The age-herald., 1899-08-01
THE RICHES OF
 MARK HANNA
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as the iron ore which yielded it, and ir- vested so as to realize per cent, Senator Mark Hanna is out of business.
 His income from the properties as in- vested will undoubtedly be sufficient to rTovide him with all tine luxuries he may wish to indulge-presidents, governors, national convention delegates and senator ships-as the following figures will show:
 Hanna's fortune Conservative estlmate), $5OO0,OOO.
 Interest at per cent will yield: Yearly. $4Oo,o0O; monthly. $S3 SSS; weekly, $7e92; daily. a.15 cents per second.
 These figures were obtained from persons who know about MT. Hanna's money af- fairs. They show that MT. Hanna has im- proved his opportunity, even while he has been manipulating the politics of the eoun- try.
 When he first came up out of his zinc and coal mines, grimy with the dust and profit of S5 years hard work, to become the boss of the republican party and sponsor for Mir. Mckinley, he was worth about $2,0O0,0O0. That was a scant four years ago. His fortune has subsequently, more than doubled in those four years, and he can well afford to retire with the assurance uisat he will not have to cut prices for del- egates to the convention of 1900, as they say ne did in 1896.
 Aside from the dividends from his hold ings in iron, steel coal, shipping and Span- ish-American Investments, in which he is interested. MT. Hanna has pretty nearly everything man can want to make life less irksome than poor men usually find it. He has never been much of an idler or man of leisure His persistent and unre- ientbng chase for the dollar, a desire to best his competitors in trade, has left him but little time to establish a reputation as "a good fellow" or social leader.
 Yet, MT. Hanna has the means to gratify such tastes, did he possess them. Here are some of his means of enjoyment:
 A house on Lake avenue, in this city.
 A winter house at Thomasville, Ga.
 A steam yacht that can steam twenty-one knots an hour.
 A ceok he pays $6,000 a year.
 Pictures selected with rare taste that would bring $1000O0 of any connoisseur's money.
 stable of racing trotters that his son drives.
 A family to whom he Is a bigger man than the president.
 Yet MT. Hanna's greatest interest in life is purely political, of the practical value. Persons who have known him ever since he tramped into Cleveland from Lisbon, Columbiana county, where he was born. say he always liked power. Those persons who are not enemies or angry at him for wrongs, real or fancied, speak of him with a pronounced sense of pride. Always brusque of manner and brutally candid of speech, they say he was, but back of all his seeming disregard for the feelings of his fellow men and the justice of their claims, they say his impulses were of the best.
 He was money maker, pure and simple, but there are any number of stories told by his friends which make the claim for him tho qualities of a man not only possessed of generous instances, but of true philan- thropy.
 Once he shocked most of the good people of Cleveland by refusing to help a man who was deemed worthy
 That man." he said, lis a - rascal"
 few months later his estimate of the persons character was justified by a con- viction for swindling.
 Another instance of his shrewdness is re- called in the case of an aspiring politician who wanted to run for mayor and invoked his support.
 No. John, won't help you" he said. because people say you are dishonest"
 'Who says SOY" demanded the aspirant.
 MT. Hanna told him the names of sev- eral men who made the charge, and said: You sue those people for islander and li- bel, disprove the charge and I'll help you."
 The suit was never brought and the man is still in private life.
 Most of the accusations against MT. Hanna are said by his friends to have been inspired by his business rivals.
 His friendship for Mckinley dates to the latter's companionship of the miners cases in Carroll county. MT. Mckinley de- tended the cause of the miners. MT. Hanna told his friends afterward that MT. Mckinley had "a good heart and good purpose"
 When MT. Mckinley showed his incapa- bility for business by getting hoc:.c5sly into debt Mr. Hanna came to the fraSt, and with Myron Herrick. former Secre. tary of State Day and Y. H. Kohlsaat, strengthened out the tangie which in- volved the payment of slo7OOo obligations. with $12,0O0 as McKinley's only assets. Mckinley is great man, but he doesn't know anything about finances" was the way Hanna eharaHerized the difficulty.
 "oh. well," he aid later, when asked how the problem was solved, i've finan- ciered him out of it." And to this day MT. Hanna has refused to tell how much this feat of financiering cost him and the other trustees" of McKinley's estate, neither will he affirm nor deny whether the "syndicate' scaled the claims 20 per cent. as has been stated
 It is urged by MT. Hanna's friends that there has never been a strike for which he was responsible in any of the proper ties in which he is interested.
 His friends, including President McFlin- ley; have long urged him to retire from active business, and his Illness last winter convinced him that he could well afford to retire at 62. It is announced that he will retain his holdings in the industrial enter prises of Cleveland and his coal interests.
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