Show CUSTOMER Have you any eggs S In which you OU can guarantee there thero are arcs areno no chickens Yes ir ir- ir ir duks ducki k Passing Passing Show Sho London London- lean can fortunes remained a wholly un un- unpolished unpolIShed un- un unpolished polished Individual to to that day of his ils death With his career Arthur D 3 Howden Smiths Smith's work Is in Jn thor thor- thorough thorough thorough ough keeping There is 15 no veneering he the pungent details into which it goes A Q considerable amount of dialogue between Corned and his relatives and business associates is reconstruct reconstruct- reconstructed ed In ed-In In the raw and the rough Gaunt dyspeptic dys mouthed foul author calls the com com- commodore commodore egotistical the th call ft R. manan man without a a. vestige of an ideal save Use Uie acquisition of per- per personal onal wealth and personal power Ethics Religion They were empty phrases s. s until old age ege put the fear car of or the grave upon him hm But ut- But Happily what was good for Cornelius Cor Cor- Cornelius Cornellus nelius nellus Vanderbilt was good for America Amer- Amer AmerIca Ica ica ca You ou read much of conflict In the book for tor it was out of ot conflict conflict sav sav savage age relentless often unscrupulous that conflict that the Vanderbilt Vand fame and wealth emerged First it was over shippIng hipping into and out of New York harbor Then it was over shipping from rom the Atlantic to the Pacific dur- dur durn durIn durIng In Ing n c the California gold rush rush rush-a. a peri peri- period period period od featured by the brigandage of paid war makers In Nicaragua Came the railroads and still greater struggles notably the commodores commodore's clash with C. C W. W Fisk and Jay Gould Gou 1 over o the Erie Eric system with all the black chapters chap- chap chapters ers in Wall street history that it brought Stilt Still the author tells us the commodore com com- commodore commodore was a foe of business dishonesty dishon dishon- esty More lie he h was Vas first and last a aOu ab b bJ Ou Not a lovable man Not a great- great greathearted hearted man A man who tramped ruthlessly upon all opposition who had iad no spark of chivalry But a aman aman i man whose ambition was to build up not to tear down do According to his own standards an honorable man And always a fighter fighting for tor steamboats lighting for tor railroads fighting for life The careers careers of Corned Cornea and of Boss Tweed overlapped it hap hap- And it happens that Boss Tweed The Story of a Grim Gen Gen- Generation Generation Generation Boni appears I along Uong with the Vanderbilt biography If It the thc tale talc of Corned Corneel spurs y ur appetite for of those days when hen craftiness was Jn In flower Dower Denis Tilden Lynchs Lynch's Into the Tweed phenomena will be found quite sa sf |