AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12730, 28 February 1910, Page 1

AMERICAN MILLIONAIRES.

.What may bo called the bad typo -l American millionaire is presented -i) the stage in "The Lion and the ■louse." .Something in the way of vpology for the better class of money..ings appeared at the close of last „ear in the San Francisco "Chronicle." In an article en the death or' ,ohn Stuart Kennedy that journal juid: — We hear of the peacock -eed and the mere showman and braggarts; and of those whose enterprises a - e too vast to be concealed; but tho :ch men whose names and good deeds •.re unknown arc the most numerous, i. her© are in the United states. some. .our hundred men worth one niilliort collars apiece, and of these tho number of national reputation does not go iiuch further than the Vanderbilts, moulds, Astors, Rockefellers, Morgans, Mackays, Havemeyers, Fields, Jelmonts, Whitneys, Loiters, Mills, -■octets, Loriliards, Carnegies and i-imours. Of these some are pluto.■rats; but ono may easily find names .niong them which represent the best juality of service to their fellows, and t is entirely safe to say that the .■.ajority- of the lesser, like some of ;iio greater Croesuses, are benefac.ois of the nation — men of whoso arecis tho land has right to boast «nd who set examples of industry, ..obriety, and sagacity to the oomaunities in which they live. Ib may jo that, under somo states of society, .iien decay because wealth accumulates; but it is not true of a society where there is a growing personal ambition, as there is among the millionaires of tho Uaiited States, to associate great possessions with nobi© .service.