The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-01-07
SONS OF NOTED MEN.
They Would Seem to Prove the Value
Of HeTedity.
Good Birth No Bar to Suocess-Not
Handicapped by the Shadow of q
Great Name-A Heritage of Brains.
Foster Coates in the Washington ST

Foster Coates in the Washington Star
New York, Dec. 29.-In the crowd that
hurries along Broadway these days, rush
ing in and out of the big Office buildings,
swallowing luncheons that mean dys-
pepsia for life, the army of men and
women who are struggling for existence,
there are some notable people, worthy
sons of worthy sires.
l saw in short walk around the stock
exchange the other day young John A.
Logan, young Evarts, son of famous
and brainy father, young Mcclellan fate
to stand high in uthe councils of the
democracy, and other men born of dis
tinguished fathers and making fortunes
for themselves.
Is there anything hereditary in the
matter of brains2
Do brainy men endow their sons with
legacy of brainSs
What is there in what is so freely known
as ''good blood" or "stockl"
There are sons of ex-Presidents of the
United States and of men who have
gained prominence in public life who may
first be brought into evidence. Robert
Lincoln, who has given up diplomacy as
an over-expensive pursuit, is practicing
law and making SIS, 900 year. He has
not the remarkable qualities of his great
father, but he is very able man and has
maintained the prestage of the name of
Lincoln in both public and profess
fessional life. His son, who died a
few years ago was also a chip of the
old block. Frederick Grant was not
considered very bright when he was a
youth, but he has shown that he possesses
many of his fathers qualities and has
succeeded both as a representative of his
country abroad and latterly as a business
man. Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., has finished
sowing his wild oats and is also holding
his own in the world. Webb G. Hayes,
son of eX-President Hayes is prosper
Gus business man in Cleveland, and James
A. and Harry Garfield are prosperous
lawyers in the same town. Alan Arthur,
son of exPresident Arthur, is a lawyer.
Russell Harrison is one of the most bust
ling and fertile minded of business men,
up to his eyes in schemes of one sort or
another Public men who did not achieve
the presidency have been Just as fortunate
in their sons. The two eldest of Mr..
Blaine's sons were in every way a credit.
The sou of the Old Roman, Allan G.
Thurman, has found his way to the front
in politics in Ohio, as have the sons of
Daniel Manning and Hamilton Fish in
New York. Schuyler Colfax, Jr., and
Samuel Randall, Jr., though still young,
have shown that they have inherited
brains from their fathers.
So, too, with the great soldiers of the
war. The sons of Grant have been al
ready cited. One of the sons of Gen.
Sherman, "Father Tom" is a Jesuit
priest, who has already won a high rep
utation for learning and oratory. Gen.
Sheridan's son Phil, bright young fell
low like his father, is to go to West
Point.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
George B. Mcclellan, Jr., though still
a young man, is already prominent fig
ure in New York state politics, and is
sure to be sent ahead by the men now in
control.
Gen. Fighting Phil Kearney's son
has been for some time prominent in mil
itary matters in his state The son of
Gen. Roger A. Pryor is manager of his
fathers law Office IN New York city.
Lew Wallace, Jr., is also a rising lawyer.
The son of Gen. o. .. Howard grad
uated from West Point with credit and
is on his fathers staff, and so, the list
goes.
II is in financial circles that the virtue
of heredity finds the strongest practical
arguments. IL is a fact that the sons of
the men who have been railroad kings
and financial magnates have inherited
their fathers keennesS, and that they
have rarely been ruined through over
pampering or indulgence.
THE vANDERBILTs.
Take the Vanderbilts. But one of
them ever did anything to disgrace the
family and when he got to the end of his
tether he blew out his brains. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, the present head of the house,
was model boy as he is model man.
He inherited all the shrewdness of his
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true of his brothers. Cornelius Wander
bilt lost his eldest son, who would now
be in the first flush of manhood, but
when he was living he showed that he
was a true Vanderbilt. Two others of
the present Vanderbilts have sons and
they, too, are of the old stock in their
ways.
The same is true of the present genera
jtion of the Astors. William Waldorf,
who has settled in England, was always
a model young man of scholarly tastes
and with an ambition to shine in litera-
ture rather than finance His cousin
John Jaco D Aston, was looked upon as be-
ing rather gay until he married a couple
of years ago. He has since settled down
to business in grim earnest and has shown
that he has all the Aston forethought-
and hindsight too.
THE GOULD BOYS.
The Gould boys, George, Eddie and
Howard, have all inherited their fathers
ability, though Howard, the younger, has
had but little chance to show what sort
of metal is in him. George has always
been a man of business, even before he
came to manhood's years, his one dissipa-
ton being the theater. Eddie was in
clined to be high-roller and plunger in
Wall street, until a short time before his
fathers death, when he was brought I'D
with a round turn. Since his marriage
couple of years ago he has settled
down and is now attending strictly to bus
mess.
The sons of August Belmont, the IA
nous banker and representative, are two
other young men who have not filtered
what their father left them. Perry Bel
mont made good record in congress when
he was very young man, but his time is
now taken up in managing banking
houses. August, though inclined to be a
sporting character, is also good business
man.
F'oxhall Keene, son of James r. Keene,
the financier, is a society leader, man
about town and the best cross-country
rider in the neighborhood of New York
At the same time he is the right-hand
man of his father in business, and is very
clever.
The son of d. o. Mills is his fathers
private secretary and confidential agent
He is a handsome, suave young man,
cIa1-e,. and cautious and his father tr1sts