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Show i MONEY K! 1 'THE xXOOr Tl-tC OeSMAN COAL" jjflY HE BOILT A PLCeirOP HlP-S esajBssjBBBBjsjjgH f-TA-.ez -Ti-ie. minIs IVaaBsaKjl MsDBA 7 I vchj l-u co"ic aaaHfcJriaJaH ocabiNo eo rzyjrzi siiil. ' S E staff special.) BERLIN. Hugo Stlnnea, the "gold I kaiser" of Germany, Is soon going to America. In announcing his Intention, jStinncg said: "I believe there are many ways in i which American and German imliistr can co-operate, and that end 1 will seek." Stinnes Is the man who nearly broke up the Spa conference when he shook his tlst at Premier MUlerand of Franco and said- "The allies won't get tho I German coal they want; no, sir, not even if they station soldiers at the mouth of every pit I own." Stinnes is the Gorman coal king, possessor of 8,000,000,090 marks, owner own-er of 70 newspapers and dictator of a gigantic chain of Industries. He Is termed 'the than if the hour" in Germany, lie surpasses the cx-koiser cx-koiser In the magnitude of his schemes,. Just before he war Stinnes and o-ssociatcs bought mines in England and Turkey and were reach lug out to pick up collerles In Virginia, "Coal is the true king." ho told Premier Pre-mier Lloyd George of tJreat Britain, just after haklhg l is fist at sflllerscnd. "From coal you go cm to Iron and steel, and then to ships and l u.sU, wood pulp and papei lie was born to tin- coal business.. He Inherited 9.000.000 francs from his' father, and his activitir;i In tbj coal market when only 80, threw him into' association with the great steel and icoal magnate. August Thyssen. Stinnes was 34 when he bought up the coal und Iron interests in the : Dutch-Luxembourg regions. Tn the following fol-lowing eight years their value rose from 20,000,400 to 130.000.0o marks. SE1 Ks sl . M s f 1 K . ! Then he built a fleet of ships and i boasted ho would shortly control the German merchant murine. Next he added 11 competing street railways in Mannheim to his holdings !and he took over 250 miles of car lines In other cities. Stlnn. 1 expected German defeat in (the war. and so played both ends against the middle, realizing colossal 'profits. Stinnes is leader of the People's tparty of Germany, and J member Of 'the Reichstag, lie undermines the In-j fluence of trade unions upon his em-1 ployes by granting larger increases of! I'u) than are asked for. When his miners demanded his mines, ho Mid, "Take them, but you'll beg mo to return.'" Stinnes was born in 1870 at Mul-, Mul-, helm, not far from Dusseldorf. His f i er was of pure Teutonic blood, while his mother was French. I Temperamentally, stinnes is a democrat, dem-ocrat, explosive and endowed with an impish humor. His domestic life is; simple and devoted! ills wife Is a woman wo-man of rare charm and capacity,! whose father was a wealthy German i trader. He has six children. two daughters and four sons. |