New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-29
AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.
THE LIST FOX NEW-YORK CITY
,vEs OF BUSINESS IN WHICH GREAT
WEALTH Is ACQUIRED.

,rxI1 INSTALMENT OF THE TRIBUNE's EXHIBIT
THE FINANCIAL CENTRE OF THE UNITED
STATES CLEARLY INDICATED BY THE
NUMBER OF ITS CITIZENS OF GREAT
FoRTUNE--THE TARIFF HAS
LITTLE TO DO WITH THE
WEALTH OF TIE
METROPOLIS.
Copyright. 1892. Bg TIE Tribune Assoc,dnon.
The Tribune submits herewith the statement of
persons reported to lie worth million or more of
property, resident in New-York City. and of the
lines of business in which their fortunes have been
accumulated.
While every effort has been made to compile
a substantially correct exhibit of the facts il is
ouite possible that there are both omissions and
errors This is large town. and nobody here
knows everybody. Among the inheritors Of
nortions of the old farms which have now been
swallowed up by the rapid expansion of the me-
tropos. there many people here living quietly.
not engaged in active business, whose names never
appear on the books of the great Mercantile Agell-
cies. established to report credits Others there
are who spend the larger part of their time abroad
or at country residences There are still other
persons here who have inherited fortunes from
the merchant princes of earlier days in New-l ork
who are known only TO limited circle OF friends
as the possessors of sufficient property TO entitle
them to a place in The Tribunes catalogue.
Another class concerning whom II has been dliil-
cult to obtain complete reports. is composed OF
.uccessful men and the inheritors of fortunes who
began life in other parts of the country ana VINO
have been drawn to New-lor< by the attractions
of the metropolis and have now established
permanent abode in this city. Among these.
and one or two other classes which can be named.
there are possibly few persons reported TO nc
worth million who have been overlooked IN
this compilation The Tribune would be extreme
" pleased if these cases should he reported Tor
insertion in revised list be published hereafter
in pamphlet form; and correspondents are ASKED
particularly to state the " lines Of business ID
which uhe fortunes were originally ac4ulrou'
because that is the point of this whole lnNes'lG-
tion. The source of all information will be re
carded as strictly confidential. No attention vii!
be paid TO anonymous communications.
Nothing could indicate Ncw-lork more clearly
as the financial centre of the United States than
the length of the roll of names presented below
the standing. ability and enterprise of the men
composing it; the multitude of great financial IN
situations they have established; and their enor-
nous investments backed by those of other resi-
dents of the city, in the great railways. the In
dustries commerce. and natural resources of the
United States at large.
An asterisk in front of any name below ihdlcaVs
that the fortune was made mainly, if not wholly
in an industry protected by the tariff. Two aster-
isks indicate doubt as TO whether the tarlii
operated materially in the accumulation OF the
fortune.
revision of the lists for all the States Will
now be undertaken. with the aid Of the corrections
which many friends have been kind enough 10
make and those received during the coming week
1t will then be reprinted in pamphlet forlA Some
observations will then be published as to the
public ivsons derived from this compilation
The list is protected by copyright. and all rsh'S
reserved