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Show RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WOBXD The first Impression obtained from a study of . the wealthy Is that the richest rich-est of them have founded and built up their own fortunes. They were pioneers, pio-neers, turning into riches what before was untllled. According to James Burnley, the English author, the Individuals Indi-viduals endowed with the greatest possessions pos-sessions all began poor. They head the list of names which he chose, and ranked as follows, giving also their source of wealth, their homes and the amount of their fortunes: Alfred Belt, diamonds, London, $500,-000 $500,-000 000. ' J. B. Robinson, gold and diamonds, London, 1400,000,000. J. D. Rockefeller, oil,- New York, $250,-000,000. $250,-000,000. W. W. Astor, land, London, $200,000,-000. $200,000,-000. Prince Demidoff, land, St. Petersburg. $200,000,000. Andrew Carnegie, steel, New York, $125,000,000. W. K. Vanderbilt, railroads. New York, $100,000,000. William Rockefeller, oil. New York, $100,000,000. J. J. Astor, land, New York, $75,000,-000. $75,000,-000. Lord Rothschild, money lending, London. Lon-don. $75,000,000. Duke of Westminster, land, London, $75,000,000. V 'J. Plerpont Morgan, banking, New York. $75,000,000. Lord Iveagh. beer, Dublin, $70,000,000. Senora Isldora Cousino, mines and railroads, Chile, $70,000,000. M. Heinke, silk, Paris, $70,000,000. Baron Alphonse Rothschild, money lending, Paris, $70,000,000. Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, money lending, Vienna, $70,000,000. Archduke Frederic of Austria, land, Vienna, $70,000,000. 1 George J. Gould, railroads, New York, $70,000,000. Mrs. Hetty Green, banking. New York, $50,000,000. James H. Smith, banking. New York, $50,000,000. Duke of Devonshire, land, London. $50,000,000. Henry O. Havemeyer, sugar, New York. $50,000,000. John Smith, mines, Mexico, $45,000,000. Claus Spreckels, sugar, San Francisco. Francis-co. $40,000,000. Archbishop Conn, land, Vienna, $40,-000.000. $40,-000.000. ' Russell Sage, money lending. New York, $25,000,000. Sir Thomas Llpton, groceries, London. Lon-don. $25,000,000. Belt, Robinson and Rockefeller. It may thus be seen, have amassed greater great-er riches In their chosen fields than those born to great estates and reared with the sole view to Increasing them. They have outstripped the heads of such houses as the Rothschilds, the As-tors, As-tors, the Vanderbilts and the titled men of wealth of England, with their ancestral ances-tral square miles of lands. |