Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-02-13

all the persons in the United States
who are supposed To bc worth more
than S3OOOOO. And there are only TO-
UU names Oh the list. No claim IL
made that the name of every person
worth that amount or more Is given.
hut the proportion of those left out
Is extremely small, for u most cX-
halistive investigation has been made.
There may he Il few more than q
600 millionaircs I'm the United States"
said the official of the mercantile agcn.
cy. Il doubt II. however. also doubt
IT. there nrc more than 1900 million.
aires In New York. 1t IL absolutely
impossible to tell accurately. 1t may
seem strange that we should not be
able to tell, especially when we are
engaged In finding out how much II
man IL worth and giving such informa.
ton to our subscribers.
But In the last few years there hns
been II marked tendency among men
Of wealth to conceal the amount of
their worldly possessions. The first in
| centlve In this respect IL the vulgar
prominence given to the man that has
lots OF money.
for supprcsslng knowledge of the
amount of their wealth. Some wish to
avoid heavy taxation and give false
returns. Another man may have made
his money In u business not commonly
supposed to bc especially lucrative and
he does not care to have his afiluence
blnzOncd forth to arouse competition.
There are also some rich politicians.
but 1t might arouse suspicion IL they
stated the exact amount of their
wealth. And there IL another class
the men that have their piles In call
ings that might he frOwned upon IN
the circles they wish to enter--prO-
prietOrs Of gambling houses, saloon.
keepers. owners of dives ana other re-
sorts. They don't care to have others
know how much they have accumu.
lated.
80 while It Is impossible for us to
tell exactly how many milliOnaircs
there are, we would not take the num-
ber of those who are known to possess
thousand thousand ut least, ana then
multiply the number by ten. For that
II what Senator Depew seems to have
done In his anxiety to urge Mr.. Rock.
efeller's young men to get rich"
There were three of them, ana they
were charming young things of the
matinee girl variety. They had
bright eyes and rosy cheeks, ana they
were all talking ut once, as Is char.
acteristic of their type. \ Greek
florist pOked II bunch Of viOlets under
the nose of the prettiest.
"Fin violet he coOed. "Looka
nice on lady dress"
"rhcy are pretty" said the young
thing. "llOw much?"
The Greek smiled with courtly grace.
''To lOfcly lady a-twenta cent
"Threc for seyenty-iivc!" asked the
girl with lightning calculation.
Three for a.scventy-iive If my lady
say so,' said the Greek with humility,
The bargain was clinched, ana the
three young things were arranging the
blossoms among their fnrs when one,
who had been wearing II puzzled cX-
preston for II few minutes suddenly
said:
Ruth 1t Oughtn't to have amounted
to seventy-five cents. Didn't he say
twenty cents Il piccey'
There was an awful silence while
the three young things labOriOusly
worked the problem out in mental
arithmetic. Then Ruth, with her
cheeks all atiamc, turned to the smiling
Greek.
you've Oyercharged me-" she said.
1T ought only to have been sixty
cents"
But the Greeks smile only broaden
ed.
"The lady mada her Owna bargain"
he said with Chesterlieldian wave of
his hand.
Which being quite true, the three
young things had nothing more to say;
but somehow, quite suddenly, as 1t We're
but somehow, quite suddenly, as it
were, all the sweetness had gone from
the fowers.-New York Times.
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