The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-05-17


 The soldiers other "Glory,"
 God bless the Yankee girl!
 --Lu E. Cake. THE WORLDS RICHEST MEN.
 Where They Are Found and What Sort Of Persons They Are,
 An American author is, it is stated, about to publish sort of golden book of the aristocracy of wealth. At | the price of G250, or some such figure, a | work is to be issued-by subscription, we presume-which will contain full and particular account of all the mill l lionaires of the world beginning with ] the Rothschilds, and going down, we | suppose, to the petite noblesse of trade I and finance-persons like the late MT. Lea, of Worcester sauce fame, whose | will of over a million sterling was I proved last week. Unquestionably, | book of the kind we have indicated I should prove very curious and interest," l ing reading. It would probably show | the world that it's rich men are not. as
 is often supposed, confined to few
 areas, but are scattered about in all the I five continents, and appear also in | places which are generally supposed
 not contain examples of the species. I For example, Germany, is not general l ly regarded as land of rich men, and
 yet the golden book should have a very
 large section devoted to Germany and Austria Hungary. It is true that most of the names would have prince before them, but being of royal blood does not
 alter the fact of wealth. Without
 counting the private properties of the sovereigns, who ought not to be in
 cluded, there are dozen or so Tueton- ic highnesses whose wealth, not merely In lands but in money, is enormous For example, that of the father of the present Prince of Bulgaria was counted by many millions sterling. Many of the dethroned monarchs, again, are very l rich, for roi en exil has ceased to be a
 synonym for poverty, No one of course
 knows the exact wealth of the Orleans family, but it is very great and even I the Bourbons are well off Don Carlos, in spite of the money he has spent on Spanish and other adventures, is a
 millionaire. The Russian Empire would
 also make a good show, for although
 the great landed proprietors have suf- fered of late years, many of the mer-
 chants and f1nanciers have done ex-
 ceedingly well. If rumor is to be trust
 ed, some of the officials are also very
 rich. Fabulous sums are attributed to
 one in particular. The millionaires of
 Africa would we suppose, be confined
 to Kimberly and the Rand, but possibly
 there are some large fortunes in Cairo
 among the Levantine colony. Asia will l 1~I. nto1
 In the American golden Look.
 It is true that in the Turkish and
 Persian Empires millionaires are never
 long-lived. and this fact tends to their
 non- existence; but for all that, some of
 the Smyrna Greeks and Damascus
 Jews ought to be able to gain admis-
 sion. India, on the other hand, if the native princes who do not possess sov- eign rights are counted, as they must
 be, contains @ great number of ex-
 tremely rich men. Not only are there
 merchants in the great cities who are worth several millions in personal property, but there are also four or five great ZeminGars who have incomes , which represent the interest on two or
 three millions sterling. The reaction against thinking of India as place of wealth has, in fact, been carried too far and we are apt to forget that princely 7 fortunes are still made and kept there
 The truth about the Chinese fortunes would be most curious if it could be [ discovered. Unfortunately, it is the l land of the pto-millionaires, of the men who live in little low houses and , hoard gold ingots in the shape of Na-
 ples biscuits. It is known, however , that the Empress-Dowager is among , the richest, If not the richest person alive; while Lii Hung Chang, unless he has lately been plundered, which is un- likely, must also have vast wealth Outside China the Chinese are often
 very rich, and dare to show theil
 wealth. For example, it is always said and as far as we know with truth, that several of the Chinese merchants oi ) Singapore are men of enormous riches With the American millionaire it is 3 hardly necessary to deal. What place is not full of the report of his dollars
 It should, however, be noted thai r though one or two of the American I fortunes are beyond the dreams oi , avarice, the number of warm men, is in proportion to population not so great as it is here. There are, that is, not SC . many great, but far more small mil lionaires in England. The man who
 reaches the five million dollars is apt
 either to lose it all again, or else tc
 turn it into fifty or a hundred million dollars. Spanish South America is not
 as rule, regarded as place for rict
 men, yet as a matter of fact, Chile Mexico, Brazil, and the Argentine have all within the last thirty years produc. ed fortunes on the great scale, and not very long about the greatest heiress ir the world was said to be the only daughter of South American million aire.
 We have written thus of the million aire without apology, acting on the as Q sumption that he and his millions ar, of universal interest to the world Int
 tact, indeed, is so plain as to need ns