Show ORNS IN THE I ROSE OF PLENTY I I T ALL FUN TO BE WEALTHY lot Millions Condemned to Isolation in Life Pursued L Selfish Greed While After Death There Are Spa 1 I nous Widows Will Contests and Half a Hun I dred Other Kindred Ills 1 I YorkTho embarrassment df Pi Is of course proverbial To s burden of wealth Is probably it the possessors of great for In I than for ever before A multi n ll f g marked man Ho la de re Is a privacy even In tho most intlmato relations and ho Is constantly I t IT by armies of beggars and must guarded like any king At his Ih hordes of claimants fight over property his memory Is bitterly bed and his character perhaps ed by unscrupulous heirs through rears of litigation short time ago Mr James Henry universally known as Silent th b th a man of great wealth and the private benefactions leiier of wide Lily died lie had lived a life of Mr seclusion A man of very slm tastes and habits he had always tied notoriety In every form ordinary man of his character t have enjoyed a secluded life IforMr Smith It was a constant ef to live his own life In his own On his death It was announced be had left a fortune of more k 150000000 Tho embarrassment riches has literally followed him his grave Instantly a crowd of lives and claimants many of whom lid never known appeared on the le leii ii widow Is obliged to retain the I counsel and Instantly prepare ford ng for-d presumably bitter conflict rder that his dying wishes as ex Ised In his will may be carried out ltd undignified scramble for his lions every detail of his life will bole bo-le Into and this by expert lawyers J In no friendly spirit Mr Smiths ale benefactions were many and ed and his character will stand the I but It Is a situation which would e given him great pain in anttclpa I L 1 J r ll BfeCARJ wARMro PIl l R f l Rf S y01 5F 9 iii y 1 I t 1 p t F 1 1 t c r T nwof i 1oi1cs IFNra s wl ry v r A a v n r c Fo NDIcBN NAoY fi f r EERY URN The situation Is peculiarly a den of tho rich I Wards of the Rich I Is no exaggeration to say that rem of ° millionaires In New York In ler to gain privacy In their homes guarded flite as closely as any k siJ It Is literally true that the Sldent < t of the United States Is much le rrrm easy to IIroach by any onll citizen n than of eat many owners fortunes < It Is not generally own for Instance I that whereas any epbonl might call UII the President by CM0r at least the Wlllte rJse It Ib is Impossible to do the same e many New York millionaires tunes nam do of the possessors of great MM HI not appear In the tele hout directories < These men ore not telephono communication with i outsldo 1 Ie world but they choose to JSea j private In i Wires laid I to their order to avoid the annoy e or i er Words being continually rung up In re Isoated these houses are far e roM than tho Average prl residence and the Inconvenience Y lUust 81 endure la of couree obvious Nhlle hey can ring 1111 anyone they themselves cannot he called on tho telephone except by the chosen few who han their private numbers so that the seclusion works both nays In the mutter of personal mall again the possession of wealth and the notoriety It Inevitably brings Is a source of great Inconvenience The mall of a multimillionaire Is likely to bo so heavy that a secretary perhaps H considerable start of them must be employed to care for It This mall Is of course for the most part unso licited Mr Andrew Carnegie for In stance receives on an average from 400 to 800 letters a day making direct appeals for charity Ills own personal mall which Is naturally large Is not Included In this number Volume of Mall Varies The volume of Mr Carnegies mall varies curiously from season to season sea-son but It Is always enormous At a time when his name Is frequently bo fore the public the number of requests for charity rises quickly to its maximum maxi-mum while should his name not ap pear In the newspapers for some time the volume of such letters decreases but rarely below the 400 a day mark Tho frequent appearance of Mr Car necles name In connection with the recent peace conference served to raise the number of letters to Its max imum or about 800 a day The amount of actual hard work which such a correspondence cor-respondence entails Is of course very great The number of personal applications applica-tions which a man of great wealth Is favored with Is also a surprise Like the letters they represent all classes of society of want and destitution The proportion of regular beggars is comparatively small This class of applicants Is likely to he awed by the general appearance and atmosphere of such homos There Is an army however I how-ever of men and women representing a state of genteel poverty besides the cranks who would male some absurd appeal The door bells of many of thesu elaborate establishments ring continually throughout the day and night The methods employed of disposing Mr posing of such callers varies Carnegie for Instance denies himself uses to all strangers but his butler card to whether a his judgment as The Bhould be taken to a secretary method of handling chance callers Is Ingenious The outer door opens Into vestibule Should the a shallow outer de individual In the brass buttons so through a Is ushered cide the caller s door at the side and up a short stair apartment where he case to a private In this secretary Is received by a way the visitor does not reach the main vestibule and In no way interferes Inter-feres with the privacy of the house Guarding Private Estates establishments of the The country must ugaln be even very wealthy J more carefully guarded A few years IID It was common for tho grounds of Brent estates to bo opened at certain hours at least to the public but today surh privileges are rarely granted In almost every case such places are completely walled In and tho various trances are closely guarded No matter how far from the mansion may bo the lodge > no ono Is permitted to enter until he has becn announced by telephone and permission has been ranted Mr Johh n Rockefeller for instance Is as closely guarded In his estate at Tarry town or In Cleveland as Is royalty From u person stopping before one of thebc entrances Is close ly I watched The estate of Mr George Gould at Lakewood Is guarded in tho same way while others might be cited A famous murder recently has dl rected attention to the very general use which Is made of private detec lives by people of great wcatl The fact comes ns a surprise to many So quiet u figure and so much beloved n character as Miss Helen Gould for Instance In-stance frequently employs private de ectlves as a safeguard against rob berg Many well haown millionaires go about