The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1886-11-27
MODEST HEIRESSES.
What Three Philadelphia Sisters
Do With Their Millions.
The Daughters of the Late Banker Drexel
Following in the Footsteps of Their
Charitable Parents-Their
Sensible Life,

The three capital prizes in tue matri-
mOnial lottery of the Quaker City are
the three single daughters of the late
Francis A. Drexel, who was the head
and front of the well-known banking
firms of Drexel, Morgan & Co., of New
York; Drexel, Haries & Co., of Paris,
and Drexel g. Co., of Philadelphia. In
February, 1885, Mr.. Drexcl died, and
his wife's death having occurred previ-
ously, the three girls were left with q
vast fortune to manage. The exact
amount which came into their hands it
is impossible to estimate accurately, but
an equal division gave each something
over $4,000,000. The oldest, Miss Eliza
beth Drexel, has not yet seen thirty
summers. Miss Katherine's age is put
down at twenty-six, and that of Miss
Louisa, VINO is the youngest, at twenty
two. Though not possessed of any re-
markable beauty of feature, all three
have graceful figures. Plenty of out
door exercise has given them splendid
health, which many will envy them even
more than their riches, and the fact that
they spend seven months out of every
year in the country has doubtless had
much to do with the requirement of
cast-iron constitutions and an almost
total freedom from the ills that fleshis
heir TO. Their city home is at No. 1903
Walnut street-a tall, four-story, brown
of hn yIo
lecture, with low doorstep, and an iron
balcony, rough-coated with sand, stretch
ing along the second-story windows.
Here for years the family have spent
their winters, and here it was that both
the master and the mistress of the house
passed from the present to the here
after
The doors and windows are tightly
boarded now, not to be opened, proba-
bly,, before next year, for the young
ladies are at present travelling on the
continent of Europe and do not pro-
pose to return until next April, when
they WILL it is thought, 90 at once to
their quaint old country seat at Torres
dale, Pa, sixteen miles distant on the
New York Division of the Pennsylvania
railroad. Here they usually live from
the 1st of April to the LIST of November,
and there it is that much of the CHART
able work for which they are noted is
accomplished, Very plain, indeed, is
the house; less imposing, even, than
their town residence, and, situated a
mile and quarter from the station and
fully two miles back where the Della
ware river flows placidly on its course
toward the sea, no one would ever i'm
ag,ne that it was the home of the three
wcalthicst women to be found in this
country. A long, tree-bordered road
leads TO il from the Torresdale Station,
road which, on the occasion of a re-
cent visit to the locality by CORE.
spondent, was three or four inches
thick with dust, and not so free from
ruts and holes as one would expect tC
find on the very threshold of the coun.
try home OF the orphans of a man SC
well provided for in this worlds good,
as was Mr.. Drexel. A low stone wall,
covered with thick ivy, separates the
dusty highway from the rich. green
lawns, shaded by dropping fir trees ant
traversed by winding paths of gravel
The house, some distance back. is 3
curious old colonial Of succeed brick
two stories in height. with mansart
roof, which is about the only indication
that it has been at all altered since tn,
days OF Washington, powdered wig.
and knee-breeches.
Within every thing is as plain a