The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-06-08
FROM LOWLY SOURCE
Humble Occupations Of Some Rich
New Yorkers' Forbears.
Interssting Light Thrown ON ths
= Foundations of Large 0artunes
of Present Afistocrnts by
an Old City Directory.

= Foundations of Large Eartunes
of Present Affstocrnts by
an old City Directory.
Death as a leveler is not in the
same class with an old directory.
The wonder is if on the shelves Of ]
the mighty of Manhattan island
there is copy of little book
which has just found its way to Chi
cago. In these days when those in
high places seek the assistance of
the librarian of congress to get a
tight and exclusive grip on their
names, it would seem to the humber
persons that a perusal of the pages
of this little directory of New York
of, the year 1922 should teach a
pricesless lesson of humility, says
the Chicago Evening Post.
1t was in an old book shop in New
York that John C. King, of Chicago,
brought to light the volume in which
are found the names and the occu-
pations of the dwellers in the me-
tropolis before the last century had
turned it's first quarter. What an
who wish to look back to the rock
whence they were hewn and the pit
from whence they were digged.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, the eld-
-er, has invoked the aid of the law
to make her Mrs. Vanderbilt. She
will have none Of the Cornelius end
of it. The shade of the original
do,,hf1oSS 1,,;n Jaol, ,1;ea-
provingly on this action of its great
nddaughter-in-law. The original
Cornelius was proud of his name
both ends of it. He asked permis-
sion of the city of New York to
paint it in full and in large letters
: SO that his fellow-citizens might
read it. Permission was granted,
and the father of all the Wander
bilts proudly wrote on each side of
his wagon this legend:
Cornelius Vanderbilt, licensed cart
man.
Cornelius has place with his
brother and cousin Vanderbilts on
page 452 of this old-time register
of Manhattan citizens. Like Cor
nelius, the cartman. the three Ja-
cobs and the three Johns of the
Vanderbilt family found no good
reason for hiding their names and
their professions from an inquiring
world. AS good craftsmen should
| they believed in hanging their signs
on the outer walls, and thus they re-
spectively appeared: Blacksmith
Oh
ton. grocer.
Wild animal life was abundant in the
| United States in 1922. There was nc
| necessity then for the existance of pro-
| tective societies for four footed game
The members of the Astor family
! should adopt some furred forest crea
! ture as their crest. for glance at the
ancient volume in hand shows that
| three Astors of that year were en-
| gagged in skin sales, or. to put it more
| elegantly, the sale of skins in New
| York city.
Mr.. Longworth, who compiled thu
| directory of the city of New York 81
| years ago. is to be complimented on tn.
| general appearance of the letter press
| FN apparently, however. allowed on,
| ty geographical error to creep into hi.
*. Everybody who keeps in toucf
v III the throbbingly interesting do
i rs of the New Workers of this dat,
t'tws that the favorite Christian
= ne of the Loriilard family is Pierre
at name is the pride of the LoriI
Ii, "is. 1t is said that the director,
r'Hu allowed the original Lorillard t,
60 into the book q plain Peter. TIL
lr~iness sagacity of the Lorillard
n"ver has been questioned. They al
ways have been. as it were, ''up t.
snuff" "Tobacconist, "A Chatham
street" appears after the name o
Peter Loriilard in this record of fou,
score years ago.
But there are other names in thi
book of the olden time. Good oil
Peter Cooper is set down as masor
living in Bedford street. Aaron Bur-
counselor. had an Office at Al Nassa
street. which is still lawyers locs
ton and his house was at % Rec
street. Not far from Burr was situs
ted the Office of the son of Alexande
Hamilton, whom Burr had killed a
Weehawken 10 years before. Th
Roosevelts. the Goelets. the Dope,
sters, the Stuyvesants, the Kermit
the Kips and the Schuylers have place
on the directory pages, but, curiousl
enough, there is only one Vanren
selaer.