The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-23
NEW YORKS WEALTHY WOMEN.
Those Who Have Added to Their Mil
lions by Business Shrewdness.

lions by BUSINESS ShreWQn6SS.
From the Ne,o York GrdDhic.
The general public knows good deal in
one way or other about the very rich men
of this city. The newspapers in a gossipy,
readable style often tell the story of the
peculiarities, habits and eccentricities of
money, and their names are known and
they are talked about all over the land.
1t is not the same with the women whose
wealth runs up into high figures, for most
of them are out of the world of business and
in the privacy of their home life enjoy the
good things that fortune has provided for
them Their names seldom get into the
papers for the charity they confer, and the
other good works they do with their wealth
are oftener done in quiet, womanly ways
thau in the glare of publicity.
Here and there, however, there are women
who do not hide the light of their financial
and business ability, but stride into the
marts of trade and battle for increased for
tune with the sturdiness of manhood and
the shrewdness of old-time SPECTATORS.
Everybody has read about Mrs. Hetty
Green and her fortune of more than $50
600. 0O0 She inherited about $4,000, 900
from her father and she married another
81 100000 with a man attached to it. He
was not an extraordinary man according to
all accounts, but his money helped to add
to his wifes wealth, and Mrs Green has
kept plling up more money in nearly all
sorts of paying speculations ever since. No
one ever heard of her doing anything that
would cause her fEends to fear that she
would dissipate any large portion of her
wealth in a charitable direction, and she
will probably go on putting money aside
until she is forced TO leave it forever
Another New York woman who in a
business way bears some resemblance to
Mrs Green is Miss Maria Kemp, who, with
her mother, lives on Fifth avenue near
Twenty Eighth street. She is probably in
her early thirties, but she looks %.
The fortune her father left her of little
more than million has been added to by
very careful speculations and investments
bv herself, until to-day she can be num-
bered among the very wealthy women of
this city. She is gentle, kindly-natured,
sweet-fa faced lady, and the deserving needy
ones know her as one of their tender
hearted friends.
Miss Grace H Dodge, whom Mayor
Hewitt made a School Commissioner, is
among the rich and unmarried ladies whose
wealth is a blessing to others beside them
selves, Miss Dodge was left large fortune,
said to foot up s., 100000, by her father, the
late William Z. Dodge and prior to that
addition to her means she had been far from
moor in her own right The business ability
of the lady is very fully recognized, and she
is said to have increased her fortune through
her brothers mercantile house nearly double
since her fathers death. She is woman
who will do great good with the money that
comes to her hands, and In some ways that
the world will hear about
Her mother, Mrs. William f. Dodge, is
not a very poor woman. Her part of her
husbands estate was over 81, 900, 900, and it
has not been diminished by any careless
snecrlations. Indeed, the Dodge family
taken altogether are very thrifty set,
though they are anything bat parsimonious
when a truly mel itorious object appeals TO
them for consideration.
Miss Adele Grant, who starred it some
what about here but has tran ferred herself
to Washington these late days, is put down
nv the knowing ones as worth something
like 81. 900 900, but envious girls on Fifth
avenue declare she has no more than half
that sum, though it is pretty thoroughly
agreed that the pink-faced teauty has added
TO the original sum by fortunate specula-
tions through Wall street friends. Miss
Winslow. who is what the girls call Miss
noor-that is from the million standpoint,
for She has only about $350,00O all invested
in United States securities
Mrs Emily II. NOR, who inherited, the
great Morgan property, counts her fortune
rs biqh as 10000, 900, and it is invested
mostly In hgh-priced dividend paying Sc
c,,rities which bring her very large in
como. Mrs. NOR pays more taxes on per-
sonal property than any other woman IN
the city Of New York She is one OF the
women whom great wealth and the com