The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-07-28
RICH MEN WORK HARD.
LONG HOURS KEPT BY MANI
 LEADING MILLIONAIREs.

Keeps in Touch With the Whole Pennsylvania system - Belmont Reads Bushels of Mail.
 Nine out of ten millionaires work i harder than mechanics or day laborers, says the Chicago Tribune
 Men who know them intimately say the pace set by the big financiers would E kill an artisan in month were he to attempt to follow it. True, he does not get around to his office at or 8 o'clock, < but when he sets his foot in his place of business he is keyed to work at the < speed of an express train. Henceforth ! there is not moment of inaction, and until bedtime his mind is at work get ting things ready for the next day. Even then he does not always stop. For instance, James Stil1man, president of the National City Bank, of New York, has telephone at the head of his bed-and it is there for use. His business associates are not surprised to be called up at any hour of the night for consultation. Business is business for MT. Stillman at A. M. just as it
 Is at 10. He is in his office an hour before the bank opens, and rarely leaves
 before 4So, luncheon being served at
 his desk and eaten between answers to
 the telephone.
 Surely an expert correspondent would
 not envy August Belmont his snap"
 He insists on reading all his letters
 personally, and opens every day more
 than three bushel baskets of mail to be.
 sure no suggestion may escaEe him.
 The many-sided character of the man
 will bring him suggestion from an
 outsider for a change in the color
 scheme of subway station a report of
 financial nature, an estimate on con-
 struction, then protest, followed, per haps, by an offer for a race horse. In the building of the $35, ,000,0 900 sub way not a thing is done until it has been passed upon by MT. Belmont, whether it means the expenditure of cent or $1,0OOOO0. He started out with the theory that if he began to hand the small details over to his subordinates 1t would not be long before ideas of trifies would grow, and large questions would be settled without his knowlege. As president of rapid-transit com pany, construction company, a national bank, realty company and 9 Jockey club, director in five railroads, a life insurance company, seven banks a trust company, a race and 19 other concerns mercantile, manufacturing and ransportation-he has no idle moments.
 Where would a mechanic be who 11 ,,Il the concerns straight in his head for month. Yet MT. Belmont has found time to make himself the authority in the east on the breeding of horses.
 George J. Gould is another millionaire with an extraordinary capacity for work. In fact, it is an accepted fact that MT. Gould can accomplish more
 work in given time than any other f1nancier, simply because of his grasp of details and his wonderfully accurate memory. From the prices of ties and spikes and the lasting qualities of the different woods to the capacity, con- dition and strategical importance of
 every railroad in the United States he is so thoroughly informed that he can and generally does make his decisions
 
 were known it would probably be found that they were the result of delibera- tions at Lakewood. He seldom is in his office more than three days week, but when he enters, which is by 10 o'clock, if he is to be there, he is ready to go through an astounding mass of business.
 He proceeds as fast as three secre- taries can follow him. and then is ready to discuss questions of policy to his cabinet. MT. Gould believes the collective mind Of his advisers works better and more surely during lunch con; hence it is at as rich and ex- pensfve midday meal as is served in New York that the affairs of the Gould properties are guided. By following this seemingly joyous but really strenuous course MT. Gould has in- creased the 5000 miles of railroad left by his father dozen years ago to 16,- 000 and doubled his personal wealth.
 H. H. Rogers, vice-president of the Standard Oil Company, once said: "The richer. a man gets the less he knows what lie has unless he works to protect it." Acting on that principle no detail has been too small, no labor too