The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-08
New York MIIiiOnaires.

Globe writes: Beyond our fifty millions
of dollars q piece residents, William B,
Astor, Alexander T. Stewart and Cor.
nelius Vanderbilt, hardly any one
knows or cares who is rich here. Dan.
iel Drew looms up frequently in Wall
street speculations, and is occasionally
mentioned in Methodist circles and
weeklies as large contributor 10
churches aud colleges of that sect. He
is q shrewd old fox, and almost always
gets ahead of the boys. as he calls the
members of the Stock Exchange, when
he has fancy tor big operation. He
has made . vast deal Of money in the
last two years and ia now reputed to be
worth slO.OOO.0OO.
One OF the most successful specula-
tors in the street of late is Henry n.
Smith, reported to have cleared S., ,0O),-
600 or $6,0O0,OoO in the last twelve
months.
Jaw Gould is said to have added some
1000, 900 to his capital since the coup
detat in Erie, and ten or twelve other
bold operators might be named who
have bulled and beared and gotten up
corners until they have augmented their
fortunes in single year by sl.OOO,OOO
to 81 100000 apiece.
WEALTHY NorABLEs.
have mentioned that many Of our
rich citizens are seldom spoken Of as
rich, because there are others 80 much
richer.
Take Alexander and Robert L. Stu
art, the sugar refners, for instance, who
began life as ragged urchins, peddling
molasses can ~ at a penny stick.
Their estates are estimated q. 81 100000
to S., ,00O 600 each.
Ancient George Law, whom the Her.
aid once galvanized into a temporary
notoriety by christening him "Live-oak
George" aud nominating him for the
Presidency, is probably worth s. ,OOO,.
900. Yet he is so rarely mentioned
that he is generally supposed TO be
dead. He is very much alive, however,
and may be almost daily seen driving
about in rickety old wagon, looking
after his ferry and other interests with
as much zeal and pertinacity as il he
bad to earn the price OF his dinner
before eating it.
AUGUST BELMONT
counts his dollars by the millions, and
is presumed to make on the average
over $2O00,000 a year by his adroit
operations in American securities. He
is a German by birth; came here as
the agent of the Rotnschilds; married
a niece OF Commodore Perry; has been
prominent in politics as the President
Of the National Democratic Committee ;
and has long been an authority on
matters relating to finance and the turf.
The famous bankers,
BROWN BROTHERS,
do very tranquil but enormous busi.,
mesa, and have fortunes ranging from
$l2, 100000 to 100000 each. They
are natives OF Ireland, though rather
Scotch than Irish, as might be inferred
from their shrewdness, energy and &C.
quisitiveuess.
The exemplary and highly esteemed
PETER COOPER
is one OF our rich citizens, and one OF
the few old men who were born on this
island His father was a poor halter,
and Peter worked hard in the psrerral
shop for the merest pittance. Always
desirous to he educated he never was
enabled to attend school beyond sin.
gle year, and then only hal the time,
the other half being devoted to earning
his daily bread. This deprivation OF
his youth be ielt so keenly that he de-
termined, should be ever acquire a Tor.
tune, 10 do something for the cause Of
Tree education. He adhered to this
determination, and the Cooper Institute
is the gloriou. result Coopers estate
is worth S4,0O0000.
HORACE B. oLALIS,
OF the firm OF II. B. CIahin & Co., the
second largest dry goods establishment
in town, has An individual property
valued at $l5,0O0,000 to $1,000, 900
He is a native Of New England. and
has the appearance and bearing Of q
genuine Yankee" He is much more
popular than his rival A T. Stewart,
and seems to be a man OF broader sym
psthies and more generous instincts.
ABEL A. Low,
long the President Of the Chsmber OF
Commerce, and the great tea importer,
has very long purse very full OF Sc
quins. He may be set down in figures
at 100000 or 100000, and this
is rather an under than an over es,i-
mate.
Es JAFFREY,
the Broadway importer, is OF Scotch ex.
traction, and rich as Fug.er. No one
knows the exact exteut OF his worldly
goods. though it is presumed thew would
represent in cash 81 100000 or IS. O00.-
900 TO e, 100000.
prosperous NEWSPAPER MEN.
There 10 go much wealth here that
even newspaper publishers and journal
ists have manaped To get q nortion nj n