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Show reat Fortunes of Today Not Computed Under Nine Figures t Far Behind Rockefeller, Who nf esses to a Quarter of a Billion, me Not a Few Estates and Private rtunes Which Run Into Nine Fig es Impossible to Estimate Great-j- f Holdings Andrew Carnegie, Sen-- I or Clark, Mrs. Walker, the Astors heir to the bulk of hls property. Twenty-six relatives were the beneficiaries of legacies of $25,000 each, which have Aflargely been increased since then. ter paying small private bequests it was announced that the rest would be given away by Mrs. Sage. Before the will was filed, one estimate of the size of the fortune was $60,000,000, This was declared to be much too low. The estimate of Wall street was $100,000,-000- . Other estimates since the will was filed have varied from $63,000,000 to $93,000,000. The balance which Mrs. Sage will distribute Is said to be more than $75,000,000. this at best is a hazardous guess. Equally hazardous would be an estimate of the wealth of Edward H. Harriman, the giant of Wall street and roaster of 29,000 miles of railroads extending from ocean to ocean, and valued at more than $2,000,000,000. A man of nearly 60 years, taciturn, secretive, Americas Richest The estate of Marshall Field, the great merchant, has been valued at more than $100,000,000, and this is considered a conservative estimate. The stores belonging to the, estate in Chicago transact business amounting to l more than $30,000,000 a year. estate includes not less than 20 building sites in the heart of Chicago, block after block of land near the University of Chicago, hundreds of acres in the Calumet region, further south, and iron lands in Michigan. Of the stocks are large holdings in the Bal- Widow. The story of Mrs. Anne Weigntman $120,000,000 is not without its elements of tragedy. Most of her fortune came from her father, William -- Weightman, of Philadelphia, Starting as a penniless boy in a laboratory, Mr. Weightman laid the foundation of his wealth in the quinine trade during the civil war and by introducing sugag coated quinine pills. It was swelled raplly by real esV.te Investments in the heart of Philadelphia, including a theater, hotels, office buildings, and business and residential blocks. s His friends weie amazed when he died, leaving his entire fortune, except for a few small bequests, to Mrs. Walker, his daughter. There were absolutely no restrictions on her use of the money. The will given to John Jacob It nod $60,000,000 contained no charitable bequests. Hls were practically to William. Roth devoted tlielr at- other descendants ignored in the will. They were the tention, like their father, to the family two sons and five daughters of hls real estate When William died, in 1892, he is said to have left about although the fortunes of his wife, Mrs. Astor, and his son, the present John Jacob Astor, are now considered larger. Although William Waldorf Astor is an Englishman by adoption his wealth represents an American fortune. His father Is said to have bequeathed to him a fortune of between $100,000,000 and $150,000,000. The present value of the William Waldorf Astor estate is fixed at the latter figures. Walkers d the Guggenheims, the Vander-tand the Goulds Probably Do Not how What Sums Their Riches Reach John D. Rockefellers according to Frederick T. cannot exceed his almoner, This 100.000 to $300,000,000." ment was made on Mr. Rocke-- s own estimate. While this fig- .tea a smaller sum than Mr. sfeller has been popularly of. It leaves him still Icbest man in America, although believe Senator William Clark prove eventually to be the rich-tain the United States. Owing i great undeveloped mining prop-bi- s fortune cannot be accurately York. w ne, n ated. tbermore, great fortunes which be placed in the same class ts of Mr. Rockefellers are by no infrequent. The great fortune hovers around the $100,000,-larHalf a dozen men and e rated at sums ranging any- from that figure to Mr. Rocke-- s $300,000,000. Such fortunes are entiy numerous to fix the stand-- i sums of nine figures. b day k. es-ar- amegies Vast Accumulation. ea the Carnegie company was d in New o'ersey in March, 1900, preliminary to the formation of sited States Steel corporation, megle was credited with $86,-i- n stock aad $88,147,000 in or $174,539,000 In all. He business In the following At that time his fortune was ted at sums ranging from $166,-t- o $250,000,000, and his Income tm $24,000,000 to $26,000,000 a His Income Is now about re-fro- a year, according to a Conceding that hls infer six years has averaged $20,-or $120,000,000 in all. he could ven at least $100,000,000 his capital. Million Ar Inherited. 