We take from the Westminster Gazette a short list which
seems to us to bear directly on the new attitude of the West. It is an account, derived ultimately, we presume, from the taxing offices, of the wealth of the millionaires in New York State :— John D. Rockefeller ..£25,000,000 John Jacob Astor -El 0,000,000
William Waldorf F. W. Vanderbilt 7,000,000 Astor 21,000,000 George W. Vander- Jay Gould Estate 20,000,000 hilt Russell Sage 1S,000,000 Percy R. Pyna and Cornelius Vander- Mrs. Pyne bilt 16,000,000 H. 0. Havemoyer & William K. Vander- Mrs. Havemeyer bilt 15,000,000 M. Singer Estate Henry M. Flagler 12,000,000 J. Pierpont Morgan William Rockefeller 12,000,000 Robert Goelet
Moses Taylor Schermerhorn Es- Estate ....... 10,000,000 tate 5,000,000
And thirteen more with four millions apiece. These millions, again, are not invested in British Consols, but in undertakings which produce on an average more than 6 per cent.
6,000,1[00 6,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 5.000.000 5,000,000
