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Commodore Vanderbilt
And the Hand-Made Gentleman
By IRVING BACHELLER
AUTHOR OF "EBEN HOLDEN," "D'RI AND I," ETC.
The following story is printed from the manuscript of Mr. Irving Bachelor's new novel which is soon to be published. All the incidents of this story are true. A young man, though not bearing the name of McCarthy, first suggested to Mr. Vanderbilt the idea of combining the railroads which form the New York Central system. Mr. Bacheller obtained the details of the Vanderbilt episodes from the accurate recollections of men who had the story at first hand. Even the little picture of Andrew Carnegie in war time is authentic—The Editors.
THE Hand-Made Gentleman had built his factory in the thriving town of Rushwater on the Central railroad. It long summer day to get there, for the engine was fed with wood and we had now and then to load the tender with fuel, corded on the right of way, or drive cattle from the track, or water the locomotive or mend a coupling. We had also to wait at the junctions for other trains in equally bad luck. This, you must remember, was back in '65.
Early in the evening I found my friend McCarthy, otherwise known as the Hand-Made Gentleman, at th
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