3.000 3 with-ipairln- g Astors, Vanderbilts, Goelets and How Vanderbilt Wealth Grew. Commodor Vanderbilt believed in the concentration of the family wealth in competent hands. He left $90,000,000, the bulk of his estate, to his son, William H. Vanderbilt, and one-hal- f of the remaining $15,000,000 to the latters sons. When William H. Vanderbilt died in 1885 he had increased his inheritance to $200,000,000. His aonB, William K. and Cornelius Vanderbilt the second, received each. Each of hls eight chil-derin received $10,000,000, one-hal- f trust and $20,000,000 was distrubuted in private bequests. Thus theh two sons acquired an inheritance the present value of which is difficult to estimate. la this story of great wealth, two women appear as strangely pathetic figures. They are probably the richest women in the world, yet are radically different from each other. Each Is well past the meridian of life and their money is more of a responsibility than a pleasure. One is Mrs. Russell Sage with at least $75,000,000. She has difficulty tn spending it The other is Mrs. Anne Weightman Waiker, with $120,000,000. She has to fight to keep Carnegie. Mrs. Sage Is the wealthy Many giver most In the public eye. child-lea- s have heard of the gentle faced, woman In her seventy-seventfor society year, who care nothing humor ar and whom dignity and In and dominated by a kindly spirit keenshe which grave responsibilities Her declining years rely regrets. life she lived so long simple the flect tue with her husband, Russell Sage, "Doan of Wall street." the and High Priest of Putswl11 tall.nlcd When Mr. 8ag' became the $7 lost. Mr. Ssge Jscob Astor, the first, died In 0 Hebei man of hls dny. Ills ss worth $40,000,000. The ws left to hls son, William ho devoted himself scdu-tbs family real estate bind-hi- s death In 187S be left ono to hls sons, $70,000,009 July o Tlx-rea- u timore & Ohio, Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul and Chicago Northwestern. Jay Could followed the example of the Vanderbilts and Astors in seeking to concentrate and conserve his vast fortune. It consisted chiefly of stocks and bonds of the various corporations in which he was interested wh'm he died, 15 years ago. They had at that Ume a market value of $81,000,000. Hls renl estate was valued at $2,000,-000- . The net value of the estate was s w well-educat- story of the cabin, which bad been carried 1,000 feet The cabin gave the appearance of ON AN AVALANCHE having been overturned completely, and he was so wound up in the bed COLORADO CHILD CAUGHT IN clothes that It is probable they protected him and saved him from cer $77,000,000. This money was placed In IQ SLIDE AND DUG OUT UNtrust under certain conditions for hls tain death. HURT NEXT MORNING. children. The other children escaped with Col. Edgar Mason, four years cuts and bruises, but the father and Sallda, Senator Clarks New Palace. old, is probably the only person of mother were killed outright by the Another from the any age who has had the startling ex- slide. It inay be days before their west la Claus Spreckles, the sugar re- perience of being rushed down a bodies can be recovered, as the snow Is still coming down In great clouda finer of San Francisco, for many years and there are already 18 feet of snow known as the Sugar King of the In the streets. He Is generally Hawaiian Islands. credited with being worth about MADE INSANE BY ACID FUMES. milHe joined the lionaires colony on upper Fifth avenue last August, when be purchased Fats of Man Who Worksd for Year Over the marble house of Isaac Stem, near Vapors. street. No residence in this neighborhood Driven raving mad New York. attracts more attention than the elabthrough Inhaling for too many year nitric and sulphuric add fumes laden orate, even fantastic, mansion of Senator William A. Clark, Fifth avenue with molecular particles of lead, Ludand street. It has wig Rosana, 48 yeara old, a forman at been in course of construction slnre the works of a chemical company iu l.Vi'.t. Its cost has been estimated at Berkeley, Cal., has been committed, to the Stockton state hospital by sunia ranging from $3,000,000 to Senator Clark, the Copper Judge Melvin. Dr. II. B. Mehrmann King of Hutto, will add a unique perand Dr. O. D. Hamlin, the examining sonality tn the millionaires of New physicians, diagnosed bis case as InYork. His purchases of pictures have sanity due to lead poisoning, the lead attracted no less attention than hia having been taken Into hls system as business a.id political contests. A rea result of bis work In the making cent estimate of Senator Clark's forof acids. tune at something over $150,000,000 Rosana has been engaged In the was considered not excessive. manufacture of adds since be was 18 years of age. lie was considered