Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1883-04-16
A Rich and Happy Family.
Oath" IN the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.

| Nearly all OF Mr. anuerDlltS daugl
tors are mothers. They bring thei
children into the world timely and fr.
quently, and consequently the Wander
bilt houseis not like the Chuzzlewi
house, full Of meanness, and treason, an,
and backbiting. William, the grea
father, does not really know how man,
grandchildren he has When he drive
his horses out on the road, and is ralliet
on that question at times by his com
peers, he tries from mere good nature +,
sum up his grandchildren and finall,
says: " I really don't know how many
! have. know the mothers are doinl
well, and the fathers have u new grin
on their faces every time | see them.
What happy family that is Wealtl
does not scrimp them. Income does
not stop its outcome. 1t preserves the
two great laws of increase and multipli.
cation.
| Mr.. Shepherd, who married the oldest
daughter, is a queer character. He is
now finishing building on Fifth
Avenue, occupying part of the old
Rutgers Institute block, which has for
its signs the State Deposit Bank, the
Rutgers Bank, the Bank of Banks.
We all stop and read the last several
times and ask what the Bank of Banks
is. The friends Of the Vanderbilt
family smile and say: "That is one of
Shepherds cranks."
The next daughter is Mrs. Sloane.
Sloane is the leading carpet man in
New York. He constructs articles on
which mankind and wOmankind walk.
That rather gives him black eye in the
superstition of New York as one of the
Vanderbilt family. If he could only
make ceilings, on which people could
not walk, it might be different, but to
put beautiful articles under our feet
seems strange from such u very rich
person. So, on the whole, the Sloane
element of the Vanderbilt family is a
little looked down upon, particularly
by the William X. element. At the
same time the Sloancs rank very high
in this mercantile world. The mag
niticent building Of the Sloane family,
on Upper Broadway, hardly has it's
match in the world for a store of any
sort, and as n carpet store it is beyond
comparison.
The third daughter is Mrs. Twom.
bley. 1wombley was in the PAPER
making business in Massachusetts, and
was not worth SO, 600 when he married
one of William Nanderbilts daughters:
but he was Il gentleman. The Wander
bilts say they do not demand money as
a qualification to come into their fami-
ly, but they do demand respectability,
good nature, good manners and good
10 70 m af
Vanderbilt and his wife that they re-
gard their own fortune us amply sutli-
cient for all their posterity, but they
will not have adventures, vulgarians
or cold hearted people of the world to
marry their children. The nearest ap-
proach to a worldly person who has
come into that family is Mrs. William
X. who gave the great ball the other
night.
The old folks say nothing about her
operations, but her father-in-law went
to that ball ina plain black suit, aud
was the only person present in such a
suit. From what pick up he does not
think much of fancy balls but he can
not control his own sons in everything,
much less his daugbter-in-law. Twom-
ivy was poS'oH youuB iHdi '" "HoStIuCk
the heart of Nanderbilt's daughter, and
when the old folks were satisfied that he
was true-hearted young man, they
asked no further questions When he
their family they set about
giving him large and creditable occu-
patton at once.
hear that in the Vanderbilt house
hold the sons, the daughters, the sons-in-
law, and the daughters-in-law all stand
Dn the same foothold-respected, be-
loved, and given an equal chance by the
fine old Knickerbocker who is so much |
richer than any of them. William
fortune is at least $500, 900, 600. He has
$50, 900, COO in government bonds. He
told some Of his friends about four years
lgo that his income was slO,OOO,OO a
year. He has never been beaten by any
stock operator, and has made everyone
If them who tackled him squeal. So |
would not be surprised if he had an in
come Of 10000, 900 II year, which is
sboat equal to the capital of any Of his