Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1897 — From Small Beginnings to Wealth. [ARTICLE]

From Small Beginnings to Wealth.

New York lias two remarkable Albany boys. Anthony Brady may be said to have no official residence a.nd no legal home. 1 do not know where his washing Is done, but he pays taxes neither in Albany nor New York, says a New York exchange. His Interests here, however, nre enormous, and ids wealth is estimated at betwen $25,000,000 and $30,000,000. He used to l»e a bar man In the Dclavan House, Albany. John A. McCall, president of the Now York Life Insurance Company, a handsome nnd dignified executive, practically controls the disposition of $150,000,000. In other words, he could lend that amount of money to the Government. Ills salary is said to be now SIOO,OOO a year. McCall lu his salad days was janitor of the State House at Albany.