Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-08-23

that clashed. While the Two men,
Whitney and Vanderbilt. were seuling
the railroad matter the young people
were falling in love 1t began as long
ago as that
Years after Mr.. Whitney bought the
estate opposite MI Vanderbilts house
on the corner Of Fifth Avenue and Fiji
ty-seventh street, the children were
neighbors. From that time on it was
steady courtship. They have only
waited for the parental Yes"
Mr.. Whitney. as his fortune increased,
gradually got deeper and deeper into
railroads Now he controls six. Mr..
Vanderbilt is director of forty-fve.
They are in Toledo, New Jersey, Chica-
go. New York and Omaha. But in all
the deals of later years never have the
interests FLASHED. Whitney. ambitious
and reaching out has met with little Op-
position from the VanderbilJs
Il an actual estimate of importance
could be made between the marriage Of
she Vanderbilt girl a year ago and this
marriage It would be found that the fuss
and feathers clustered around the one,
but in this there lies a deep political and
business significance 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 a foreign country month after month
to maintain a beautiful American girl
in style there Our portion is 20 adj
mirel W.,h this marriage there may
be the same p0uring Of popular money
into the money bags but here IL comes
back directly and we can admire at clos
or range To be sure, with the other
there is the undeniably useful Tightening
of The bonds between a foreign power
and our own. But with this one there
is a closer union of domestic forces thG.
cannot but result in the branching out
and the expenditure OF brains and mon
ey.
The amount Of fortune which this
young couple will have can be estimated
in dollars and in business interests. That
il Will be the largs s. sum ever brought
within the personal control of two young
people can be stated at once. When
Cornelius Vanderbilt was born in 1913
his father had such a modest fortune
that the boy was put to work in a bank
en- a clerkage to earn his living His
grandfather. the old Commodore. a ricl
man with plenty of children, looked on
ouietlv while mis- fayOrits grandson
worked day and night over the ledgers
and the stain of ink was on his myers.
When the Commodore died Cornelius
was thirty-four years Old. tired man
who looked middle-aged from overwork.
His portion in the COMMODORE Will
was s1OOOO.000 When his father died
few wears later there was a portion OF
so 600 OOC for young Cornelius. With
tbis he began the great financial opera
lions mat have Yielded the $3.50, coo 900
which he now has.
The SAYING 1T is only three genera
lions from shirt sleeves 10 shirt sleeves
], mi the old Commodore awake the hrst
niebr he heard it. He recorded VOW !
tbet II should not be so in his family. |
when near his death he made his son |
U-nIiam promise that th5 bulk of mis- |
,or.une should be given TO his eldest |
son and William in turn eXacted the |
same nromiss from his son Cornelius. |
In his wav the family fortune was kept |
intact where an equal division would !
sniff r. into ribbons too slender to bear
fnapcisI weight. Cornelius has man
aged for all the family
Rnr all roads turn and this is TO be
violated in the present generation. The
eldest son of the house of Vanderbilt
died at Yale four years ago, 2 noble