Two Great Foreign Fortunes. an expert In this line. He worked in In Europe before Passing to the great fortunes abroad, H Went Through tbs Avatanch Un- chemical factories he came to America. the Rothschild millions appear as a harmed. At cortaln stages In the processes Colossus, to be measured with a Their united properties pass far mountain side In an avelanche of of making nitric and sulphuric acids now, given up for dead and dug out the materials are held In lead chambeyond the hundred millions. In 13 bers. It bad been Rosanaa duty to yeurs they loaned nearly $450,000,000 next morning alive and well. The worst snowsllde In the history watch these receptacles, from which to European governments. Some idea of their riches may be gained from the of this region occurred at Monarch. fumes constantly arise, carrying furt that since ISIS they have raised 18 mites west of here, killing six peo- with them minute particles of the ple outright, seriously Injuring one metal, which the foreman has been for Great Britain more than $1,000 000.000; for Austria, $250,000,000; for and injuring a dozen more or less se- breathing Into bis lungs for many for France, verely. But the baby boy was saved. year. Premia, $200,000,000; The victim of tbs lead poison talks Monarch Is a small camp consist$100,000,000; for Duly nearly $300,000,-outing of a few buildings and nearly all IncesManlly and Incoherently. He has aud for Ruaaia more than $125 the Inhabitants had gone jo bed when lucid Intervals, when he converses ooo.ooO. There with American fortunes, the tilde started with a noise like a with remarkable Intelligence. Compared moat of the other estates held in Eu- cannon shoL Beyond this there was Is a possibility that he may recover rope seem small indeed. The property no warning and no chance to escape. hls reason at the asylum, as be will of th Duke of Portland, for example, The Mason cabin was directly In the receive medical treatment there and path of the huge area of snow, which will be removed from the nource of is the second in point of importance I gathered weight and velocity as It the poison that hat blighted bis life. estate England. His comprise 183,200 acres. Including the famous Wei beck rushed down the mountain side. Allowance. The slide seemed to be the signal Abbey and Sherwood Forest, and LonMr. Happy Yes, sir, 1 make my don properties In and around Regent, for tho beginning of a terrific blizWelbuck and Wlmpol street. V'a'efi-dis- zard, which much hampered the res- wife a regular allowance every week. square and Portland road. VLo cue party sent from this city. They Dont you yours? Mr. llcnpeok Bhe makes ms dug out the bodies of five pimple, and duke's income is estimated at tlim about 10:20 next morning cares an allowance, when I earn enough ooo a ysir. o the boy Edgar, lie was In th tvp N. Y. Weekly. BABE it 'jMHCrtUMM. - Great Gould and Field Estates. son-in-la- THFDiXF OF PO&Fl FIND dead sons. John Farr Weightman and William Weightman, Jr., and three grandchildren, Mrs. Jones Wlstar, the widow of William Weightman, Jr., since remarried, started to contest the will on behalf of her children a auit which created a sensaation In Philadelphia society and dragged for months through the courts. son Green, the woman financier. Mrs. Green has passed her three score years and ten, and spent more than 40 years In active business life. She Is probably the second richest woman in the country, her wealth being estimatShe inherited ed at $100,000,000. $6,000,000 in 1865 from her father, a whaler of New Bedford, Mass. An aunt subsequently added $6,000,000 more. She nearly doubled it before she married Edward H. Green. Her most Important property is the Chemical National hank and her heirs are her two children, Edward Howland Robinson Green, who lives in Texas, and Miss Sylvia Green. Mrs. Green's frugal life, her skill as a financier, her ability as a money lender and many eccentricities have resulted in innumerable anecdotes that have made her personality familiar. lca. the groves or orchards, the mysterious, unreal and unnerving specter has sprung up beside him, and timing bis pace to that of Mr. Otterson. has ac conipanled him about. It makes nei nor motion, looks neither to INHERITED PALATIAL PUCE ther sign nor left, but with folded arum the right and bent head keeps up its noiseless tread with maddening precision. Apparition of Deceased Relative FolSome) hues, asserts the haunted lows New Owner Over Premises tnau, upon returning from a drive the Continually, Finally Forcing unearthly vision appeared to him in Him to Movs. the barnyard. As he unhitched and unharnessed hls team the apparition Elkhart, Ind. Harassed by the watched Ilia procedure with unseeing stalking specter