The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-11-07

thing toilet TIE Younger fTaem5efs work
out9stheir own lsals5 ati0nIye 3gs=t ssS@ go
sInGthe .easef ofsthesAstofs;jf IeGy youngest.
son., MIR 74elhrh "a ters tHrnedI his atten-
ton. to the -upbuilding. of the. country
through channels where wealth would
help; IN. war and in peace he. was first
with ideas, money and Personal super
vision of the work lTe@hadS laid down for
Others. -. Y tsz Ss-5>c.sfse5t i...s
= The tMo@Gpul{t tnysi George and Ed
Win, We're left the care of their fathers
great estate. and this gave them sufii,
Gent work, for a. lifetime but Howard,
the younger son, became a typical mil
lionaire child, leading a life that was
harmless, 1t was true but. useless and
not in the better'eleTnei1t of s6eiety. The
elder brother George, is said by hnan--
ciers TO have developer as great sagacity
as his father, and has filed the elder
Gould's place with exceptional brilliancy.
But he simply managed an immense in
heritance after he had grown to full
manhood.
The very youngest brother, Frank,
made up his mind that he was going to
work from the bottom rupg of the lad
der, so he went into an office, took his
stool, eats his lunch at a counter, and
tolls away like any healthy boy whose
father presented him with a new suit O:
clothes and q SEE check to start life on.
The next rich mans son to b-%ak
from the tradition of half a century
was young Cornelius Vanderbilt.
He did not accept an honorary official
! position in the great Central system but
! began work on his own hook His talent
was for mechanics, and he determined
unlike his neighbor. John Jacob Astor,
who had the same. gift, to make his - I
of financial benefit. True, his father cut
his inheritance down very severely for
private and matrimonial reasons, but
when all was said and done he remained
multi-millionaire, and his wife was the
daughter of multi millionaire. They
couldn't spend as much money as his
brother Alfred, but as far as life went
there would be no difference to the on
locker between the luXuries that the two
incomes would buy.
So it was not poverty that drove young
Vanderbilt to work; it was the splendid
old Dutch thrift and a pure love for
work. . es@.- Ia. &C.. .l4-:
The boy was much happier sitting in the
cab of an engine than he was dancing a
codlIion Fifth avenue. maybe he
was angry at the snub given him by his
fathers will. and all that was I'M him for
good came to the surface and cred out
for a showing; whatever it was, Cor
nelius plunged into the hardest work; he
made up his mind that coal could be
saved on the tremendous system in
which he was part owner, ard he has
successfully proved his theory.
He did not leave his work to hirelings,
but put on ovefalls went down among
the blazing furnaces and worked at his
own Inventions He drove the engines
over the road in trying his experiment
and sat, sooty and grimmed, with his
hand on the lever, d millionaire in an
engine drivers place.
Whether his older brothers action
worked ON the younger son, Alfred, who
by his fathers will was left the head
of the Vanderbilt family. nc one knows,
but he has announced his intention of
going to work, and now the heir and
head of one of the greatest millionaire
families IN the world works from to
{, receives his salary, and is learning
the husirHps; beginning as small clerk
willing and anxious to learn
The fascinating machinery of the great
railway system also called out to young
Robert Kelso Cassatt-"Bobby" as his
friends iii Philadelphia call him.
He Is the son of a millionaire OF
Philadelphia. His father, A. j. Cassatt
is the president of the Pennsylvania
railroad. The great estate on the main
line and the beautiful home on Ritten-
house Square, with all the luxuries
thereof, are his to make use of; his cost
Hest bills would have been paid the
coach, the yacht, the private car at his
command; but he shook his head, put
on blue overalls up in Altoona at the
great machine shops, and became Bob
by. Cassatt among the great crowd OF
| workers.
He asked no quarter, cried not for
mercy when he made mistakes, but lived
his days and worked his way as if his
father was only a kindly friend who had
helped this poor boy to get position.
He was cordial, sinceres manly with his
comrades, as gentleman should be.
Then he married Miss Minnie Fell
the heiress of the city, the daughter of