SIHPLOADS OF MILLIONAIRES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 281, 21 November 1908, Page 3

SIHPLOADS OF MILLIONAIRES.

Tlu* Lu«itania, during a recent trip from .Liverpool to New York, had on Board eleven millionaires, while more than li score of her ohter passengers were estimated to .be worth not less than half a million apiece. Even this record, however, was beaten sonii.' lilll" lime hack, by auuthrr L'uuarder, which brought over lo Ivagland J. I). .Rockefeller, Charles 11. Schwab, and J. il'ierpont Morgan, these three alone being estimated to be wurth in the aggregate between £150,000,000 and £200,000,000.

Then, .too, there was the case of the 1i.31.-S. Celtic, which was chartered m IS)O*J to take a party 01 some 200 Amevl- ' can money-kings for a cruise from Xew York to l ; he Mediterranean and back. Uf course, not every one of Uicie wa-i, strictly speaking, a millionaire, hut they were all very wealthy people, their aggregate fortunes being estimated at thy time to be well in excess of £100.000,000

Their departure excited considerable sensation, and tens of thousands of ■people assembled to see them off. Them was plenty of chalf, anil when the Celtic east loose' from her moorings, her bund played loudly the appropriate tune, "If You Ain't Got No .Money You Needn't Come Round"; while the one 011 the quay countered with, " We Don't Care ' If You Never Come Jiacl;." , Probably, however, the most, remarkable gathering of wealthy and titled j people ever seen together 011 any one ship, was that; which assembled 011 the' I'em.broko Cas(lc. at Copenhagen, on September l!)th, ISSX Amongst those; present were Queen Alexandra, the Ring and Queen of Denmark, file Kinperor mid Empress of Russia, the Krag ami (Jueen of ti recce, and the Imperial aid Royal children, numbering: twenty-nine, besides above a hundred distinguished guests' 'llOlll Britain, the latter including ifr. ami Mrs. Gladstone and Alfred Tennyson.