The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-01-29
PRICE 5 CENTS.
AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.
LIST OF Persons in the United
States Estimated to be
Worth Ten Mil
lion Dollars.

list of Americans who are worth IS, OOO,-
| 600 or over. The list is long one and
the World informs us that there are a
thousand persons in America who are
worth 81 100000 or more. The richest
individual in Europe is the Duke of
Westminster, whose fortune is $4,000
900. 1t is the inherited accommodations
of centuries of an entailed estate. The
richest men in America are John ID.
Rockefeller and William Waldorf Astor,
each estimated to have $125. Zoo, 900.
Every cent of Rockefeller's money has
been made within 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 he 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 SAC, OO0, 900. The Vanderbilt
properties are now valued at $3.50, 000.-
600; but held in so few hands that,
of the younger generation, Cornelius
has $50, 000, 900 and William X. SIS ,OO0,-
600.
The United States is the richest coun-
try in the world, and contains more mil
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 citi-
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 a partner in a sawmill that short
ly became bankrupt, causing Mr.. Gould's
partner to commit suicide. Jay Gould
is already worth 500, 000, 900, but it is
in the world. For this he tolls on day
by day, and there is every reason to be-
lieve his modest ambition will be real
lied if he lives long enough. The rich
est man of modern times, perhaps of
tiulCS, Was w
whose possessions amounted to $3.50 ,000,-
600.
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. "Only an earthquake
devasting Manhattan Island could wipe
it out" Coils P. Huntington, down in
the list at $40 600 900, was the son of a
small farmer in Connecticut. He began
life as 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 cul-
tiyated and refined the taste vi 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 ,000, 900 or over are two preach.
ers, Rev. Charles Hoffman, and Rev
Dean Hoffman, who have 100000
each. Here is the list Of those who have
as much as $40 900 900 or more: