Year: 1877

com planned once. In the beginning he was neryous
and irritable sometimes, be would say ugly, l
have gone hts after paroxysm OF pain and
he has my hand and burst into tears saying at
the same time


..Dr Deems, will God forgive me I've been SO bad
and ugly toward the people that are nursing me SO
faithfully


But that passed away Even then he never prayed
that pain might be taken away but would often saw
Dear God do not take II away II be necessary for
me- | have never met, even IN the ranks OF the
clergy, man who had more thorough belief In the
divine authenticity OF the Bible than Mr. Vanderbilt


OF course the public know of the gift OF the Church
of the Strangers and will naturally believe am
grateful But they can know the personal aGec
ton bear tor the man. founded my knowledge Of
his character. II was his desire that he should be
buried from the Church Of the Strangers"


THE FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.


AS now arranged the funeral will take place on Sun.
day morning halfpas o'clock, IRON the Church
OF the Strangers, Mercer street DR.. Deems will
oicate at the ceremonies, which will be
simple and without pomp, in accordan CO
with Commodore vanderbilt's DESIRE There will
DO display Of towers IN the church, the
family having requested the railroad employees and
others TO send nothing OF the kind. The Commodore
used TO think that the expense necessary for such
adornments great waste, and once SAID that the





made the funerals of the poor seem poor Some time
his death he asked Dr. Deems to take charge OF
his obsequ,es, and abstain from anything like splcn-
dor.


The relatives will assemble at the house Washing.
ton place, and proceed thence to the church,
pany with the body, which will be on a bier
The Commodore chose some ten pabsarcrs a number
OF years ago, but majority OF them dead, so
there will be none at tho funeral In that capacity
The employees OF the roads Will attend the services


The remains Will be taken TO Staten Island and de-
posted in the family vault in the Moravan Cemetery
at New Dorp. Two ferryboats, leaving the foot OF
Whitehall street. will be placed at the disposal Of
friends wishing accompany the body its
ing place.


II so happens that the day appointed tor the funeral
is the anniversary Of the foundation OF the Church OF
the Strangers which the deceased gentleman once
requested to be buried, and IL being the first Sunday
OF the month 1t is the day which communion is
customary served. This service will be, In this in
stance, postponed for week, in order devote tho
entire service OF the morning to the respect Of tho
great mans memory.


STREET


The death Of Mr.. Vanderbilt was known on Wall
street before noon, and although the event has been
daily looked for 1t created profound sensation IN
financial circles, in which he well known as an
operator who took great chances and rarely failed 10
be on the winning side. II noticed that the feel
ing was generally OF regret at the demise OF
whose Lie abors have intimate nected
with the commerce and finance of the country. Mono
spoke OF him but in praise. Even those who at some
time had suffered, owing to his manipulation OF stocks
that the veteran more, exolled his daring
and admitted that Commodore Vanderbilt had not
lived in vain That, with all his errors, he had
public beneactor shown In the great
md that he
had conceived and fostered. Strange to
say, tho taking of OF this active worker
In railroad enterprises did not materially
affect the price Of railway securities, and conse-
quenty "the street, not subjected to any
excitement. For moro than year 1t had been known
in commercial circles that the Commodore's worldly
affairs had been carefully arranged and as result it
was believed that the market would sustain no dis.
arrangement. At tho office OF the Commo.
dores brokers, Mcssrs Davis Freeman
there anxious inquiries made by oper-
ators for particulars, and for some hours
the place beseged by them. But the bus,-
Of tho street proceeded usual and to all out
ward appearances could have noticed that any
unusual event had occurred disturb the equilibrium
of the street


AS the report OF the demise was verified
tho flags on the City Hall and other public build
ngs, and Of the hotels and public institutions
were raised to half-mast. In all the hotels
theatres and places of public resort Mr. Van
derbit's death the theme OF converse
and speculation rifle to the elect II would have
upon the great interests he had been long identified
with 1t was generally believed that no material
change would be percoptIble, his son, william L.
Vanderbilt. has been for tho directing mind
thereof and Is generally conceded TO bo fully capable
OF carrying out the vast schemes that his venerable
father had under way when death called him.


THE CORNELIUS vANpERBILr


Tho Vanderbilts we're natives OF Holland, and were
prosperous, though poor and economical farmers
tradesmcn Several persons OF the namc venturcd to
cross the ocean to New York In the carly days of
American colonization. They OF pure Knicker-
booker stock, and they carried their homo training
into practice by settling, not the island of
Manhattan, but on tho neghboring and loss pro.
tecteG Staten Island At the when tho fat her of
Cornelius (whose namo also Cornelius) came to
America, Staten Island being divided up into largo
cstates which were worked by who furnished
supplies for the CITY, The elder Vanderbilt took
these farms. He fond OF ease and pleasure, and
many a time he engaged In specuations which fro
quently resulted in loss. He probably gave the
speculative impulse TO his 1t was among the duties
OF the old Dutch farmer carry his produce across
tho harbor the city in boats, and In this labor no
was greatly assisted by his sons when they
age when their work efficient. The mother was o
hard working old Dutch woman, who, like peasant
women OF that day. did her household work, weeded
aud tended tho urDip and cabbage patches, and her
self many times sailed the ferryboat OF her husband
with its loads OF vegetables to New York. This Frau
Vanderbilt was woman OF great energy and industry
moreover she was more thrifty and prudent than her
husband, who would speculate, like the ambitious
DutchEan that he was; and IT happened
tlms that, when tho husband had fallen into debt
through iDdiscrect investments, and the farm was
about to be sold the good old went a secret
and found that her savings, of which nobody
besides herself knew anything amounted TO tho
OF $4,000 at least all in brightest god and how much
more, tor more necessary, the world will never
discover II the natural bent OF Commodore Wander.
bits genius came from his speculative father his