Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-06-27
MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR. JUS

unmarried and his own master, has it, and he
certainly had more than that until recently.
| He is fond Of sports. 1t is easy to see what he
| does with his money. He has a fine ocean
\ steamer all to himself, and he likes to take
parties OF friends off with him for months at q
| time. To run a floating hotel where none Of
| the guests pay any board, must make pretty
big hole in the pocket Of any man, no matter
how rich he may be. Bennett likes the turf,
| too, and man who has q taste both for horses
| and yachting can spend any amount Of money
writer for The STAR had those tremen-
| dous figures of q million a year hurled at his
head the other day by young man here in
Washington, who is fond of surprises. '.Now
| what" said he, would you do if you had, all
| at once, an income of 81 900 600 year?''
oh, eternal powers of heaven and earth,
what wouldn't a man do? He would have end
less horses, runners and trotters and PAGERS; he
would have French cook who would serve up
| anything that was wanted; he would eat straw
berries at Christmas and shnd In November; he
| would have country houses and city houses and
thousand dollar dogs; he would go to Europe
| and to the South seas; he would buy seat in the
United States Senate: he would, like Alnascar
| in the Arabian Nights. marry grand vizief's
| daughter; he would buy a newspaper and pay
| himself thousand dollars a column to write
/ Tor 1t; he would, to sum it up, do everything he
| had ever wanted to do.
WHAT SOME MEN WOULD DO.
"All that is very WE'LL" said the young man
who had propounded the question, ''but what
would be the first thing you would do with
| Your million year?"
.,hy ~! ae1.s' Inc answer came IRON
tine, but it showed simply that the young man
| who had made the reply would rather nav his
debts than do anything else in the world, from
which 1t was clear that he must be very poor
indeed. and that his tailor must have been dun
ming him recently.
Buy fourteen white flannel suits" This
answer was made by one whose grea test thoughts
are centered in clothes. 1t would be a comfort
indeed to wear a nice. clean flannel suit every
day. Dudes SOC etimes strike the nail on the
head.
Pension my poor relations" This repiy was
made by a scion Of All old family. As he is not
altogether a rcuper. although he hasn't of
course, got n million q year, it was clear that
he had received "a letter from some member of
his family begging for money To Get rid of
this ANNOYANCE seemed to him the first dcsira-
bic thing TO do As a matter Of fact the cues
ton is pretty sure to bring to the surface at
once what a mans tastes or desires NAV be
and man of imagination likes 10 think what
he would do if he were enormously rich. It ia
very much the same as with gambling Chronic
gamblers would rather play and win than do
anything else in the world. Next to that thew
are SAID 10 Ike playluE and losing. and. that
is I'M possible they like to look at other people
winning or losing In the same wav MANY of
us woald rather be rich than anythiny else.
and. failing of that like to imagine what fun
it would be to suddenly become rich.
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A., G =, D-r
~ 50 ~ ''""" VI ~nie"so Hus'
nave st least million a year, and recently
in an interview with reporter declared that
the acquisition of his fortune had not made
mnch dlference IN ms happiness. He thought
80 m"' ~, az as wi on Mnsn le hau peeh
a,w,rs sov. I'm, ,f,t - go. ,hn,, -, 80
they give all their money away? Docs your
vast wealth trouble YOU Mr. Pullman? Then
Just send it on 20 Washing ton aad the resi-
dents of this fay orod town will guarantee to
take the burden of your mind and leave Won
to enjoy your sweet re,ose.
There are some very rich men in Washington
but there arc many mora who are not rich and
this is the rule everywhere There NAV he
several Washingtonisns who have a million a
year. but il would make them furious if their
names were printed. Rich men like to pretend
that they are poor and Door men frequently
pretend that they are rich. 1t is a failing OF
human nature. but Washington is the nbode
of unaues,ionaDl, the richest individual in
America aud he is u relation of ali of ms We
call him Uncle sam and he has an income of
more than a billion dollars a wear. and he il
probably the richest fellow in the worId. for he
doesn't owe nearly as much as his fat rival
John Bull. As for his contemporaries who owa
Germany, Russia, France, Spain and all the
rest of the earth they are hard put to il to nav
living expenses and are all OF them in the
hands of the money lenders Theyn-e too fond
of display but Uncie sam contents himself with
the solid comforts of lite and owes a verv small
amount indeed-a mere tribe of nine or ten
hundred millons, which he could pay of any
oay 'Ia' ~ suited his nancy 10 90 SO.
RICH MAN WITHOUT CASH.
IL is re'ated that one OF The richest men in
Washington, and. by consequence very rich
man indeed, hndins himself down Oh Pennsyl-
vania avenue one day ana being a little fatigued
called hack and was driven to his home
When he alighteG he put his thumb and fore
finger in the lower right-hand rocket of his
waistcoat to extracts quarter with which to nav
his fare. The pocket was vacuum, u thing that
nature losthes. His pocket book was no better.
He went within and called TO his wife for a
quarter, but she hadn't "a red cent 70 her name.
nor had his daughter. and Crusus was obliged
to borrow the paltry sum from his own butler.
When his friends heard of the accident there
was good laugh at the rich man + expense.
and he and his family have since
then been careful to keep small supply
of cash on hand in of emergency
How funny it seems that n rich man should be
without money, Yet it frequently happens.
not OF course. in such a manner as above re-
counted, but in larger matters. The reason
| is simple enough. PeoDle who get rich are
very much like the poor devils who are afflicted
xytth an for Ir.pE