Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — The Richest Man in New York. [ARTICLE]

The Richest Man in New York.

New York Press. You may see John Jacob Astor almost any fine afternoon taking a slow and measured walk up Broadway. Ho is a six-footer, with a Dutchman’s heavy figure, burly in proportions but not fat; and has a well-seasoned face, on which the only hirsute” adornment is a heavy mustache. This is the man who gave $25,000 out of tho Asters’ VVorld’s Fair project in Nesv York. He ls just now hun:amg'li''lnlle"arrd a’ half of houses in the upper part of the city on the East Side. He owns blocks and blocks of houses already, and i 9 counted about the best landlord in New York. His tenants pay the extreme price, but they never have to a9k twice to have necessary repairs made. There is anoth r [peculiarity about the Astor operations. They never allow any one to beat them down on rent. The price at which any house is to be rented is set down in plain figures. You can’t get it for a dollar less, though it stands idle for years. Its being vacant may bring about an investigation to see if the price should be lowered, but until the figures are changed on the renting book you can’t get it.