New-York tribune. [volume], November 13, 1904, Page 4, Image 56

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THIS IS HOW THE HAGUE ARBITRATION PALACE, THE GIFT OF ANDREW CARNEGIE TO TILE WHOLE
WORLD, WILL LOOK WHEN COMPLETED.
fm na a composite photograph which may be
talien as a type.
The first impression obtained from a study
..• wealthy is that the richest of them have
founded and built up their own fortunes.
Th / were pioneers, turning into riches what
.. was untilled. According to James Burn
the English author, the Individuals en
lo .1 with the greatest possessions all began
They head the list of names which he
, ar.J ranked as follows, giving also their
t ;: t-e of wealth, their homes, and the amount
sir fortune:
Alfred Beit, diamonds. London, $500,000,000.
J. B. Robinson, gold and diamonds, London,
.-: ■ ►.000,000.
J. D. Rockefeller, oil, New-York, $250,000,000.
W. \V. Astor, land, London, $200,000,000.
I rtnee Demidoff, land, St. Petersburg, $200,
<;:■ >.<i'vo.
Andrew Carnegie, steel, New-York, $125,000.-
O.'»O.
W. K. Vanderbilt, railroads, New-York, $100,
00 MXJO.
William Rockefeller, oil. New-York. $100,000.
oo<».
J. J. Astor, land, New-York, $75,000,000.
Lord Rothschild, money lending, London,
$75,000,000. I
Duke of Westminster, land, London, $75,000,
00* '.
J. Pierpont Morgan, banking, New-York, $75,
000.000.
Lord Iveagh, beer, Dublin. .$70,000,000.
: - "or a Isidora Ccusino, mines and railroads.
Chili, $70,000,000.
M. Heine, silk, Paris. $70,000,000.
Caron Alphonse Rothschild, money lending,
P^ris. $70,000,000.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild, money lending,
Vienna, $70,000,000.
Archduke Frederick of Austria, land, Vienna
$ 70,000.000.
George J. Gould, railroads, New-York $70-
OMOOO. ' '
James J. Hill, railroads, New-York, $70,
0 >.000.
Ilia. Hetty Green, banking, New-York, $55.
•K>O,OOO.
James 11. Smith, banking, New-York, $50,
0 ■ >.000.
Duke of Devonshire, land, London, $50
003,000.
Duke of Bedford, land, London. $50,000,000.
Henry O. Ilavemeyer, sugar, New-York, $50
01 >,000.
John Smith, mines, Mexico, $45,000,000.
Claus Spreckels, sugar, San Francisco, $40,
000,000.
Archbishop Conn, land, Vienna, $40,000,000.
Russell Sage, money lending. New-York, $25,
0000,000.
Baroness Burdett-Coutts, banking. London,
$2;">,000,000.
Sir Thomas Lipton. groceries, London. $25
fVIO.OQO.
Belt. Robinson and Rockefeller, it may thus be
seen, have amassed greater riches in their chosen
i Ids than those born to great estates an.i
reared with the sole view to Increasing them.
They have outstripped the heads of such houses
as the Rothschilds, the Astors, the Vanderbilta,
ar.d the titled men of wealth of England, with
their ancestral square miles of lands.
An element common to the character of each of
these three men is a constant, powerful, untir
ing desire for gain. It us a purpose which they
boast of. They may not know human nature
l.alf as well as some dramatists, but, unlike the
playwright, they do not waste their talent on
what they regard as Impractable things. Before
his son's Sunday school class, at the Fifth
Avenue Baptist Church, of this city, Mr. Rocke
feller once said: "I believe it is a religious duty
to set all the money you can." To Cecil Rhodes,
his associate in the diamond business at Kir- ]
berley, Mr. Belt said: "My sole pleasure is the |
making of money. I once found Joy in spend- 1
Lng it, but that wa3 before I called myself rich." I
Mr. Carnegie baa acknowledged that at one time
Coating ! en eleventh uajca.
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THIS IS HOW THE MAIS' STAIRCASE OF TIIF. MUUTftATIAN itlin »
WHEN CGMP^TCD TIIE UAGUE WILL L °°*
HAGUE PEACE PA LACK.
Plan* for Andrew Camcaie's (rift
to the World Decided On.
The Hague. Nov. 7. — Final decision has at last
been reached concerning the Carnegie P*ac«
Palace. The announcement was made th- other
day that the Dutch government had porcbaaad
a plot of land situated at the eastern end of The
Hague, behind the Botanical Gardens, to be
given to the Carnegie committee. Following
that it was officially announced that the future
palace of arbitration would be built on the plan
of the Brussels Palace of Justice, of which It
will be an exact copy on a smaller scale.
The estimated of*?t of the peace pa'are La
$1,040,000, or about one-fifth the amount ex
pended on the Brussels Palace of Justice. Mr.
Carnegie's original offer, on April 22. 10ft.?. wa3
$1,500,000. Doubtless he will supply the rest
The general appearance of the palace r.o-.v aboat
to be erected will be that of a capitoL The
style of the building will be classical, or Greco-
Roman, a3 it is called here.
The edifice will consist of a main r
flanked at each end by a forepart, ar. 1 with a
spacious central portico as the prtadpaJ en
trance. A double row of columns will rise to the
right and left of this portico, and behin 1 them
a large monumental staircase leading to the
principal audience room, where the Court of