accompanied by a gentleman lylooking detective who acts as a bodyguard In many cases these men are not employed so much to guard against robbery as to protect them incase In-case they should be threatened with actual bodily harm Should the mall of some wealthy man contain some threatening letter It is not uncommon for a detective to be called In and engaged en-gaged for a few days perhaps for a long period either to run down tho writer of the letter or to personally accompany tho wealthy man to and from his office Detectives Always on Hand Even In their most private social functions it is common for people of Il J criticised The white light which beats upon a throne Is turned on his slightest act The very possession of such great wealth serves antagonize n considerable proportion of the community com-munity and his most praiseworthy net Is attributed to ulterior motives perhaps per-haps to very selllsh nut unworthy ones One of tho most familiar instances In-stances of this Is the case of a mans man-s imo ranks among tho most liberal distributors dis-tributors of public benefactions In tho world today whose name Is on every ones tongue mot yet ho Is the subject of bitter attack and his benefactions are attributed to his desire to place certain securities III conservative hinds throughout the country It Is of course Impossible to please everyone every-one and the dissatisfied element arc certain to feel a bitterness In direct ratio to the size of the fortunes involved In-volved The diseases of the rich arc still another disturbing factor In this balance bal-ance It Is no exaggeration to place a number of distressing physical ills In this category Tho norvpus and mental strain of handling a great for lune Is exceedingly trying upon tho strongest organization It was Jay Gould who remarked during the excitement ex-citement of a great financial panic that a man controlling a fortune of 50000000 had no time cither to eat or sleep A man In active control ota ot-a great fortune Is obviously under a tremendous strain As a result cases of physical breakdown In Wall street are common and men young In years are often old In health I Kidnaping Plots It is only a short tlmo since a plot was revealed to kidnap John D Rockefeller Rocke-feller and hold him for the payment ot an Immense ransom Here is another danger which a man less conspicuous for his wealth avoids Tho case was 4l L i 6 i 13P q 11n met THEIOPENOPTNERIINPLAY t 6HHD BARRED 6Rr SUNDER J Coarnwr fopONlot J Ji p I 11 Ki A iSYHc5 RRP v4 a 4vvmpoTO19E RCHMANS r f i OP9CE great wealth to employ detectives sometimes several of them being on hand Some years ago Mrs A T Stewart appeared on the piazzas of summer hotels with a detective hovering hover-Ing within a few feet of her to safeguard safe-guard the fortune In diamonds sho wore Today things are differently managed but the necessity for protection pro-tection is none the less real Fashionable Fash-ionable weddings where a fortune In wedding gifts aio known to be collected col-lected are almost always policed It is common for a private detective agency to be called upon and the en tiro arrangement looking toward its protection placed in their hands Tho detective in charge goes over the ground and places his men long before the ceremony Some of the detectives will masquerade as guests In frock coats Still others may be disguised as servants Ono or more men will of course be on constant guard in the rooms where the presents are displayed dis-played Even the pleasure of distributing charities becomes a very complex and Irksome affair when the sum to he distributed reaches pqotmoug proportions propor-tions During ones lifetime at least It would seem that it would be an easy matter to dispose of money As a mutter of fact many men and women of great wealth are obliged to place their benefactions upon a regular business basis In order not to be robbed Several men of great wealth notably Mr Rockefeller are compelled to employ men at large salaries who are In turn assisted by staffs of chjrkH to examine Into the demands made upon them and after Investigation decide de-cide just how the money shall bo distributed It Is certainly no fun to enjoy the pleasure of giving at tho expense ex-pense of all this complicated and irksome Irk-some business detail Charity Misunderstood A man In the ordinary walks of life again who contributes to u church or endows a hospital or a college may be generally praised for doing so but for a man of great wealth It Is difficult to make any gift without being misunderstood misunder-stood perhaps severely and bitterly of course unusual but on tho other hand the fear of kidnaping hangs very heavily over the families ol the rich As a result the children of families fam-ilies of great fortune have as a matter mat-ter of fact less liberty than children of families In much poorer circumstances circum-stances The little heirs to great fortunes for-tunes cannot play In tho parks or even walk In the streets without a guard of some sort They must bo constantly watched Even In the country this surveillance Is continued At scores of great estates throughout the country coun-try the gates are closed to the publican public-an the ground that the children who I 1 ate playing about would bo cndan j gered I The fear of blackmail again is i much more general than Is generally 1 supposed The mall of practically all men of great wealth constantly brings I them threats of every possible kind 1 Tho person who attempts blackmail 1 may have no Incriminating knowledge i whatever In most cases he probably has not but the menace Is none the less disconcerting A considerable part of tho public I Is always ready to believe the worst of men In high places and u clever blackmailer may I I do incalculable harm j I Our great modern fortunes again are often umaHKcd with amazing rap I idity It has never before In history I been possible to accumulate such wealth In so short a period It Is forgotten I gotten that there Is another sldo to this situation and that the danger of losing such fort lilies Is correspondingly corresponding-ly I great Tho llnanclerB while they make enormouK gains must also face frightful lotBCh Scores of men might lie mentioned who have risen to great wealth In a few yearn only to fall again and be forgotten The experience experi-ence of James It Keene for Instance who has several times been worth millions mil-lions and ut other times been millions In debt bus many counterparts on a smaller scale The struggle for wealth Is so frantic and the element of chance so great In the manipulation of great sums of money thut It Is perhaps more difficult to retain money than to ac quite It |