Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-01
ANYTHING But A DRONE.
A Man Who Earns His Right to All the
World Gives Him.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, appointed mu-
nicipal cIvll service commissioner by
Mayor Low. works harder than the
average pennlless young man, though
he h,s an income OF $1,000 year, or
$4,000 month, o. 1898 day. An the
work that he does is from choice. as
he doesn't have 10 bother about the
WhGewitnai for house rent, butcher
and grocery bills and such matters
lie Is al ordinary looking young
man, boyish in appearance and demo-
cratic In manner. but he has many re-
markable qualities which make him as
different nom the average gilded youth
OF fashion as a steam engine is from
Il butterfly.
He has ambition tons OF II. That is
what makes him work so hard. He
wants to earn reputation and be In
dependent OF the halo which hangs over
him simply because he Is n Vanderbilt,
The family halo never appealed very
strongly u him, anyway. After his dis
agreement with his father he became,
doubly anxious TO build up name thar
would be purely the result OF his own
lebors
Some OF the positions this young man
fills and fills worthily. are.
Director in the Lackawanna Iron
and Steel company
Trustee Of the New York Life Insur-
ance and Trust company
Director In the Rapid Transit Subway
Construction company, which Is build
Inc he rapid transit tunnel.
Second lieutenant, Company G.,
Twelfth regiment.
Member OF several important COM
mlttees In the Republican organization
OF the twenty-ninth assembly district.
Commissioner OF municipal civil
service
He is active In every one of these
positions and In addition 10 attending
TO all Of the duties thereof he finds time
to work out many mechanical devices
Several of these have been patented
AMI have been demonstrated to possess
great commercial value.
Mechanics Is his hobby and II he
gave way TO II completely he would
spend all OF his time In machine shops.
Young Nagderbilt showed that he
had Ideas and determination much out
OF the ordinary when he had his dis
agreement with his father over his
engagement to Miss Grace Wilson. The
elder Vanderbilt commanded him to
break the engagement making il plain
that unless he did he would be practi-
cally dslnnerited and deprived OF all
the power and wealth which centered In
the head of the Vanderbilt family.
This meant loss In money alone
OF over slbC00,000 a sum which would
have caused most men 20 ponder deep
ly before Geciding 10 east Il aside. But
young Nanderbilts decision was in
Simultaneous and positive. IL was in
favor of the woman he loved
His father kept his word. As the cid.
est living son, Cornelius. according TO
all precedent in the Vanderbilt fam
lily. should have received the bulK OF
his fathers wealth. Instead he was left
only 100000 while si5.OOO.OOO went 10
his younger brother. Alfred Gwynne.
hifred gave $4,000 900 to Cornelius TO
avert litigation over the estate.
Young Cornelius was never disheart.
ened by the great loss he suffered In
wealth ailc prestige. In the 1--WE and a
half years since the quarrel with his
father he has worked necessarily and
with good results. lie began by invent
ing q locomotive fTebox. The great
value OF this invention Is that IL keep.