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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.”
In 1883, reporter John Dickinson Sherman questioned him about why he ran the limited express train: "Do your limited express trains pay or do you run them for the accommodation of the public?" Vanderbilt responded with: "Accommodation of the public? The public be damned! We run them because we have to. They do not pay.
6 de nov. de 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.
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.
A reporter, whose identity is not established in this version, tried to force the railway magnate to issue some statement. “Mr, Vanderbilt, the public wants to know and is entitled to know,” he said, whereupon Vanderbilt replied wrathfully, “O, the public be damned!”.
"The Public Be Damned!" A Thematic and Multiple Intelligences Approach to Teaching the Gilded Age TI he Gilded Age often fails to generate much enthusiasm among students as well as teachers. Several years ago a teacher of American history confessed that she covered the late nineteenth century in a twenty-minute lecture because "not much
