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VANDERBILT SELLS HIS CAR.; George W. Will Ride In Plain Pullmans Hereafter. Share full article. Special to The New York Times. March 2, 1907; Credit... The New York Times Archives.

George Vanderbilt was the foppish and introverted favorite son of the world’s richest man. This seems like it would be an enviable position; and it was—made all the more enviable by the timing ...