THE TITANIC'S WEALTH.
A New Yorit cablegram in the Sydney Sun states that a rough of the total wealth 'represented by first class pa&sengers on the Titav.c places ilhe amount at upwards : f £100,000,000. The fortunes possessed by the inwst wealthy passengers ar. estimated as follows: Colonel J. J. Astor, £30,000,000; 'Benjamin Guggenheim, ;George Widener, son of the Philadelphia "Tract'on King," £10,000,000; Ls-idore Straus, dry goods merchant- and philanthropist, £10,000,000; J. Bruce Ismav, (managing director of the White Star Line, £8,000,000; Colonel Roeblin-?. (son of the ibuildei' of the Brook vn Bridge, £5.000,000. Other wealthy men among tilie THanic's paesen.'ers wore J, B. Thayer, vice-president o F the Pennsylvania (Railroad ; C'lare- ee 'MoorS, sori-in-law: of hj, iF: Swift, «he meat packer; and Charles Hf?.ys, P-e-----sident of tilio Canadian Grand .Trunk ißaijiro'ad.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10624, 1 May 1912, Page 4
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131THE TITANIC'S WEALTH. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10624, 1 May 1912, Page 4
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