The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-24

WhoNfve in the Old WOrld-COllOssal
Fortunes, Compared to Which
American Wealth Is Insignificant.

WhoNfTe in the Old WOrld-COl1Ossal
Fortunes, Compared to which
American Wealth IL Insigniflcant.
The death of the Russian Privy Council
or, Theodore Bazilewski, serves to recah
how very little is known in this country, or
even in England, of the existence In the
Old World Of milionaires beside whose
wealth even that of the Goulds, the RocKe-
fellers, the Vanderbilts and the As0ors
sinks into comparative insignificance.
True, it is wealth that Is not so extensively
advertised in the public press as that OF
the great American millionaires and hence
Is but little heard of outside their own
country.
But yet doubt if there is any American
or English millionaire whose riches are SO
boundless as for instance, those of M. Baz-
ilewski, says the New York Recorder. his
fortune was simply incalculabie, ana MS
gold mines in Siberia, which have been In
his family for genera tons, and are famous
for the richness of their ore, constitute
only a portion of the estate that he has
left to his brother, each of his four sisters
receiving huge legacies, and nothing being
left to his divorced wife, who was the
cause of such a sensational law suit at ST.
Petersburg and Paris some fifteen years
ago. Most of the large sturgeon fisheries
in Russia belonged to him, and his estates
in Orenburg and Smolenski are of the size
of kingdoms
1t was he, by the bye, who built for his
wife the palace at Paris which is now the
property and residence of Queen Isabella
of SPAIN and which used to be known as
the Palais Bazilewski. When he separated
from his wife he sold 1t.
Equally inexhaustible and incalculable is
the wealth of the Demidoffs, which also
consists in great part of mining property
this house enjoying almost the monopoly
of mala chite and lapis lazuli, besides pos
sessing gold and silver mines in Russia OF
great richness.
Then, too, there are the Yousoupons who
control almost the entire output of tur-
quoise in the world, this, however, Delng
merely an incidental feature Of the
of the princess, who is now the sole heiress
of the property Her husband who has
been permitted by the car to assume her
generation from Philadelphia named Ell,
ton, who entered the service of Car Paul
at the close of the last century.
Little is known in this country OF the ex-
tent of the wealth Of the late Archduke
Albert whose estates comprise goodly
portion of the entire empire, ard VINO own
manmfactories and Industrial estab lsh-
ments in the dominion of his nephew, En-
mai Of the RUSSIAN arch millionaires whose
names l have just quoted above, IL IS Iter-
ally impossible to calculate the fortune OF
the archduke with any degree OF precision
since a portion consists Of mining property.
Rut il is known that he left in ready mon
ey a sum amounting to s50O,OoO,Ooo Some OF
this money will go to the queen regent OF
Spain, who is favorite niece OF the old
Similarly incalculable is the fortune Of
the car of Russia. which has been yari-
ously estimated at from $780, wv TO $oVV,
600 600, and the income from which is ABOUT
s2O,ooO,OOo per annum But TINS is proD PROB ny
horne in mind that among the personal
estate Of Emperor Nicholas are huge tracts
Of territory big as IT the iaa1s
which isyet only in the early stages OF de-
Then. too, think Of that Anglo-Hanover-
ian prince who bears the title of the duke
Of Cumberland, and who is the de ture SOW
ereisn Of the duchy of Brunswick Why,
his family plate, his silver and gold dinner
services etc. not by the hundred-Welght,
as ordinary millionaires do, or by the ounce
as do people Of small fortune, put by the
ton and on his last visit to England for a
three months stay, he brought along with
him Just IA tons-long tons at tnat-oI plate
There are some German noblemen, espe-
cially in Silesia, such as the Prince OF
Pless. Prince Puckler and Count Henckel-
Donnersmarck whose revenues exceed even
those of the English Duke of Westminster,
VINO has an ever-lncreasng income OF aEout
ssooo,ooo year, and whose one dread is
DIE IN POORHOUSE.
During the few days that proceeded the
official deposition of Khedive 1Smail, and
after he had received private limitations
from Constantinople of the fate that was
in store for him, long trains of ammuni-
ton wagons loaded with specie and pre-
cious stones made their way across the
desert from Cairo to Suez by night under
strong escort of personal guards of the
khedive. 1t is estimated that he carried
away with him 500, 900, 900 on that accession
that in addition to the property which he
had already intrusted for safe keeping to
various European banks, and in addition
also to the enormous landed estates, which
the Egyptian government subsequently
purchased from him at a cost of $4,000, 900.
And if these figures seem fantastic, let
me merely recall the fact that this fortune
represented the fruits of IS years of cruel
exaction and wholesale confiscation. For
rich in Egypt he was sure to be found
guilty of some imaginary offense that fur
nished pretext for the seizure and abb
Sorption of his property by the khedive.
Nor has any one in this country probably
any idea of the vast wealth that lies con-
cealed in Asia, particularly in India and
China, the reason for this being that ORR
entails have no confidence in banks and
prefer to conceal rather than to boast of
the possession of wealth. AS a general rule,
1t is buried beneath the ground, and the
only evidences thereof that are to be seen
are the jewels which the owners occasion
ally wear and their estates.
Thus l can remember one old Chinaman
VAN Pc, who was Russian consul at Sim
gapore, and who was known to possess in
land alone and in visible property a fortune
to the amount of $780, 600.