MILLIONAIRE REPORTER.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9147, 1 November 1919, Page 5

MILLIONAIRE REPORTER.

Cornelius Vanderbilt, junior, snu of Brigadier-General Cornelius Vanderbilt", and one of the wealthiest young men in America, entered tho ranks of journalism on August 30 as a "cub" reporter on the "New York Herald," with a salary of £s'li week. He obtained tho position entirely on his own initiative. Young Vanderbilt, who celebrated his 2lst birthday on April 30th last, has all the grit and much of the keen intelligence" of his' father, who—aside ■from the millions he inherited—has -made a good-sized fortune out of his engineering inventions, and who, as colonel before the war of the 22nd Regiment of Engineers of tho National Guard, was one of • tho -most popular and efficient officers in that organisation] ■ , - .Soon after America ontered- the world conflict the boy enlisted, and was assigned to the headquarters troon oi .the'S/th Division, then in trainincj; at Spartanburg, South „ Carolina. This division later fought under Hai-i in Flanders. Younm Vanderbilt went to franco with the division, and was chauffeur for its commander. General O'Ryau. Ho has written 'sorhe ' clever verses inspiml by the war (says the London "Daily Chronicle"). and when he wearied of the social gaieties at fashionable Newport, where the family have a magnificent summer homo, ho decided to try his hand at journalism. , "I have always found now?paper men to be the brightest and most vWi persons f cam^ m contact with. he said. "When I uas in Franco. I noticed that nnv duty calling lor resource and initiative was, always given to a former reporter or editor.