Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18

| Special correspondence OF INC llcIdlu'
NEW YORK, Dec. 16.-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. ;; 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 az $3.50 600 900,
Phipps at S5l 900, 900 and Frick at $40
600. 600. A billion Is John D. Rockefel-
| ler's price and he heads the list. j..
Belt. the South African diamond fellow,
is worth half a billion. Then there is
| the person, ]. B. Robinson, a gold man
of South Africa. He is worth 100000
COO and stands No. 3. The car is
fourth. He has $SO70OO,OOO
schwab'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 Corsalr. 1t is
easy to understand why Mr.. Carnegie
employs the veil of secrecy. His phlan-
thropies are so numerous that hosts of
cranks are constantly on his trail.
Were he to publish his telephone num-
ber he would have telephone calls with
every course at dinner and one for
every respiration in his sleep. Mr..
Frick Is in the same fix as to the de-
mand on his time. He has a 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 $S00,00O 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 jewelry at all. Her sole possession
in this line is marriage ring worth
about SIS. The increment on her dia-
mond heard this year will be much
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 month for a fiat in Hoboken
and does her own cooking and washing
Janitors Feel Their Power
AS the winter approaches the janitors
in the thousands of big apartment
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 request to
send up steam must be framed with
the care of protocol. One brow-beaten
apartment house dweller recently put
forth the idea that the jantor 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,
III one detail at least. They object to
publicity. 1t has never Deen 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 studier 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 a 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
OFTEN have great difficulty in procuring
Soou nlouelS, anu III is pure game OF
chance at that. Taking into considera-
tion 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 mutual sympathy between
artists and models as well as to dignity
the profession of posing and put it on IA
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 a competent
operator and nothing more. The boy
embpllished If tn read thug. HNVaDtad