The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-24
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Statistics From Fortunes LEFT In Ten
Year, by 1000 Persons.

Statistics From Fortunes LEFT In Ten
Years by 1000 Persons.
An interesting table has recently
been compiled which gives the fortunes
left during the past decade by loo
persons engaged In 10 Of the most lu.
crative businesses and professions OF
Great Britain.
Art and literature are entirely ex-
cluded from the list, m the learned
professions. law and medicine. are
placed at the bottom. while music and
the drama are conspicuous by their
absence.
1t appears that during the last 10
years 80 foreign bankers and mer-
chants have left behind them f19,47S.-
0S5, or h comfortable average OF
E512,578 each.
Coal owners, iron masters and en-
gineers to the number of ITO died pos
sessed OF the the respectable sum OF
G240.4S7 apiece.
Money lenders run Goa owners very
close. for 80 of them died worth coll
lectively E19. 444.s7S; while the 1873 man
ufacturers only possessed E240,4s'
apiece.
The rank and file of the brewing
trade are comparatively poor; ll9 OF
them only left f19.94s.S5I, but three
hfths of this was owned by seven in
dividuals.
Newspaper proprietors, printers. pub
fishers and news agents to the number
of 100 died possessed of E1o9.62 a head.
The earnings of stockholders are not
SO large as Is generally supposed. at
all events 81 members Of the Stock Elk
change only left the moderate per-
~sonality of fs.037.5 $50.
Wine and spirit merchants and dis
tillers to the number of 1o3 died pos
sessed Of nearly f50.000 each. while
101 judges. barristers n solicitors had
collectively accumulated GS.51S.22I.
The 81 wealthy physicians and sur
geons only left e3,S91,l51.
Artists. actors and men of letters
do not leave sufficient. even the
wealthiest OF them" says the statis-
tician naively. Ito be brought within
the purview of the compiler Oh great
personalities"
The moral OF it all Is that what we
are pleased to term brains Is the
least lucrative Of all h accomplish
| ments, unless the owner also possess
es what Is known as commercial aoi-
ity."
The ability to make money as a
general rule Is unaccompanied with
any form of talent.
The late w. II. Smith made G1, 1oo,-
900 out Of selling newspapers, ana IL
Is questionable IL there Is a journal
| list in the worth ESQ., 900 made out OF
writing for papers
N he makes $1,000 a year he Is sue
| cessful: IL he earns G1.50o he is In
the front rank. while IL he receives an
income of $4,000 he Is among the half
| dozen lucky ones of the profession. ,
A capital of $40 j~udiciously invested
in fish, greens or secondhand clothes,
providing the neighborhood is a SUIT
able one. will bring In Its owner a GER
tain ESQ per annum after all expenses
| proyiding thrift Is practiced for a rev
| wears. of a frst-class shop and an IN
| come running into Ave figures. =,
Take London. for instance. Tnere Is
scarcely a shopkeeper in sloane street,
| Bond street, Piccadilly. Regent streee,
or oxford street who is In receipt OF
less thar e2.50O0 a year. while there
| are more In these localities In receipt
Of eco. 900 and upward than there are
Journalists and artists Earning ii'VVo
per annum. -
Noyelists and artists at the tiptor
Of their profession certainly make
money. but their recompense for leav'
Ing a legacy of beauty for the perpet-
uai enjoyment of mankind Is not to
he measured with that OF shopkeep-
ers.
artist of the day. was a rich man, ye,
he only accumulated &loo,ooV agains'
An average of G211.450 made by the
disciples of the profession or whicI
John Kirkwood was SO distinguished
an ornament. .,.r
One hears a great deal OF the mgr
.alaries of members of the
profession, yet last year out OF u.
TO- 600 bona fde actors AND ac,,esse,
in Great Britain LOIS were reheVee
nv the Actors Benevolent fund. AM
iess thai 100 were steadily earnint
81 ooo a wear and upward, 50 tht
snces are hat one thespian out OF
every 10 will have to solicit charity.