Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-07-11
The Three Richest Men in Amer.
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I The three richest men il America are VIM
B. Astor, A. T. Stewart and Commodore
Vanderbilt residents of New York city
Astor's wealth is mainly in real estate and
its revenues Vanderbilt's is mainly il
railr DAD stocks and their dividends; Stew.
arts is in goods, houses, stores, factories,
lands and stocks. The aggregate wealth Of
each Of them is seventy-6ve and one hundred
millions which looks rather heavy. Nobo-
dy knows exactly they conldn't tell them.
selves within a million or two. Those who
know mcst about thoir affairs put their fig
ures higher. and say that the income tax
returns of q few years ago, which showed
each of them to be worth between twenty
and thirty millions. gave no proper idea OF
their real wealth.
Astor lives unostontatiously Vanderbil 1t
lives in three story on third-class street;
and Stewart lives in marble palace on Fifth
avenue, more magnificent than any other
residence on the American continent, and
equalled by but few of the great cities of
Europe. Astor is large, heavy man of
seventy, VITA strong TEXTURES and arubicund
face, Indicate of high living Stewart is a
medlum-sized man, rather slender, and tall
of seventy three, with face like parcb
ment, and. gives the impression of being
hor ~ Nan1avbiIf 10 Ill cl,p, hand
some, proud looking man Of nearly eighty,
straight as an arrow. Astor has heirs to
his estates Vanderbilt has children to
whom he can leave his fortune; Stewart is
childless Astor's public benefactions are
confined to something like couple of hun
bred thousand dollars, which he gave to the
Astor Library. and the two golden candle
sticks, nine feet high, which he recently
gave to Trinity Church. Vanderbilt has
never made any public benefactions, except
ing steamship to the government during
the war till very recently when he gave
million dollars for educational purposes
one half of this sum to ound a University
in Tennessee, and the othor bali to another
educational institution. Stewart has always
had the reputation OF being pretty close is-
ted but be must be credited with his mil
lion dollar "Home for Women" which will
be com peted next year. Astor is an Epis
copalian, Vanderbilt is Methodist, Stew
ant is said to be inclined to thinking for him
self. Stewart is a scholarly man. Wander
bilt is not. Astor is an accomplished man
Of the world.
A GENEROUS HEARTED YOU'VE MAN-At
the dinner given at the commencement Of
the Washington and Lee University Col.
Johnston proposed a toast which he said was
unusual:
''To some of the noblest fellows that ever
lived: the boys who have been pitched"
In response to loud calls Mr.. Lewis
Berkeley, of Prince William county, who
bad failed to graduate on law, rose and said
that he was sorry to admit that he was one
of the boys who had been pitched He
bad, perhaps, been too diligent in taking the
''calico ticket" but the examination given
by Mr.. Tucker was most rigid one-a sort
OF diabolical machine to pitch the unwary !;
and if any of these lawyers Of long practice
thought that be had been disgraced by his
failure, he would just like to see some of
them tackle that examination and reach the
standard required. Yet he believed in
high standard, acknowledged the justice OF
the decision in his case, and desired to ex-
press his high sense of obligation to Mr..
Tucker for the great kindness with which he
had treated him in common with all of his
students. But he should now 60 to work,
be hoped to be able to take such a stand in
his chosen profession that in years to come
his Alma Mater would not be ashamed of
him as zone Of the boys who was pitched. :"
Professor Tucker rose and said that the
manly way in which Lewis Berkeley had met
this, his first disappointment, gave assur-
ance that be would, beyond, question, sue
coed in future life.
He proposed the health of "Lewis Berk-
ley" as noble gentleman as ever entered
or left the University.