Show PITHY PERSONAliTIES AN A INSIDE VIEW VIE OF WAll ILL STREET Adams In the Boston News flure Bure says Like the Anthony N. N Brady fortune that tbs of L. L V. V Harkness the Standard Oil mula j tI U who died the other day ha ha hail been generally g underestimated It wa wai 81 I of course known to be very large 1 Yet et probably few people outside of his colleagues col leagues in business thought It would exceed ex the hundred million dollar limit ma which which it does But Harkness was one of the old guard at 26 Broadway His accumulation therefore was a a. matter matte of years r j And the he scant comment on the great fortune he left heft show how little such matters matters mat mat- are thought of these days even b hI hIthe bya the general public The truth is that when the public appraises appraise the estate ot of the ultra rich it is accustomed to use sensational sensational sen- sen sen-J sen figures How many of ot our Wall Wail street multimillionaires multi multi- millionaires by the way dreamed In the earlier years that they would ever amass amas anything like the vast wealth they possess pos pos- pos pos-J sess seas today Did John D. D Rockefeller Inthe in inthe the lOs look forward ward to achieving the distinction dis dis- of 01 being the richest man in the world only thirty years later Probably not Yet Tet Rockefeller Is worth nearer a aI al billion than five hundred millions Hi His I confreres in Standard Oil which coins money almost as as' a fast as the governments government's mints were comparatively poor when the thai Centennial was celebrated in 1876 Now William Villiam Rockefellers Rockefeller's wealth is placed at I at least James Tames Stillmans Stillman's at more than John D. D Archbold's at over And so on down the thai line i And outside of 1 the s Standard a Oil It of I course are a few money lords whose fortunes for tor- for for-f tunes in the same period of time have risen from comparatively nothing when Wall street was small td s gates 3 S Both James Tames J. J Rill Hill and George F. F Baker Ba- Ba Ba 1 ker for Instance are estimated to b be worth each a couple of hundred millions with their fortunes piling up and expand i ling Ing for money begets money by leaps and bounds in this new era of marvelous growth of ot industry and Increment And what of ot Henry C C. Frick Well if it report speaks truly the former coke king Is one of the men whose wealth is 18 much underrated underrated under under- rated at anything below the hundred mil lion mark Rich Men Love Birds Every rich man has his hobby John Di Rockefellers Rockefeller's hobby is the creation of a a magnificent estate that will give his de de- a a. home and delight a century hence Henry Fords Ford's pacifist and multimillionaire multi multi- multi 1 millionaire Is is it is said birds Some- Some I Continued on page 11 PITHY PERSONALITIES Co Continued froth from page g 10 x where on th the automobile mans man's estate Is Isan Isan isan an aviary that contains mainly doves lo Alother Another Another An An- other millionaire who has lias like bird predilections Is Commodore E E. C. C Benedict uA At Greenwich Conn Coun his summer home that J S ta tarry ry veteran of ot the summer sea In liu tends I 1 am told to convert his fine es estate u. u tate Into a home for his hi feathered leathered friends of the air all that will Jook look upon the one hand out on Long Lone Island Sound and upon the other into that delight of ot birds bird's a J background ac of ot beautiful woodland woodlan Greena Greenwich Greenwich Green- Green by Jho the tho Tay way Is ls al almost st as aa much of ot a a Meica M ca tor for the rich tv t. t a as Tarrytown and ton Irving on the Hudson n There the Rock Kock- r millions J. J are but most Th There rt t ur by Percy A A. too loo Edmund F c C. Converse Converge former ted steel to which magnate he devotes devotee has a ni estate the best befit part of ot his t time m Schwab Not Sensitive S1 The Way In which Mr Schwab can hold hIs sChoolboy vitality joke like a I over hi his own I and drive with a million horsepower his Be energy Bethlehem I one or the wonders Bonders rn of ot Uon makes hl him I the Industrial al World Thursday evening Iw he was th last j speaker cr at the Waldorf aldorf publishers publishers' 1 banquet and was to attentively by the Only man In the United States who matches him In business push and cU entel enterprise rise Theodore N Vail Vall N. N I w wit WH Mr f and Vail Schwab Schwab's h enjoyed b. b s e wit 1 Murphys Murphy's rurh and wisdom s d matchless tc Only Si great tat eat men can an laugh ugh at themselves Caruso Ca Ca- ruso draws draw his own caricatures Schwab tells good on himself The success of ot o American steel enter- enter Carnegie Steel United States Steel Corporation and Bethlehem Bethlehem have have crowned Charles M. M Schwab the great great- est eat steel man of ot the world When flatteringly flat flat- Introduced Thursday evening he c compared himself to the man he ftc met in Europe Europa crowded with decorations from shoulder to shoulder yet rend read ready to admit that the first me medal al In that line was received re re- re by mistake e and all aU the others came because he had received that one Schwab told of his former steel boss In Bill BUI Jones declarIng concerning con con- the new steel methods method Charley Chancy this damned chemistry Is going to spoil spun S the steel business here vel Very few people who heard Mr Schwab ever thought of him as a chemist and yet et the attic of ot Schwab's mother could S tell i a a. story of or doIngs with acids bases S Sand and ana to determine the mysteries SS S of ot the molecular construction of ot steel But from 7 the atomic chemistry and financial i andS alchemy Schwab's grasp re caches i-caches s S up up to the greatest principles an anti and he lie told hl hh his hearers frankly tha that the world would yet J have ve to fec recognize that In national i S defense and In low cost of oC steel th the SI greatest business Was tas the latest greatest eco eco- I nomy i Is Big Figure I 1 As betwixt Charles M. M r. r Schwab the speaker speak and Theodore N. N Vail Van the lis us- us I tener Thursday evening It would be difficult dif dif dif- to say which was the greatest business busi bust ness driver driver Schwab Schwab In the chemistry of steel UH or Theodore h or N N. Va Vail VaU In ln th the chemistry chem chem- of or electric communication Theodore tf N Vail Vall started with Bell In tn inthe the telephone development and he Is with i It when human voices talk acro across ss the continent and When wien over the ocean telephony tele tele- I phony phon as he told his friends PrivatelY Thursday evening is now within sight I Mr Vail Vall says the the Atlantic and the PacIfic Pa Pa- long distance line was not built to pay a full commercial return on the In investment investment in- in vestment but it is doing more In that line than was expected Developments l hero here do not Indicate yet the possibility of telephoning with London or Paris un un- un- un den der the ocean But the outlook u is rr s good for the wireless l telephone I n bringing I Eu- Eu ro voice contact with America |