Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-05

beggarly SIS. 900 q year: but that Ingenious
youth employed skilled lawyers to break the
VIII, and IN this way got hold Of the entire
property. J. Montgomery is domestically-
disposed man, with passion for the violin. He
owns steam yacht, and belongs, as matter OF
course. to all the SWEETEST clubs.
MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY PLACE.
One Of the best known rich men of Boston is
d. II. Hnnnewell, who is supposed to be worth
about SS00o, 900. He Is banker and railway
man. His money was acquired both by in
hertfance and marriage. He owns no end OF
real estate. He lives on Beacon street, and his
country place is the most elaborate I'm the way
OF landscape gardening, etc, In Massachusetts.
IL is on the border OF a lake, with terraced
Italian gardens and greenhouses that are cele-
brated as the finest In New England. He has a
number OF sons, and the family is prominent In
society.
STRUCK IT BOTH WAYS.
Another rich man who both inherited and
married wealth is the Hon. Robert C. winthrop,
wen known as a scholar, ex-senator Of the
United States, and ex-Speaker of the House of
Representatives. His wife, who was the widow
OF John e. Thayer. old Nat Thayer's brother,
owns noble estate in Brookine. She enter
tains great deal. Nobody seems to know ex-
actly how much the Winthrops are worth, but
many millions they certainly'have. go.
Old Nat Thavers sou, young Nathaniel. inher-
tied large fraction OF the S16 600 900 the father
left. The money was made In railways origi-
nally, in the west. and Nat, IT,. has increased
his share by investments in occidental property
until it has come to be rated as one Of the big
gesr fortunes in this city. He lie six feet high, a
club man, and keeps the best Of yachts and
horses. About year ags he married. second
time. Miss Pauline Revere. descendant OF the
patriotic metal-smith. He NAV be regarded,
perhaps, as Boston's future Vanderbilt.
THE ADAMsEs
are enormously wealthy. They have always been
money accumulaters. Millions In real estate
they own, representing the appreciation in value
OF property held In the family for generations
Charles Francis Adams, president of the Union
Pacific road. is the head and chief exponent of
the tribe at present. John Quincy Adams takes
care OF the property. and Brooks Adams devotes
their heads very high, as BELTS people who can
Doast such great riches and 80 many GRANDPA
theirs. To be an Adams in Boston is to be set
up on an imaginary pedestal for the awed wor-
ship Of the vulgar herd.
Henry Lee, Of the banking firm OF Lee. Hig-
ginson Co.. is worth $4,000, 900. Though
nearly seventy-five years of age ne is one OF the
handsomest and most distinguished looking
men In Boston. He used to be an excellent
amateur actor ~
Equally fine-looking and perhaps equally rich,
Is L. Jefferson Coolidge descendant of Thomas
money and has made millions In cotton mills
he was one of the original Atchison men, and
pronted BY the rise of that stock from two or
three cents on the dollar to par. He has a
beautiful place at Manchester, Mass. and en-
tertains great deal
his Is only beginning of list of Boston's
very rich men. But it is necessary to stop
somewhere. One thing will be noticed, that their
money, as rule, comes from the shop only a
generation or SO back. Notwithstanding its
pretenslons to the contrary. the aristocracy of
Boston is OF surprisingly recent growth. But
those shrewd old Yankees of fifty years ago
1oresaw the future that awaited the wild and
wooily west. and they took the cash they made
Dy selling what cost one cent for two cents and
putt up the country. They grdironed the
beautiful prairies with railways. bought up the
sites where towns were destined to spring up,
and lent money on mortgages at big interest to
the settlers, urban and rural If the United
states do not look out sharp, Boston will put
them up at auction some day and sell them out
to satisfy the claims of the loan shop with the
sign at the gilded dome.