The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-17
MlLLIONAIRES OF LONDON
MOSTLY AMERICAN AND. AFRICAN,
AND ARE NOT VERY WELCOME.
Printed and Talked About i'm n Way
That Must BE Decidedly Painful
to Refugees from Publicity.

London Mail.
1--WE are not a rich aristocracy," wrote
Lady Warwick seven years ago. 1--WE are,
many Of us deadly poor. little better than
splendid paupers.''
Are these splendid paupers, long owners
of rural England. and worthy sustainers
of the traditions of noble race. giving
way to American manufacturers. to South
African SPECTATORS. TO German merchant
princes! Our old aristocracy absorbed the
Rothschilds and Bentincks of previous
generations and made them part Of itself.
The new millionaires threaten to absorb it.
From Skibo Castle, near Dornoch Firth,
down to Norres. by Cowes. the cosmopoli-
tans Of capital are seizing some of the fair
est spots of our land.
These millionaire invaders are so enor-
mously rich that they are Indifferent to the
fancy prices asked for great estates. AT
least one of them, Mr.. Astor, has an in
come of million a year, secured in ground
rent and railway bonds When he wanted
Cliveden he could afford to bid high enough
to tempt even the multi-millionaire Duke
of Westminster. The 92O00O0 he is said to
have paid for that estate represented only
about a fifth of his yearly profits.
Mr.. Carnegie's income equals that Of Mr..
Aston. Quite half dozen of the invaders
count their yearly gains at from 100000
to f5000Oo. The men who make s20O a day
are quite a host.
1t must be a very extraordinary English
estate which cannot now be rented for from
$4,000 to $4,000 year. The upkeep of such
a place will cost from $4,000 to e10.000 a
year more. Even the poorest millionaire,
the man who is not making more than
$4,000 year, can afford this.
Meanwhile in at least one case the man
with a family history of 800 years behind
him has to bury himself in $50 year
semi-detached villa in some quiet town near
London. The rent of his old mansion goes
TO satisfy mortgages, leaving him perhaps
f5O0 year for himself. This is no fancy
picture.
WHERE THEY COME FROM
Most of our millionaire invaders come
from America and South Africa. Among
the best of them is Mr.. Andrew Carnegie.
Scotch by birth, American by adoption, he
started life on four shillings week and is
now worth s4O.OOO,O0O He found America
good land for earning money, but he
loves to spend it In the land of his birth.
The traditions Of his people drew him back
to Scotland. At first he rented Cluny. but,
watching his chance, he secured the great
estate OF Skibo Castle at a bargain. He
loves to act the part of the laird. Simple,
quiet, modest, kindly, all his neighbors like
him. A year ago he startled the world by
declaring that he means to distribute all
his money before his death. 1.-The man who
dies rich dies disgraced," says he.
Mr.. William Waldorf Astor is a scion of
an ancient house that achieved wealth in
T.sfA
worth over f20,000,000, he found the lot of
the rich American too hard to be borne.
He hated the publicity given to his small
est acts so he came to England for peace.
After renting Lansdown House. he secured
a town residence in Carlton House Terrace,
and bought the beautiful estate of Cliveden
from the Duke of Westminster. He trans
ferred all his business interests here build
which is nothing but a gigantic strong
room. His office is probably the most
charming. and best guarded building in
the world, and deeds valued at 500 0OO, 600
are SAID TO rest there.
Mr.. Astor's one personal aim is to avoid
publicity; his one great business Is to in
vest In real estate. Day by day he goes
down to his Office. almost with the regu-
larity Of a clerk. He has passion for
building, and many of the new office build
ings between the Strand and the Thames
are more or less under his control. His
love OF solitude has caused him to forbid
boating parties the old privilege of landing
in Cliveden Woods. He is a cultured man
of letters, and his son was one of the most
popular boys at Elton and Captain of the
Boats.
The Bradley Martins have made them
selves place in English society, and have
annexed house in Chesterfield Gardens
and a Highland estate at Glen Urquhart.
Nearly thirty years Mr.. Bradley Martin,
a young lawyer of good family, met his
future wife under romantic circumstances
at a Vanderbilt wedding. They were mar
tod xxffl1
afterward the wife's father died and left
fortune of s10.0OoO00. With the part of
this money that came to them the Bradley
Martins crossed the Atlantic and set down
to conquer English society. They took one
OF the costliest deer shootings in Inverness
shire. One daughter married an earl. The
Bradley Martins scored their real triumph
when they devised the most costly and ex-
travagant fancy dress ball of modern
times
"JADED PLUToCRATs."
Some of our American millionaire invad-
ers come here for rest. OF this type is Mr.
James r. Keene, for long champion bear
on the New York Stock Exchange. With
the practically unlimited capital of the
tobacco and oil trusts behind him he ma
nipulated the markets almost as he pleased
In six great deals in six years he won
S13. 100000. Now, with a sorely tried ner-
vous system, he comes here for peace and
quiet. which his own hustling country can
not give him.
Mr.. Joseph Pulitzer, owner of the New
York World belongs to the same class
From the bottom of the ladder he has got
To the topmost rung. His newspaper pal
ace. twenty-five stories high, is one of the
sights of New York city. To-day, amid
his greatest triumphs, he comes away to
London for some months each year. He
seeks the Quietest town house he can find,
and settles there. He suffers perpetually
from insomnia But he still looks a very
young man, and his business power is
greater than ever. He forgets nothing and
extracts from every man all he can tell.
His one recreation is music. Tall, thin, full
of quick movement, his figure is familiar
money matters, but few years ago his
annual income was estimated at e200000.
Mr. Marshall Field, the merchant prince
of Chicago, loves Warwickshire, where he
is we'll known in hunting circles. He has
retired from business now, but he was long
the Whiteey and the Upton of the Windy
City. The designs alone of his great store
cost 100000 Ten thousand shopmen called
him master and 10000 small retailers
cursed his enormous business as being
their ruin. For he was the most enterpris-
ing, the most relentless, the most success
full of monopolists- Some OF the millions
made in Chicago now find their way here.
Apart from South Africa, our own colo
MES send US few millionaries, but those
who do come make their way. 1t would be
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