VALUELESS MILLIONS

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14773, 12 October 1921, Page 3

VALUELESS MILLIONS

SIR E. CASSEL'S SAD LIFE.

"You may have all the money In the world, yet be a lonely, sorrowing man.".

Thus, says a London correspondent under 'date of September 28, Sir Ernest Gassel —the great banker and philanthropist, who died on Thursday —shortly after the death of his beloved daughter some years ago, according to his published personal recollection.

"The light has gone out of my life. I live in this beautiful house, which is furnished with all the luxury and wonders that art could find, but I no longer value my millions or the pictures in my home. I have sat here for hours every night grieving for my daughter.''

Sir Ernest Cassel's daughter died at Bournemouth of consumpti6n at the age of '-',O. He had given scores of thousands for inquiry into tuberculosis and .cancer; but tins money did not avail to save the one person in the world most loved.

The specially built bungalow in which she died was completely removed and re-creclcd in his garden at Moulton Paddocks, Newmarket. He would sit for hours in it meditating. No other was allowed to approach it. lie sought happiness by devoting himself to his elder grand-daughter, Edwina, a god-daughter of the tale King Edward, who is the principal heiress.

Sir Ernest Cassel said there was nothing, even the greatest financial successes, in life to equal the love of a devoted wife, or the dejighl r.f a family of happy children. The things that were best and worth having money could not buy.