The morning times., 1896-08-23
Copyright, 1860

Tuesday. August 25, Mr.. william u
whitney nuts a new plank in his polit-
teal platform. On that day he to a certain
extent repudiates pure Democracy and
acknowledges that there is much good
in RepublicaDism.
On that same day Mr.. Cornelius Van
derbilt revamps his political principles,
and goes over to the Democrats. A grand
combination union party. secret perhaps IN
its principles. but very harmonious, Will De
formed. and along its polished walk these
two great financers will step han in hand
happily together.
On the 25th of August Miss Gertrude
Vanderbilt weds Mr. Harry Payne Whit
ney. son OF his father and his particular
pride and hope The union OF these two
Young people, so dear to the respective
hearts Of their pa rents, forces union where
there has hitherto been avoidance This
union Will be as resultful in Importance
as that OF any prince and princess brought
together by foreign powers.
THE COURTsHIP,
The ccurtslip of these two young people
has been conducted in way peculiarly
leading up L. their contra-political union
When Miss Vanderbilt was Young girls
was taken across country in her fathers
private car. At far-distalt point W..
whitney joined the Vandcrbilts. With hiIa
was his son. The object OF the visit was
an adjustment OF certain railroad interests
that claslled While the two men, Whit
ney and Vanderbilt, were settling the rail-
road matter the young people were falling
in love L. began as long ago as that
Years after Mr. Whitney bought the
estate opposite Mr.. vanderbilt's house
on the corner OF Fifth avenue and Fifty
seventh street, and the children were
neirhbors. From that time on it was a
steady courtship. They have only waited
for the parental Yes"
Mr.. whitney, as his fortune increased
gradually got deeper and deeper into rail-
roads. Now he controls six. Mr.. Wander
blt is director OF forty-five. They are In
Toledo, New Jersey, Chicago, New YORK
and Omaha, in cities remote and citiesn near.
But in all the deals OF later years neverhave
the rival interests clashed. Whitney, am
bitious nd reaching out has met with little
opposition from the vanderbn,s
Jran actual estimate OF importance could
be made between the marriage OF the Van
derbt girl a year ago and this marriage. IL
would be found that the fuss and feathers
clustered around the first, but in this there
lies a deep political and business signifi-
canoe that will be felt for a generation to
come
THE TWO MARRIAGES..
With the other Vanderbilt girl we have
the privilege of sending tribute to Ior-
eirn country month after III Onth to main. ain
Il trI..
Our portion is to admire! With this mar
rage there may be the same pouring of pop
ular money into the money bags. but here it
comes back directly and we can admire
at closer range. To be sure, with the other
there is the undeniably useful Tightening of
the bonds between foreign power and our
own But with this one there is a closer
union of domestic forces that cannot but re-
suit in the branching out and the expendi-
ture of brains and money.
The amount of fortune which this young
couple will have cannot be estimat ted in dol
lars and in business interests. That il will
be the largest sum ever brought within the
personal control of two young people can
be stated at once. When Cornelius fande
bilt was born in S43 his father had such d
modest fortune that the boy was put to
work in a bank on clerkase Ito earn bis
living" His grandfather, the old commo-
doxe, rich man with plenty Of children.
looked on quietly while his favorite
grandson worked day and night over the
ledgers, and the stain of ink was on his
hands.
When the commodore died Cornelius was
thirty-four years old, tired man, who
IL o Ied middle aged from oyerwork. His
portion in the commodore's VIII was $10,-
OOo, 900. When his father died, a few years
ater, there was a portion of $12 100000
for young Cornelius. With this he began
the great financial operations that have
yielded the ST so 900 900 which he no W has.
The aging, 1T is only three generations
from shirt sleeves to shirt sleeves, kept the
Old commodore awake the first night he
heard il. He recorded n VOW that it should
moi be so in his family. When near his death
he made his son William promise that the
bulk of lis fortune should lie given to his
eldest son. and william in turn exacted
the same promise from his son Cornelius.
In this way the family fortune was kept in
tact, where an equal division would split
it into ribbons too slender to bear financial
weight. Cornelius has masaged for all the
family.
But all roads turn, and this is to be vio-
lated in the present generation. The eldest
son of the house of Vanderbilt died at Yale
four years ago-a noble young fellow. whose
purse supplied the money for many a needy
boy; young man so democratic and SYM
pathetic that he could not bear to keep a
pony because so many o + the boys had to go
without such a luxury. The envious remark
OF q fellow-student made the lad send his
pony home 70 stay:
"CORNELIUS" FATED.
The next son is Cornelius, the young man
now cut off from his family by what is to
them an unseemly marriage. 1t is said
that his father had a superstition about the
name Of Cornelius. A brother named Cor
Delius once went the way of the dogs, and
this lad. though fine Of habits, is sickly
and unfortunate. Next comes Gertrude. 4
It j. now nearly certain that the fortune
win be given to her to manage for the fam.
~. and that she will get the $50, ,00O, 900
portion that belongs 10 the manager.
The whitney fortune 10 represented In
pctive business Interests. II the truth were
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