Cor
nelius Vanderbilt 10 that enter mn
objection. | think IL Is n misfortune
that Mr.. Vandcrbilt's oldest san Is not
William r., who Is less popular than
Cornelius. but possesses more grit.
None of the Vanderbilt boys have ge-
MUS. Cornelius IL entirely II person of
routine, afraid to take the responsible
Ivy, and with decision only In ordinary
things. lie is good young man, per-
maps thirty-one years of age. Like all
the Vanderbilt sons and sons.in-law
Cornelius goes To his work and carries
on his part Of the estate and his enter
prlscS. He hns rather happy man
ief of greeting people. William X.
rather ranks as -noh. He Is particu-
lar In his dress and address, not de-
Inonstrativc. and governed to some cx-
tent. ] think by his wife, who is a
Southern woman with good
deal Of style about her. At
the present time, for instance, Lord
and Lady Vaudeville are guests Of
Mrs. William X. Vanderbilt. But
think that Mr.. Vanderbilt has more
condolences in the force of character Of
William X than any Of his sons. /
viii give you an instance During
the railroad war In the West some
time ago William Vanderbilt was In
Europe, Word was sent from st.
Louis and Kansas City that the ates
were being cut, and asking whether
.
should not also cut rates. The dis
patch fell into the hands of Cornelius,
and he replied that his father wns on
his way home, and would arrive In
about u week, and that important
question would he settled. That IL
always his remark: i must see my
father about this But the next dis
patch that came from Missouri fell
into the hands of William H., and he
Immediately telegraphed back: Yes;
give them the same medicine. Cut the
rates.
How about tho younger sons of Mr..
Vanderbilt -
"The third married son Is Fred. lie
IL nice fellow, who goes to work like
the rest, George Is the young person
nf the iamilys-n good boy unmarried.
The wife of William X, came, think,
from Virginia, and about the time she
married her husband was poor. This
led to a good deal of criticism Of her.
especially when her superior manners
and ambition rather seemed to reflect
on the other daughter-in-law. But no
matter what they say whether she
once had money or not, she has got II
now, She. IL not u very handsome
woman, but has style and quality
about her. Her house Is the Gothic
white building right opposite Wander
hilt's own block. A lot OF foolish
criticism has been spent on this
house but II Is the best specimen In
the Western world Of the secular
Gothic style of the north of Europe
such ms one sees In the Palace of Jus.
tice at Rouen, az In many of the town
halls of the north of France and Bel
GUM. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
built house of another character,
nearer Central Park, of white stone,
inlnid with brick Their father is
now erecting two noble houses for his
remaining children, half way between
those OF his two elder sons. | think
that tho wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt
came nom Cincinnati. The snns.in-
law are like tho sons--res respectable, In.
dustrious young willing to besct ut
work wherever they can accomplish
the most. Twombly Is n Boston man,
and has the transportation business on
the river, One son-in-law IL young
Sloane, the carpet man. The latest IL
tho younger son OF James Watson
Webb, the old editor This young
man has lust had child born, and
Mr.. Vanderbilt said ut the time he
didn't know whether II was the
twenty-tirst or twenty-second grand
child he had. Cincinnati Enquirer,
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