The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-11-12
A MILLIONAIRESS.
Worth Forty Times One Million
Dollars.
Tho wall Street Queen Who Docs Not
Fear Gould or vanderbllt-said to
BE the stinglest OF Her Sox--
Striking Pecullaritles.
[oor. N. Y. Times.I

A deal of misrepresentation gets into
print about q woman whose Wall-street
connections have made her conspicuous,
who Is credited with available funds to the
agreeable amount of $4O,O0O,0O0, who has
made her husband-oncs comparatively
poor mana power In financial circles, and
who, 1t Is asserted, on two occasions
rescued Keene and once Jay Gould from
impending disaster. She Is known by
Wall-street soubriquet. In an out-of-town
paper not long ago | read story assuming
10 impart vast deal Of information about
her. In rollicking, poetic way there
wero fragrant tributes to the lavish attire
Of the "Queen," and descriptions of FASH
ionable dry goods which would have
painted the court Of ancient Sheba in the
hepest sort of an emerald jealousy. This
fas all the veriest humbug. The fact Is
bat the "Queen" Of Wall street, for there
} such parsonage, wears clothes that
hight give an upward turn to the nose Of
he pie woman round your corner. II has
feen my privilege 10 get a little closer view
rerhaps OF her domestic relations than
most people have enjoyed. l congratulate
uiy sex that the stingiest being created
Laay not after all be man. A fortune
VI a million or so inherited from
M old New Englander of whaling
rsnown was the capital that a
ghrewd woman took into Wall street. Her
ventures were bold and invariably she
Ton. The biggest men in the market were
glad TO secure her as an ally. She had the
best Of all recommendations fat bank
Rccount. To magnates she was able TO
dictate terms. Jay Gould's scheme was
her scheme. She risked nothing upon the
rise and fall of figures manipulated by
Gher fingers. She could do her own ma
nipulating, and she did. "Sure things"
were what she wanted and what she got.
Tho Wall street instinct of pushing for
ward with buzz-saw breastworks never
animated any Operator" more relentless
". Let those who didn't want torn fingers
etand aside. The buzz-saw kept going.
This was not world for gushing, but for
business. And lots of people discovered
that the motto meant all that il seemed.
Profits piled on profits, till now those who
claim to have means OF knowledge. est-
mate her wealth at two-scors millions.
But shrewdness in big affairs developed iu-
TO mania which bred n stingipcss not
short Of meanness in little things. SO al
together remarkable are some OF the stories
told Of this forty times millionnress that
have been almost afraid to write them.
Readers might smile out their doubts,
though my authorities are persons whose
truthfulness / never heard anybody
question; and there can be no
doubt OF this fact-they have had
chance, II anybody has to know what they
talk about. Here Is a trio of characteristic
stories: Her child was suffering from dis
ease which threatened lasting lameness
and perhaps death. She sought a doctor
whose name is familiar to every reader Of
the New York Times, and the boy was
treated and placed In fair way to re.
coYery. One day Wall street mnn drop.
pod into the physicians office as mother
and child went out. The doctor was in.
clined 10 chat. The sad case Of the couple
Just departing had worked him into a sen.
timental mood. A poor woman, suffer,
ing child, had so appealed to his sympa.
tiles that rich patients had been obliged Ia
wait while he wrought out relief for these
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feel twenty years younger for being able
10 do this one act Of charity, and the poor
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The doctor got his twenty years right
BACK Here is more economy from the
same source a little hght-nalred daush-