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Show MANY MILLIONAIRES ABOARD. Half Billicn Dollar Represented in FiratClasa Passenger List of Titanic. New York. Untold wealth sun rep-esented rep-esented amonx the pagnpngers of the Titanic, there belns? on board at l'at six men each of wheme fortunes mlnht be rex koned lti tens of millions of dollars. dol-lars. A roiifih estimate of th total wealth represented in the Brat clasi passenger list would reach over half a ollllon dollars. The wealthiest of the lis! Is Colonel John Jacob Asior, bead of the famous house whose name he bears, mho is re putcd to ba worth $ir.0,ooo,ooo. Mr. As tor was returning from a tour of Kgypt with his bride, who wan Mlna Made-line Made-line Force, and whom he married in Providence on September 9. Benjamin Guggenheim, probably lext in financial Imiiortance, is the fifth of seven sons of Meyer f!ua-5en-iieim, who founded the American I Smelting and Refining company, ihe I great mining corporation, and is a dl-, rector of many corporations, inclu.Hrig the International Steam l'ump com-! pany, of which he is president. His j 'ortune is estimated at f '.',((' H (too. ,' i His wife, w hen? name doc-s not p- j j pear on the llHt. Is the daughter of, i lamea Heligman. the New York banker. j , (ieorge I). Widener Is the son of P. j . It. Widener, the Philadelphia "trw- : ion king," whose fo;tune la es. Imated ; : it $.iU.(i00,OOll. I Ixador Straus, one of New York's , moat prominent drygvtod nier.-bants j and notable for h.s phllnnihroi ieM, ; has a fortune estimated at I i"i i.nrm. j H" la a dlrw tor in various I i kv : 'mat companiea and harimhle inhtl-; ! .utlons. ' I J I truce Isinay, pie'den; nr-! one i of the founders of the International: j Mercantile Marine rem; any, ..o h is I ilays made it a cMotn to I t a pas , t wnger on the maiden rrli a' ewrr lew ahp h'lllt bv fie ,ij,i,rv, N n.ild I to be worth tln.'MKi.Oofl. |
