. Some successful Americans . difficulty, you will need to look on the other side of the picture, whichyou will find full of hope and gladness. Dr. Cuyler said of Mr. Pratt that from him ** innumer-able little rills of benevolence trickled into the homes ofthe needy and the hearts of the straitened and suffering.*He gave to a great number of worthy causes, — to charity,to education, to needy and struggling churches. He died CHARLES PRATT 137 while at work in his New York office, on the 4th of May,1891. Almost the last words Mr. Pratt wrote were thesecharacteristic ones, I feel that life is so
. Some successful Americans . difficulty, you will need to look on the other side of the picture, whichyou will find full of hope and gladness. Dr. Cuyler said of Mr. Pratt that from him ** innumer-able little rills of benevolence trickled into the homes ofthe needy and the hearts of the straitened and suffering.*He gave to a great number of worthy causes, — to charity,to education, to needy and struggling churches. He died CHARLES PRATT 137 while at work in his New York office, on the 4th of May,1891. Almost the last words Mr. Pratt wrote were thesecharacteristic ones, I feel that life is so short that I amnot satisfied unless I do each day the best I can. Hislast act was to sign a check for the benefit of the BrooklynBureau of Charities. A beautiful memorial chapel has been erected by hisfamily on his estate at Glen Cove, Long Island, but com-paratively few will ever see it or know of it. His realmonument is Pratt Institute, which will continue to be ofimmeasurable benefit to the citizens of the United Cornelius Vanderbilt 138 CORNELIUS VANDERBILT 1794-1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt was one of the most remarkablemen of business that this country has produced. His wasa constructive work, and the skill required to construct isalways greater than that required to destroy. It is saidthat Mr. Vanderbilt originated little, but that he had agenius for improving existing things and for foreseeingwhat the drift of business would be. The story of his lifeis interesting to all who care for the history of the indus-trial development of our country. Mr. Vanderbilt was born near Stapleton, Staten Island,New York, May 27, 1794. He was descended from a Dutchimmigrant, Jan Aertsen Van der Bilt, who came from Hol-land about 1650 and settled upon a farm near Brooklyn,New York. Jans grandson, the great-grandfather of Cor-nelius, went over to Staten Island in 1715 and becamethe owner of a farm near New Dorp. The Vanderbiltscontinued to live on Staten Island till the time of Corn
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