The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-11-12
SONS OF DISTINGUISHED DADS
HOW MEN Oh PROMINENCE HAVE GIVEN THEIR BOYS A
START IN lIsE WORLD
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lrst Jonn JACOB Astor. IGbse are
Lewis atuyI osaIL Cuanier, AuuteuaAL
governor OF New lo!A state, wAO Tan
AGAINST Mr.. husAes Tor TIE governor
sap OF Tue Empire state, ana Wal
nam Aston CuaA.er Wno has been
representative in COnslesa from
New YORK. Lewis was educated AZ
Cambridge, England, and went
through Columbia law scAool. VII
nam TOOK up soldering, aad went
10 the front IA the spanish war, re-
celylng special commentator Tor his
part IN tue siege and Dattte OF oan-
uago.
Another great-sreat-grandson of
the first Jonn Jacob Aston rs young
Peter Augustus Jay, son OF Augustus
Jay, VINO in 1876 married Emily
Aston Kane, great granddaughter Of
the founder of the family. He chose
diplomatic career, and six years
ago, when scarcely more than OF age,
was appointed third secretary OF the
American embassy at Paris, whence
ne was promoted in less than a year
to the second secretaryship at Con-
stantinople, where he became full
secretary in 1908, Last year he
was again advanced TO the secretary
ship at Toxic. william Waldorf AS
tor, it may be remembered, dabbled
in diplomacy for a while being min
lister to Italy under Arthur.
One more young scion OF a mil
llonaire family who has chosen this
calllng-one which IreQuhes more
common sense. tact and shrcwdness
than the public appreciates--ls Lloyd
GrIscom, son of Clement A. Griscom,
the philadelphia shipping magnate.
His father put him through the Uni
yersity OF Pennsylvania, where he
proved a prodigy, getting his PHI. B.,
degree when only 10 Next no was
sent through the law shcool and
when just 81 was apprenticed as pri-
yate secretary to the astute states
man and publicist, Thomas +. Bay
ard, first ambassador TO the court OF
Queen Victoria. Then he went TO
the Spanish war and re-entered the
diplomatic service as secretary at
Constantinople, while still in his
twenties he was minister both to
Persia and Japan and now is ambas-
sador to Italy.
But reverting 10 soldering as a
means for these millionaires' sons
TO work off their potential energy,
there is young II, II, Rogers, Jr.,
who Is captain In the aristocratic
Twelfth regiment, n. G. n. Y, as is
also Cornelius Vanderbilt. Both vol
unteered In the war with Spain.
John jacob Aston ". is naturally
gifted in mechanics. He is a prac-
teal engineer and used to enjoy
handling the levers and throttles OF
locomotives on the road. lie built
the first successful electric storage
battery launch In America and has
invented turbine engine and a road
scraper on which he has taken out
patents--probably just to see II he
could, for he has released them to
the public, His young son, William
Vincent Astor-the boy now at Elton
is said 10 show the same bent.
f. H. Hartman has his boy, Aver
ell, at Groton, Mass, in the school
which, especially since the Presi-
dents sons commenced there, has be-
come the Elton of America.
Morgan and Hetty Green.
]. p. Morgan sent his son, ]. Pier
pont- Jr., through Harvard and then
put him TO work in the Morgan Of
fees, where he has developed a sound
financial head and AM accurate
knowledge OF values enabling him
to fit into his fathers place when
the latter is away cumming with
kings and queens and buying up the
art treasures OF the old world The
multi-millionalre Senator Hearst sent
his boy. william r.. to Harvard,
where he was suspended for playing
a practical joke. Then the Califor-
mia senator bought the lad the San
Francisco Examiner. Just to amuse
him" This was the Independence
party leaders start in journalism.
Nelson Morris, the millionaire beef
packer, started his eldest son to work
in his packing house when the lad
was but 10.
Hetty Green is said to have al
lowed her son Edward but so cents
day for his meals and to have
strapped him so tight financially that
UP to the time he was 90 he would
sell the morning paper after she had
finished II. However true this NAV