Show I American Wealth I Not greater than the wealth of America I was the fabled wealth of the Indies There are a thousand Americans worth 1000000 o r more There are at least five Americans Amer-icans richer than Croesus of song and story The wealth of the Duke of Westminster whose fortune is the greatest in Europe is I at a careful estimate 10000000 or 830000 000 and it is the accumulation of a long I mcestry Most of the American fortunes are the accumulation of a single generation genera-tion tionThe The aggregate wealth of the Rothschilds reaches nearly 1000000000 it is distributed dis-tributed among so many that no individual Rothschild is worth over 40000000 The t I Vanderbilt family wealtl foots up nearly I 250000000 and is held in comparatively few hands There are scores of Americans who are richer than any ruling monarch j i of the eastern hemisphere The incomes I I of many monarchs are large but they are derived from the civil lists of the countries over which they hold and do SI sway not rep1 I I 1 i resent the accretions their own fortunes 1 I As a people the Americans are the richest I I rich-est in the world Money is more easily acquired > 1 I ac-quired here than anywhere else and it is i likewise l more liberally spent What are I I considered moderate fortunes here are in i j other lauds regarded as stupendous aggre i i J I I gations of wealth There are no such opportunities I i op-portunities 1 of making money in other countries as in this and therefore it may I be expected that the number of American millionaires will be multiplied and the I fortunes of the present millionaires doubled I dou-bled tripled and quadrupled within the next two decades New York World l I i 1 |