Show imiri I iceWEALTHy MEJV OF V TODAY I into re the 1 Is admitted that we are the rich surer I Ipeople in the world todaythe 1st people the world has ever says Cleveland Moffatt in Suc The vaunted wealth of Croesus ktlmated lit only 8000000 but are seventy American estates J average 35000000 each As ling the rapid growth of Individ fortunes In this country there Is lest In a list of rich men printed 155 according to which New York at that time boasted only twenty I millionaires And a pamphlet shed some years earlier says that i45 Philadelphia could show only estates val ed at 1000000 or 1 the richest being that of Ste j Girard which reached 7000000 ontrast to which In 1892 there over 200 millionaires In ihila hlato to New York city the numbers Is millionaires according to best Imation is over 2000 while the her of millionaires In the United acted es is at least 5000 or half the with number In the world There Is Corn family alone at the head of which em Eds the richest and most powerful I In the world John D Rockefeller and tho wealth of this family Is estimated esti-mated at 1000000000 a sum so huge that tho human mind quite falls to grasp It a sum so huge that If at tho birth of Christ Rockefeller had been making a dollar a minute and had let all these dollars accumulate day and night for all these centuries he would not yet 1900 have amassed 1000 000000 And If Rockefeller should today turn his wealth into gold coin and take it out of the country say into Canada he would carry across the border three times as much gold as would then remain In the United States Nor would he carry It himself him-self for the weight of It would be 1750 tons And If he loaded It on the backs of porters each man bearing his own weight In solid gold say 150 pounds It would require 23000 men to move It And If they walked ten feet apart tho line of them would reach fortyfour miles and would occupy oc-cupy fifteen hours In passing a given point None of which takes any account ac-count of the dally Interest on this fortune for-tune which Interest If paid In gold would require the strength of seven men to carry It for It would weigh 1000 pounds Such are the riches of a single family |