Show o OW the EP APPY r 1 Wood the die Wool Man Needs n F Forty artY i kA kAr and her Other Budding Billionaires ires Are 1 Ext Extravagant t I ra 1 vagan tt H o. o 1 YOU U were w to ask arr any n of tlC tIle mc 4 n 1 p r fF g generation elver o of of- f millionaires 11 reS whether 1 0 r they arc are having the time o of t their k kr 0 r. r lives live Ir and s if f the they y did didn't didI I t suspect s spec I t you r of o 11 r Y t t W m i job under ender some SOIZe con congressional j L having a y r committee o of investigation you would wot 1 3 P probably g get ct an all answer er like this r i Y Son the best time tUlle I 1 had in rn my r life lie r l JJ f was when I 1 wore ware last st summers summer's mers mer's shoes all il a J t through l roe h the rite rr next ext winter t CI wit with It a pa patch f e 1 near of each Ii little toe toc n at t that I It t was the winter winter- ft r I 1 s V r. r f 10 4 w 1 tri Y iff P gong gouged cd out girt nr my y first IDa o 0 of f savings from f rom 1 1 rrt my w wages ages iges and I can cau remember yet yet the i Y y f- f show we sa saw v for or 2 2 the only tine time I took tool t J t r L rrt my y wife to 10 the theater t ft 0 So many mally self-made self millionaires ml have L vouchsafed some jome variant or other o of that homely reminiscence that the Life Lie o othe of the Successful Millionaire c isn't is t t complete etc dm I P e r without it i o z a E h sz Ida this ta o of zI 11 American merican financial But t stage c l G v P I and social evolution has reached leached theand the S son L level cl which l at and even the grandson such memories arc are relegated to the rare occasions when a stray y relative t from Oswego or the Rappahannock turns up at the family board and antl remarks casually a youre you're all right Alfred zIl red but I remember Well tiff ell I 1 suppose youre you're your r an a when v lie he hiked forty forI miles Hiles to 10 git v tt 2 for or a ca t pack ael of Ct coonskins and cud andr he was a sight c t bett better r man titan than you'll you l ewer ever b be Y A Alfred Ifred with willi his p paternal eternal inheritance 1 and d any allY y or original d dy hikers who y star starr started ted with ith 2 2 arc however in the same saine boat when it comes conies to finding r happiness and the t United States today presents present the most amazing spectacle spec spec- lade hi history story r has ever beheld si since Rome o of lu humanity's s fulfillment of the ancient fable of o Midas 11 Y r rever das whose iv g gold old was Itar his lus undoing The cost o of happiness in HZ the t twentieth century seems to increase rease in indirect dr dir direct ct proportion to the ease with which men inert are arc able to what they regard as the most certain catain neaps means o of obtaining it F THERE is ark any caso case of record in in which 3 any V particular person prese preserved ed a IF an any faintest trace of po poverty's erty's power to be h happy py on nothing it must ha have e iff r been Russell Sage and hes he's dead ff He unraveled lifes life's little ball hall of of twine calmly pleasantly probably quite happily without giving the smallest hint that he needed anything more for his y satisfaction than sonic some fifty million dollars and an apple But then all aU the while he had the secret delight o of knowing that he had planned the biggest surprise in philanthropy that had struck a more or less grateful set of compatriots in n a hundred years Hetty Green may serve os as his feminine parallel so 60 far as her ber own indulgence in amusement goes but but- what with her ambitions for her son SOil and her contentment contentment content content- ment in her daughter with a son-in-law son to enhance the interest in the Green Grcen GreenY Y inheritance the indefatigable Hetty can scarcely be said to live lire e so close to bare barc money-grubbing money as did the tho simple contented spirit of Russell Sage Being eing b a mother with the importance of a sort of modern Queen Elizabeth in Wall raIl street goes poes oes far toward mitigating the monotony of a Hoboken flat and a plain mutton chop for breakfast After one last desperate maternal effort to enjoy society and the luxuries of life in a New York mansion under the auspices of her filial and enthusiastic son she gave it up and went back to her flat and her mutton mutton mutton mut- mut ton chops k But there the brief and glorious roll roU ends Self made and merely incidental t. t to fortunes fortune's or es e's path nt all the American varieties varieties o of millionaires seem to have some f hard hard driven driven cn insistent u need ee d o of f spending oceans o of f mon money ey to bR get a few drops of or r happiness f Tho The nearest to Midas but furthest furthest from extravagance ha has been J John olm D D D. Rockefeller ell r whose immense Immense wealth in its garnering seemed literally to have hae k starved him as w well as snatched him which was more than thun Midas Midas' unlimited gold output did t to him Midas it will be recalled merely became ri n r- i dizzy blonde as soon as he happened to comb his raven hair with his fingers after