The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-10-04

called the Pan Handle running from Pitts
the acquaintance of Arson Stager and j.
Is. Laying, all three of them afterwards to
become famous and influential. Mr.. Laying
was the general manager of this railroad
ami Stager was an expert electrician. They
We're young men, and they had their ca
reers to make and made them conspicuously
afterwards When the war broke out at
terward Eckert became an associate of
Charles A. Dana i'll the war department,
where he organized and had charge of the
lmportan telegraphic service of the army,
ana perhaps it was here that his extraor-
binary executive capacity first attracted
the greater capitalists of the east. Howev-
eer, Eckert was led astray ror while
Somebody came to Washington with mar
Vicious and dazzling tales OF gold discover
les Ill North Carolina. The mountains
We're to yield as magniiicently as the Sierras
dld after the discoveries III 1913, Nuggets
OF gold were brought to Washington, and
nothing so tempts the cupidity of men as
nuggets said to have been picked up in
newly discovered mining territory. So
they tempted General Eclert and he found
that while there was gold iii North Carroll
ma it cost about $40 to get 81 back again
from these mines. Instead of the mines
yielding him fortune they swallowed such
little property as he possessed, and per-
hapS that was fortunate thing for the
telegraph service of this country. He has
lost his money, but still he had that which
nothing but death could take from him.
his brains; and these were soon AT the ser
wee of the Western Union Telegraph
company, and i'll that service they have
been ever since.
The Vanderbilt Boys.
While the railroad strikes were In prog
ress at Buffalo a pretty strong light was
thrown upon the relations of the Wander
bilt boys, as they are called, to the great
property which their grandfather created
and their father increased. Cornelius
Vanderbilt was at "a little seaside resort
in Massachusetts. Owing to the death
of his oldest son he has forsaken Newport
this year. There Mr. Vanderbilt was, so
to speak, at the end of the telegraph wire,
the other end of which was in the Grand
Central station in New York. He was
kept constantly informed of all that was
going on, and nothing mas occurred re-
Gently which has shown TO the public so
Conclusiyey that Cornelius Vanderbilt is
the power which controls The New York
Central system as this constant sending Of
messages to him while the strike was ON
He had no suggestions to make; he relied
completely upon his suborIiuates to do
what was best They are paid large sala-
ries to meet such emergencies as well as to
perform other duties
William X. Vanderbilt, who is in the d-
rectory Of the road of course, was greatly in
tercsted in the strike, but he knew that his
brother Cornelius was In constant touch
with the officials of the system and he was
therefore left free to negotiate for the
building of a new yacht which is to take
the place of the Alva, which was sunk q
few weeks ago near BuzZardS Bay. The
loss entailed by the sinking of this yacht
is something over 100000, yet that proba-
bly, represents Mr.. NanderbIt's income for
between two and three weeks. The new
yacht he contemplates Will cost as much as
some ocean steamships and will be the most
luxurious sea palace in the world and
probably the swftest ship that floats.
Fred Vanderbilt, the third son, whom
many think the most approachable of all
the brothers, was not greatly worried over
the strike which seemed to threaten the
Central property. He had perfect conf
dence in the officials, and he came back
to New York day or two after the strike
was over, his face tanned by exposure to
the sun and thinking about getting his
own yacht, the Conquerer, ready for a
trip across the ocean in the early winter.
George Wonderfully tho Youngest son,
the back-eyed, priestly looking bookworm
of the family. left his library to pay a
visit to his mother at Newport, where he
revealed the same shyneSS which has been
his characteristic all his days. With an
income of nearly $10O0000 a year, with
fondness for books above all other things,
with only one fad. and that the building
of a castle in the NORTH Carolina mountains,
George Vanderbilt while the strikes were
pending was planning II trip around the
world, reading works on Japan, in which
country he expected to spend several
months, having become greatly interested
in it on account of the descriptions Of it
written by Sir Edwin Arnold.
The worker of the family is Cornelius
Vanderbilt. and there is no employe of the
road who works harder than Mr.. Wander
bIt does when he is in the city. 1t is esti-
mated that if the Vanderbilt boys live as
long as their father did their combined
property will amount to over $300,000,0 900,
and if they should live as long as The com
modOre and the present rate of increase
continue their possessions viii be sufficient
to extinguish the national debt as it Is to-
day. f. JAY EDWARDS,