Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — Men or Many Millions. [ARTICLE]

Men or Many Millions.

Armour the packing king is worth 450,060,000. Mackay and Fair are said to be worth 450,000,000 each. Editor Abell is said to have made $5,000,000 out of the Baltimore Sun. The revenue Claus Spreckels derives from sugar has been as high as SIB,OOM a day. I Lucky Baldwin’s wealth is estimated] $30,000,000 and his income at a milliot a year. Weightman, the Philadelphia chemis owns $20,00,090, made mostly out o quinine and mortgages. Carnegie, of Pittsburg, is worth S2O, 000,000 and pays his foreman a salar equal to that of the President of th* United States. • Leland Stanford once thought he waif doing well when’he made $1,500 out <i lawyer’s fees. Now he is worth fror t 450,000,000 to 4100,000,000. Isaiah Williamson, of Philadelphia the richest bachelor in the Unite States, has made $20,000,000 out of dry goods, and has an income « of annually to dispose of. Rockefeller, the coal oil baron, worth $70,000,000 and as it is pool ? standard oil stock which doesn’t palyC more than 10 per cent, his income mu-» be half a million a month at least. 1 J