Biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt

He passionately wanted a million, and he received it. Starting with ten dollars, he earned a fortune, bought half the world, changed his second half beyond recognition, but remained unhappy. They certainly stumbled upon her while reading the novel “Twelve Chairs”. The magnate was mentioned in passing.

Not even himself, but his daughter. And rather, it was not a daughter, but a grandchildren - Vanderbildikha! So they called the lady whose toilets and interiors, published in the form of a photo in a fashion magazine, embarrassed the peace of Ellochka Schukina, forcing her to part with savings and an obsolete hairstyle. This is how it was: “... Mod magazine. On the first page, Ellochka stopped.

A sparkling photograph depicted the daughter of American billionaire Wanderbilda in an evening dress. There were furs and feathers, silk and pearls, an unusual light lightness and a breathtaking hairstyle. The morning of another day found Ellochka in a hairdresser. Here she lost a beautiful black braid and repainted her hair red. Then it was possible to climb one more step of the staircase that brought Ellochka closer to the shining paradise, where the daughters of billionaires, not suitable for the home mistress of Schukina, are walking even in the horseshoes: a dog skin depicting a peaks was bought along the rabcredit.

It was used to finish the evening toilet. The dress, trimmed with a dog, inflicted the first a well -aimed blow to the arrogant Wanderbildicha. Then the proud American was inflicted on three strokes in a row. Ellochka acquired a chinchilla stroke of the dog’s house with a home scorch, a Russian hare, killed in the Tula province, started a pigeon hat from the Argentinean felt and crossed her husband’s new jacket into a fashionable ladies' vest.

The billionaire swayed, but, apparently, she saved the loving dad - Wanderbild. The English nobility has always married American girls, croaking her lip. But she married. And Consuelo Wanderbilt was also a written beauty. This is precisely her portraits in landscapes and interiors to this day the walls of the Vanderbilt mansions in New York. And already outfits! Fluff. Ilf and Petrov were very believably described, albeit without details.

There is something to see and how to admire a simple girl. This is later, after the war, in the USSR it began to not get French or what fashion magazine there. And at the end of the 10ths, obviously, they were still leaking into the hands of cultural girls like a phima of dogs-poor, but those who seek the world of fringes, where are the perfumes, diamonds-mesh and other soft jackets inaccessible to the Soviet woman.

Gloria Vanderbilt, by the way, at one time “the same Wanderbildiha” mistakenly considered another beautiful girl from the Vanderbilt - Gloria Laura, the heiress of one of the largest states in America, who made her memories of how she scrapped him on men. He loved to tell how she revised her children's aspirations - she dreamed of becoming a nun, but it turned out, as always, right the opposite.

But the clarification of the dates gives a firm refutation. Vanderbildikha-Gloria is a beauty, model and fashion designer, actress and writer born in the year and still alive, known to the world with the spirits of her name to the very one, with a swan, by the way, were lovely twenty years ago! When Ilf and Petrov wrote their work, if it would fall into the reports of secular chronicles, it is only in the form of a flower of life sitting on a pot.

Love and poverty in Ilf and Petrov, namely the interior of the new Vanderbildih castle in Florida, the feat of Ellochka Schukin to buy two chairs of Vorobyaninov, beautiful enough to compete with millionaire furniture. But the furniture epic rolled in its turn, while the story of Vanderbildih, who is prosperous behind the ocean, was far from being so interesting than the narrative about the life of her great -grandfather.

Consuelo was not the daughter of Vanderbilt, she was his great -granddaughter. The founder of the Magnatov clan himself has long died, bequeathing his job to the son of William. This was the money. Mount of money. Shipbuilding or shipping, railways and oil developments were only scenery in his games with reality. If he knew how, he would grow money on the trees.

He was a person who was ready for any actions for the sake of profit as a symbol of his power. Cornelius Vanderbilt, although it is the founder of the family, was not at all the first in his family. His parents remembered and honored their ancestors, knew their names and origin. He distinguished himself, giving way, this is true. But his family was known long before the beginning of the 19th century.

The speculation in transport in his youth was also mastered by his father-wanderbilt, until he later acquired a tribal farm on Staten Island. So his son Cornelius was born on May 27 on the family farm, the fourth child of his wife, Phoebe Wanderbilt. However, in America, there were very few of those years of local years, and among them it meant that the matter was bad.

