Amador Ledger-Dispatch, Volume 1902, Number 24, 24 January 1902 — When Will a Man Be Too BlchT [ARTICLE]

When Will a Man Be Too BlchT

What will eventually be the limit of individual wealth? Half a century back "ten thousand a year" was considered to be a vast fortune. Then "fifty thousand a year" was the phrase commonly used to describe the Income of fabulously rich men or women. Later we took to , speakiug of "millionaires." In quite recent times the "multimillionaire" with twenty millions had reached the limit of private wealth; then forty millions. Now the limit has risen to a hundred millions, and already the word "billionaire" has come into use In the United States. Will the multlbilllonaire ever replace the multimillionaire?— London Standard.