The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-10-29
WEALTHY WOMEN.
Some of the Ladies Who Count Their
Wealth by the Millions.

Tie American heiress has become one
OF the characters of European travel,
and at this date there is not city of
any considerable size in the United
States which has not one or more
women whose checks are good for any
sum from Z. thousand dollars up to
million. New York city has two score of
ladies who are worth 1000, 900 or
more in their own right. Philadelphia
can show perhaps half as many, and
Washington, Baltimore, Boston and
Chicago are not far behind in their
quota of heiresses.
Miss Elizabeth Garrett, who inherited
one-third of John w. Garrett's S37,-
000, 600, was her fathers confidential
secretary while he was president of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and she
has advised him on many occasions.
Mark Hopkins widow, who is build
ing the million-dollar residence at
Great Darlington, Mass. is perfectly
able to manage her $4,000, 900, and
can drive bargain with as much tact
as could her husband She has a
broad grasp of financial matters, and
knows the value of stocks as well as
Jay Gould.
Speaking of Wall street, the sharp
est business woman connected with it
is Hettie Green, who is, perhaps,
THE RICHEST WOMAN IN NEW YORK.
She is over 40 years old, and she
numbers her fortune by as many mil
lions as there are years in her life.
Her mother was somewhat of an
heiress and her father had increased
the family pile 10 S9,000,000 at the
time of his death. This fortune Hettie,
as the only child, inherited, and she
at once went to work TO increase 1t.
Much of her fortune was invested in
ships, but these she considered danger
Gus and sold them and placed the pro-
ceeds in good interest paying mort
cages. She bought these mortgages
in small towns all over England,
travelling about and investigating the
securities for herself. Shortly after
her fathers death a maiden aunt of
hers died and left her S4, 600, 900 more.
The $13, coo, 900 that Hottie Green thus
inherited she had increased by careful
speculation to about $50 600, 600 at the
time she married Mr.. L. Ii. Green, of
New York. Mr.. Green was worth
500, 600, and it is said Miss Hettie had
an ante-nuptial contract with him
whereby he agreed to pay all house
hold expenses and TO leave her prop
erty of 10000, 900 and more in her
own name.
After her wedding she kept up her
business work, and through her hus-
band got into Wall street speculation.
Sha did the speculating herself, how
ever, and made while her husband lost.
She could buy large blocks of stock
and would bull and bear the market
as she thought best. She has made
money right along, and is now said to
.,,.,.sh fortr Odd millions, Shn is
very economical withal, and though
her income must be several millions a
year, her total household expenses are
not over 81, ZOO. She rides
DOWN BROADWAY IN A 5-CENT BUS,
carrying perhaps $100,0 600 in her reti-
cule, and she used to walk to parties
through the snow, pulling old woolen
stockings over her shoes to keep her
feet dry and save buying rubbers.
When she got to the place of entertain
ment she would pull off her socks and
hang them on the hatrack to dry. She
kept her securities and silver at John
Cisco's bank, and the bankers say she
came periodically 10 the bank with a
box of whiting and polished her silver
herself. When Cisco failed not long
ago it took two cabs to carry away the
plate, and the securities which Mrs.
Green had on deposit were found to be
over $50, 900. Hettie Green has
nli Il III hn
girl is l3 and the boy IA years old.
The boy is an invalid, but his mother
says she intends to make him the
richest man in America. If she keeps
on piling up money at her present rate
she will probably succeed.
New York has a number of rich
widows. Mrs. Josephine Aver is the
relict of the pill doctor who made a
fortune in patent medicines and left
her about S5,00O,0O0. Mrs. Martin
Bates was left by her husband $780,
600, which he made in dry goods, and
a Mrs. James Brown, who lives in a
fine house on Park avenue and Thirty
seventh streets, received from her hus-
bands estate about $4,000, ,000 which
he accumulated as banker. Mrs. w.
Z. Dodge is worth $4,000. 900, much of
the income of which she sends to the
heather.
MRS. ROBERT GoULET
is worth So, 900, 600. made in hardware,
and Mrs. John G.. Green, the widow of
the Princeton College patron, is worth
SO, 900, 600. Mrs. Commodore Van
derbilt received $l,000,000 from her
L,,-l -la,1 Il H., .l -ha 80
increased to half as much more. Mrs.
A. L. Stewart has an estate worth
$50, 900, 900, but she lives like a nun in
her big white marble palace on Fifth
avenue, and the bachelor fortune
hunters might as well WOO a statue of
Diana. Mrs. John Minturn is another
wealthy New York widow. She is
worth S2,000,0 900, and her father was
an Aspinwall. Governor Morgan's
widow is worth several millions.
Clarkson Potter's widow has All i'm
mense income from his estate, and
Mrs. Edwin Stevens, who owns
Castle Point" at Hoboken, is one of
the richest widows in America, and
| counts her wealth by tens Of millions.
Mrs. Paran Stevens husband made
| $4,000, 900 in hotels, and he has left
| her the Victoria and share in the
Fifth Avenue; and Mrs. Marshall o.
Roberts, the eight-millionaire widow
OF mining king, was talked Of while
! hlr. Arthur was in the White House as
| the prospective wife of the President.
! Washington has q few rich widows.
| Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, of New York,
| has fine home on Massachusetts
avenue, and she is said to be worth a
million. Mrs. Alexander Ray is the
wife of q millionaire miller whose flour
4 is well known over the United States,
and Mrs. Myers, whose husband was
Chief OF the Signal Service some time
| before he diei, is worth at least ST., :
! 600. .000 Mrs. Admiral Dahlgrcen,
/ who wrote the mBch-criticised book
on Washington society a year or so
ago, has several fine houses in the
/ fashionable part of Washington, and
Mrs. John o. Evans, the widow of the
| late president Of the Mutual Union
Telegraph Company, owns a great
| deal of w aSnIn olou real estate and has