Barbour County index., 1885-03-20
A MILLIoNAIRESs.
Worth Forty Times One Million
Dollars.
The Wall Street Queen Who Does Not
Fear Gould or yanderbIIt-Said to
BE the stingiest of Her Sex
Striking PecuIlarities.
ICor. \. Y. Times.l


print about a woman whose Wan-street
connections have made her conspicuous,
who is credited with available funds to the
agreeable amount of $4,000, 900, who has
made her husband-oncs a comparatively
poor mana power in financial circles, and
who, it is asserted, on two occasions
rescued Keene and once Jay Gould from
impending disaster. She is known by a
Wall-street soubriquet. In an out-of-town
paper not long ago read a story assuming
to impart a vast deal of information about
her. In a rollicking, poetic way there
were 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
deepest sort of an emerald jealousy. This
was all the veriest humbug. The fact is
that the Queen" of Wall street, for there
is such parsonage, wears clothes that
might give an upward turn to the nose of
the pie woman round your corner. 1t has
been my privilege TO get a little closer view
perhaps OF her domestic relations than
most people have enjoyed. congratulate
my sex that the stingiest being created
may not after all be a man. A fortune
of a million or so inherited from
renown was the capital that a
shrewd woman took into Wall street. Her
ventures were bold and invariably she
won. The biggest men in the market were
glad to secure her as an ally. She had the
best of all recommendations fat bank
account. 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
other fingers. She could do her own ma
nipulGtiny, and she did. 'Sure things'
were what she wanted and what she got
The Wall street instinct OF pushing for
ward with buzz-saw breastworSs never
animated any operator" more relentless
ly. Let those who didn't want torn fingers
stand aside. The buzz-saw kept going.
This was not world FOR gushing, but for
business. And los OF people discovered
that tho motto meant all that it seemed.
Profits piled on profits, till now those who
claim 10 have means of knowledge, esti-
mate her wealth at two-score millions
But shrewduess in big affairs developed in
TO mania which bred a stin-iness not
short Of meanness in little things. So al
together remarkable are soma o. the stories
told OF this forty times millionairess that
have been almost afraid to write them.
Readers might sni. out their doubts,
though my authorities are persons whose
truthsulness 1 never heard anybody
question; and there can be no
doubt of this fact-they have had
chance, If anybody has, to know what they
talk about. Here is q 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 q fair way to re-
covery. One day a Wan street man drop
ped into the physicians Office ns mother
and child went out. The doctor was in
clired to chat. The sad case of the couple
just departing had worked him into SEN
timental mood. A poor woman, a suffer-
ing child, had so appealed to his sympa-
thies that rich patients had been Obliged TO
wait while he wrou Sht out relief for these
who had not the withal to pay.
'You can't imagine" he said, show
much good it really does callous old fell
low TO meet case like that. Zounds, man,
feel twenty years younger FOR being able
20 do this one act OF charity, and the poor
woman wns So"
Poor woman" calculated the new call
e.. "Charity be hanged! That woman
has simply been playing with you as she
plays with everybody else on this hemis-
phere. She's the richest woman in Amer
ica."
The doctor got his twenty years right
bac@. Here is mere economy from the
same source. A little light-haired daugh-
ter was promised ''SuE,day hat" 1t was
an ancient sunbonnet when she got il, and
around the inner rim was sewn long line
OF dangling black curls for ornamentation.
Tue contrast between the child's nataral
blonde tresses and this unique trimming
mi hit not have commended itself to the
! supercritical artist, but there was this in
its favor-the curls had been in the family
Tor a couple of generations or so. 1t shall
never be urged, however, against my hero
ine-this choice product OF advanced WON
onhoOd in the nineteenth century-that she
stinted her offspring TO seek luxuries for
| herself. Her self-sacrifies stand out
boldly. A country-house comes into her
possession. II is decided to cut Off city ex-
penses b. a summer residence there. The
mornings are chilly. The family owns
hatctet. Goodbye to the front door steps
and the miniature piazza. So was nom
productive ornamentation frowned down
upon. SO was saved bin for kindling-
wood. And this woman has S40,0oo, ,O00
She is not the figure of a French romance.
She tells the time by old Trinity's clock on
six days of every week throughout the
year.