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When William Kissam Vanderbilt sailed on his yacht Ara, a fortnight ago, on his first cruise around the world, he left behind a yacht-building orgy. More and bigger yachts are now being designed and built for U. S. tycoons than ever before. Herewith, the list with name of tycoon, cost of yacht, architect, builder...
Fisk and his partner-Jay Gould of the dark, calculating eye-were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand...
...Then he built the Fall River Line of boats, painted the cabins a delicate green with pearl trimmings; the cornices and arches, lilac, pink, and pearl; and as admiral laden with gold braid he stood gloriously on the bridge issuing resonant (though meaningless) nautical orders. His twinkling justification: "If Vanderbilt's a commodore, I guess I ought to rank as admiral." But colonel he actually was-the ninth division, short of men and funds, had gladly elected him, and he paraded with pomp and fanfare. In splendid military regalia he escorted shabby President Grant to a Boston jubilee, where...
...made it clear that equine amusements were the most suitable for the well-bred. Nero's horses ran at Rome and, last week, a coach was pulled around the arena, in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, by four horses which belonged to Mrs. Frederic Cameron Church, once Muriel Vanderbilt. Three other coaches also rolled around the ring; and the best was judged to be one entered by James Franceschini, a onetime day laborer, out of Toronto...
...Georgia Tech, which beat Notre Dame, beat Vanderbilt...