Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-28
THE RICH MEN OF BOSTON.
The Hub the Wealthiest City in tn
 World for Hts Size. Boston Correspondence of the New Orleans Pics

The Hub the Wealthiest City in the World for Hts Size.
 lBoston Correspondence of the New orleans Plea yune
 Boston may be regarded as a shorn of loan-shop for the United States Three gilded domes, instead of one, would not in- appropriately adorn the city which had be- come the richest in the world, in proportion l to its size, by lending money The boom
 towns of the West, 50 boastful of their mush-
 here big rates of interest. The railway
 systems that cobweb the new States and
 Territories are owned in the modern Athens.
 The very farms of the agricultulists, from
 the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, are
 loaded wish mortgages held by local capital
 The richest man in Boston is supposed to
 be Mir. Fred L. Ames. He lives in the finest
 house in the city, on Commonwealth aven-
 ue, entertains gorgeously, and is regarded as
 an aristocrat of the aristocrats Neverthe-
 less, his grandfather, old Oliver Ames the
 first. used to peddle shovels Of his own
 handiwork in this town. The shovel busi- ness grew, the utensils being we'll made. and
 was further developed by the two sons. Oakes and Oliver the second The profits
 were largely invested in the Pacific Railway, which, notwithstanding certain awful slump in its stock, proved a gold mine. Oakes Ames's son Oliver is now the Govern or of massachusetts,, and is worth at least $5:0oo,00o. Of real estate in Boston his holdings are enormous. But his wealth is as nothing compared with that of his Cous- in Fred L., son of Oliver the second, who has not less than $20, ,000, 900 of his own. And the shovel business, accompanied by the manufacture of other instruments agri- cultural, still goes on, enlarged to gigantic scale.
 Many people think that John M. Forbes is even richer than Fred L. Ames. He cer- | tainly has as much as $2O, ,00O OOO. The fin est Summer estate in New England belongs to him. It is an island called Naushon, the whole of 1t his property, in Buzzard's Bay. In the warm season he entertains there on a baronial scale. One can drive for miles and miles on the place, and the little harbor offers it's Inequalities to dozen white- winged yachts at time. There are wild deer on the island, and communication is kept up with the mainland by steam launch. MT. Forbes is quite seventy years old. He started as merchant and went in- to railways afterward. He is called the father of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, and it was his money that backed the Bell telephone business when it was get
 ting upon it's legs. He is still the largest
 stockholder in that vast profitable nonopo-
 ly.
 J. Montgomery Sears is comparatively
 young man, who had the good fortune to in-
 herit from his father $12, ,O0O, ,0eO, most of it
 in the bestspaying real estate in the city. He
 has been called the Astor of the modern
 Athens. The old man, Joshua Sears, was a
 poor boy who came to Boston from Cape
 Cod and established small grocery bushes.
 By astonishing parsimony he gathered few
 thousand dollars capital, which he invested
 in land that rapidly multiplied in value.
 Thus his fortune grew to the dimensions it
 finally reached. He left his only child
 Monty" beggarly $25, ,000 year; but
 that ingenious youth employed skilled law yers to break the will, and in this way got hold of the entire property. J. Montgomery is domestioally disposed man, with pas sion for the violin. He owns steam yacht and belongs, as matter of course, to all the swell clubs.
 One of the best known rich men of Boston is H. H. Hunnewell, who is supposed to be worth about $S, ,000, ,0e0. He is a banker and railway man. His money was acquired both by inheritance and marriage. He owns no end of real estate. He lives on Bacon street, and his country place is the most elaborate in the way of landscape gardening, S1c., in Massachusetts,. It is on the border of a lake, with terraced Italian gardens and greenhouses that are celebrated as the finest