The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-11-13
FABULOUS WEALTH IS HERS
New York Dazzled by a Brazilian
MilIionairess' Display.
BUYS PROPERTY WHOLESALE
Building IA Castle in the Fashionable
section Of the City-It VIII Have
Theater and Museum of Its Own.
Derives Royal Revenue From
Gold Mine In Naranon, Brazil.

New York, Nov. 13.-Mme. Maria Tulsa
Teixeira, n Brazilian lady of almost fab
uIous wealth, and her only son and heir,
Don Eugenic Teixeira, might have con-
tinued to live on in New York city without
attracting any special attention had IT not
been for the large purchases OF real estate
made recently by them. Within very
short time mother and son have bought
half "a rni,lion dollars worth of upper West
Side improved property and their plan Is
To invest at least So 500 900 more imme-
diateI~ In the same class of property. In
addition to this their agent is placing with
two trust companies SIS 600 900 TO be In
vested I'm binds and mortgages. IL rs pro-
posed that eventually almost the whole OF
their posses ions will be represented IN real
estate IL New York city.
Jrntil q year ago when they arrived IN
this country, Nine. Teixe!ra and the Don
had lived IN Spain. Their home originally
was in tie brazilian capital and there
they are related to the first pc 1ple of the
land The late Emperor, Dom Pedro, was
first cousin Of the madame, VINO, wh,n
father added, according TO the Spanish
tvlc, Is Nine. Maria Tulsa Teixcira lie
Faria. She is n hout rift y-ffvc year. old, 4
handsome woman. ACCOMPLISHED as IN art
list, a singer ard a pianist, aud much tie
Not ed 10 the art OF literature She has been
a willow for many years
The Don H. thirt two years old,
wlaower with three children. He Is
rainter and poet of renown ia spain ami
his owE country and has much repute as IN
orator. After the death of his Wife two
wears age. hr could no longer hear To live
in he ma gnificent ia lace in spain that had
haen his hame for several ears AMI 81,
taking his mother and his little children,
H. made 4 tour ofthe world. The Tavelers
arrived in this country In October year
age. They lived in a cottage at Elberon'
y. ! throughout last summer, and then,
Ia wing decIned that the United states was
the most attractive of all countries they
tad visited, they decided to make their
hnne On Manhattan Island,
The first purchase Uf realty made by
Nine. rcix,!Ta was the new American
basement dwelling on the southeast cGr-
ner Of West End avenue and One Hun
dred and Fifth street. This was OHe UI
a row of eigh; residences that had just
been completed. and was by far the
most desirable at all
After making interior Improvements
amounting to about $50, o0c, the Brazilian
widow took possession and now lives
there. The house will have il own in
dependent electric plant: il VIII have an
elevator: the entire first floor will he
museum and tLeater, where plays and
operas will he presente ell Nv amateurs and
nv the best professional singers and actors
in the stage ord. The museum Is To be
made up of Cu;ins g. llected by Don Eu-
geniu TEX elri. himself nd coming from all
PARTS OF tho world. and the walls VIII be
hung with paintings ny Raphael, Rubens,
Murillo and other masters. TIE TeiXeiras
intend to entertain in a manner bcfitting
their wealth and social station.
The wealth OF the TeiNeira family has
been largely gained from the famous
p;rcania gold mine ia NlranOn. Brazil
which covers an area of 90 square miles,
and is said To- be richer than any of TIL
famed California mines. Thy also own
plantations In Portugal, Spain, ard BraZi'.
Negotiations are now pending with Il
London syndicate for the sale OF part
or all of the Nara non mine. and the pro
ceeds are 10 I've invested in New York
bon Teixcira H. himself decorating TIE
walls and ceilings of their West End home.
He is said to have i very high rank In the
art world atToa d, his painting, the First
Communion Of Columbus in America, nav
ing been eX hihitcd both in Paris and Madrid.
in each OF which cities IT was awarded a
gold medal
Tie. real estate purchases Of Nine. TEX
EZRA were InTde through Thomas O'Connell,
of the American Tract SOCIETY Building.
Some of the properties purchased we're the
flat huus,. on. tie southeast corner OF st.
Nicholas avenue and 18TH street; the
apartment house on the southeast corner OF
Seventh creme and 130th street; the Bos-
ton Apartment, at No. COZ West 1881
street, III. flat holse ON the. southwest cor
ner Of Morningside avenue and 11th street,
and the flat house Oh tn northeast corner
of Mott avenue and l Ithstreet. The latest
purchases " ere made yesterday, and con
sisted of two apartment houses, the loca-
ton of which h as not yet been made public.