of hls aged father-lulThe expression of the face was eyes. 11. two died who John w, Garmau, sorrowful Just as it had been years ugo, John Otterson has aban- always doned a palatial suburban place which was bequeathed hint by his deceased relative. Otterson is a weulthy retired merchant, having been in business in Elkhart for a number of years. While Sir. Otterson is not prone to believe in ethereal materializations, he asserts that in spirit form hls father-in-lahaunted hint. The apparition followed him over the premises, stood by him w hen he attempted to do light work about hls country home, and frequently was hls companion during the dead hours of night. That Mr. Otterson has an ordinary temperament, and is not at all given to nervousness, makes hls story of the ghost all the more remarkable. He Is a giant physically, and mentally, and well read. Otterson claims that he only escaped the apparition when away from the home and without the boundaries of the luxuriant gardens where bis deceased relative spent the greater part of his four score years. The aged Mr. Carman, one of the pioneers of Elkhart county, left a large The Speetr Accompanied Him About. estate. To hls daughter, Mrs. Otterson, and her husband he bequeathed In life during hi day. The materialthe greater part of It. ization to Mr. Otterson was full life The eccentric old gentleman, who size, the very Image, he declares, of No other person has come hack from the spirit world hls fatber-ln-law- . to haunt the living, died from a brok has seen the alleged ghost. en heart, hls only son having met a Mr. Otterson's experience with the tragic death. Dating from that Incl specter but recently became public dent to the time of hls demise, which He bore the ordeal silently, fearing occurred six months later, Mr. Car- the taunts and ridicule of his friends. man walked sorrowfully about the Lately the annoyance became so premises lamenting through the long great that he decided to remove front hours of the summer days hls sons the place. , The Carman family was one of the untimely death and refusing to be solaced. Ills grief was deep seated, most widely known in this city, being and he virtually walked out hls life among the very early settlers of the on the familiar paths of the old home- county. The family, whose name was stead. formerly spelled German," came her It is tn the picturesque brick mam from Pennsylvania, where John Gar slon about and around hls favorite man's relatives settled and named th In city Germantown. The Ottersons, are earthly retreats, that the recent months has seen the ghostly equally well known. No one' "her form of John Carman. The specter doubts the veracity and sincerity of first appeared a few months after the Mr. Otterson's statements concerning old gentlemans death. the specter which has haunted him, Frequently while he was roaming but all are at a loss to account for the over the fields, or strolling through strange Incident. CONOF FATHER-IN-LASTANTLY HAUNTS RETIRED INDIANA MERCHANT. GHOST n Hetty Green's Millions Grow. A third woman must be added to this list, Mrs. Hetty Howland Robin- y even among hls associates, unostentatious in hls many benefactions, Mr. Harrimans wealth has been estimated at $150,000,000. Probably no one but himself knows how nearly his fortune approximates this sum. 0 Mrs. Sages Fund for Charity. represent a class in. which Aside from Mr. .Rockefeller and Mr. has been preserved and increased by succeeding gener-Dthis method and, in some 'h by the creation of trust substitute has been found for f of primogeniture and entail In a system which Is forbidden SPECTOR DRIVES MAN FROM HOME. Millions from Railroad Deals. Janies J. Hill, president of the Great Northern railroad, and one of the masters of American railroads, is reputed to be worth $100,000,000. He Is 68 years old, and owns transportation facilities covering almost the entire continent and steamship lines to the orient. His rise has been swift and comparatively recent. He saw hls first opportunity In 1879, when he gained control of the St. Paul k Pacific railroad. reorganized It, and started to In 1F93 he develop the northwest. to the Northern Great the completed Pacific coast, with Its 6,000 miles of lines and 1.000 mile of yards and sidof steaming. He own a upcrb fleet the Including the on lake, great ship Steamship of the Northern boat company. Several of the great fortune of the country must remain largely a matter belong of speculation. To this cla the accumulations of J. Plerpont Mor- . Hacrl-mangan, It. H. Rogers, and E. II. fortune was reMr. Morgan cently estimated at $50,000,000. but RIDES SAFELY multi-millionair- e Lead-Lade- n Sixty-sevent- h Seventy-sevent- h foot-rul- e. -- ), h No-o- . v |