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Show MILLIONAIRE'S LIFE ONEOfjlARD TOIL Nine Out of Ten Work faster and Longei than Do Mechanics Gould Works fastest of All. Nine out of ten millionaire, work harder than mechanics or day laborers. Men who know theic intimately say that the pace set by llif big tin an- ciers would kill an artisan in a month were be to attempt, to follow it. True, h" doe not get around to his offiro at T or -S' o'clock, lut when bo do4 ! set foot in his place of buinr-ss ho is kyed U: work at the speed of an cxpres.- train. 1 IMi--t'orf r. there i3 not a moment of inaction. md until Ifd time his mind is at work getting things ready fo the next day. Even then he docs not always stop. For. instance, in-stance, James Stillman, president of tho Xatioua' City bank of New York, ha.s a telephone at ths head of his bvj and it is there for use. His business busi-ness associates art! not surprised to he called up at any hour of the night for consultation. Business' Busi-ness' is business for Mr. Stillman at 4-a. m. just as it i-i at 10. He i in his office an hour before the bank opens and rarely leaves .before luncheon being 'served at his desk and eaten between be-tween answers to the telephone. Reads Three Eushels of Mail. Surely an. expert correspondent would not env;. August Belmont bis "snap." He insists on r ailing ail-ing all his letiers personally, and opens every dav . more than thrtv buhel baskets of mail to be urp no suggestion may escape him. Th- ninny sided character of the man will bring him a suggestion from an outsider for a change in tho color scheme of a subway station, a report of a financial nature, an estimate on construction, then a protest, fol- lowed, perhaps, by an offer for a racehorse. In the building of the $:5,0).U0O subway' not. a thing is done until it has leon passed upon by Mr. Belmont, whether it means tho expenditure of 1 cent or $1,000,000. He started out with the theory that if he began to hand the small details over to .his subordinates it would not be long before their ideas of trifles would grow and large questions ! would be settled withont-hio knowledge. As presi- dent of; a rapid transit company, a construction company, a national bank, a realty company, and a jockey club, director in five railroads, a .life insurance insur-ance company, seven banks, a trust , company, a race track, and nineteen other concerns, mercantile, mercan-tile, manufacturing and transportation, he has no idle moments. Where would a mechanic be who should attempt to keep. the affairs of all these concerns straight in his head for a month? Yet Mr. Belmont ha found time to make himself the authority in the east on the breeding of horses. Gould "Works Tastest of AIL George J. Gould is another millionaire with an extraordinary capacity for work. In fact, it is an accepted fact that Mr. Gould can accomplish more work in a given time than any other financier, simply sim-ply because of his grasp of details and his wond"ir- fully accurate memory. From the prices of ties and spikes and the lasting qualities of the different-woods different-woods to the capacity, condition, and strategical ' importance of every railroad in the United State-. he is so thoroughly informed that he can and generally gen-erally does make his decisions seemingly on impulse. im-pulse. But if the truth were known it would probably prob-ably be found that thpy were the result of deliberations delibera-tions at I.akewood. He seldom-is in his office mor than three days a week, but when he enters, which is by 10 o'clock if he is going to be there, he i ready to go through an astounding mass of busi- ness. He proceeds as fast as three secretaries can follow him. and then is ready to discuss questions of policy with his cabinet. 31r. Gould believes th collective mind of his advisers works better and more surely during luncheon. By following this ', seemingly joyous but really strenuous course Mr. Gould has increased the (5,000 miles of railroad left by his father a dozen years ago to 16,000, and doubled his personal wealth. Handles Standard Oil Policies. IT. -IT! Rogers, vice president of the Standard ; Oil company, once said: "The richer a man 'get the Ies3 he knows what he has unless he works to protect it.7 Acting on that principle no detail has been too small, no labor too arduous, no hour too long for him, and at 72 the same passion for work possesses him. It is his custom to bury himself him-self iu his office at f) o'clock in the morning. Usually Usu-ally he remains until ," p. m., but it not infrequently infrequent-ly happens tluit midnight finds him there. Ali policies poli-cies of the Standard Oil and its allied properties, all plans of extensions, absorption or suppression, ..all increases and decreases in the prices of oils, and all agreements with transportation companies are under his direction. And as a hirire part of the Bockefellcr holdings arc in copper Mr. Kogers is identified with the mining 'industry.'" j A man working with almost as much speed 33 George Gould is E. II. Harriman. who caused the , Northern Pacific corner by his fight with J. Pier-pont Pier-pont Morgan, and who controls 20,000 miles- of railroad. Knowing almost, every inch of the United States, in so far as it affects railroading, his forte is strategy, and he relies on this to make him the railroad kiag of the United States. Sharp and incisive, in-cisive, the man who gains admittance to him needs have his questions on his tongue's tip. for. if he j ; ' hesitates Mr. Harriman will prod him along. I Among other men who are in the class with ; those named are J. J. Hill, who has capacity, for j j ; 'work in keeping with his great deptl of chest; if John Arbiicklo,. the sugar man ; W. E. Corey, presi- : dent of the steel trust; and John W. Gates, who ; : . spent his forenoons last summer in his office keep- i ing other speculators guessing, his afternoons at the race tracks unnervin gthe bookmakers, and his ; nights on his yacht concocting spectacular plans "for the morrow. Surely the path of the millionaire is not a boulevard. bou-levard. , |