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Although the most important railroader of his time, he would be almost wholly forgotten today were it not for four simple words he so uncharacteristically and incautiously uttered on October 8, 1882: “The public be damned.”
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"Billy" Vanderbilt was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on May 8, 1821, to Commodore Cornelius Vanderbiltand Sophia Johnson. His father Cornelius frequently berated and criticized him, calling his eldest son a "blockhead" and a "blatherskite". Billy longed to show his father that he was not, in fact, a blatherskite, but never dared stand up to th...
His father carefully oversaw his business training, starting him out at age 19 as a clerk in a New York banking house. After joining as an executive of the Staten Island Railway, he was made its president in 1862 and three years later was appointed vice-president of the Hudson River railway.[citation needed] In 1869, he was made vice-president of t...
In 1841, Billy married Maria Louisa Kissam (1821–1896), daughter of the Reverend Samuel Kissam and Margaret Hamilton Adams. Together, they had nine children: 1. Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843–1899) who married Alice Claypoole Gwynne; they were the parents of Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt as well as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and paternal grandpare...
Stiles, T.J. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt(2009), scholarly biography of his father with many details on WilliamVanderbilt II, Arthur T. (1991). Fortune's Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. New York: William Morrow. ISBN 9780062224064"Vanderbilt, Cornelius" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1889.publish and be damned. /ˌpʌblɪʃ ən bi ˈdæmd/. /ˌpʌblɪʃ ən bi ˈdæmd/. a phrase meaning 'you can publish if you like, I don't care'. It is thought to have been used by the Duke of Wellington when he received threats that private details about him were going to be published.
6. Nov. 2022 · The public be damned! Attributed remark to a reporter during a visit to Chicago, promptly denied by Vanderbilt. Descriptions of the context and circumstances vary widely, although most accounts agree that he was asked whether he ran an unprofitable train for the public's benefit.
"public be damned." On Sunday afternoon, 8 October 1882, as a New York Central Railroad train bearing W. H. Vanderbilt, president of the railroad, approached Chicago, two newspaper reporters boarded the train and interviewed Vanderbilt on various aspects of the railroad industry.
The Truth About that “Public Be Damned” Interview. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON. PASSENGERS! The Railroads Love You. So reads the headline in a recent issue of a popular weekly magazine and the theme of the article thus titled is present attitude of the railroads toward the citizens of these United States.
27. Mai 2013 · In a column titled “The Public Be Damned,” accompanied by a photo of a smiling, bald-headed economist, Friedman argued that the attitude expressed in that title, far from being businessmen’s attitude toward the public, is actually the attitude of the U.S. Post Office.
