Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-23

Jay Gould, is another man whose wealth is
thought to be less than ii really is Sage
has more money perhaps within cali than
any other man in this country, for the SIM
pie reason that his wealth is mostly in act
ual money rather than stocks, bonds and
real estate. He is a money broker pure
and simple the pawn broker of Wall
street, who wakes fat by loaning money to
spectators. upon gilt-edge security and at
a big interest. These are all short call
loans, and SO the money is constantly 60
ing and coming in Sages offices. The re-
SUIT is tnat he can command more money
at short notice than any other financier
simply by calling in his loans that are out
This is why Russell Sage is now considered
TO be worth at least s7J.0O0000 in cash.
Henry Hilton, who inherited most of the
wealth Of the great merchant, A. T. Stew
art. Is q constant victim Of the wild calcu-
iator. There are dozens Of estimates OF his
wealth. The best authorities put It at
$4O.OOO.OOO. Some time before his death
Mr.. Stewart gave the value of his estate as
s6o,0OO,0OO. Mr.. Hilton has most of this
estate with the exception of the wife's por-
ton. the money paid to legatees and the
funds which built the cathedral in which
A. =. Stewards bones are supposed to be
resting since their alleged recovery from
the gang that stole them many years ago.
The revenue of the great Stewart estate
has constantly added to the original sum
bequeathed to Judge Hilton, though to be
sure he has been put to heavy expense In
defending the will Of his friend and bene-
factor.
A Very Wealthy Woman.
A woman whose wealth has long been the
subject of discussion is Hetty Green. a ia
wealth and has steadily added to it by
shrewd investments She is not worth the
So, 900, 600 or the 800 OO0. 600 with which she
is credited, but in Wall street she is rated as
being worth $4,000 900. Her taxes Indicate
that she has in Chicago alone s12,0O000o
worth OF real estate. but the bulk of her
wealth is invested in New York and other
eastern cities.
One never hears of the sons of August
Belmont in the list OF very rich men, and
yet their wealth is much greater than many
of the men who are so named. They still
represent the Rothschilds in this country,
and their wealth is not Ear below $4,000, 600.
c. P. Huntington and ID. o. Mills. who are
old '49ers, are overlooked by calculators
generally, and when they are named are
held to be richer than they really are. An
estimate made by several men who know
the weight of a million dollars indicates
that Mr.. Mills is worth near s40,000.000 and
Mr.. Huntington not much less.
Levi p. Morton, eX-Nice President, is
another man about whose wealth many con.
Trajectory stories are told. His wealth has
been exaggerated grossly. Some persons
have put Ii down at as much as 100000
and s15.000.OOO His friends say his wealth
will not reach $4,000. 600, and he is probably
not worth more than $4,000 600
The men who married into the Vanderbilt
family are all rich men in their own right
but their connection with the Vanderbilts
has led many persons to think them more
wealthy than they are probably, because
the fortunes left to the daughters are usu-
ally added to those of their husbands. OF
| these sons-in-law of Vanderbilt, VIM sloane
is worth $20000,0O0, as estimated by good
authorities, Independent Of his wife
DIR. Seward Webb and II. NICK Twomb-
ley, who also married Vanderbilts are worth
in the neighborhood of 100000, indie
pendent of what Vanderbilt left to eacn of
his daughters.
Many men are constantly passing the
million dollar mark, and so IL has come
about that a man who can only boast of
one or two million is not looked up to to
any great extent The result has been a
disposition TO exaggerate on the part of
newspaper calculations and the story of a
mans wealth Increases the total every
| time it is told.
As a matter of fact there are any number
of men who are daily figuring in the news
papers as millionaires who would cheer
fully dispose of every hope they have of
ever owning a million dollars for a couple
of hundred thousand cash. They would
not need urging at that.
A Conservative Estimate.
But to sum up: Here are the names of
some very rich people and a conservative
estimate Of what they are really worth to-
day: