The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-22


take a clerical Job and keep clean al
low wages. or no might learn rail road
ing from the bottom. but It would be
ga dusty lob" Il IN the first instance he
would probably be citing about as much
when he came to quit tho Job as :ien
L he began; In the latter It would depend
upon himself whether he should win pro-
mo ton 4}8 { q 81 III
The boy who WASH very far long IN
his twentles, and was recently out & & Of
college, n took the dusty Job, II beginning
cobblestones and the like. " His first pro-
motion was to be timekeeper. On the
day he first ran an electric car all by
himself, he wrote an enthusiastic letter
!. to his father, Square Root, 4 as the HAM;
$lton students affectlonately know lirrl.s3
The latter WASH 50 EN- thusiastic but
\ has since become 80, his enthusiasm be-
ginning some time be- fore that March day
in 1903 when his son was made general
manager. sSa3 Y n I, N III
Millionaires and Publishers
53 Sons. .sgs4
8 There Is one class Of r. sons II who in-$$
Svariablys follow the life to- which they
have been born, unless they too care
less with their money, as they sometimes
are They are the sons Of the 1nul tl-l
iinillionaires.
81 Neither Harry Payne Whltney, who
married Gertrude Yanderbilt, nor NJ his his
younger brother, 4 Payne Whitney who
married Helen Hay. the daughter OF 81
statesman millionaire, is likely to lose
his money for while icy are - neither
sstingy3 nor great Smoney gettersi hey are
understood to know low to- keep wi Thin!
their incomes. Consid er1ng their fortune!
this ought$not to be hard to dc, y for their
fat her left nearly $22, 900, 900 ~ and I'd both
their wives were well lowered.
g One OF the first notab le events In the
whitney world, which Sincludes the world
OF sport well afte the late William e
CBWhitney, deaf tn, " as the sale iof many
81 the fathers racing horses. 4 It was
held 4 in NJ ADDISON Square @ arden, where.
all the big N ewtt Y ork horse sales arc
held \, and &itHcontinued two nights, the .at-y
tendance being the largest and the most
|remarka ble;Sof the sort on record. VII The
great garden as posi- tiv ely crowded with
people. many Of such $quallt thai one
New Y ork paper ich makes a speciality
Of printing lists OF the social elect 4 on
ali possible occasions gave up columns OF
Its K space to their names. IS 5st5 an
SSsB Harry Pa yne w hi tn y bought In some
OF the horses-Ha mbnrg for so, OOO, among
them but for the most Z part he sale was
tunreserved. All the horses sold were Of
%llRnH RTuuG, sulll
sands were realized, quite enoug h to be-
considered q fortune. by the " ordinary
man. at sf34S
William c. whitney was u " no means
lacking In affection for his younger son,
#but there is no doubt 7 at there was g.
peculiar bond between the father and an
the older son. William G. had grea am
billions for Harry Payne, being DESTROYS
that he should foil ow In & his 4 own foot
steps as far rs they went. and 50 tur-
8ther. Harry Payne " ltney was there e
fore subjected Ito special training
Like his father---lik Ike the w itneys Of
that family ever since Revolutionary
days--he was sent to y le. Ell Whitney
the inventor Of the cotton gin. was an
ancestor Of Harry Payne hitney, by
4the way, and he rned his way through
Yale, making wrough t nails by hand and nc
by teaching. Harry Payne " hitney, like
his father too was q member Of Skull
and Bones. one OF the two or three most 1!
exclusive secret socle ties at Yale, Like
his father. also the young an s. g tu 141