TRAITS OF WM. H. VANDERBILT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2210, 3 February 1886, Page 2

TRAITS OF WM. H. VANDERBILT.

His strong paißjoijiVs fw horses, and PS. only Wen "he was . the road W hind a team of awift trotters or in the midst of a groupe of horsemen that a full, undisguised view could be had of one side of hia character. There' Was an inspiration to him iu the pull of tho reina, and the picture he over presented Vw whfiQ'iie m* driviag Mspd S, ( or his t'eSdta * Aldiafe,; afc'i JSaify Ewe

through a' brisk breeze' that sent his whiskers flying back over his head, brought out a flush on his good-humoted broad. Dutch face, and .put a into thevoico that usually comes out si jjplily. The love of horeeß.was an : inlieriW|_trait, and one of the strongest th# came''.,£6 him from his father. Before he built his' jjulttda' 1 ) in Fifth avenue he builtJiis stables at Fifty-secdnd t street and Madison iivMiii'. ' It .. cost 1 ) 60,000 dollars withoiifc the )aM and it# y'' walls, floors, ceilings- and stalls are all' finished, in polished cherry,, ash,'* and black walnut, besides the family hbrseti; he kept there Maud S. ,' the trtiftkjgjjfiiate, ■ for which in 1879 he paid 20,000 dol. He toook. his horses with him to the watering places, and there kept up the same habit' as in a city of a drive of ttftf hours & more every afternoon. In 1877 he wW to England, chiefly to see the Derby, and, on returning, said that the aigh|of 300,000 people looking at a hii'se race was itself worth a trip to Europe, When obliged to be in Europo during the trotting season he kept the offices bf his confidential tniployecs flooded with cablegrams enqui- , ring about his horses, ■ When St. Julihn and Maud S,, trotted at Rochester he was in Europe, and .cabled instructions to his general auditor to proceed to Rochester,. and report the details of the race to him by wire, ". A special car went to Rochester filled with his friends, and cable despatches were sent to Mr Vanderbllt after every . Mr .Vanderbilt's business halMjwero irregular, and his manner of worMcked method. He worked with great labor, to himself, and for that were only jjuessel at by-some of the men nearest him, he. did a, vast amount of drudgery which executive ofhcers ordinarily assign to clerks. He was accustomed to write his own business letters; and openand'^ read his own' : business though surrounded by men who attested! their fidelity to Mb interests through many years of service';— Free Press.