The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-02-09
Many Kings, and All OF Great
Power, Too
OCCUPY TRADERS THRONES
Modern Milioaaires With Eyentfnl and
Romantic Careers
Luck, Pluck, Energy, Tact, Perseverance, as
- Factors in Making lien Rich-Rise Of
Sausage Peidier

This is an era of kings. Not the
empty-headed, weakened, extrava-
ganza type which desscrates some of the
thrones of Europe, but the sterling
kind which rules IN the world OF in
dustry.
This country is supposed to have no
kings, and it has none in the European
sense. But OF late years each branch
of commerce has developed some ex-
traordinary character who has risen so
far above all others, rivals and com
petitors, that he is universally &C.
knowledged to be the king. TO DO the
king of his own branch of industry is
the ambition of numberless men.
Some OF them, in trying to achieve it,
wreck mind, body and fortune, but
there mishaps never dismay the others,
and the race goes merrily On.
Who are the kings of today? A
glance at this list tells the story, and
gives good idea Of the composition of
Uncle Sans royal family:
Theodore A. Havemeyer, sugar king,
$60,000,000.
Anthony n. Brady, gas king, s3O,000,-
O0O
Philip D. Armour, beef king, $4,000
Coo
Cornelius Vanderbilt, railroad
king, $1O0.OO0,GOO.
John W. Mgckay, silver king, $780,
100000.
Andrew Carnegie, steel king. $6o,01O,-
600.
]. Pierpont Morgan, money king, $50
John d. Rockefeller, oil king, $780,
100000
Henry Miller, cattle king, $35,000,000
w. s. Strattop, gold king, $50 900 600
Mrs. Richard King, land queen, $685.
100000.
This list, of course, does not cover
all of the kings and queens, but it in
clu6es the great leaders and the most
august powers. And the powers of
thsse men are not small.
It is the power CT money,and the kings
and queens of Europe have had to low
i,.e,r naughty heads in acknowledge
ment Of its Satent influence more than
once. The Rothscihitfi = gould tell some
interesting stories, if they woIta. about
that. Even Bism arcs, the man CT fSSD,
in the days of his strongest power, HAD
to kuuckle down when one of the
Roth9childs threatened to break every
bank in Berlin unless he relinquished
acherished plan. Bismarck preserved
the financial integrity Of the empire by
doing as he was bid. So the power OF
money is, in times of emergency,
greater than the power of kings.
With three exceptions, the CONNER
cill kings above named created their
own kingdoms.
In one or two instances, bare-faced,
baid-headed luck aided in the building
OF the fortressss OF wealth. But in the
majority Of cases tireless work and
ceaseless industry were the potent
factors. These men are living illustra-
tions of the stories told in Sunday
school books and in literature pre-
pared for good little boys.
AN EX-SAUsAGE PEDDLER
Take the case OF Henry Miller, the
cattle king, for instance. Very little
is known of him, except on the Pacific
slope. East OF the Mississippi few
have ever heard Of him. Yet, he owns
$4,000 square miles CT grazing land,
and hogs and cattle by the tens OF
thousands. How much he is worth il
is hard to say. He never has much
ready money. AS fast as money comes
in he buys more land, and mora cattle
to craze in it. land and cattle are q
mania with him. He buys more land
to raiee more cattle, and he raises more
cattle to buy more land.
Forty years ago he was a sausage
peddler. Miller is not exactly a fitting
character for Suuday-school story
He swears prodigiously, fights all the
time, and some of his money making
methods ara open to question. But
the hundreds of rough men in his en-
ploy have sort of admiration for him
A visitor to one of the Miller ranches
gives this explanation of it:
s.The cowboys were yelling and tbs
smoking brands were soaring the hail
from the tanks Of the Miller stock, and
there was all the noise and dirt and
heat and evil smell Of branding rodoo
Active among the men, swearing NOR;
than any of them and dirtier than the
most, was q thick-set chap whose oaths
came with a strong German accent
This was Henry Miller, owner OF al
the cattle and all the land in sight and
a hundred times more land.
"Another working, sweating, swear
ing man was Crocker, manager of thf
ranch. Crocker mad branding iron il
his hand, and he WAS about to apply il
to the Il .nk of a believing calf. Al
him rushed Miller and grabbed hiu
roughly by the shoulder. You ----
------!" (the blanks stand for the Ian
Ruaze which the cattlemen hear moro
than any other on the ranEe). 'Yor