Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-12

wealthy woman in her own right, belng
daughter of Mrs Doria Jones and a
sister of County Treasurer Mark Jones.
children of one Of our earliest and
richest merchants.
Lawyers get rich in Los Angeles as
elsewhere i'm California. The late An
drew Glassell left fortune closely
verging on a million. His partner, A.
b. Chapman, takes his ease as pro-
prietor Of an elegant orange grove in
the San Gabriel valley and is probably
worth close upon half a million dollars.
Judge Charles Silent is another rich
lawyer and has given the city Chester
place. j. S. slauson is also lawyer,
but has made his large fortune in
banking and real estate.
Herman Hellman is quite rich man
and has made all his money in Los An
geles in merchandising and banking.
He has recently erected one of the
handsomest business blocks on the Pa
cific coast.
Rich Merchants
Some Of our merchants are quite
wealthy. 3. F. Coulter has made a
fortune approximating a million dollars
in dry goods, and manufacturing
blankets and other staples in local de-
mand Harris Newmark has accumu-
lated much besides his very valuable
block in merchandising. H. Jevne is a
rich man, probably going near the half
million, and Newberry Judging by the
great number of his stores, is much to
the good at his bank.
The city, in fact, is overflowing with
rich men, of the old and the new, and
of that class who may happily exclaim,
30 Lord give me neither riches nor
poverty"
Some of our real estate men are wax
ing wealthy beyond peradventure. Abb
bot Kinney has no doubt passed the
half million figure. Garland, Clark &
Bryan, young Rowan and several 9TH
ers are showing an enterprise and abil-
ity, which means wealth in the near
future.
We are endowed with our oil kings
and our mining nabobs, of whom Do
heny is type of the first and Dan
Murphy of the other, whose wealth
has either been made in Los Angeles
or it's immediate "back country"
Frederick Rindge is one of those who
have brought wealth into our midst
and have shown an uncommon ability
in causing it to fructify. 1t would be
hard to fix a figure for the acquisitions
of this gentleman. BY many he is
ranked well up near Huntington.
"Old Bill Perry must not be over
looked in reckoning the rich men of
Los Angeles. He is certainly worth a
couple of million dollars and perhaps
more. While having an eye on our
"Old Bills we should not overlook
City Treasurer Workman, whose pecu-
mary affairs have rounded up very
handsomely of late years.
Even the newspaper men show up
very satisfactorily in Los Angeles. The .
owner of the Times is either million
aire or close to it. while the editor of
the Express is we'll beyond that now
somewhat modest figure.
I have not aimed to give anything
like a review of the rich men of Los
Angeles, but simply to show what a
prosperous people we are Rich men
like Homer Laughlin, Eben Smith,
Michael Connell and others are pour
ing in here by the score. That John D.
Rockefeller within year or so will
locate himself either on West Adams
street, Hollywood or Pasadena have
little doubt. Add Redlands and L have
surely named the habitat in which the
Standard Oil magnate will wind up
his days. And there are others of his
ilk who full surely are a-coming!
Having adverted to the coming re-
moval of the Farmers and Merchants
National bank to it's new quarters, I
will add that it's deposits amount to
$7,744,4 4S5, and that during the past
week the number of banks in this city
was increased to thirty-two by the adj
dition of No. 1852, with a capital stock
of 5000, 900. Who can say where this
thing shall stop? Verify, of the MAX
ing of banks there is no end.