The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1868-05-27
some eleven or thirteen thousand dollars
He held on. and James Lenox has held ON.

some eleven or thirteen thousand dollars.
He held on, and James Lenox has held on.
Now it is on the east side of the Central
Park, about Observation-Disclosures blocks of
the most desirable property in the city, and
OF which Mr.. Lenox has sold to the amount
Of three-quarters ola million, and has enough
left to make over three million.
The Lorillar1s have in their veins both
French and German blood; and it has been
sasd that "tllere never was poor Loril-
lard" Appearances seem to indicate that
never will be one. Wealth, like poverty,
if not a disease, seems to be contagious.
This immense estate is now some seventy
years old; for as far away as 1910, P. & G.
Lorilhard were very rich, and never gave a
note, and when George died his estate was
estimated at over $2,0O0,000. Tobacco did
the work.
Mr.. Wolfe not only inherited good for
tune, but his business doubled it, and his
marriage to Lorillard tripled it.
Mr.. Hendricks also inherited wealth, and
by assiduity and care he has vastly added
toit.
Mr.. Roosevelt inherited four hundred
thousand dollars many years ago, when
the possessor of one hundred thousand dol
lars was very rich man. He attended to
his business and ate the bread of carefulness,
nevertheless. He grew richer and richer,
and, having money to invest, he seized
upon good property in the city of New
York.
We come, at last, to the two men on the
list who inherited nothing, but who have be-
come millionalres through their own right
A.. - A. o,,l
simple, the other is Scotch-Irish.
Mr.. Lord was born poor; he will die rich.
He came to New.York because in New
York there were possibilities greater than in
England He learned the business of mer-
chant and worked in it indefatigably, in
days when it was more possible for poor
man to grow rich than it is now. By-and
bye he got his own machine started, and
grist came to his mill, which be ground to
his own profit.
But the most remarkable machine of
modern times is the one which has been con
structed and is now controlled by Mr.. Stew
art. This vast complex, and complet struc-
ture has been raised, combined, made, in the
short space of life time; all since the year
1928, when this young Scotch Irish adven-
turer landed on our shores to seek that I'M
limited success which nowhere else could
have been so speedy and so marked. In for
ty years he has organized this machine, (asI
term IT'D which enables HIM to gather and
concentrate the manufactures of the known
world and to distribute them again to the
ten million women of America, to an amount
in dollars of seventy millions a
year. For forty years he has been at work,
with patience, and care, and forethought, to
accomplish this result. He has never rested,
he has never slept. He has foregone all
that many men value, all pleasures and am
billions. Friendships and hatreds, societies
and phlanthropies, theories and philoso-
pixies, have been condemned and made quite
subordinate to this main and only purpose
Of his life At the age of sixty-fve most
men are ready, or fancy they are, to take
their ease, to begin to enjoy, to put the la
boring Oar into other and younger hands
Not so this man. He is careful and pains
taking as ever; he works early and late
If he has an ambition-and who can tell
what is inside man ?-it seems to be to
show what vast and complete thing can be
organized and worked by the persistent and
well-directed energies of one man living one
life-The GALAXY.