Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-01-27
$4,777,474 INCOME
Of STATES RICHEST
MAN IN WAR TIME
Another Delawarean Had Income
of 5000. 900; Many From This
State in Millionaires' List.
81 HAVE OVER 100000

TO their incomes shows that one Della
warean has an income of S4,177,4I4, an
other with more than S3,0OO,OO0, one
with 81 ,5OO,0 900, four with 81 100000,
one with S5O0.OO0, four with $780,
600, four with $500, 900, six with S25O,-
600 incomes, four with S200,0 ten
withSl50, 900 and twenty Sin with SlOO, 600
These figures. he repeated, represent
incomes from property not exempted from
the income tax.
Nevada is the only State without
millionaires, while New York has 2,3SS.
The one man from Delaware-which II
the home of the great du Pont industries
paid tax of 50, 766, SOS, which is figured
by the government statisticlans as having
been at the rate of 55.S2 per cent. This
would mean total income Of 81, ~ ,414.
The classification of persons according to
business or profession affords some inter-
esting figures. Those having incomes
placing them IN the millionaire class IN
clude capitalists, investors, etc, 3,333
merchants and deslers next with $40;
manufactures, 924; corporation of
f,cials. ZIG; lawyers and judges, 2O6;
stock and bond brokers, 240; bankers,
500; all other brokers, 2S7; farmers and
stock raisers. 120; mine owners and
operators, 167; civil and mining engineers,
"a; real estate brokers, 81; insurance
agents, 16; clergymen, 3; theatrical pro-
fesslon, Ia; medical profession, q; IN
surance brokers, Is; lumbermen, 13;
theatrical owners and managers, IL;
saloonkeepers, 2; sportsmen and turfmen,
L; labor skilled and unskilled), S; hotel
and restaurant men, Is; commercial
travellers, .; teachers, L; public service
military, 8; public service (civil), 9;
suthors, editors and reporters (think of itl,
10; architects, 5; accounting professions,
?: business not stated, 355; miscellaneous
employees, Al; professions not stated, AZ;
all other business, 227.
1t is interesting TO note that under the
head of skilled and unskilled labor there
are five listed as mlllionalres- two paying
on incomes of 100000 or more, one on
SI5O,0OO or more, one on S2oU,Ooo or
more. and one on 100000 or more.
Delaware has % milliOnaires, according
TO the deductions of the writer of the
above article. That is, 81 persons in
Delaware paid taxes on incomes which
would rate them as millionaires or multi
millionaires.
Internal revenue records are carefully
revised TO prevent the identification of
taypayers from the records or from
statistics made public, so the reader will
have TO guess on that point. 1t might
not be a difficult matter for many people
TO guess the identity OF few OF those
who make the largest payments, but
when it comes to figuring out the entire
62, that would be something not easily
done; in fact, it is doubtful If even the
leading fnanciers OF the State could name
the whole list.
The one man from Ohio-which is the
home of such industries as the National
Cash Register Company-paid q tax of
81 .222. $50, which is figured by the experts
rs having been at rate of 1854 per cent.
This would mean total income of S4,-
al ,096.
The one man from Michigan-which is
the home of the largest of the automobile
companies-paid tax of 81 ,9S7 ,631,
which is figured by the experts as having
been st rate of 40.66 per cent. This
would mean total income of 81 SIS, ,654.
Americas 5 millionalres increased by
1,476 IN the first year of the war IN Europe.
During the second year, the increase was
twice as great, for IN 1916 there were 2 500
more millionaires than In 1915. And IN
1917, while the net growth was only
thirty-one, the true situation rests In
the old saving, Him who has-getsi"
The increases of that year were in in
creased incomes OF those included In
the totals of years gone by.
The figures come from the Statistical
compilations made by Uncle Sam from
the income tax returns. These figures
for 1916 haze only recently been COM
puted and the general statistics from
the 1917 returns are still IN process of
tabulation.
Distribution of these new paillionaires
throughout the country shows them
thIckest where war activities were greatest,
with New York state alone carrying
2, ,3SS of these individuals within her
borders. Nevada was the only state
that Aidn't claim a millionaire resident
In 1917, but the millionaires who have
been made from Nevada's mineral de-
posits live elsewhere, that's all.
When this analysis is brought down
to distribution by occupation, the
war comes up again. OF American mil
honaires, capitalists as group made up
:, 1888 of the total; manufacturers who
made war material 920, and the producers
of food, 120. Another group closely re-
lated TO the war included corporation
among whom were 7l6 mil
Honaires.
The largest income in 1917 was s34,-
1866 The man who paid tax on that
much pin money claimed to be unInar-
ried, which makes it itappear to be Standard
OILS daddy, John d. Rockefeller, since
widowers are single men under the in
come tax law. Still another of these great
incomes was reported by Single wo-
man." who received IS. 794 $50. II may
have been Mrs. L. I'll. Hartman, widow Of
the railroad magnate. Again this richest
may not have been Mrs. Har-
riman. The internal revenue depart
ment takes every precaution TO keep
these things secret.
In 1917 there were four incomes of
more than S5,000,000 On which taxes
were paid.
The official view of a millionaire these |
days is one whose income exceeds $780, /
900 a year, and while millionaire might !
be held strictly as a title for those who |
could produce 81 100000 in cash or prop /
srty, the official definition is based upon |
studies that show that the bulk and hulk |
Of incomes more than Sl00,0 come from |
interest on investments and dividends |
from stock and other possessions.
Pennsylvania is next to New York /
in claiming these extremely wealthy. /
She had three taxpayers who received /
more than 100000 during the year,
ihirty-thfee who received more than |
81 600, 900 and graded along the scale TO |
456 men and women whose incomes /
were more than 100000 and less than
$4,000.
New Jersey came up with seven per-
IONS IN the more-than-a-millIon class
and I3l in the 100000 class Little Della
ware With her wealthy dn Points had