The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-04
SOME WELL KNOWN
WOMEN FlNANClERS

masculine accomplishment is refiected by
a flippant character i'm enc of Balzae's
books, who says seni-sarcastically:
Women are sublime i'm ons thing-they
never understand anything about m5ney;
1T DOESN'T concsrn them, ard they don't
NEEDLE with Ut. except to spend 1T. They
arr invited 70 the banquet of life"
Not every woman can be Heltty
Green, with a little leather satchel stored
with stocks and securities TO be sure,
but almost every woman IS a mastery
manipulation of money bags. Millions of
women, in other words, are the shrewd
sponsors nowadays of millions of dol
lars.
Two notable instances stand in direct
refuatfon To this much-d,scusscd fallacy
Of the fair finanoEer One is the woman
department. of the Worlds Fair, which
concluded it's work with $1,000 in the
treasury, while the men managers came
out ait the little end of the financial horn.
The same creditabIe work of women was
repeated by the daughters of the south
at the Atlanta Exposition, with snug
balance of $4,000, though the men were
compelled to- bear the burden of a com
siderable deficiency in funds. That the
fair sex is capabl= care-takeT of coln
is everywhere evidenced, not only in the
feminine financier of the family ex-
chequtr but in the coll sctSon and careful
application of immense sums for phllan-
thrope purposes, as well as in more pre-
tent5ous und srtalkings lin the commercial
world. In THE first instance wtmen may
not always have followed faithfully the
admirable edict of Ruskin-"Starve and
go to heaven but don't borrow''-but all
| along the Gine has she shown a whole
some dis Inclination to running dn ds'bt. In
short, the average woman financier rec
| Tgniz.s no mean betwetn absolute safe
| ty and reckless expenditure An ardsnt
advocate of the '-rafny day lump" she
| always gets there with her dlmels aus
we'll as her dollars.
There are fully two dozen women IN
this country each of whom has more
money than any one of the crowned
haads of Europe except woman-Queen
Victoria the ri-Glest of sovereigns. And
what is more, there are at least a dozen
American women who possess as much
money as this wealthy ruler of England.
High and mighty Hetty Green is by no
means feminine freak In the financial
world. Her twenty millions have for
midable rival in the money of the New
York sp.nster Miss Mary Garrett, which
amounts TO forty millions. Mrs. Mark
Hopkins also possesses FIVE millions
more than the industrious Mrs. Green,
and equal to her in wealth are Miss Jen-
ME Flood, daughter of the multi-mil-
lionaire of San Francisco; Miss Julia
Rhinelander, of Gotham, and Mrs. Mar
shall o. Roberts of the same city. MIS-.
d. p. Morgan, of Washington, has a
bank account of ten Millions while Mrs.
Charles B. Alexander, of New York, has
six millions. And there are many ottler
| minor millionabresses.
The richest woman i'm the world is the
Sonora de Colsino of Chile, whose am
nual income is no lees than eight MIL
lions. The immense wealth of this
widow is doubtless due TO her financier-
ing, as she has doubSed the original
amount of her inheritance. 1t is not un-
likely the sonora, who is gifted with
good looks aus well as good god, could
MARRY again If She chooses, though thus
far she has remained weddel1 to her al
most untold wealth. The story eff h5r
money sounds like a myth. Among her
USlUISWlBS dTe ulLte ptldC6p5 III LOT dts
many prlncesses silver mines, a fleet of
ships, vineyards, stock farms, pottisries
which supply with earthenware all South
America, all the copper mines of Chile
and Peru, houses and lands, and little
of everything else under the sun.
The feminine financier has fnally
made a break into the banking business.
Down in Peoria, ILL.,, is a bank run en-
tirely by the fair sex. The president,
Mrs. Lydia Bradley, has peuticoat1d as
sdstan,s ali about tine place, even to the
directors. There is also a bank at
Mount Crescent, Tex. presided over by
woman, Mrs Annie Mocres. One of
tine oldest private banking houses in
Paris has had for twenty years a wo-
man alt its head. In this connection DIT is
interesting to know that the par value of
THE shares In national banks owned by
women in 1898 amounted to $3.50, 6S1, ASS in
this country. Neither are women be-
hind the times, financially speaking,
when it comes to the management of
moneyed corporations. In Kansas City.
for interesting instance, women beast of
the only real estate investment company
which fiomashed in the days of the great
boom and survived to a steady sail on
the sea off SUCCESS In Denver there is a
recently organized mining company
made up wholly of fair investors. In
loan associations women play no small
| part, possessing shares in this country
amounting to $685. 900. In the build
ing of club houses by the formation of
stock companies women have also come
| to the front as fnanciers.
|
The wisdom of training women in the
intldcacies of commercial life has re-
| Gently impressed the steady-going peo-
| pie of Philadelphia About one year
| ago, in conn ection with the high school,
a. three years course along mercantile
Hines was aluspiclously inaugurated for
ambitious misses who might wish to fit
themselves for possible emergencies in
future finances. Five hundred young
maidens ait once jumped ait the chance
for an education in the fine art of money
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