Cornelius Papa was from the family of the same immigrants as everything around, he was a poor farmer, plowed and sowed calmly and sowed, as it turns out, dreaming of wealth only in a dream.Dad really saw dreams in which he drove up over and over again to the side of a large ship, but did not connect these visions with the future of his family - nothing!

In his youth, he often stomped the pier, because he worked as a boatman in the New York port, he was used to watch the ships at the pier and was not surprised at his dreams. Cornelius Vanderbilt-Jr. Cornelius Vanderbilt-Jr. also slept and saw the port, just he connected his hopes with the port, since it was an undoubted blessing to get out of the parental farm for him.

He was a decisive person from the diapers. Perhaps he was influenced by his father’s tales of a fun and diverse boat life, the pope believed that he was talking about the hardships of his youth. When, at the age of 11, Cornelius abandoned the school, flatly refusing to receive knowledge, and reached for the pier, holding up to study the thawal map in the New York area, his father was surprised-did he tell his son about the water troubles?

But the son, obviously, understood everything on the contrary - the life of the sailor is cheerful and relaxed, in the fresh air, working with people - beauty! We must go to the sea. But how to get out of the ledges on family arable land? Helping his parents was his holy duty, no one was lazy, plowed like the damned, and they had more and more duties on his stronger shoulders, accustoming to work.

As a result, he spent five years in thought, how to make his feet in the port. On the eve of the flying, he announced his mother that he was going to leave the house and become a sailor. In vain, his mother tried to call him for sanity, pointing to school doors, they say, but what about a letter, son? The roots did not want to hear anything about books.

Then he often boasted that studying is the last thing that occupied him in life: “All my life I went crazy for money. The invention of all new ways to make money simply did not leave me time for education. ” And this belief makes him similar to the later business stars like Henry Ford. School is a place for fools who have nothing to do, they thought. Learn from life. Life will teach.

Life taught Cornelius very early. Five years before the beginning of an independent life, he undertook the first business project, which provided him with glory and changed, perhaps, his whole fate. Since it was no longer possible to stay at school after such a demarche. The fact is that one of his teachers, a person who was not distinguished by any virtues, except literacy, but very proud of the gold medal received at the end of the educational institution, had the misfortune to add to alcohol, hid this fact, but gave Mahu, opened with roots.

The future tycoon did not fail to take the opportunity - having discovered the obvious signs of a hangover from the teacher, one of the relatives of his father suffered with similar signs, offered the tank with a Mais drink of an indefinite fortress in advance from the house - of course, for money. It seems to be an ordinary mash. It was remarkable that the cost of the “elixir of freshness”, as the newly -minted Butleger called it, was half as much as the cheapest alcohol in any Petish institution of the district.

Since then, it has been a great break, when the students and teachers scattered home to dine, the roots traditionally went to the teacher’s way - to hang out the teacher exhausted by Narzan. When the unfortunate, reluctantly, tried to break out of a bonded dependence - he tied it up! He fenced the teacher with a promise to immediately open the innermost in the directorate if the sufferer does not respect his silence with an amount of ten dollars.

The teacher agreed immediately. He did not want to leave the classes with shame. Of course, the secret could not forever remain so. A terrible scandal erupted in a timely manner, the teachers attracted in all severity, while the student left himself. He just believed that the school gave him everything that he could get from it. And then he even boasted of illiteracy.

The newspapers made this feature of his, claiming that he made mistakes even in his own signature. The roots on the water to start a career for the sea wolf with ten dollars behind the soul seemed to be a frivolous enterprise. The teenager could be involved in any adventure, his mother Phoebe considered his mother. It is clear that no one in the family approved the choice of a son.

But the mother knew the character of her fourth child better than anyone else. She realized that it was better to help him herself than to then make the consequences of his unsuccessful attempts to assert himself in life. Phoebe rummaged in a stocking, hemmed to one of the drawers of a chest of drawers, and gave him a hundred dollars - with a return! Cornelius, young, but grown as an octopus, managed to dispose of this considerable amount at that time quite rationally.

He bought a sailing boat. This is about if today the baby bought a dumb "Zhiguli" and took up the car. From this craft, according to the legend, bearing the name "speed", but rather miserable, his career of the shipowner began. It is interesting to recall that from hundreds of boaters who at that time worshiping water near the New York port, no one except him knocked into people except him.