Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-08
LADIES WORTH MILLIONS.
Some OF Those who Have Almost Limit
less Wealth-How They Look and
What Their Fancies Are.
Many Are Young and Beautiful Yet, and a Few
Are Peculiar, but All are Numbered
Among the Charitable.
New York Press.

of money. Some one who has made a
study of the subject says that there are
more women in New York who possess
millions than in any other city in the
world.
Mrs. Eugene Higgins, who resides at
Fifth avenue at Twenty-irst street, has
over So 900 900 in her own right which
she inherited from her father. She is Il
lady of middle age with tall, erect figure,
beautiful dark eyes and hair. Her home
is marvel of artistic beauty, and her
entertainments are among the most pleas
ant of all society events. She drives
beautiful horses and has the most elegant
tuTnoEtS on the avenue. With all her
social duties she finds time TO look after
those less fortunate than herself, and her
purse is open freely to all deserving
charities. There are few women i'll this
country who use their money more wisely
or Systematically than Mrs. Higgins
Her two daughters, Mrs. Jules Reynal
and Mis-. Brooks, two very handsome
women, reside ut Morristown, n. Y.
They inherit millions, and they too have
beautifuI homes and are most devout
helpers TO St. Francis Xavier.
Mrs. Eugene Kelly is another woman
who has millions at her coEenaud. She
is from California. She met and mar
ried her husband there when both were
poor. Mr.. Kelly has been eminently
successful, and does not hesitate to say
that his success is largely due to his wife.
She is Il flne looking woman, dresses with
exquisite taste and makes her home q
very attractive place both for her family
and her friends.
Mrs. William Rhinelander has large
share of the family wealth, which is
largely invested in real estate. Besides
her elegant home in New York she has
beautiful country house at Long Branch,
where the family spend the enITe sum-
mcr.
Mrs. Rhlnelander is an elderly lady,
but wonderfully well preserved: her eyes
are rs bright as ever and her Judgment as
keen. Like all mothers, she is very fond
Of her boys, who are in the habit of COM
ing to her for what their more practical
father refuses. And these same sons
will, no doubt, inherit their mothers
money.
The wife of Philip Rhinelander, who
was Miss Adelaide Kipp, Inherited an i'm
mense fortune from her grandfather.
She is famous beauty. She has COM
plexion that is absolutely tiawless. In
person she is quite petite, yet her figure
is perfect. Her eyes are large and very
dark. Young Mrs. Rhinelander is very
fond of bowling, and is quite an adept at
the sport She is also very fond of
horses, and hi1s several elegant turnouts.
Mrs j. Townsehd, the lady who has
recently built an addition to Bellevue
hospital for the benefit of friend.ess
women, inherited her wealth from her
father. Her home is perfect in all its
appointments. She is young and pretty
and very stylish. Her house entertain
ments are of the daintiest sort. Next
week she gives a tea to her niece, Miss
Anderson, q beautiful girl who is about
to make her debpt. ~
Mrs Ogden Goelet is another woman
who is embarrassed with riches. She, too,
is young and pretty, and very fond of
yacting. He husband has beautiful
steam yatht, and she goes with him on
long cruises. Mrs Goelete comes from
one of the old Kniclserbocker families.
Mrs. Jay Gould and Mrs. William As
tor are TOO well known TO need personal
description, either physically or other
wise. Their charities, like their wealth,
are not unknown
Mrs. Fred Vanderbilt is another woman
who believes that her wealth was given
her for the purpose of doing. good. Her
mission is-one of the most prosperous in
the city, aud her list of benefciaries is
almost endless. She is tall, dark and
handsome, a womon Of whom one in
stinctively says: Who is she?
Mrs. Seward Webb, who was Leila
Vanderbilt, is daughter of william Fl.
Vanderbilt, an consequently an heiress.
Hers was purely Il love marriage, as her
husband was not rich, and her father did
not at first approve OF him They met
elsewhere than at her home for counting
for long time, but at last the stern parent
relented and the lovers were made
happy.
Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt was Miss
Alva Smith. She won her husband by
her true womanliness, and with him her
wealth, which she uses most generously
to help those who are il need.
Mrs. Levi p. Morton received her |
wealth from her father. She WAS Miss
Street, and her girlhood was passed amid |
all the luxury that money could procure.
She is n fine musician and Il most accom-
plished linguist. More than that, she is |
a beautiful woman, one who Will grace |
our national drawing rooms, ana Of whom |
we shall be proud.
Mrs Bronson, widow Of Theodore |
Bronson, who died III Paris foGr years |!
ago, has an immense fortune, which she |
looks after herself. She displays Won
derful business ability and enjoys the |
labor. She is not in the least eccentric, |
however but revels in pretty things. She |
arrays herself ike the lilies of the field, |
but unlike them, she is Il toiler.
Mrs. Frank Shepard is also a widow
Her husband was cousin 10 Colonel Ell |
lott F. Shepard. Mrs. Shepard owns
the Standard Theater and vast amount |
of property besides. She attends to her
business exclusively. She is her own
bookkeeper. Her life has been and is 4
very busy one. She is mistress of several
languages, and an unusually accom-
plished pianist.
Mrs Pullman, wife of the car manu-
facturer, is numbered among New York
ladies now though before her marriage
she lived in Chicago. She was Miss Sanger.
She has snow beautiful residence IN Chi
cago so large that real theater is built
in it Mrs Pullman interests herself very
much in the employees of her husband,
who are indebted to her for many acts of
kindness.
Mrs j. Hood Wright has been the wife
of two members of the firm of Drexel,
Morgan & Co. She is a very handsome
woman, and has a berutiful home on