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4 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. XEW-YOUK TRIBUNE ILL! STILVTiM) SUPPLEMENT. 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