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couraging and she continued buying,
telling none of her friends what she was
doing. AT the end of year her opera
TONS i'll real estate had assumed
such proportions that she gave
up school teaching and devoted her
entire energies to Speculating. The
deal that brought her into prominence
was the sale of fifty-four acres of land
to Bishop Ireland. Her last big trans
action was the purchase of lot with
frontage of 10419 feet Oh Fifth street
and 1929 feet on Robert, for which she
paid $4,000. This has placed her for
tune beyond all possibility of a crash
The location of the lot makes nothing
less than an earthquake capable of work
ing her harm. Miss Stowell has been in
Strumental in bringing a large amOut of
Eastern capital into the city. During
the past year the sum has been some
thing over 100000. When she be-
gan operating in real estate she
did not know what an abstract
is. Now she is notary public, and was
the first woman in Minnesota to be so
distinguished. She manages several
syndicates, does her own conveyancing
and her own bookkeeping; attends, IN
fact to all the details of her business.
She sells through an agent generally,
but since falling into unscrupulouS
hands about year ago, when an at
tempt was made to SWindle her out Of a
great many thousand dollars, she sell
dom employs the same agent twice. She
says she is ''guided, but never gov
erned," by the advice of all agent. She
is perfectly self-reliant, and believes
that a woman who does mans work
should be so. She put Oh boxing gloves
and thinking cap when she began her
naA., oil 20 <l lanT
own thinking and her own fighting.
Miss StOwelI'S wealth is differently eSti-
mated by different real estate men
not less than 100000. and from that to
s150,0O0. She is not over twenty-five
years of age, and had nothing to begin
with but the earnings of a
school teacher. She is wonderfully
philosophical about her success. Il
have never sacrificed moments sleep
to the fear that my money might go as
quickly as it came," she says. eff such
were to be the case, l would just be
thankful for the good time it has en-
could go back to teaching mathematics,
none the worse off for my experience in
real estate"
ANOTHER SCHOOL TEACAER
who has made fortune in real estate
is Miss E. NJ. Barrett, of West st. Paul.
She went into it to win, did regular
commission business, and in short
time was worth $4,000 OF 100000.
Miss Clara Brakeman, principal of the
Longfellow school, has also been very
successful in real estate. Her invest
ments have netted her the neat sum of
$4,000. She is very pretty girl-"a
a sigh that breathed regret upon his
married state and yearning for either
the privileges of Utah OF the bereave-
ment OF divorce.
Miss Mary c. Houghtaling, teacher
in the Madison school, is another of st.
Paul's bonanza schoolma ans. She
has enriched herself by judicious in
vestmentS of her salary in real estate.
and is worth between $4,000 and $4,000.
Among the widows who are, active
spectators in real estate, there is
Mrs. Thomas Owen. Mrs. Owen, by
her own confession, is widow after
the manner of the Irish woman whose
husband was mot worth mentioning"
Thomas is only the nominal head of the
house, and is purely a minor consider
alton. Mrs. Owen is fat, fair and
forty. She weighs three hundred
punds, talks like man, always is
in hurry, and is known among
the brokers as ''the hustler" Sic
waddles from one office to another, al d
gether when they see her on the street,"
said broker. Its sure sign of ac-
tivity-somebodys going to have a
chance to make sale" She tends
strictly to her business. She will never
sign contract, and she hates to pay a
commission as the devil hates to pay
rent for pew in church. She has good
property, both here and in California,
that is valued at 100000 or $4,000.
Mrs. Allie Hewitt, widow of Girard
Hewitt, is one of the wealthieSt real es-
tate owners in town. On the death of
her husband, who was a real estate
dealer, some twelve or fifteen years
ago, she became possessed of large
amount of property, that was then of
comparatively little value, but which
has increased immensely in her hands,
owing to natural causes and her judi
cious management. Mrs. Hewitt is
very shrewd i'll deal, and trusts no
agent.
Mrs Maggie Reaney is another widow
who, on the death of her husband, came
into an estate that was large but not
worth much money. Mrs. Reaney,
though she had had no business exper-
fence whatever, assumed the entire con-
troll of her property, and as real estate
doomed, sold and bought until now she
is worth $4,000 or $4,000.
Mrs, Messenger, of West st. Paul, is
a well-known character in real estate
circles. She lists property and makes
sales like any man, and has acted as the
agent of one of the railroads in several
big deals. She is now the enviable
owner of 400 acres of land near White
Bear lake that is clear of all mortgages.
MpS 11nn Halo nf InIrfOn.C
speculates largely and successfully in
real estate. She never makes less than
100 or 200 per cent in any transaction.
Mrs. E. NJ. Drew, of Pleasant avenue,
is an active real estate dealer.
Mrs. Julia Myers. of Broadway, has
made fortune dabbling in dirt. She
began with LOCO, which she took to an
agent, telling him she wanted to invest
it on her own hook, that her husband
was "a good man but no hustler" and
consequently if the family bark got
up a breeze to fill the sails.
She doubled her money in her
first Investment. and uniform
success has since attended her.
Mrs. Emily Huntington Miller, the
authoress, is woman who lends a
charm to real estate dealing by mixing
up in it. She has invested her money
through Miss StOWeli, and 1t goes with
out saying that her luck has been phe-
nomenal.
Mrs. Houghton, little English
woman who contracted the fever of
American enterprise. deals also in real
estate in genuine feminine fashion. At
the beginning Of her career she went to
an agent telling him she wanted to buy
some land. He informed her he had
twenty acres of rough land about five
| miles out that was worth $50 per acre.
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