River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1885-12-03
VERY WEALTHY LADIES.
Many American Women whose Bank
Accounts Run Up Into the
Millions,

The United States is fast outranking
the other countries of the world in
respect to rich women. True it is that
the American heiress has become one
of the characters of European travel.
1t is estimated that there are forty
women in New York city worth mil
lion or more IN their own right while
Philadelphia can show half as many,
and Washington, Baltimore, Boston
and Chicago are not far behind.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, of Baltimore,
inherited one third of John W. Gar
rett's $50, 100000. She is woman of
business tact, and was her fathers con-
iidential secretary while he was presi-
dent of the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
Frank Hopkins widow is said to
have as broad a grasp of financial
matters as jay Gould. and there are
$50, 000,000 in her care.
Hettie Green is considered TO be the
sharpest business woman in Wall
street, and the richest woman in New
York Over 40 years of age, she pos
sesses as many millions as there are
years in her life. Two-thirds of this
fortune was inherited, and the balance
is the result of her judicious invest
ments and conservative management.
Her yearly household expenses are not
over $1,000, and she takes the Broad
way street ears down town. Her hus-
band. +. III. Green. left her with two
children, boy and girl. The
former is an invalid, but it is his
mothers boast that she will make him
the richest man in America.
Mrs. Josephine Aver is the relic of
the Lowell pill doctor, and has $4,000
900. She lives without any ostenta-
tious display of her wealth in New York.
Here also dwells Mrs. A. L. Steward,
like nun in her white marble palace
on 5th avenue. Her estate is valued at
$50, 100000, and it is said by one of
them that tortune-hunters might as
We'll try to WOO a statue of Diana.
Other wealthy New York widows are
Mrs. Clarkson Pottre, who has an inn
mense income Mrs. Paran Stevens,
made Sc, 1000, 900, in hotels, and left her
the Victoria and share in the Fifth
Avenue. Mrs. Marshall o. Roberts
has SS,000,000 which her mining king
husband left, and is the lady whose
name is frequently connected with eX-
President Arthur prospective wife
while in the white house.
In Washington Mrs. Meyers, whose
husband was chief of the signal service
some time before he died is worth
million, and Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren,
who wrote the much-criticised book on
Washington society year or two ago,
owns several costly houses i'll the fash
ionable quarter of the city, while Mrs.
president of the Mutual Union tele-
graph company owns vast amount
of Washington real estate.
Philadelphia wealthiest widow is
Mrs. John Ray Barton, who has 81, 00O,-
600, and next comes Tom Scott 5 widow
with IS, 100000, the profits of a railroad
Spectator. H. w Baldwin the famous
locomotive builder left his widow 3d.,
600. OO0 Rich single women are nun-
erous. Miss Jenny Riggs, of Washing
ton, inherited fortunefrom her father
the note banker. Banker Drexel' 5 three
daughters will get S6,000,000 apiece
from his estate when it comes to them.
Another rich Pennsylvania girl is Miss
Helen Eben who is worth $1,000, 900,
and who also boasts of being an accom-
plished horsewOman. She drives tan
dem. and can ride over fences and
bitches as gracefully as does the
daughter of Secretary Bayard.
The richest single woman in the
country is Catherine Wolfe. She has an
income estimated at half a million a
year, and she owns real estate all over
New York. Her father, Peter Wolfe,
married Peter LOrillard 5 sister, and
with her got a dowry of million
dollars. His wife died soon, and he
married another of the Lorillard
sisters, and with her got another
million In a short time she died also,
and Wolfe, after specializing awhile
with his two millions and more, died
himself, and his property came to his
daughter Catherine. She has invested
it well from year to year, and now,
at the age of 80, she thinks too much
of it to permit any man TO aid her in
spending it. She fears, it is said,
fortune-hunters and it may be that her
fortune has brought more of misery
than of happiness into her life.
Another rich single woman of New
York is Miss Sarah Hitchcock, who is
worth SIP, 100000. She has her money
largely invested in real estate, and is
fond of society.
Most money queens have hobbies,
and most of them, when you get at
them. YOU will find to be very ordinary
people for all their wealth. Hette
Green, for instance: 1t is said she
married her husband because he
happened to send her a tailor,s bill
receipted instead of valentine, by q
mistake of the envelope. The bill was
for a cheap suit of clothes, and Hette
thought if a man with 100000 could
get along on $25-suits of clothes he
could not be very extravaganza. Hence
hobbies are fine houses and blooded
horses. She has magnificent
residence on Nobs Hill, in San
Francisco, and the one she is now
building in Massachusetts is to be a
masterpiece. She has a fine stud of
horses at Great harrington, and she
drives team of spanking trotters
every afternoon, holding The reins her
self
Miss ST. Pierre. the Tennessee heiress
has hobby in that she thinks she can
elevate the poor white trash Of the south.
She intends to form colonies and give
the poor whites houses and work. She
will give each family timber to build n
house. and a lease on twenty acres sur
rounding it for ten years.
The hobby of Mrs. Baldwin, the wild
ow of the Philadelphia millionaire, is
flowers; the same hobby, by the way
as that of Robert Carrot, the president
of the Baltimore q Ohio railway. Both
Catherine Wolfe and Mrs. A. +. Stew
art are very charitable, and both give
largely to beggars, but Miss Wolfe will
not give until she is convinced that the
object j, worthy Most of these rich
women dress very plainly. Miss Gar
rett never wears loud clothes, and Mrs.
Stewart goes on the street in poorer
garments than worn by some of her
servants. None of them seem TO enjoy
their wealth to any great extent, and
( the faces Of most of them have more
/ wrinkles than roses. The great things
! of life are not TO be bought with money,
and the wealthiest in dollars are often
the poorest in happiness.
/ Shying Horses.
! One Of the most dangerous disabili-