The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-01-12
MOSES. TAYLoR's WIDOW.
Her One Remarkable Whirn of Extraya-
gance Diagnosed by Correspondent.

Her One Remarkable whirn Of Extrava-
gsnce Diagnosed by a Correspondent.
There is wealthy New ork widow who
has church and a chaplain of her own.
writes New York correspondent. She is
Mrs. Moses Taylor. The church was built
by her at Long Branch at a cost of about
$4,000. 1t is Presbyterian, and there is "a
nominal board of trustees, but Mrs Taylor
paid every dollar Of the cost and is the
owner outright, 1t is an ornate ediiice, and
one of its features is "a memorial stained
glass window inscribed to her dead hus-
band. 'sBlessed are they that die in the
Lord it says. The sinner might add that
they are considerably blest who live possess
ors OF the enormous wealth accumulated by
Moses Taylor. He was rather loose and
luxurious in his earthly methods of blessed
ness, but he protested Christianity a little
while before he died, and so the witness of
the window is not to be impcached. Mrs,
Taylor's chaplain is Rev. j. II. Young, who
conducts the services i'll the church during
the summer months, but it is at her com
mand the year round, for she pays his sal
AIRY OF $500 out OF her own pocket, This
religious, benevolent and amable lady does
not put on airs over being the richest widow
body else were astonished by the amount
of fortune left to her. One of the execu-
tors of the win has just been telling me
about it. The document did not cnumcratc
the testator's possessions, but merely
Jumped the personal property, consisting
of bonds, stocks and other securities" The
general impression had been that Taylor
was worth fifteen to twenty millions He
h.in n npfxy lV i'm,
porting foreign goods in his own
ships but as to his investments he had
never been communicative. On an APP
pointed day the widow and the executors
opened the doors of tho particularly solid.
vault which the old man had built into his
Office. This structure was banli-iike in vul.
nerability, and the investigators expected
to find the proofs OF ownership to the ex-
tent of many millions in it. But they were
not prepared for what they found The in
nermost compartment was large enough to
hold certificates of stock and the like Sc
carities without folding. There was high
stack of these papers, lying nearly u top OF
one another, unwrinkled aud increased
They represented Taylor's investments in
hundreds Of railroads, banks, insurance
companies and all manner Of the soundest
financial ventures. The amazed finders OF
this store of wealth handled them over in "a
half-dazed way for an hour OF two Then
they set about making an inventory. When
they came to add the totals it was seen that
the market value of the lot was about thirty
millions, and when other property was
added to this the aggregate reached forty
millions, or more than double the current
estimate. Taylor had disliked to figure as
superlatively rich man, and, therefore
without any of the miser's instinct had
concealed the facts from even his most in
innate friends As to the widow and
heiress, she denies herself nothing that hel
fancy demands, but she is as unostenta
,ous as her late husband, and her indul
gence in church and chaplain of her owl
constitutes her one remarkable whim of eX
travagance.