Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1891-01-22
OUR MILLIONAIREs.
Some American Citizens Who Have More
Than Their Share CT Filthy Lucre.
More MiIlionaires in the United States Than
in All the Countries of Europe.

in All the Countries of Europe.
The New York World has published
a list of Americans who are worth
81, 900, 900 or over. The list is lonl
one, and the World informs us that
there are thousand persons in Amer
lea who are worth 81 ,OOO, 900 or more
The richest individual in Europe is the
Duke of Westminster, whose fortunei is
cumulation of centuries of an entaiIed
estate. The richest men in America
are John ID. Rockefeller and William
Waldorf Astor, each estimated to have
1926, 100000. Every cent OF Rocke.
feller's money has been made within a
few years in standard oil. He origin
ated the pipe lines for petroleum. He
began life as a newspaper reporter.
and when the happy thought OF doing
something in oils struck him he was
the keeper OF a small store in Cleveland,
Ohio.
The Rothschilds of Europe are to-
gether worth nearly billion dollars,
but there are SO many OF them that no
individual has over S40,OOO,OOO. The
Vanderbilt properties are valued at
S25O,OOO, 900, but held in so few
hands that of the younger generation
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lam K. S75, 100000.
The United States is the richest
country i'll the world and contains
more millionaires than probably all
the nations OF Europe together. We
are not the most wealthy per capita
OF population, however. Australia
has that distinction. But there are
numerous American citizens, plain or
otherwise, according to the degree OF
snobbery to which they are inclined,
who are richer than any monarch OF
Europe, Queen Victoria herself not ex-
cepted, and she is the richest ruler in
the world.
Jay Gould, the strange, silent man
of iron, heaps up wealth with as much
determination as he did when he began
life as partner in a saw mill that
shortly became bankrupt, causing Mr.
Gould's partner to commit suicide.
Jay Gould is already worth $780,
900, 900, but it is his ambition to be-
come the richest man in the world.
For this he tolls on day by day, and
there is every reason to believe his
modest ambition will be realized if he
lives long enough. The richest man OF
modern times, perhaps OF any time,
was William II. Vanderbilt, whose
possessions amounted to $160,000,-
900.
The Astors7 estate is in lands and
realities. They draw their rents. The
estate is the Oldest great one in Amer
lea, and perhaps managed in the most
conservative way. "Only an earth
quake devastating Manhattan island
could wipe it out" Coils p. Hunting
ton, down in the list at $4,000, 900,
was the son ora small farmer IN Con-
necticut. He began life as a peddler oi
Yankee clocks, and then went to Cali
fornia when the gold fever broke out.
Many of these millionaires havedone
good with their money. They have
cultivated and refined the taste oil
Americans by bringing into the coun-
try noble works of art. They have
also improved American live stock to
an immeasureable extent. The Jersey
cattle, blooded sheep and turf horses,
as well as the magnificent Clyde and
Percheron horses owe their general dis
tribution over the United States largely
to the interest American rich men
have taken in improved live stock.
Let us give them their due.
Among persons in the Worlds list
worth S5,OOO,O00 o: over are two
preachers, Rev. Charles Hoffman and
Rev. Dean Hoffman, who have So ,0O0,-
900 each. Here is the list OF those
who have as much as SlO,OO0,O0O or
more: