Business: Passing of a Wendel
When William Waldorf Astor died in 1919, he owned more New York City real estate than any other one personsomething in the vicinity of $60,000,000 worth a fortune founded in the fur business (and, says legend, in Captain Kidd's treasure; by the first John Jacob Astor (1763-1848). Another oldtime furrier was one John Gottlieb Wendel,