The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-29
ANYTHING
BUT A DRONE.
A Man Who Earns Ills Right
To all The World Gives him.
lChieago Ameriean.l


Mayor Low. works harder than the av-
erage penniless young man, though he
has an income OF 100000 a year, or
S25.0O0 a month or 1888 day. ALI the
work that he does is from choice, as
he doesn't have to bother about the
wherewithal for house rest, butcher
: and grocery bills and such matters.
/ He is an ordinary looking young man,
/ bOyish in appearance and democratic IN
manner. but he has many remarka bic
qualities which make him as different
+ from the average gilded youth of fash
/ Ion as a steam engine is from but
/ teTfly.
/ He has ambition-tons Of it. That
4 is what makes him work so hard. he
/ wants to earn a reputation and be IN
! dependent Of the halo which hangs over
/ him simply because he is a Vanderbilt.
! The family halo never appealed
| very strongly to him, anyway. After
his disa greement with his father he be-
came dOubly anxious to build up a
name that would be purely the result
of his own labOrs.
Some of the positions this young man
| fills. and fills wOrthily, are:
Director in the Lackawanna Iron &
Steel company.
Trustee of the New York Life Insur-
ance & Trust company.
Director in the Rapid Transit Sub
way Construction company which is
building the rapid transit tunnel
Second lieutenant, company G,
Twelfth regiment.
Member Of several important COM
mittees in the Republican organization
Of the Twenty-ninth assembly district.
Commissioner of municipal civil serv-
ice.
lie is active in every one of these
positions and in addition to attending
to all OF the duties thereof he finds
time TO work out many mechanical de-
vices. Several Of these have been pat
ented and have been demonstrated to
possess great commercial value.
Mechanics is his hobby. and if he
gave way to it completely he would
spend all of his time in machine shops.
Young Vanderbilt showed that he had
ideas and determination much out Of
the ordinary when he had his disagree
ment with his father over his engage
ment to Miss Grace Wilson. The elder
Vanderbilt commanded him TO break
the engagement, making it plain that
unless he did he would be practically
disinherited and deprived Of all the
power and wealth which centered in
the head of the Vanderbilt family.
This meant a loss in money alone Of
over $4,000 600, a sum which would
have caused most men to ponder deep
~ before deciding to cast it aside. But
young Vanderbilt's decision was in
Simultaneous and positive It was in
favor of the woman ne loved.
His father kept his word. AS the
eldest living son. Cornelius. according
IN al .lrv,
lly should have received the bulk Of
his fathers wealth. Instead he was
left only S1,000,0O0, while S45, 900, 900 went
TO his younger brother, Alfred Gwynne
Alfred gave S6,OOO,O00 to Cornelius to
avert litigation over the estate.
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Young Cornelius was never disheart-
ened by the great loss ne suffered in
wealth and prestige. In the five and
a half years since the quarrel with his
father he has worked necessarily and
with good results. He began by in
venting a locomotive firebox. The great
value of this invention is that it keeps
down the yearly expense bill of a rail-
road company, as it rarely gets out Of
repair. 1t is now being used on the
New York Central, the Baltimore &
Ohio, the Union Pacific and thirteen
other large railway systems. and in
time will probably be in universal use.
He has since elaborated his original
invention, and now what is called the
Vanderbilt type of boiler saves fuel and
economies power as well, being less
expensive to keep in repair. The in
vention is patented, the number being
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Recently he invented a tank car for
carrying oil, and also a coal car. Both
of these are radically different from
others of their kind. The value of the
oil tank lies in the way it is fastened
to the body of the car. It's construction
IS so ingenious that the tank has to
support its own dead weight.
The coal car also has novel features
which give it exceptional dura bility.
II has capacity of fifty tons. Of this
car the American Engineering and
Railroad Journal has said:
THE new car designed by Cornelius
Vanderbilt embOdies one of the boldest
steps ever taken in the direction which
is considered so important It is likely
to mark departure in steel car de-
sign"
He has also invented a brake and
many minor appliances used in rail-
reading. He frequently goes to the
Baldwin locomotive works in Philadel-
in a hard days work alongside the
mechanics employed there. He is not
afraid of dirt or grease, and energies
from the shops as grimy as any of the
So a day men.
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Last summer, at Newport. he proved
the biggest kind of a surprise to the
naval officers at the United States tor
pedO station. He wanted to study the
mechanical novelties in the torpedo
boat Stringham, and was invited to 90
along on one of the trial trips.
The officers thought he would spend
the time on deck after a cursory look
at the engines.
He went aboard carrying a small
satchel. from which he took a pair OF
Overalls and q skull cap. Then he went
into the engine room and remained
there during the four-hour trip, hob
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