THE TWO MILLIONAIRES.

NZ Truth, Issue 60, 18 August 1906, Page 5

THE TWO MILLIONAIRES.

A millionaire named Alfred Beit Pegged out; and the rich got a frights "Why it might have heen me!" "He was just fifty-three!" And they thought for the rest pS that night ! . Now things (as it happened) with Beit In the next world appear pretty right For he left L. s. d.— Mot to you or to me. But to charity— so he was white i Now the other of whom I shall sing Was a millionaire stockholding "kino-." Like our friend Alfred Beit, He went out t'other, night— As the bards say, "his spirit took wing."His name lives on Capital's vage— A Yankee they called Russell Sage.,Twenty millions or more He left on this shore — Great Scott !— he must be m a rage I; And he can't get up now and come back, Nor watch 'his big pile go to wrack 5 How wild he must feelHe's wot three tons of steel On top— without even a, crack I : Oh, yes, he's fixed down all serene; I He's left this remarkable scene ; I He is taking a spell— ! Where? I realhj- can't tell : But he never left poor folk a bean ! ■