Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-11-04

builder. is estimated rs owning $2.OOO,-
IOOO worth of this worlds goods. Henry
D;s,on. the saw manufacturer. LEFT nearly
a OOO 600 to his wife, and the Quaker
civ has a half dozen more rich widows
whose bank books register accounts as
large as the wealth of CrGsus-
Rich single women are numerous. MISS
Jennie Riggs of Washington. inherited
fortune from her father. the noted banker.
I have spoken before of Miss Garrett,
whose AGE is between 80 and 40. and q
Philadelphia man tells me that the bank
er Drexel's three daughters will get So
OOO. 900 apiece from his estate when 1t
comes to them Another rich Philadelphia
girl is Miss Helen Eben. who is worth
million, and who boasts OF being an ac-
Icompllshed horsewoman. She drives tan
dem. and can ride over fences and bitches
as gracefully as does the daughter OF Sec
rotary Bayard.
The richest single woman in the country
| is Ca,harine Wolfe. She has an income
estimated at half million year. and
she owns real estate all over New York.
Her father, Peter Wolfe. married Peter
Lorillard's sister, and with her got
dowry of a million dollars. His wife died
soon. and he married another OF the
Lorilard sisters, and with her got anoth-
er 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
Catharine. She has invested it well from
wear 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 it has brought more of misery than OF
happiness into her lite. Another rich
single woman of New York is Miss Sarah
Hitchcock, who is worth S12 200, 900.
She has her money largely invested in
real estate, and is fond of society.
Most of these money queens have hob
bies, and most of them, when you get at
them, you will find to be very ordinary
people for all their wealth. Hettie Green,
for instance, would not, it is said, make
good the 100000 which her husband
owed to the Ciscos. and I'll warrant you
it hurts her as much to spend dollar for
luxuries as it does you or me. 1t is said
she married her husband-who. by the
way, is nice fellow-because he hap
pened to send her tailor's bill receipted
instead of valentine. by mistake of the
envelope. The bill was for a cheap suit
of clothes, and Hettie thought if a man
with 100000 could get along on S25 suits
of clothes he could not be very extrava-
giant Hence she married him. Mrs.
Mark Hopkins hobbies are fine houses
and blooded horses. She has magnif-
cent residence on Nobs Hill in San Fran
cisco, and the one she is now building in
Massachusetts, is to be a masterpiece. She
has fine stud of horses at Great Barring
ton, and she drives team of spanking
trotters every afternoon, holding the reins
herself.
Most of these rich women dress very
plainly. Miss Garrett never wears loud
clothes, and Mrs. Stewart goes on the
streets in poorer garments than are worn
by 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. -Cleueland Leader