CHAPTER XXXIV.

COMMODORE VANDERBILT.—HOW HIS MAMMOTH FORTUNE WAS ACCUMULATED.

Ferryman.—Steamboat Owner.—Runs a Great Commercial 345

Fleet.—The First and Greatest of Railroad Kings.—The

Harlem “Corner.”—Reorganization of N. Y. Central.—How

He Milked the Street, and Euchred His

Co-Speculators.—His Fortune.—Its Vast Increase by Wm.

H.

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