Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — The Richest Man in the World. [ARTICLE]

The Richest Man in the World.

(New York Dispatch.] Tn an interview with a reporter of the New York Morning Jfewt, W. H. Vanderbilt said: “I believe I am the richest man in the world. In England the Duke of Westminster is said to be worth $200,000,000, bnt it is mostly in land* and houses. It does not yield him 2 per cent. A year from now I shall be worth moro than $200,000,000 and will have an income equal to 0 per cent, on that amount.” He owns 980,840‘shares of railway stock, valued at $88,760,030, his railway bonds amount to $26,867,420, he bolds $73,680,in Government and a trifle of $6,000,(00 in other securities the aggregate wealth of this Midas being $201<332,413. And the snow-ball rolls on.