The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-05
MILLIONAIRE ENGINE DRIVER
Young Cornelius Vanderbilt a Sue
 cessful Railroad Man.
New York Commercial.

New York Commercial.
 Among young railroad men there is no one more talked about than Cornelius Vanderbilt He has been successful in his oh )sel profession. that of railroad engineer, and there are some people who consider this remarkable. simply because he does not have to be railroad engi- neer unless he wishes to. His father did not leave him as much money as he did his brother. and in the settlement of the estate he received only S000.000. Witt. this trifiing sum as a start, how ever, he has done very well.
 It has been only seven years since he graduated from Yale, but in these seven years he has managed to do a number of things, He has worked in the railway st ops and learned all about the making of an engine. He has patented num- Der of inventions of great importance in the railway business. He has become a national guardsman and dahbled in pol itics a little. He has become public official. being now member of the mu- nicipal Civil Service Board. Efforts have been made to induce him to run for of fice-but he is very level-headed young nan.
 His best known invention is a patent fre-box for the economical working of locomotives. which has been successfully tried on nine of the principal railroads and which bids fair to come into general use. He also Invented a tank car that has , many points of superiority over the old style car. The demand for tank cars Is greater than ever before known and this promises to be very valuable patent.
 Ever since he came out of college he has been a very busy and hard-working young man. He is striving hard to prove that a silver spoon in a boys mouth does not necessarily press upward so as to affect the brain He is convinced, evil dently, that the only way to have a name worth having is 10 make it for yourself.
 A great deal has been said and print T l1 1sr but In l. tNsNk a notoriety seeker He is just as mod est as any other man of his age in his own business, and his friends say that the attention he receives in certain ways annoys him greatly.
 Not long ago he gave supper to some of those in his militia company. great deal was printed of the fact that one of his guests was a man who drives a cab, At this supper he said to one of his friends; T am having splendid time tonight, but what worries me is the fact that the papers are going to have a write up of it. l wish they wouldn't. pers had their "write up" all right, but they did not get any of their informa- ton from the host.
 MT. Vanderbilt is modest and does not like to talk about himself. He has ne
 press agent and does not understand why the fact that he gets down to his desk at the New York Central office in time each morning and attends to his business during the day should interest the public any more than the same fact concerning any other employe of the road.
 Besides being an inventor. MT. Wander bilt is also something of a writer on mechanical subjects and has read sev- eral papers before scientific bodies He has addressed the American Society of Mechan nical Engineers and lectured at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. The addresses have attracted a great deal of attention.
 Money has not been able to keep him from amounting to something" was what was recently said of him by a we'll known railroad man. who added: The odd thing about this is that every one seems to think this is very remarkable. '" It is not probable that MT. Vanderbilt when working in the shops and boring over plans for boilers wastes any time in con-