The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1889-08-15
RICH WOMEN.
Some Who Are Worth Cool Million
Or More,

Or More.
Mrs. Moses Taylor, the widow of the
famous dry-goods merchant, says New
York paper, comes generally first into
the mind of the New Yorker who be-
thinks him of the famously rich women
of Manhattan Island. As widow she
seems to acquire that pre-eminence
among her wealthy sex which widow
hood gives to beautiful woman among
her unmarried sisters. Mrs. Taylor is
carefully estimated to be worth not less
than SIS, 900, 900.
Mrs. Robert L. Stuart, the widow of
the successful sugar merchant whose re-
along the North River, inherited from
in $10O00,0O0. Mrs Marshall D. Rob
erts, who is often pointed out as the
most desirable person among fashionable
widows, has life interest in $1,000, 900.
This is much lower and it is believed to
be much nearer the truth than most cur
rent estimates of her pecuniary charms.
'tThe Widow Hamersley" that is
now her Grace the Duchess of Marlbor
ough, has life interest in $1,000, 900.
She has it right here in this city, too, in
custody of New York courts, so, as long
as she lives, she cannot cease to be a
New Yorker. Mrs. August Schell,
widow of the famous Democrat and
banker, has twelve solid millions of
money while she lives. She cannot will
it away, however. Mrs. Frederick
Stevens that was, now the Duche-se de
Dino, is new Yorker still to the tune of
ten real golden millions of her own, ard
now, one may say, the Dukes, too.
Mrs. Robert l. Livingston, who is Ell
bridge Gerry's mother-in-law, is worth
S.. OOO, 900 "if she's worth a cent"
That's the way an old crony pliers puts it..
"But la bless you, don't mention my
name" And so the old crone's identity
shall remain a secret. What she doesn't
know about the rich women of New
York is inaccessible, too. There's
Mrs. Frederick Gallatin," says she,
"whose million is in cold cash and
securities, most of it. It's finely fixed
she is. And Mrs. Bradley Martin, who
came from up the Hudson, who brings
over her own brands OF champagne, and
who entertains with the best of the fine
ladies in Scotland and England, too, bad
cess to them. She's got two millions of
her own, besides all her husbands
money"
Mrs. Robert Winthrop has private
fortune more than adequate to the main
tenance of even such fine old family
name as hers. She has $4,000, 900.
Mrs. Percy Pyne has $l0,000,000 of her
own. Mrs. Fred Nelson, Freddy Geb-
hard's sister, has a cool million. 1t
must always be remembered that a cool
million seems the most desirable kind of
million. The same cool million repre-
sents also the private fortune of Mrs.
Matulin Livingstone. Nobody will be
surprised to hear that Mrs. Ogden Mills
has million of her own.
But oh, We young bachelors and mid
dle-aged and old bachelors in.search of
rich wives, think what you have lost in
the way of opportunities when you hear
that the two elderly Misses Rhinelander
have 100000 between them and bid
fair to leave it to collateral heirs with
wonderfully fat accumulations.
Now, take Mrs. James p. Kernochen.
She has 81 100000 in money and real
estate at low estimate All these esti-
mates are low indeed. By the same
apportionment Mrs. John @. Green has
at least 100000, and Mrs. Mason
Jones, so often called by queer old peo-
pie "Lady Mary Mason JONES'" she has
81 100000 of her own and is contesting
the Hamersley will besides.
And so gossip goes on.
Mrs. Josephine Aver, the widow of the
doctor who made a fortune in patent
medicine, is said to have received from
him about So 100000. Mrs. Martin Bates
was left by her husband $1,500,00O,
which he made in dry goods, and Mrs
James Brown, who lives in fine house
on Park avenue and Thirty-seventh
street, received from her husbands es-
tate about 81 100000, which he accumu-
lated as banker. Mrs. w. E. Dodge is
worth 81, 000,0 900, much of the income of
which she sends to the heather. Mrs.
Robert Goelet is worth So, 000,0 900, and
Mrs. John c. Green, the widow of the
Princeton College patron, is reputed to
be worth $10,000,000. Mrs. John Min
turn is another wealthy New York
widow; she is said to be worth $2,000,-
600, and her father was an Aspinwall.
Governor Morgan's widow is worth sew
eral millions; Clarkson Potter's widow
has an immense income from his estate,
and Mrs. Edwin Stevens, who owns
castle Point" at Hoboken, is one of the
richest widows in America. and counts
her wealth by millions. Mrs Paran
Stevens husband made 100000 in
hotels, and left her the Victoria and a
share in the Fifth avenue.
Mrs. Craig Wadsworth, who lives in
Washington, but who is New Yorker,
is said to be worth a million. Miss
Sarah Hitchcock is not only a society |
woman, but is said to have in her own |
right several millions with which to COM |
mand society. Mrs. Levi P Morton is
said to have we'll over a million of her
own.
Mrs. ULYSSES S. Grant, from the pen
sion and book of her famous husband,
has, it is said, an income which entities
her to rank among the rich women of
New York, although her capital is small.
Mrs. Cleveland has about $3.50 900 of her
own. Mrs. Garfield is a milliona ire,
judged by the standard of income. OF
the other three surviving ex-queens of
the White House, Mrs. Polk and Mrs.
Johnson are poor.
But after this plethora of million fem
mines, who is the richest woman in New
York, and consequently, without much
doubt, the richest inthe United States,
and perhaps the richest woman in the
world? She isn't young and she isn't
but she made her money and
keeps it. Where does "Hetty" Green
i've? Look in directories and you won't
find out. Ask the Chemical Bank peo-
Pile and you might, if they thought
proper to tell you. Who knows where
The richest woman in New York" lives?