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Show COHNELIUB ANDBfiaiLT DCAD Urt Inrii llall-Mrt IIMMnl neev rmlM tti I rl;-.lt N'ew ork Kept l( ( ornellus Van derblll head of the Xanderbllt family dlext at his rmldenee In this elty at' o'eJoek from nntrokeof naralyal )lr Vanderbllt was In Ills Mill year U his bedside when he died was only hi wife. No pliyslelnn was In attendance The attaek was very auddrn and entirely en-tirely tinexpreteal and It ws) Itnpo slble Is resell any phyeMan before death occurred Cornelia Vanderbilt was born on bUItu Island Vovember 1? l Ullllomll Vanderbllt his father, was at the time a farmer and Cornelius at the age of III left aehool and secured a place as iwascngpr In the Htine L lK-nlhrr bank III grandfather the commodore, learning of thi-t, sent fur him owl ashed wh) he hail not applied to him for a pine. "HewiiMi I did not want In ask you for anything " was the reply This pleased the commodore, and It ssld that ha made n codicil to Ills will a few days later leaving II 0o ooo to lit grandson At the nge of ?1 his grandfather Induced In-duced him to enter the railroad service, where his promotion was rapid until he became the heading rllmd man of the country U the time of hi death Mr Vanderlillt wo president of the Canada Houtherii railroad vice-president and director of the lleaeh Creek rallrimdi president nf the Detroit ,(. Hay City rallroadi director of thoCleve-land, thoCleve-land, Cincinnati, Chicago A St. '.out rallmndi director of the Detroit .V Chicago Chi-cago railroad director of the Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley X I'lttaburg railroad) director of the Hudson Hirer llrldge company, pre1di.nl of the Jollet X Northern Indiana railroad: president of the I eanitngton t Ht Claire rail-roadi rail-roadi prcsldrnt of the New utU A. Harlem railroad; preshlent of the Niagara Ni-agara lllver llrldge compan) president presi-dent of the Hpny ten Duyvel railroad, director of the ngner I'alaee Car com-pauyi com-pauyi director of the ct Whore rail-roadi rail-roadi dlrritor of the West Hhoro ,(. Ontario Tcrintnal company, dlrcetorof the Tolrilo Canada Houtherii .1 Detroit Italluar company! dlrcetorof the New York Central l Hudson Itlvrr railroad and a ilium other uftlllateil railroads |