The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-04
WOMAN OWNS BR[NER|ES.
NRS. sCHNID.S ABLE
PROPERTY IN NEW YORK.
Owns More saloons Than Any otne1
Woman i'm the World. and In at
Her Office Every Week Looking
After Management Of Business.

-,1eassrt Monday or Thursday morn
,-r Trim. s1yashly gowned woman may
Be seen descending the steps rem Ne S'
Fftf avenue. New York city E-aeefAas
b.r carriage she = swiftly driven 70 the
ec~ner Or Columbus avenue and one Hun
drss ard Elga3a street. mere sic openH
a. door marked Aefnhei1aer S04a-'-ia'
Lson Brewery. 'tsfflce up stars
The woman who owns more sa4eaIfs 1a&h
any other woman IN America has ceSuh
her semi weekly inspection q the aEaars
% her estate
she : Ms. Josephine Scn-sSd. She =
ahasr. =, years CID but size looks 10 more
than = Her nair Is changing from ss-aea-
red 20 gray, L Is true "af Fer inquire =
youthful. She is universally respected ~
her army of employees, AMI her personal
visits 10 the brewery are as reguisr as
clockwork.
sAe steps vtvaesousiy out Of the
breuynam, tells the cotorea coachElan wnen
10 CA. for her, and changing bundle q
legal papers from one hand 70 me DINER,
grasps her skirt with the disengaged one
ard quickly ascendS the Stair
Her features are net in The least Teutonie .
her Whole ensemble is rather Partisan ana
dainty. Her mod.ste in West Seventeenth
street. thinks Nine. SchmiG one Of her best
patrons woman VINO knows how 10 dress
and Is ready to pay for the latest crea-
tions From the waving piurnes on he.
velvet and JET nat 10 the velvet rufnes on
the edge Of her skirt. madame s sym
phoay in r.cn dark blue.
When her husband. August Schnlid. died
SEINE seven Or eight years ago. MIS- ScnHaii
found herself practically at the head OF
one o. the largest brewing concerns in the
metropolis.
she concluded to 90 On with her nus
hands affairs "a her than gave his large
estate administered by others.
Al the brewery I was said she had no
bush representative. that she attended
to her brewing. sa.oon and real estate af-
fairs heryc.f. Another employe stated that
Mrs Scnmid owned more than fifty saloons
on Manhattan Island. The firm Of Bern
heirner & Schmid. n said did nor own the
properties. Mrs Schnid was the moneyei
member; Of the firm, and she made her own
investments.
In compiling a list IF New York saloon
properties, a number of places are recorded
N the tax l.s; under the names Of
Josephine Schmid and j. Scanid but the
number does not reach fifty. Stiil Mrs.
Schn!d may not have taken title 10 many
q the saloons III her oxn name, or that
Of her daughter. Here is list OF the
J. CT josephine Sehtnid, with varied spell
ings:
40 Amsterdam avenue.
So Ninth avenue.
195 Avenue Is.
- Amsterdam avenue
Go IVES. Forty eighth street
4i3 West Thirty eighth street.
.44 Ninth avenue.
81 Eighth avenue.
e1o Ninth avenue.
IS Warren street.
~ Cortlafdt street
sio Columbia. avenue.
3os West Thirty fifth street
One Hundred and Tenth street and West
BouIey ard.
Ninety second street and West Boulevard
ll2l Second avenue.
% Columbus avenue.
Mrs. Schm:d's residence on Fifth avenue.
below that Of John Jacob Astor and above
that Of Commodore Gerry. IS one of the
most artistic on the whole avenue Her
butler and most OF the other servants. sx-
cept the s;ablemen. are Germans White
she has some warm friends Mrs. Schrn.d
Is au.e; and exclusive in her tastes
Mrs Schnid is clever and nethodlcai
Every Monday and Thursday sha Is az The
Lion brewery between 10 o'olock ana noon.
Her investments seem 10 ~ excellent reve
nue. earners and every important detail is
in her hands.
one Of her children died. and now the
Immense income IL received By the widow
and her married daughter
Ex-Comp;roller Ashbel +. Fitch. WIN "a
the attorney FOR Mss. Schmid said her
brewery was the second largest esta hlisn
nent OF the kind in the East. ana that ne
foregoing list Of properties did not repre-
sent aHywh here near all that she owned
MIS-. Schuid." said he. owns graat
many pieces % corner property. How
many Of them are rented for saloons I am
not prepared 20 say