Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-11
THE VANDERBILT
Safety Boxes Will Soon Be
 Opened For Inspection.
MAY CONTAIN SECURITIES.

vestigation of Nanderbilt's Affairs
 Has Caused Many Surprises-He Did
 Not Hold Number of Securities He
 Was Thought to Possess.
 New York, Dec 11.-In the presence of q representative of the executors of tAe vanderbilt estate and d representative of Comptroller Co Ter, the safety deposit boxes that have remained closed and sealed since the death Of Cornelius Vanderbilt will be opened tomorrow O. Thursday. It is necessary that this shall be done be fore the will is formally admitted to probate. The boxes are supposed to contain many securities that are not mentioned ill the list prepared by Ap- nraiSer O'Connell, and that list will have to be revised before the exact amount of the inheritance tax can be determined.
 The schedule of securities prepared for filing with the surrogate diSclOSeS some interesting facts. Ii had been generally supposed that the Wander hiltS held what approached q cOn1foll- ing interest ill the New York Central railroad. whose capital stock is S113.- GtW GOO Yet at the time of his death
 
 shares of New York Central stock. val ned at par S2ONO.0O0 He was not the owner cf a single New York Central main line bond.
 When the famous refundin% schemes of tl!r New York Cnntrhl-I.akc Shore and New York Central Michigan Gen. tral railroads were put through and 1ltp collateral trust bonds of the two systems which the New York Central exchanged for tho stock OutStanding were issued. it was generally charged that the Mcs*rs Vanderbilt had been guilty of q rather Shrcwd piece of financicrin" at the expense of the l:nlrlcl,9 of the common stock of the two reads
 'rlin annaaran"n of 7ar@c block of t}'e collateral trust bands in the mar Fet soon after the deals were put t'''n''rl led to tho charge that the Van "si!itts were Irn1c at!in@ 1hc new bonds il "'isr to buy New York Central Stopk
 'The schedule of the estate utterly r2frt..: this rliar@e aud proves beyond o'c%ti"n that Mir Vanderbilt keUt faith with the Stn"llholGprS of the two svS- toms for nj his death he held S5,O0O.- c@6 cf the bonds of tho New York Cen tral-Lake Shore and S5 ,OOG OOn of the loEe3S of the New York Central-AIi AIichi- gan Central
 The schcdh11a also shows that Mfr Nandprhilt did not own a Sinele share of Union Pacific stock. another road Srnnn&ed to he controlled by the Van d"rbilt>. His only connection with that rCld annarentlv came from the ownership of 5GO of it's 1 Dor cent bonds Cf til. face value of $500 O0O.
 Tie Michigan Central another road thr control of which some yearS ago nHSsCd into the hands of the Wander 7'iItS. is rclfrpScnted in the schedule of Eir Naplerbilt'S holding by but 100 shares of StCck.
 'Thg connection between the Wander l:ijt interests and T. Pierpont Morgan will hr r0nted cut in the heavy hold incs Of Southern railway stock shown. Mr Vanderbilt had g 200 of the com mon stock. of which tho Morgan bank ing house received S:5,0000 GOO worth in the Tc-or@anizatiOn.
 Of Lake Erie and Western stock Mir Vanderbilt held 9.GO0 shares. it is un- dersto0d. were purchased for him by T. I'iernont Mor"an individually.
 TEo l:i,l ever S3.0N9.GOO worth of the stock of th" C. C. C. and St Louis railroad. q DroDcTtv which has since then passed into Vanderbilt control.
 There iS another surprise fer Wall street in Mir Nnnderhilt's small hold insrS in Canada Southern. another Van Gerlilt property. He had but 2.1GO shares of this stock.