Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-28

been tndustriously engaged for some years
past in an undertaking OF no small DIM
Guilty. which Is vuigarly known as room
EN-" His name Is Cornelius Vanderbilt.
When young Cornelius took unto himself,
several years ago, the woman of his choice
for wife, his father, the elder Cornelius,
blazed forth in such private ana puoiie
wrath over the matter that his medical
men warned him that his violence against
his first-born was endangering his own life.
Young Cornelius, as the first son, was,
after the manner and method of the Van
derbilt family. the natural inheritor of the
greatness of the clan in the way of riches
and power in the directing of its immense
affairs; but his forbidden marriage to the
woman of his heart reduced him to "a ca
detship in his family. His heritage was
solemnly passed on to another son, and
Cornelius was cut off with a pittanee OF
the immense Vanderbilt wealth-a pittance
that was pretty vast in the eyes of ordi-
nary struggling men, but pittance never
theless compared to what was coming to
him had he broken his troth to the young
woman whom he calmly announced he was
going to lead to the altar.
When the elder Cornelius died the son
who received the bulk of the wealth of the
deceased head of the house came to the
front of his own volition and virtually
forced the cutoff younger Cornelius to &C
cept from him as a gift little matter of
So, COO 900. The stiff-necked Cornelius was
vastly disinclined to avail himself of this
generosity of this brother who sat in his
him in such manner that he couldn't re-
fuse it, and so he took the money.
No Signs of Healing.
The breach between this Cornelius and
his family, as is commonly known, shows
no signs whatever of healing: it looks like
a permanent affair. Cornelius Vanderbilt
got himself into the habit of attending to
his duties as a draughtsman for the New
York Central railroad with all of the
promptness and faithfulness which is ex-
have nothing but their labor to help them
out. He got into the habit of donning
stained dungarees and fooling around the
round houses and machine shops of the
Vanderbilt railroad properties; and after
time he started in to make some useful in
ventions. He devised a fireboX for locomo-
tives that was Immediately pronounced by
disinterested old-timers to be one of the
neatest mechanical propositions of it's sort
that was ever thrown together, and that
tireboX is now being adopted by most Of
the progressive railroads of the world Be-
sides this. the young man devised lot of
other useful things for railroads, upon
which he got out patents. None of them
the work of an amateur or dilletante hand
at the fnventing business, they all
eminently useful and practical affairs. 1t
began to be plain that the young mans
feeling with respect to the break with his
family was one which was going to cause
him to fare forth on a perfectly indepen-
dent basis, for the purpose of proclaiming
quietly the fact that he could have made
his way on this earth had he been born no
more fortunately than as a sixty-fifth
cousin of the Vanderbilt family, or no kin
at all to them Everybody over here who
has watched his course wants him to sue
coed, too, in doing that thing which he has
SET out to do, namely, fool en- c. l.. c.