Ir the simple fashion of his time time the tho first genuine I c Georgie Georgio in i history fit fit- i John D. D never had a chance at even the silver slIver issue Issue he lost all ull the hair hall of off th the tho 1 F t t n r N r t JY A f f fr r r. r i 4 i fi fir r j Y nr try vY i i 5 sf f 1 n J J 9 r k f N t r t tY Irr r r r Y I yM m 1 ft- ft 7 i if J JI f l I i I I I rr 5 ti j A c tK 4 e tr S r p J M j Y Av u t l e r r. r h u c JT he 1 1 hAo P z e r es Vic d fP iJ err c I cP c q P J. J P oz v q-d q jJ 7 Z W t r 7 s Autos Amos d r r ty I t i o y J Just as fr a t r t. t roe C t t b fr t fr Y r j J d 4 a p wt t cur J f fi i i r dp e 6 1 AV o C O I p pi Sf il 1 r i At r i I Jr na r dr r 4 j o dor 5 wry 1 i ir r 0 s l o or I r 3 dry k A r e. e j E Et t a s 2 t p pt J t V A r I Ir M o I F FF rh t e WH z L I k kt F 1 lr t M Mr Y r r 7 rF f t f I a aI j.- j. i t. t I rl K o f f rr S y J 5 r t top of his head head and d and t the c sides too for that matter mat t ter ter so o early in the s game ame with fortune fortuno that his biographies p s appe appear r unanimously to forget th the date U Up until a f few w years ears ngo ago ho no hadn't a any stomach either and he was generally held up to scorn as tho the horrible example o of mane mans man's enslave enslave- enslavement meat ment n nt to riches until He lie took to to golf and hi hiS hilt toupee Tackled fi first ns as medicine mcd cine like tb the polo stick of the tho Caliph in the Arabian Nights Tale of the physician h Rockefellers Rockefeller's golf clubs have since become his joy If any millionaire has found a asure sure aura means of happiness and has found it as close clos to economy as true genius for finance can cnn provide pro vide J John olm D.'s Ds collection of golfing tools and rind his hier r private links will b bear r comparison with the shrewdest Maybe be he lie might have a e been rivaled by T Pierpont Pier Pier- pont Morgan if if- J Jl rk had been cursed curbed with John Ds D.'s stomach But he The last intimate intimate in in- view of Mr fr Morgan r as ashe he W was S seen seen in n i J Paris some time ago ago him lunching as on ona a sandwich and a a of champagne with one of or his large brunette Havanas IIa for dessert And that that for any ny ordinary stomach ch is going some as asa n a modest diet Stomachs b being being- ipg as astl they tl ei arc Mr r. r Morgans Morgan's relief from irom bOlC has lias probably cost him more mora millions than the amusements of any other really reany rich Ame American can who was eras e ever er r born They are are to tobe tobe tobe be classed ris ds as real di diversions definitely distinct from Rockefellers Rockefeller's rs r's gifts of fortune after fortune F for tho the general uplift and Carnegie's Caln gies gie's p penchant for libraries and hero liero medals Tho nearest the munificent Andy r has lias como come to spell spending money on himself has been in home and f fireside with the homo home retire represented by his mn magnificent Scottish estat es estate estate es- es tate tat e and the palatial York Yok fireside flanked by a vast ast organ that plays him down to break break- fast ast v Compared with Mr Jr Morgan Morgana rs s 's incessant outpourings out out- P s of ot milli millions ms for lor prizes the Metropolitan Museum to his 1116 bId for the tho o for 1 1 11 1 1 l' l 1 1 T or these little self indulgences of Laird pJ pleasure o of excavating Andrew appear mo modest est indeed l Whether the wealth came one wa way or another another wrung from from reluctant Fortune by sheer force of character or into dropping dropping into her hor favorites favorite's lap after the first salute of the golden spoon the spoon the men have e much of it seem to have have- havea a n pretty hard time enjoying it Theres There's William M. M Wood V the tho president ent of the American Woolen Y Company Com Corn pany tan lie Ire may hR have e had some sort of or a spoon to start with but the Portuguese guese uese sailor tribe he started from in New Kew England has a traditional pen- pen hant for eating with a h. h knife 1 fe However he may have been born with cul- cul tired instincts Force of circumstances which made it eminently necessary r j for Jor or him to eat something whether hether with knife fork or spoon sent him first lo 10 the HIe cobblers cobbler's bench and it was from this humble seat sent of i industry p that he hit the grit of tTa travel el along the pathway ay to wealth and power power The presidency presidency dency aeries of t the he immense industrial enterprise he directs with a salary of a year is no small position to havo achieved in the industrial world and the tho man who achie achieved ed it it-in it in the course of a deal in mill amalgamation hot fat ended d with his supremacy o over ermany many and mighty rivals rivals rivals-is is a sort of uman Guinan dynamo namo whoso hoso pet diversion in life is to go through it like a streak f lightning down own a darning needle CO CONTINUED TI ON INSIDE PAGE P. 1 j L iI y w Lt t J f Aie 1 fd C r r rN t 1 H J ti t 1 I It elfi t 1 o y FR ift ir J. 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