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Show MEN OF WEALTH HIDE. Millionaires Seek Seclusion From Importunate Callers. Many New York millionaires hnvo secluded prlvnto ofllccs In downtown buildlngB whero they mny not be disturbed dis-turbed by callorB with schemes or Importunities for donations. Cornelius Vnudorbllt's retreat Is about as largo as a hall bedroom. Its only furniture furni-ture Is a desk a safe, a chair and a waste paper basket. C. T. Yerkes, when In the metropolis, escapes Into a small office hidden away In tho upper up-per Btory of n lower Broadway building. build-ing. He was n tenant fourteen months before the Janitor found out who bo wns. His nnme is not on the door, ho lias no clerk there nnd tho furniture furni-ture consists of a deBk and a chair. No wonder tho Janitor grew suspicious suspi-cious nnd asked the landlord one dny if "that Mr, Yurks paid his rent." |