Show WHERE THE FORTUNES ARE Some attention has been attracted to the statement that one fifty persons in the United States own nearly one- one half of or the Ute wealth ot or the nation It is interesting to note nole what those fortunes fortunes for tunes tunc are how ho the they were derived A careful scrutiny of the tho table appearing ap ap- ap- ap in a recent Issue of tho the Congressional Con gressional Record makes clear that oil has been the greatest producer of wealth Nine hundred and ten million millions mil niH- lions lion of dollars represent oil fortunes Finance is is- credited with the thenet next net biggest accumulation HO Just what Is meant by finance r anti and wherein it differs from banking is not clear Two hundred mill and t ton ten ll mill millions ons arc hel held b by Inheritance All AIl the rest out of ur three and a quarter billions of money manor seems to have e a been accumulated by br the tho present holders i ir Only two colossal fortunes 8 have ha been l made atle in the newspaper business bustness bust busi ness so 50 far as tho the government report goes gocs Joseph Pulitzer owner and publisher of the Now ew York World and of tho the St. St Louis Post Dispatch and James Jamos Gordon Bennett or the tho ew York Herald are credited with twenty millions each Pulitzer certainly certain made matle his in the newspaper business if Ie ho made malle It at all He lie had hall no fortune fortune for for- tune when he ho bought ht the St SL Louis paper and antI ho has hM been Immensely successful ever m since since now now a about out t twenty eight wen years ears One brewer brower Is placed in ill twenty twenty- I million clans Frederick class Frederick Pabst t of II Milwaukee One Senator Ono Senator Clark Clarl i charges his success to copper Most of ut the big fortunes arc are owned b by New York men A few only are Western estern The rue Field boys bors are of Chicago origin but they have havo been taken aken even een to England to be educated Ogden Osden Armour is of Chica Chicago o. o Claus I is Ii of San Francisco P. P A. A B. B Widener Is of Philadelphia John W. W Gates was of 01 Illinois but ho lie is IIo probably ably a n resident ent of New York YorI now I |