Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-11-08
Mbss!Ins 2seister
Rea WOMEA.
NIaows, MatrOns and Splnstsrs
Who Have Millions.
Banker DrexeFs Three Daughters Who
Wa lnhesit $is,Ooo,OOo-,-odditiss
ofths Richest Women In New
fOrk---0thsr Hsiressss.

rich women. The American heireSs has
beeoms one Of the characters OF European
traxsl and at this date there IL not city
of any considerable size in the United
States which has not one or more women
whose checks are good for any sum nom
81 900 up 10 81, 00a,000. New York Clty
has rwo scores of ladies who are worm
81 900 600 or more in their own right
Philadelphia can show, perhaps, bali as
MANY and Washington, Baltimore, Boston
and Chicago are not far behind IN their
quota Of heiresses. Most Of these money
Suaens are fine business women and some
Of hem have a genius for making money.
Taere Is yoang girlin Tennessee, Miss
81 Pierre. uho owns several hundred
thousand acres Of mining lands, and who
has business enterprises IN the vicinity q
Chattanooga which have cost ,SOO,OOO
10 organize Miss Ehzsbsth Garrett, Who
iuhented one third Of John w. Garretts
s3l 0eO. 600, vas her fathers eonhdeDual
secretary ukile he was president OF the BslIl-
more and Ohio ra,lro ID, and che has adj
vised him on many occasions Marx
HOPKINS xidow, who is bOildiug the mil
6oe-doliar xesidenee at Great harrington,
Mass ia perfectly able 10 manage her
$50 600 OOl. AID she can drive bargain
Vits "A nuea tact as could her husband.
She has broad grasp Of iosnciai nsIters
and knoss the yalae OF stocRs as ven Is
Jay Gould.
Soeakiug Of Wal street, tie shsrpsst
husaess woman connected with It 10 bet
IL Green, who is perhaps the richest
woman in New York Shs IS over 10
,vsars old aad she numbers her fortune oT
az many millions IS there are years N
life Her mother was somewhat OF an
heiress and hsr father had
INCREASED tbs FAMILY PILE S. 100000
Al The time Of his death The fortune
Het,ie. as the oaly child, Inherited, snd she
AZ oncs went TO work TO increase It. Much
AZ her fortune WAS invested tn ships,
hot these she considered dangerous
apd sold them and placed the proceeds IN
sood interes, payiug mortgages. She
sought these mortgages IN small towns al
over Esglaal, travelling about ana IN
yes,igaiirg the securities fer herself. SPORT
IL AfIer her fathers 6eaih maiden
aunt of hers died and let. her
"a 600 600 more. The SiS.OOO,'
900 that Heltis Green thus
inhssitsd she had increased by careful
soesuIation TO about S20,O0000o a. the
tira she married Mr.. Z II. Green Of New
York Mr.. Green was worth 500 600
AID Il IA said that Niss Hstiie had an
ante-puptial contract With him whereby he
ayrsed 70 paw ali the household expenses
asd 20 leave her properly OF 500
goo coo and more Ia hsr Own
Dsme Alter per wedding she
Leot M her business work, and through
her husband got iu.O Vel street sp2cuis'
ton. She did the sPseGls,lo% herself,
however. and made WhLe her husband Iost
She could buy large blocks OF sock and
voald bull and pear The market Us she
SAoasht best. SSs has made mooey IIGht
.aloaS. and is nov said 10 be worth forty
Dad milEons. She is very economical with
al and though hsr income must os several
fv,iIioDs YEA, her total household ex-
pepses are not over $4,000 She rdss
down Beoadway in q eve cent bus, carry
ing perhaps hundred thousand dollars IN
her reticula. and she used 10 walk 10 par
IL through tbs sa0w, P1!liDg Old wootIsn
bookings over her stOcs to Keep her Iset
dry ana save buying ru6bsrs. when soe
GOT 10 places Of entertainment che would
mil of her socks and hang them on the
at rack 10 dry. She kept Der securities
and silver AZ John Cisco's bank, Rrd the
bankers say she care periodically to the
bank with 9 box Of whiting and
PoLIsHED HER SILVER HERSELF.
when Gao failed not long ago it took tEo
eshs 10 carr away the plate, aud the
sscar;,iet wh,er Mrs Green had on de-
nos;s we're lound % be over SIS ,OOOOOO
Esr,;s Green has two children, boy ard
= g;rl The 9,rl is l3 and tbs boy IL years
ol5 The bow is an invalid, bus his mother
says she intends to make him The riees'I
man in America II she keeps on PlhnS
no money at her present rae sne Will
probably succeed.
Nav York has 3 number Of rich widows
Mrs Josephine Aver is the rsIict OF the
nil doctor, who msds fortune N patent
medieiues and lef; her about Sj,C0O, COO
Mrs Marin Baies vas lett bg mr. husband
81 500. 0, 0. which De made IN cry goods
and q Mrs James Brosp, who lives IN
6ne bcuss on Park avenue aud Fzeoty'
ssventh street. received from her
busoAud's estate me SUN OF
81 900, 600, which he s"camuia
rad as banker. Mfs w. L. Dodge Is
worth 81 OeO. 6eP. much Of the Iocome oil
which chs sends 10 the hesthsn. AIs
Robert Goslet is worth 50 000 600. made II
Sardaare and Mrs. John Z. GREEN'S worth
el9O0O 600. Mrs. A, ] Stewart
has aa sslats worth $50. 900 900, but she
lives Ike a nun in her big Nhlte
marble p.lass on Fifth avenue, AID the
bachelor fortune nuaisrs might ns we'll voc
a sta,ue of Diana, Mrs Js1n ainfurn IS
taaother wealthy New York wid0S Shs
sor,h $50 .O0. 900, and ter father WAS SO
IKsoiowall Governor AorgAa's UldoW Il
Eorfh several millions Cl,rSsou Potter I
widow has an iDw~nss i"eone from MS
estate. aud Ma EiEia S;sSsa', Sao owns
,'Castla Poins," a. HJ5okSn, - one o.
ira riches. widows in America, Sni
CorErs aER wEALra By TESs OF NiLLiSSs,
Mrs. Psrs S:evspI's husband made 50,
lOo0O0i in hotaI4, and he has letf her tAi
Viesorsa and a share 10 tina Filth Avenue
ard Mrs.. Marshall D koSSTls, tbs sigh
m;ll;onaisa SiaoW Of Q mining king, VA
safkad If Wide Ne. Arthur Was 10 thu
White House 80 The prospective wife OF th'
orssident. Hexe at Washington We hsVetsA
rich widows Mrs. Craig BAdsSogth o
Nav York has 6ns home on Msssaehu
sets avenue, and she Is said to De worth
million. Mrs Alexander Ray is the WidoHH
of mil6oansirs miller whose Hour - vel
lrnown over ths United States. and Mrs
Movers whose husband vas chief OF th'
S,ensl Service soue zine before be died
is worth at least $1,000 600. Ars. AID
mirsl DsklSren Who wrote the much crit
cissd book on Washington soeisiys year
81 20 ago. has several foe houses in ,h'
fashionable part Of Washington, and Mrs
John o Evans. the widow Of The late
president Of the Mutual Union Telegraph
Comtsny. owns great deal OF Washing
ton real estate and has q good income
Ths widow Of Dick HsrPiek, he noted law
- who diea tha other dAy will have q