The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-10-10
AS OTHERS SEE US.
A French Account OF Certain American
Millionaires.

Millonaires.
The founder of the colossal fortune,
portion of which comes to France
with the new Countess de Castellane,
died about two years ago. lie was
prodigious speculator, a financier for
whom speculation was a perfect bat
tie. We refer to Jay Gould, the man
who left, in addition to his gigantic |
fortune. an imperishable souvenir in
the financial history of North America
His name is legendary in the bourse
of New York. where they still remem-
Der him as he sat in his office upon one
of the arms of his chair-his favorite
position-sending and receiving hum
dreds of dispatches during the BUSH
ness hours. He commanded perfect
army of brokers and agents. Two
hundred Intermediates operated con-
stantly for him, unknown to each
other, and his Office was connected di-
rectly by special telegraph lines with
twenty -five offices of brokers.
His habits were remarkably simple
and sober He never touched alcohol
in any shape and never smoked. Jay
Gould only knew one fashion-specula-
ton.
The fortunes of the Vanderbilts, Of
the Mackays, of the BENEFITS and OF
the Astors are well known to our
readers and it is not necessary to FefS-v
to them. We prefer to mention few
other milli0naires less popular who are
still! in the world of finance.
First we have Mr.. Russell Sage who
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Anna Gould and who four years ago
was the hero of an extraordinary adj
venture. 1t was upon him that an
anarchist named Lord called and de-
manded one million dollars under the
penalty of an explosion. Mr.. Russell
Sage having refused to comply with
the demand, Lord did just as he said
he would do He threw the bomb up
on the floor of the Office of the Amer
lean banker, but that machine, intel
hgent for once, only killed the an
archist.
Mr. Russell Sage is not only one OF
the richest bankers of New York-he
is worth two hundred and fifty mil
lion dollarS-but he is also the one who
has always on hand the most ready
money.
After having been one Of the great
est spectators of Hall (sic) street (thi
bourse of New York;, he at length con
fined his operations entirely to dis
counting notes, and i'll order to be ablt
to meet all sorts of sventualities HI
has always on hand running account
of considerable sums. Mr.. Sage cal
at any moment draw his check TO
fifty million dollars. He was for
long time closely connected with tn
; affairs of Jay Gould.
: Beside Mr.. Sage stands Col Hunt
ington, who is also worth two hundre'
r and fifty million dollars. He is tn
son of farmer, formerly farm hand
D and he commenced his fortune in specu
lations in American clocks. He is nov
/ one of the railroad kings and is also
l teetotaler, drinking nothing but tea.
The other great spectators, with n
more than from fifty million dollars t
+ one hundred million dollars, are Mr.
Dtcd u5o 4EO-T'ess IIIcfIy Ut;ea site
V in one of the churches of New Yor-
and very atfable and very charitable
= Mr.. John D. Slaybach, who one da
lost more than million because h
3 left his Office to attend religious lee
p ture; Mr. II. Victor Newcomo, a youn
i. man who was known as "the boy pres
dent" at the time when, before he wa
of age, he was president of railroa
company; Mr.. d. o. Mills, etc.
All of them operate on a giganti
scale. To give only one example, w
NAV mention that Mr. - V Whita SON,
/ years ago made ten million five hun
dred thousand dollars in two days GU
of one speculation.
Most of these fnanciers are ais
church members. The piety of MI
Sage is especially exemplary But h
has one passion, nevertheless, ana tina
is for horses. His trotters are re
nowned in New York Paris Figaro.
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