San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-11-20
MILLIoNAIREs OF NEW YORK.
Gentlemen Who Could Easily Make
the City Reform Movement
Successful.

Gentlemen Who Could Easily Make
the City Reform Movement
Successful.
From the New York World.
New YORK, Nov. 15.-This city, be-
sides being o great center of vice and
misery, of poverty and privatlon, OF
sin in it's direst forms, Is also place
where millionsires may be mustered
by the scoro. The banks of the me-
tropolis will, in an instant, honor
checks, with six or seven digits on
them if only the proper names be at
the bottom of the checks, and there
are no lack of men who can draw such
checks If the spirit moves them so to
do.
Take fingers and thumbs of both
hands and assign millionaire to each,
and there Is group enough to provide
all the most daring philanthropist, be
he minister or un believer, could spend
in lifetime.
Start with the Vanderbilts, William
X. and Cornelius, brothers in blood
and associates in many good works.
They are already liberal givers, but
they have been also most literally
treated by the great public. They
have drawn their millions from the
purses of the people, and to these
people, under benificent policy, it
should return. A great public park
placed in the center of a crowded ten
ement section, bought and paid for by
the liberality of q Vanderbilt, would
give the name an endurance which no
heap of stocks and bonds will ever
confer.
Another twain is made up of the
two Astors, William b. and w. w.
branches from common stock. For
generations now the necessities Of the
people of this city for room and shell
ter have helped to swell the rent-roll
OF this representative family of land
lords. One group of public thinkers,
the single tax advocates, would have
made the family long since the great
reservoir of tax money, but the patient
public has gone on paying until now
the available wealth of the Astor
family is up to point which not one
In thousand can ever conceive. The
figures jingle along, but to sit down
and imagine just what heap of cash
it is passes beyond the ability of the
average citizen. Well, the wealth Is
there, and the question now is wheth-
or the holders of that enormous fund
of good are willing to dole it out with
a liberal hand to the project pointed
out by the observing pastors and
students of the city's wretchedness.
Another couple of millionaire who
have drawn millions of dollars from
millions of people and might pay
some of 1t back are the Rockefellers,
John d. and William, two men who
have drawn great draughts from the
breast of mother earth, and who now
have piled up wealth until one of
them in sworn testimony declared he
could not estimate his property with
in dozen millions. A man who can
give check for such a gift as So o0,-
900 to the Chicago University, as did
John d. Rockefeller, can do q great
deal more when the proper provoca.
tion is provided. $3.50
Keeping in the shadow of the Stock
Exchange it is easy to pick up mil
lionsires. Take four at random to
make up the list of ten. J. Pierpont
Morgan looks from his window right
opposite the Exchange. AS o member
of Drexel, Morgan & Co, he has been
concerned in the carrying through of
the largest financial deals of the cen.
fury. He is q man who can, if he
will, lead long line of givers.
Russell Sage is reputed as being q
cash carrier. He believes in the
nimble sixpence policy, and while it
is true that he has always heap of
wealth by his side, it Is not allowed
to rust for want of use, and is a pile
which is constantly growing.
Jay Gould naturally comes to the
mind when Russell Sage is men.
toned. The have been fellows in
many financial furry, and generally
manage to come out at TIE right end
of the horn of plenty.
Close up the list with man who
has been an aggressive gatheTer Of
gold for years, q pioneer into new ter.
ritory, who has made his millions by
greater service 20 the people than
some of the others named, and with.
10 some respects, more sympathetic
touch in matters concerning common,
everyday people-COllis P. Hunting
ton, of transcOntinental railroad fame.
Now make a table of what these
men might do if they would. They
might draw deep into their strong
boxes, pass out millions for charity,
carrying through vast projects OF
good, and yet leave millions upon
millions in those same strong boxes.
Here is q roughly estimated list, esti-
mated perforce in a field where those
whose names are given confess that
they cannot give exact figures:
John d. Rockefeller $40, 900 COG
w. w. Astor. ............. 125, 900, OOC
w. B. Astor. ............. 10000 ,0Ot
Cornelius Vanderbilt. 900. 10000, O0C
Jay Gould. .............. 10000, 00C
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