The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06
MISS HELEN CULvER's OFFICES.
Where She Adds Daily TO Her Many
Million Estate.


Million Estate.
The recent gift by Miss Helen Culver of
Sl,C0O0O to the Chicago University and
the fact that Miss Culver has a branch
office in this city, where she owns upward
of 100000 of property, and has been iden-
titled with Savannah in a business way.
renders interesting to Savannah people
something of the life of the woman who
succeeded to the many million estate of
the late c. J. Hull and who has developed
such remarkable tact and ability in its
management
Miss Culver's modestly furnished Of
fees are in the Culver building on Lake
street. in the heart of Chicago's busiest
section Underneath her windows is an
endless procession of electric and horse
cars, and every few minutes the roadway
Is confused jam of railway cars and
merchandise wagons, horses and drivers
and motormen of rare conversational
gifts; men distinguished alike for vibrant
voice and breadth of vocabulary largely
OF eDithets. There are coal yards and liV-
cry stables on either side, police station
and other livery stables across the street.
Everything busy and bustling, and pro-
ductiVe of noise in the business life of a
large city, can be found in the street
wherein Miss Culver has her station She
is unmoved by the racket, and does not
permit her methods or peace of mind to
be disturbed by her surroundings.
The woman who can direct the affairs
of so large an estate as that left by Mr.
Hull, and manage them so prudently as
to increase the returns without charging
the cost of management, must be the pos
SCISSOR of rare executive ability. Miss Cul-
yer has done it since Mr.. Hulls death,
aided in her work by two or three clerks.
The principal member of her staff is a
young man who keeps the books and con-
ducts all Office matters that do not re-
quire the personal attention of the head
of the office. Other clerks are women.
Miss Culver herself is of medium hight
and middle age. Her hair is white-pre-
maturely so, evidently. Her eyes are light
in color, and look on the world through
gold-bOWed spectacles. There is no time
wasted by Miss Culver in the transaction
of her business. She lacks the time to
waste. She ascertains the business of a
caller, and deals with it Immediately She
possesses that rare quality in man or
woman which invariably brings success
she knows her own mind.
Miss Culver's estate is particularly hard
to manage, as 1t hes in so many different
parcels. There is an endless detail involved
in the conduct of properties equal in ag-
gregate value but divided into 500 or 900
distinct pieces. This is the business prob
lem which daily confronts Miss Culver.
Many men would give ii up, but she dis
charges her duties to her tenants sees
to It that such discharge, is duly and prop
erly reciprocated, and keeps a personal
acquaintance with all the details of her
many enterprises and belongings. In adj
dition she finds time TO fashion the best
plans for carrying out several enterprises
for the public good which Mr.. Hull had
outlined prior to his death. The details
of these have all fallen to Miss Culver
TO arrange. Mr.. Hull's plans none Of
them, had taken definite form and shane
In a general way he had determined to
devote part of his great wealth to uses
for the general good, but he deferred put
late. ~
Miss Culver's office bears a sign similar
in lettering to that which hung on her
office on Waldburg street in this CITY. n
reads Miss Helen Culver. successor to
c. J. Hull. Real Estate" Her home is
two minutes walk distant. fronting on
Union Park. Miss Culver leaves il for her
Office at $3.50 o'clock in the morning and
returns at II O'clock Again at 3 in the
afternoon she may be found at her desk
and after two hours work again goes to-
her home. This daily programme is rarely
departed from, but the five or six hours
at the desk is not the measure of Miss
Culver's work. She attends to MANY Of
her affairs at her home and is NOT a
hermit in a social way.