Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-08
lanclster :Ailtelligrncer.
MONDAY Evening JAN. 8. 1888,
THE yANDEisBILTs.

U"~ Ih-, I.,ve and Manage to spend Their
N,w York Letter In Charleston News and
DuTIrr.
William II. Vanderbilt, the richest man
iii the world, may be seen driving his
maze. Maud S., which rumor says he is
tp"iiing by iDjudicious handling, almost
any iins afternoon ON Fifth avenue. Look
70. large, heavy man, with dark eyes,
swar.hy skin and black side whiskers, an
intently earnest but not over intelligent
face IL the weather is colo, the owner of
~ut,id millions will be wrapped up in
clu.o-iittiDg coat of seaiskin, and have
over his knees another robe of the same
fur. The superb horse or horses that he
happens to he driving do not seem to be
going very fast as they dance along, but 1t
will be noticed that he goes
faster than other people, and the
groups Of sightseers WHO stop for a mo-
ment TO gaze at tho well-known figure,
wrapped up in his sealskins, as he fits by,
get but brief glimpse of him. Perhaps
JAY Gould, looking out OF his library i'll
the second story of his big house at Forty
seventh street and Fifth avenue, wonders
that a man with such magnificent oppor
tuIlities for making more money does not
devote hia days and his nights to it instead
of triiling away his t;2o driving fast
horses. Jav Gould never drives fast
horses or INDUCES in any kind of sport
except money making. From 2:30 to leo
every afternoon Vanderbilt drives his
horses. Then his horses go TO their stalls
Of mahogany, trimmed with silver, and
Vanderbilt goes to his palace. He always
passes his evenings at home, not having
been to the theatre or opera this year
since Wallack's WAS opened last January.
When the Baron James de ROthchild
died in 1868 near Paris. his wealth was eS
timated at zoo 0O0, 900 francs, and lie was
accounted the richest man i'll the world at
. that time. At the present the distinction
al bcng the richest mal liz the world Ger
t:.Iuiv belongs 10 William II. anderbilt.
Wiki the SO 600, 600 which his father left
him be has made twice that sum and,
moreover, pat his railroad property intn
such shape that il produces al income OF
at least : per cent. At resent he has an
income Of so, coo, 900 4 year, or $50 a
second. Thirty years ago Ia did not
know where to turu for 5000. Wander
"i,t has eight children and eleven grand
children. His four daughters are mar
rcd 10 New Workers, and two have been
presented with small palaces costing 1900,
200 piece. while he is building houses
fur the other two at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Fi;ty-fouIth street. adjoining
=. Thomas church. Tic ground tor the
TWO buildings cost 800, Gao last .prlng,
and SUPPOSE the houses VII! cost double
that.
His two eldest sons, Cornelius ander
bilt. IT,, who is destined TO occupy towards
lis father the same relation that William
II. held to the commodore, aud William
N Nanderbilt, tie second son, are already
millionaiTes in thcir Own right, and arc
rnw finishing palaces which even eclipse
tie rev house which Vanderbilt moved
into last year Cornelius Vanderbilt is the
ii,lancer among the sons while William *
is the aesthetic member of the family,
having employed Richard! NJ. Hunt to built
lis white stone chateau. at the corner Of
F'ifty-secord street and Fifth avenue, anC
and having paid $3.50, ,000 for the carving
alone on the inside of lis housa. Some o
thc tapestries for his house are now On eX
hhitinr at the Metropolitan museum
while the painters .ld decorators are Civ
iac The last touches. The house has becl
three years in building and has occupied
the whole time of two architects working
under Hunt, and SIX draugGtsmen. Th,
design for one OF the ,Iantcls alone re
Guircd three months work by two NEIL