St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-21
STAGE FORTUNES.
HOW SOME FOOTLIGHT FAVOR
TIES SPEND THEIR EARNINGS
Some Accumulate Diamonds
While Others Take Flyers
in Real Estate.


dramatic and lyric professions.
Many of them get enormous salaries,
and vet they are possessed of such SN-
travagant tastes that it goes almost
as fast as it comes. And not only DO
they spend a great deal of money on
themselves, but they give largely u
charitable objects and to individuals. II
is said the women in the profession are
much more thrifty than the men, ana
save their money and invest 1t to better
advantage than the men do.
Almost the first thing an actor or act
tress INDUCES in when they have saved
UP any money is some favorite jewel,
generally diamonds.
However, the desire TO own home is
often very deeply implanted in the
hearts of many OF the profession, and
often buying this first piece of real es-
tate proves the nucleus OF large for
tune.
There are many rich men and women
belonging to the dramatic and lyric
stage. Among the richest are Joseph
Jefferson, who owns valuable real es-
tate in Buzzard's Bay, Mass, in New
Jersey and in Louisiana.
Joe Murphy is also a very wealthy
man, and is said to own real estate in
every large town in the United States
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
James O'Neil is another actor who
is very rich, owning property of great
value in New London, Conn, where he
has his home.
Tom Karl is also a prosperous man.
He has invested his earnings in real
estate in Rochester and in a summer
home near Rochester, as well as in real
estate in New York.
Other members of the Bostonians
notably Mr.. Barnabee, Jessie Bartlett
Davis, Eugene Cowles and George
rockingham, have all made fortunes,
which they have invested in real estate
and stocks in different parts of the
country.
Nine. Materna is a rich woman, own
ing valuable property in Vienna, where
she has invested most of her American
earnings.
Emil Fischer has accumulated COM
Portable fortune, some of which he has
invested in a home in the Catskills and
some in good paying securities.
OF the artists who have visited this
country during the past twenty years
many have made fortunes, some invest
ing their money here and others abroad.
Conspicuous among them was Cam
panini the great tenor, who, with his
American earnings, bought a large es-
tate near Milan, where he is now liV-
ing. From the products raised on this
place and sold in Milan he is said to be
able to live very well.
After Christine Nilsson had made her
great success in New York in a series
of concerts at Steinway hail she went
with her company directly to Chicago.
With the keen business eye of q
Swede, she saw that Chicago was des-
tined to become a great city, and al
though at that time lots on the north
side We're, many of them, not worth a
dollar apiece, she invested all her sea-
sons savings in water-covered real
estate in the Windy City. which is now
in the heart of the city, and which
has made her very rich woman. Ten
years after her first purchase of lots
in Chicago, on the advice of some
friends living there Nine. Nilsson sold
a parcel of lots at an advance OF 300
per cent on the price paid.
Emma Thursby, who is said to have
received the largest salary of all the
church singers in America, and who
for many years was the reigning favor
tie as a concert singer, is now a rich
woman through her investments in
unimproved real estate in Williams
burg, where she not only owns several
houses, but a lovely home in which she
lives.
Clara Louise Kellogg, the once IA
nous prin1a donna, now Mrs. Stra-
kosch was, while earning a great
deal OF money, advised as to its invest
ment by Col Stebbins, through whose
careful and shrewd management she
bought stocks and bonds which made
her rich woman. Miss Kellogg learned
also to be a good business woman, and
became successful ffnancier.
Emma Abbott, or, as her manager,
James W. MoTrissey, christened her,
Honest Little Emma" was keen
business woman, and through George
Lake, who was her early friend, made
her first investments, which proved
successful. After that she padded her
own financial canoe, so to speak, and,
always with keen eye to the main
chance, invested her earnings in West
ern real estate, which proved so re-
munerative that she died possessed Of
a large fortune. She bought large
tracts of land just outside of Minneap-
oils, part Of which she improved and
inclosed and named Abbott park. Miss
Abbott also invested largely and sue
cessfully in stocks, and the first thing
after reading the announcement notes
in the morning paper she turned to
the stock market reports, which she
read with much interest and great
care.
Lolita, who made her fortune by a
wink a kick and smile, is the wealth.
lest woman in the profession. She
owns very valuable real estate in New
York, Boston, Chicago, Denver and
San Francisco. She is a very shrewd
| financier, a plain liver, and does not
begin to spend all her income. Her
rents alone are enough to enable her
to live like a princess.
Fanny Davenport to a large extent
has followed Lotta's example and has
invested her earnings in real estate
wherever she saw a chance of a rise.
She owns property in Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Massachusetts, notably
her beautiful home in DuXbury, laid
out in fine lawns and drives. She has
had no advice, but has trusted always
to her own shrewdness in investing her
money.
Lillian Russell has earned a great
many fortunes, and had she lived less
! luXuriously might have been one of
the richest women in America. She
! owns beautiful home in West Seven
ty-seventh street, which, with its eie-
CANT furniture, is valued at more han
$4,000 Miss Russell has a fortune in
diamonds, and is said to possess the
finest collection of turquoises in the
world.
With Camille d. Arville it has been a
hard struggle to save money, as she
has an invalid husband to provide for,
also son, whom she is educating, and
q sister whom she supports and yet
in spite of these demands upon her
purse with the thrift of a Hollander
she has managed to save up a few thou
sand dollars. Miss d'Arville is a bold
operator on the stock market, and last
year when stocks were way down she
made 5000 in General Electric" going
on Wall street and watching the ticker
in the office of some broker.
Emma Juch has invested most of her
earnings in Stamford Comm real es-
tate.
Mrs. Carrie Turner, who is consid-
cred a wealthy young woman, having
good bank accounts both in New York
and Albany, is more inclined to invest