The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-11-07
ASUCCESSFUL WOMAN SPECULATOR.
The Parsimonious Princess Of Wales
and Her Husband worth $35, 900 900.

From the New York World.
Zone of the most daring and success
full spectators in the world" said a
prominent member of the stock ex-
change, sis the Princess of Wales"
WHAT" calculated his nearer, ''the
Princess of Wales a speculator in
stocks"
1.-THE Princess of Wales / speak of is
not the wife of the royal heir of the
throne of Great Britain. This title has
been given by common consent to a
daughter of a rich old whaler of New
Bedford, who died a number of
years ago, leaving an immense fortune.
This wealth she has doubled several
times by her wonderful operations in
stocks. | wonder you have never heard
of her. You have certainly heard of
her husband, who is In every way a
much less remarkable person than she
is. Until recently he was a prominent
director and some time ago was, / be-
lieve, for a short period president of one
of the largest railroads in this country.
He is a noted s%peculator, and his name is
not at all descriptive of his sagacity
and shrewdness. He is a man of re
markable height, standing nearly seven
feet high. He is we'll known both In
the London and New York stock mar
kets, at the former by a remarkable deal
in Erie and at the lai"er for the part he
took in advancing tnse prices several
years ago Of Louisville and Nashville.
When the father of the lady of whom
/ first spoke died he left her SO, 900, 600.
This made her one of the richest women
in America, and as significant of the
source of her wealth she was called the
Princess of Wales by those who knew
of her. She inherited with her mil
lions a talent for the acqui ition of
money and an overmastering passion to
keep it. OF course she had many sui
tiers. but among them all there was
none who could match her fortune with
his own. That was what she was look
ing for. Failing in this. she contented
herself with a gentleman who could
produce evidence of being worth $780,
900. This he had made in the MANILA
trade. He was of q liberal disposition
aud lives in a generous manner. After
his marriage, however, his wife's strong
er intellect changed his disposition,
and made him also the victim OF q
mania for saving.
1t is related of the early days of their
courtship that in order to facilitate his
entrance into her house he gave a lib
eral fee to the servant. Learning of it
she nearly broke off all further inter-
course with him, as she could never
msrrv q man who exhibited such ex-
t-rayaSance. When the marriage paper
was made out she had it stipulated that
ali their joint living and personal ex-
penses should be paid by him alone,
Notwithstanding that her fortune was
ten or twelve times as large as his.
Following their marriage came agrand
career of accumulation. Not satisfied
with d fortune of ~princely proportions,
they proposed, by parsimony and spec
~ulation to double and triple it. The
death of an aunt added 81, 1000 900 to
the wife's treasure. She began lmme-
diately, however. to cut down what she
called her husbands extravagant ex-
penses.
She compelled him to give up his ele-
cant bachelor apartments and hire the
most economical quarters. The birth
OF a o gave a more unseifish aspect &c
her passion for gain. 1t was not now
for herself that she saved, but for her
child. She made up her mind that he
should be d of the richest-n not the
richest men in America. While coast
ing one day, however, he met with an
accident which has made him a Grip
pie for life. He also became subject
to violent fits.
IAN anecdote here will illustrate her