The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-23

world, he took no recreation. except
short yacht races with his thirty-fOOt-
er while working in the New York Gen.
traI machine shops. From the begin
ming he had been a ifardwOrser. indus
trious by nature, an infiexible, steel
nerved young man, self-willed. ndOmi-
table, shy, reliant, with modest dignity,
and seldom asking favorS of any one
high or low. At Yale he never figured
in any OF the riotouS escapades of the
university boys.
Such are some of the things said Of
this promising genius. who some day
Will inherit more millions. But with
all his wealth and the prospect of a
vast fortune coming to him. saying
nothing of the ducal alliances with his
family, the young inventor is a typical
hard working American. one of those
who have come into prominence with
the, new century and its policies that
embrace the globe.
This particular young Vanderbilt.
with his blood giving new life to no
bic families in England, lives in a
palace and wears overalls. That he is
a man of originality and force no One
can doubt, judging by his achievements
of the last five years
Did he hang around the Vanderbilt
throne in Forty second street after he
saw his way to succesS2
No. When he had made record for
Z the excellence of his freight locomo-
/ tives he established headquarters of
/ his own in downtown Skyscraper
4 overlooking the city and bay. No name
/ appears on his doors. and scarcely half
/ dozens persons in New York know OF
I his business retreat. Trusted assist
ants and expert draughtsmen fill in the
! details of his drawings. to be changed
/ from time to time until the plans are
/ ready for the machine shop.
/ This young man of the fourth gener-
alton of Vanderbilts, who begins his
career at the bottom. bids fair to re-
! peat the successes Of the old commO-
/ dore, by his industry and dominating
/ personality.
From his windows. high above old
| Trinity. he can almost trace his family
history in the waters of the bay. There
/ is the Staten Island shore plainly WISH
/ BILE. where the commodore sailed his
hrst little ferry row boat to the city,
making the first dollar of the great
| fortune
The picture is inspiring. a mirror of
the past You see it all, moving pan
/ Drama; the row boat, the sloop that
I followed it; the wheeling little side
! wheeler; the huge river craft with biz
/ snokestacks; the majestic steamship
/ furroWlnS the brine with crowds of
amazed sightseers on the shores; a
feet of scows loaded with railroaI
cars, and finally, across the river Gall
plainly seen from the window Ions
| trains OF cars roaring away to the
! great plains-this, all this tells the
| story of Commodore Vanderbilt's
! achievements, for these boats, steam
ships and roaring trains were employed
in the Vanderbilt service. covering thu
continent in those wild, wonderful DAYS
OF the vanished century.
l. ms young man who sees these daily
reminders Of ancestral history from
/ his window is the first of his family
/ since the commOdore'S death to engags
| IN Venturesome enterprise and labor
| Ike blacksmith with his own hands
/ 1t shows that the genius of the orig
/ mai Vanderbilt is here again. a fore,
to create and command, soon to take 3
| position of power in the commercial
| affairs OF the country.