The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1891-02-03
AMERICAN MILLIoNAIREs
List of Persons in the United
States Estimated to be
Worth Ten Mil
lion Dollars.

The New York World has published a!
list OF Americans who are worth $5,0O0,-
900 or over. The list is long one and
the World informs US that there are Al
thousand persons in America who arei
worth 81 100000 or more. The richest
individual in Europe is the Duke OF
Westminster, whose fortune is $50, 900,
900. 1t is the inherited accumulationsl
of centuries OF an entailed estate. Thei
richest men in America are John d.
Rockefeller and William Waldorf Aston, i
each estimated to have $125, 900, 000.I
Every cent OF Rockeieller's money has
been made within a few years in Stan
dard oil. He originated the pipe lines
for petroleum. He began life as news
paper reporter, and when the happy
thought OF doing something in oils struck
him ne was the keeper OF small store
in Cleveland, o.
The Rothschilds of Europe are together
worth nearly billion dollars, but there
are so many OF them that no individual
has over $40,000,0O0 The Vanderbilt
properties are now valued at $3.50, 000.-
600: but held in SO few hands that,
OF the younger generation, Cornelius
has $4,000, 900 and William X. SO 900, Il
coo.
The United States is the richest coun-
try in the world, and contains more mill
lionaires than probably all the nations
ofEurope together We are not the most
wealthy per capita OF the population,
however. Australia has that distinction
But there are numerous American citl-
zens, plain or otherwise, according TO the
degree OF snobbery to which they are IN
clined, who are richer than any monarch
OF Europe, Queen Victoria herself not
excepted, and she is the richest ruler in
the world.
Jay Gould, the strange, silent man OF
iron, heaps up wealth with as much De-
termination as he did when he began
life as partner in a sawmill that snort
" became bankrupt, causing Mr.. Gould's
partner to commit suicide. Jay Gould
is already worth 500 100000, but it is
his ambition to become the richest mani
in the world. For this he tolls on day
by day, and there is every reason 10 be-
lieve bis modest ambition will be real
lied if he lives long enough. The rich
est man OF modern times, perhaps OF
any times, was William II. Vanderbilt,
whose possessions amounted to $3.50, 00G,-
900.
The Astors' estate is in lands and real-
ties. They draw their rents. Their
estate is the oldest great one in America,
and perhaps managed in the most con-
sentative way. "0nly an earthquake
devasting Manhattan Island could wipe
it out" Coils P. Huntington, down in
the list at $40, 900, 900, was the son of a
small farmer in Connecticut. He began
life as a peddler OF Yankee clocks and
then went to California when the gold
fever broke out.
Many of these millionaires have done
good with their money. They have Gull
tivated and refined the taste Of Ameri-
cans by bringing into the country noble
works of art. They have also improved
American live stock to an Unreasonable
extent The Jersey cattle, blooded
sheep and turf horses, as well as the
magnificent Clyde and Percheron horses
owe their general distribution over the
United States largely to the interest
American rich men have taken in inn
proved live stock. Let us give them
their due.
Among persons in The Worlds list
worth So 100000 or over are two preach
ers, Rev. Charles Hoffman, and Rev
Dean Hoffman, who have $4,000
each. Here is the list of those who have
as much as $l0,000,000 or more: