Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1892 — A Vanderbilt as a Bookworm. [ARTICLE]

A Vanderbilt as a Bookworm.

George Vanderbilt, is a silm-bulb oallid-faced man. of retiring manner, with bluish-grey eyes ana a browt mustache. He is only nine and twenty and the master of *10,000,000, yet h« eschews society and leads the life os a conscientious professional bookworm, pouting over moldy and obscure voi yet priceless editions of the classics in the luxuriant library of his Fifth avenue mansion. He has a pretty turn for art, which, however, does not prevent his attending the German opera on occusions, and he is an expert canoer. He is not particularly robust, but, being a bachelor, he is the cynosure of all the match-making mammas about town, to whom he gives wide berth, and is building a home in North Coro Lina which promises to be a revelation. He is said to be writing f historical novel. I - * ~ *rr