Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-11-17

| keeping up his stables. He Is In at all
the great racing events and Is head of the
Monmouth Park Association. His drag
at the Troop races was one of the smart
est ON the grounds, and was filed with a
gay company He rides very well himself
and takes long canter every day. Mrs.
Cassatt and their children are quite as
Iona OF outdoor life as he, and they are
an daring and graceful riders. Mr.. and
MRS. Cassatt keep up two houses regu-
larly, one in town and one in the country.
1hls summer they also rented one of the
expensive cottages at Hollywood, just
back from Long Branch. Mrs. Cassatt,
~ tne way, was niece of President
| Buchanan.
They say that Charlemagne Tower is
worth $2.000,000. The estimate is likely
tnls SIDE OF the exact fact. Mr.. Tower is
from New York State. Every summer he
VISITS DIS ola home for a chat with friends
OF MS Doyhood. He is 8 lawyer by edu-
cation, though he has not practiced here.
he went to louisville when young man
ana made great deal of money in land
transactions there. When he came here
ne went strongly into railroad enterprises.
de was one OF the projectors OF the North
ern racine, and owns acres and acres of
land along the line of the road. He lives
at No. 1925 Spruce, elegantly. but without
much show. He has an Office on Sixth
street., below Walnut. He has bright
and interesting family and is particularly
happy In his domestic relations. He is
member OF the Union League, OF course,
and is we'll up on all questions of the day.
Besides being so rich he is also strikingly
handsome, tall, erect and genteel Of man
ner.
When Mr.. F. A. Drexel died people said
Cnat mis- estate was worth $l0,000,000. 1t
seemed largo n n ran INT hot
lhought thesum was exaggerated, as such
thlngs are, for whether it be ten millions
or TWO 1t is Just about the same in the
common mind. People. ordinarily, after
man mas grown very wealthy add few
mllllons to his fortune, without any dis
tlnct consciousness of knowing Just how
pig pile million is. The case of the late
Mr.. DTeXePs estate turned out to be an
exception to everything that had gone be-
Tore; that is to say, Mr.. Drexel, instead OF
| leaving ten millions, left ten and half as
much more. An intimate friend says
now that MIR. A. j. OreXel is still richer
imam his brother was. The present MIR.
DreXel and his late brother NAV be con-
sldered the architects of the superstruct-
ure OF the magnificent DreXel house, their
father, q man OF great financial ability,
having laid a strong foundation. The
DreXel "boys" entered their fathers
counting room at IA, and so thoroughly
acquainted themselves with all the de-
tails that upon their fathers death they
were able to take complete charge OF the
business. The skill and success with
which they directed the establishment may
be measured by the results. What the
results are every one can see for himself.
MIR. DreXel personally is one of the pleas
ATTEST men imaginable, though naturally
retlcent-and prudently so, too, seeing
what weight word from him has in the
financial wOrld-until he is thoroughly
acquainted with his auditor. He has three
houses, very cosy town house at Thirty
ninth and Walnut streets, a pretty villa
at Long Branch, and ''Runnymede,"
superb country place IN Delaware county.
that he bought from the late MIR. Fallon,
who used to look after eX-Queen lsabella's
investments in this country when the lady
was not eX, but on the throne of Spain.
he goes out some and enterCains splen.
dIdly, but he cannot be classified at all as
"society" man. He has given fortune
away in charity and still goes on in the
same old way. Besides being wonder
fully successful in the world of finance
he is also happy in his domesticity. His
household Is very bright and CHEEKY one
and all MS house is full of harmony. The
late Mr.. +. A. DreXel had a great liking
for music and played wonderfully well.
He was entertaining himself with some
little compositions on the big church or
gan in his house just before he died. Mr..
Anthony DreXel has a strong love for
pictures. 'Hejs always helping on some
poor artist, and mas 10 mis- Walnut street
house some excellent canvases. Like his
dead brother, Mr.. DreXe is the intimate
aud confidential friend of another able
and distinguished Philadelphian-a mil
lionalre, too-Mr. George W. Childs.
Mr.. William q. Warden is already rich,
and is growing richer SO fast that he stands
a good chance of being the Vanderbilt OF
the Quaker City some day. He is still
young. The bulk of mis- fortune has come
out of oil. He is member OF the firm OF
Warden, Frew 81 Co., and Is the principal
representative of the Standard Oil Com
pany in this State. Indeed, it is said that
be is one OF the greatest and most infiu-
entail men In the whole concern, and owns
so many OF the patents which the corpO-
ration uses that the company couldn't get
along without him. He is one OF the d.
rectOrs in the United Gas Improvement
Company, which is one of the competitors
for the lease of the gasworks. Mr.. War
den lives In good style but very quietly,
and does not go out at all into what is
called society. He is well read up on
variety of subjects, but he knows 'busi-
ness best Of them all. His fortune IS
estimated at S6,000000. ~,
Mr.. Austin Corbln, who but yesterday
was New Yorker, the day before an
Iowan and is now q Philadelphia, is an
Alexander Hamilton of railroads. He
touches the corpse OF their credit and they
Immediately stand erect. Nothing, it was
supposed, but a miracle could resuscitate
the Long Island system, but CorbIn
breathed upon it and il lived and paid
dividends TO the stockholders and turkeys
to the hands. A turkey train, from which
Mr.. COrbn personally distributed birds
to every employe, was one OF the features
of Mr.. Corbin's first thanksgiving in the
presidency OF the road. The Indianapo-
lis, Bloomington and Western railroad
was another Of his demonstrations. Now
the beneticent resurrectionlst is about to
galvaniZe Reading and has made his resi-
dence In Philadelphia in order to do it.
All of Mr.. COrbin's business enterprises
have been dramatic; but perhaps the most
dramatic, though one OF the least extern
sive, vas when he opened the doors of the
first national banking house Of the coun-
try at Davenport, Ia, June 20. 1868. The
second was the First National OF this city.
AS private bank his institution was the
only one in Davenport which withstood
the panic OF 81. Mr.. Corbin was born at
Newport, n. H., and is something past
80. He is a lawyer by training. How far
into the millions his wealth runs he him.
self only knows.
MIR. Thomas Dolan's fortune is put down
at $2000,000, and there cannot be much