Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
GOSSIP FROM GOTHAM; GRAVE AND
GAY DOINGS In THE METROPOLIS

Special CorrCspOr dcuco OF Tho lleraiu'
NEW YORK, Dec. t6.-The worlds
richest men are not all New Workers
although to hear the natives talk, one
would think so. According to the most
recent guess made on the fortunes of
the 100 richest men In the world Andrew
Carnegie stands No. 5; Henry Phipps,
No. 35: II. G. Frick, No. 81, and Charles
Schwab is not i'm the count at all. This
means that he Is figured below $4,000
600. Carnegie is set down at $3.50, ,00OOOO
Phipps at $5i 100000 and Frick at S4G-
O0O. 900. A billion Is John y. Rockefel-
ler's price and he heads the list. J..
Belt. the South African diamond fellow
is worth half billion. Then there is
the person, J. Il. Robinson, a gold man
of South Africa. lie Is worth $400 .O0O,-
COO and stands No. 3. The czar is
fourth. He has SSo6OOO.OOO.
Sehwab's Number In the Book
So heavy are the demands on the
time of New York's industrial kings
that few of them permit their home
telephone numbers to be published in
the regular directory. Charles M.
Schwab is an exception TO the rule.
Carnegie. Frick and Corey are never
accessible over the wire-indeed, al
though the latter Is president of one
the greatest corporations in the world,
few New Workers know his home abode.
j. Pierpont Morgan has an excellent
plan for escaping annoyance of this
sort In good weather he frequently
sleeps on his yact, the Corsair. 1t is
easy to understand why Mr.. Carnegie
employs the veil of secrecy. His philan-
thropies are so numerous that hosts of
cranks are constantly on his trail
t.t. l. t.I. Il,
ber he would have telephone calls with
every course at dinner and one for
every respiration in his sleep. Mr.
FriclI is in the same fix as to the de-
mand on his time. He has Il private
office in one of the Broadway skyscrap-
ers, but he does not support the luxury
of a gilt sign on the door.
Hetty's Diamonds
The richest woman in the world, Het-
ty Green. keeps about $SOO,0OO worth of
diamonds on hand at all times. She
never wears any of them, but she
knows that they increase in value at
the rate of per cent a year and holds
them as an investment. Hetty wears
no iewelry at all. Her sole possession
in this line is a marriage ring worth
about SIS. The increment on her dia-
UlOllu lltttlu llllS year VII ne
larger than in previous years. Dia-
monds have gone up nearly 10 per cent,
In the meantime the lady is II years
old, and growing older every day. She
pays $31 q month for fiat in Hoboken
and does her own cooking and washing.
Janitors Feel Their Power
AS the winter approaches the janitors
tlnIl rtt ont
buildings which house about half the
population of New York are becoming
visibly austere. Where during the
warm summer months it was permitted
to address them as mike" or "Jim"
this familiarity is no longer tolerated.
They are the arbiters of the comfort
of half the people, and a request to
send up steam" must be framed with
the care of protocol One oW-beaten
apartment house dweller recently put
forth the idea that the janitor should
live on the top floor of the big apart
ment houses instead of in the base
ment, for then there would always be
steam heat and the elevator would
always be running.
Landing the Rich Men
Hotel stenographers, telephone ope-
ratorS and manicurists are marrying
most of the rich men these days. Busy
merchants and financierS seem to be
charmed with their intelligence. tact
and good nature. Comparison with the
idle and frivolous girls born to wealth
are inevitable, and the result is matri-
mony. A half dozen such cases were
reported within a week in New York
How many are there elsewhere?
Artists Models Scarce
Artists models in New York seem to
be unlike their sisters, the chorus girls,
in one detail at least. They object to
publicity. 1t has never Jeen known to
help them and very often it hurts.
Artists were suddenly confronted with
the fact that it was almost an impos-
sibility to secure interesting and refined
types as models, and for proof of this
one had only to visit the exhibitions,
especially those representing students
work. Many of the studiec portrayed
anything but refined types of women
This was the rule and not the excep-
tion. OF course it is a well known fact,
and perhaps fortunate one, that New
York has no equivalent for the "Latin
Quarter" and there are no colonies of
professional models" here as in Paris
and Rome. Painters for this reason
ollel nave great ulIhculJy III procuring
good models, and it is a pure game of
chance at that. Taking into considera-
ton the needs of the girls who find it
necessary to pose, and the needs of the
artists, too, there was organized in
New York several years ago the Art
Workers Club for Women. The sole
object of this club was to establish
more of Il mutual sympathy between
artists and models as well as to dignity
the profession of posing and put it on
recognized basis.
Office Boys Joke
A small office boy got "hunk" with
his employer for suffering the indignity
of discharge. The boys last duty was
to deliver an advertisement for a type
writer girl to a newspaper Office. The
original copy called for competent
operator and nothing more. The boy