Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-17

NEW YORK, July 16-Following the
announcement that William Is. Vanderbilt.
jr., had been made assistant to the presi-
dent of the New York Central railroad,
directors of the thirty-two corporations
composing the Vanderbilt lines will soon
take a similar action. 1t will mean that
the young millionaire will assume the
burdens of railroad management as his
father, William X. vanderbilt, did be-
fore him.
Mr.. Vanderbilt will become assistant
president of these railroads: New York
Central; Buffalo. Thousand Isles and
Portland; Chicago, Indiana and Southern;
Cincinnati Northern; Cleveland Cincin-
natl, Chicago and ST Louis; Cleveland
Short Line; Dayton Union; Evansville.
Mount Carmel and Northern; Findlay
Belt; Geneva, Corning and Southern:
Lake Erie and Western Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern; Merchants Despatch
Transportation; Michigan Central; New
Jersey Junction; New Jersey Shore Line:
Peoria and Eastern; Pittsburg and Lake
Erie; Rutland; Rutland Transit Saline
valley; Spuyten Duyyil and Port Morris:
syracuse, Geneva and Corning; Toledo,
Canada Southern and Detroit; Western
Transit
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For two years Mr.. Vanderbilt. un-
known TO great majority of his friends
has been quietly at work acquainting
himself with the details of, railroad man.
agement. He has been working under
the eye Of President Brown of the New
York Central.s and that official said yes
terday his work has been accomplished
with remarkable accuracy and fidelity.
His election to so important a post in the
vanderbilt lines is looked upon in Wall
street as a refutation Of the reports that
nave been current for several years that
the Vanderbilt interest has been waning
and that the road has been virtually con-
trolled by the Rockefellers. The state
ment was made yesterday that the Van
derbilts added largely to their holdings
at the time of the panic, and are in COM
plete control at this time.
Mr.. Vanderbilt is thirty-two years old.
He has long been regarded as too ardent
a sportsman to give serious attention to
business. This impression has prevailed
to such an extent that about two years
ago, when the active MANAGEMENT of a
small trolley road in Rochester controlled
by the New York Central, was given to
him his society 1iends regarded it as a
joke.
Prominent as Sportsman.
Almost since his graduation from COL
lege Mr.. Vanderbilt has been conspicuous
for his achievements in automobiling
motor boat racing, yachting and as a
horse show exhibitor. He took up auto
MODELLING with it's early development, and
at once became enthusiastic in promoting
speed contests.
His racing cars We're among the fastest
in America, and his tender OF the Van
derbilt cup, prize annually competed
for on Long Island, served as a stimulus
for some OF the most daring automobile
course with private right of way, was
promoted by Mr.. Vanderbilt when racing
on Long Island roads became too haz-
ardous TO be continued. In these contests
Mr.. Vanderbilt himself made records of
mile in SO seconds and fifty miles in Is
minutes and ~ A. seconds.
Raced With Motor Boats.
Motorboat racing also occupied his at
tention until he tired Ct the sport lie
built and raced the speed boat Hard
Boiled Egg and afterward the famous
speed steam yacht Tarantula, which was
seen frequently in races with other mil
lionaire challengers. He is owner OF the
seventy footer sloop yacht Virginia OF
the New York Yacht Club fleet, and often
acts as her master.
MIR. Vanderbilt's horses also have been
seen in competition at the horse shows
in this country and abroad, and he has
many ribbons TO repay him for the time
and money spent in this pursuit. His es-
tate, Deepdale, on Long Island, has been
the meeting place of the sport-loving and
outdoor element of society ever since his
marriage, and with unlimited money and
plenty of friends to sustain his interest in
purely pleasurable things IL has hereto
fore been accepted that his career would
he apart from business careSl