St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-04
MILLIONAIRE women.
Several Of Them Who Have
Business and Financial
Ability.
Mrs. Hetty Green and Her
Business Tact and
Skill.
Successful Ventures Managed
by Mrs. Hicks-Lord and
Mrs. Leslie.
Business and Benevolence
Well Combined in Wealthy
Women.
New York Letter.

abroad enjoy the good things which
their fortunes have amply provided for
them. Their names very seldom get
into the newspapers, for even the chart
ties which they confer and the other
good works they do with their wealth
are often done in quiet. wOmanly ways,
and not in the glare of publicity.
Here and there, however. there are
women who do not hide the light of
their financial and business ability
under a. bushel, but stride into the
marts of trade and battle for increased
fortunes with the SturdineSs of man
spectators. But this class is an eX-
ception.
Everybody has heard about Mrs.
Hetty Green and her fortune of some
thing like S30.000,000. Perhaps nobody
but herself knows how much she is
really worth. but good many men in
Wall street realize to their sorrow that
Mrs. Green's knowledge of business has
enabled her, at the expense of less
Slrewd and farSeeing Spectators, to
add to the millions that she continues
to accumulate.
Another New York woman who in
business way bears some resemblance
10 Mrs. Green is Miss Martha Kemp,
who. with her mother. lives on Fifth
avenue, near Twenty-eighth street. She
i, pruuaDly in her early thirtieS. but
looks forty-five. The fortune her father
LETT her of little more than million
has been added to by careful Speeula-
tons ana Investments by herself, and
to-day she can be numbered among the
very wealthy women of the city. She
is Il gentle, kindly. sWeet-faced lady,
ri
;tS one of their tender-hearted friends.
Why she has never married has been all
enigma to most of those who know her.
ISIS Grace a.. Dodge,
whom Mayor Hewitt appointed as one
of the first female school commissioners
i'll New York city, is another of the rich
and unmarried ladies whose wealth is
blessing to others besides themselves.
Her father. tie late William E. Dodge.
left Miss Grace very large fortune in
ler own right, which was sold at the
time to foot up nearly S3,000O00. Prior
to that time the young lady was already
wealthy, with fortune which had been
left her bv her grandmother. The bust
ness ability of Miss Dodge is fully
recognized. and she is said to have
lit.ariy doubled her fortune through her
brothers. mercantile house since her
fathers death. She is q woman who
has already done great good with the
wealth which she possesses. and will do
sill more in ways that the world will
he;tr about.
Her mother, Mrs. William E. Dodge.
is not very pOOr woman. either. Her
portion of her husbands estate. after
liistdeatIi. amounted to over s., DOC. 900,
and it has certainly not been decreased
bya any careless specializing. Indeed,
the' Dodge family, taking them alto
gether. boys and girls, come OF thrifty
stock. and although not at all inclined
IT, be parSlInoniouS when a truly merl-
torious object appeals to them for con-
Iteration, are nevertheless very care
fut in their business methods. and 1t is
not astonishing that the girls have in
creased their fortunes.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord cannot be passed
over in writing of New York's rich and
buSness-like women, and besides, TAX
ing il all in all, Mrs. Lord is not
woman who. will allow herself to be
passed over. Self-aSsertive, little pc
culiar in her apparent search for nOto-
riety-talked about and written of every
FEW days-never tagging in the rear
when the worlds eyes are turned in her
AnlSs I1tChO-iJOiu has DCClls
and continues to be occasionally, So
cial sensation both here and in
England. All the tales about her
and her doings have a flavor of Orien-
tai magniticence. and it is possible that
theseStlmateS of her wealth may he
little overdrawn. Still, she certainly
must be worth from s10,000,000 to sl2.-
DOC. 900, and despite the rOmaneeS which
every now and then find their way into
the newspapers about her extraordinary
expenditures, she has Shrewdly, and
with large business aptitude, added
to her fortune instead of impairing the
original capital. When she throws out
money lavishly on entertainments the
world hears all about it, and the story
of her magnificence never loses any
thing as it runs along through the
newspaper.
Mrs. Frank leslie
what record that brings up of busi-
ness ability, industry. attention to de-
tails and thorough knowledge of the
difficulties surrounding her, which en-
abled her. after the death of her huS-
band, to make honest millions out of
what was real bankruptcy-to-d day can
figure up, it is said, after the sale of
republication house to Senator Arkeil
and Russell Harrison. fully clear mill
ion and a half Of her own. She is so
piquantly lively and thoroughly kindly
3 woman, that she really seems to de-
serve it all aud more.
Mrs. Emily H. Mor, who inherited
thegreat Morgan estate, has her fortune
counted as high as S10,000.000. 1t is in
vested largely in hIgh-priced, dividend
paving securities, which bring her
very large income. She pays, it is re-
ported. more taxes On personal property
than any other woman in New York.
She is one of the women to whom great
wealth and the. comforts it brings her
have added kindness and charity and
gracious good treatment for the needy
and Want0u sisters around her.
Miss Adele Grant, who starred 1t for
several years in New York, and after
ward transferred herself to Washington
and thence to Europe, has been fire.
auently put down by the knowing ones
as worth something like 100000. En-
vious girls on Fifth avenue assert that
she is not worth more than half that
sun, but there is no doubt that the pink
faced beauty, who had scores of adj
mirers on Wall street, added to the
original sum left her, which was some
where near 100000, by various fortu-
nate speculations. Miss Nettie Win
slow, a dark-faced beauty, who is what
the New York and Washington girls
call "Miss Adele's foil" and is always
with her, is comparatively poor-that is,
from millionaire's point of view--for
she has only about s40O, 900. and that
sum is invested In United States bonds.
Miss May Calendar. one Of the pref
tiest girls In upper tendon. could sign
her check tomorrow for q million and
have it cashed. She was left a good
deal less money than this some five or