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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;midas1, post: 1183759, member: 21309&quot;]Thanks for the link.&nbsp; That&#039;s quite a lot of money.&nbsp; </p><p>According to the book William Vanderbilt was the richest man in the world in the early 1900s.</p><p>some tidbits from the book - one of the Vanderbilt wives (don&#039;t remember which one) entertained 10,000 guest a year for many years.&nbsp; </p><p>Mrs john Astor&#039;s ballroom in their house on Fifth Ave could accommodate 400 guests.&nbsp; Alva Vanderbilt wanted to out do Mrs Astor so </p><p>she had her husband (William K?) to build a new house on Fifth ave with a ballroom that accommodates 1,000 guests.</p><p>Some V. mansions had 90 - 100 servants and solid gold bathroom fixtures.</p><p>One of their chefs was paid $25,000 a year had his own private servants and a sailboat at the Newport house.</p><p>The Vanderbilt Biltmore mansion was on 144,000 acres of land.&nbsp; A mountain top was leveled to build it.</p><p>another Vanderbilt mansion in Delaware&nbsp; had a garage containing fifteen Rolls Royce automobiles.&nbsp; </p><p>The Vanderbilt fortune supported 787 family members and petered out in the 1970s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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