New-York tribune., 1921-09-04

of his time in Wiesbaden or in his house at
Mulheim, ON the Ruhr, where his father all
ready had his headquarters, and where his
hrm's main Office has remained. In summer
he goes to a villa called Asa, which he recently
bought in Sweden, near Landskrona, where
visited him at his invitation during the sea-
son of 1919.
1t is an extremely simply furnished house.
with just necessary tables and chairs to accom-.
modate his guests-no works Of art or pictures
Of any kind, flowers or photographs scat
tered about and hardly any signs of occupation.
A piano stands in one corner of the living
room, but it is never opened or played upon.
But there is phonograph, which Stinnes's
slsser-ln-law, who has a good deal to say in
the management Of his affairs, winds up after
dinner, letting the guests dance to its sounds.
"hlcn is the only possible form of amusement
IN 1hls queer establishment. The food served
at saoie Is good, but exceedingly plain. The
table appointments are substantial, but neither
luxurious nor artistic, nor even pretty, but
mere Is an abundance of excellent wines, in-
ciuolng champagne, as in all families Of means
III ene hhlneiand. There are, however, no
fixed hours for meals, which depend on tho
humor OF the master of the house or on his
occupations, because, as rule, he is always
engaged IN some business conference. His
1amliy de1erentially waits for him and some
Times SITS down to lunch at o'clock instead OF
~ while dinner is served at II o'clock instead
Oh {. In word, everything in Stinnes's life il
suoordlnated to the one thing Business
The wife of this remarkable parsonage il
ABOUT his own age-a good-looking woman
out rather deaf, dressed absolutely plainly
with hardly any jewelry, a couple of rings Of
no particular value composing her ornaments.
ohe is not interested in anything beyond her
own particular domain of household MANAGE
ment and Is devoted to her husband but is
absolutely incapable of appreciating the sub
eieeles OF his mind. She is a strong German
paerloe' affectIng to understand no language
except her own native tongue, and refused to
talk English with me, though had reason tn
suspect that she knew it quite we'll This con-
GENIAL couple have seven children The eldest.
who IN business well as in private life eoes
by the simple appelation of Junior. must be-
about five-and-twenty, and is already married
to a girl of about the same type as his ,notbar
He IS just as hard regarding business as his
fatner, whom he seeks to outdo with regard to
business tricks applied with dexterity. He af-
fects the same simplicity in regard to clothes
as his father, and often suggests to him schemes
even more gigantic and more INSCRIPTIONS
than the elder SHINES could hit upon. Junior
speaks English very well, but disdains French
and holds in complete disdain any kind of
amusement outside the contemplation of his
bank book There is no fear that under his rule
the wealth and Importance of the firm of Hugo
SHINES will diminish.
Stinnes's fortune has been variousIy esti-
mated, but it is almost impossible to guess
even approximately its real amount and
value, because he is connected with SO many
different enterprises that the difference be-
tween what belongs to him directly or indi-
rectly could hardly be made. And, besides, he
Is extremely careful to hide the extent Of the
resources at his disposal, partly because Of
his desire to pay as little income tax as pos
slble and partly because he is afraid that If
people know how much wealth he has sue
ceeded IN accumulating during the war, when
practically the entire financial control Of Ger
many was put into his hands, they might
try to make him disgorge some Of his Inn
mense belongings. And he likes to say some.
times that IN reality he is not the Crocsus the
public thinks and that often he stands in need
OF ready cash-which also, strange as it may
appear, is true. But, the other hand, his
name is so well established in financial and
industrial circles that whenever he becomes
associated with scme enterprise. matter
what it may be, he at once takes in hand its
controlling interest.
Through the different establishments Of
which he holds most of the shares, and the di-
rectcrs of which are entirely at his disposal,
SHINES practically rules the markets Of
Europe in a great many products and can
more or less influence those of America. I
have seen this with my own eyes durirss the
many conferences / had with him in Berlin.
where met the most prominent POLITICAL and
financial personalities not only of Germany
but of other countries-ali interested in his
various artful combinations. had the oppor-
tunity of watching his clever maneuvers when
ever he wanted to influence the American
markets For instance, when he deems it nec-
essary to send some warning about CONNER
cal undertaking or even private individuals
affairs to the United States he gets one of the
banks to cable one of its correspondents in
Den.oark, Sweden or Holland asking that COR
respondent to cable in turn to New York and
give their correspondents there the nfor-
nation he wants them tn convey fo them