Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1907-08-16
AMERICAS WEALTHY WOMEN.
SOME OF THEM DISPLAY REMARKA-
BILE ABILITY IN BUSINESS
Ae MATTERS.

| BILE ABILITY In BUSINESS
MATTERS.
Perhaps the distinction of being th,
richest woman in America rests anon,
Mrs. Green, Mrs Walker and Mrs
Sage. Mrs. Sage has announced thai
she intends to devote her entire for
tune, exceeding $50, 100000, for tht
benefit of humanity. Mrs. Walker an(
Mrs. Green have given little, SO far al
known by the world.
Mrs. Sage. as everyone knows, in.
herited her money from her husband.
the celebrated fnancier, Russell Sage.
Shortly after his death she announced
that the entire fortune would be de-
voted to educational and humanitari.
an purposes. Mrs. Sage is greatly in.
tsrested in religious work and the pub
lie schools. Among her recent gifts
| were 81, ,000,00 to the Emma Willard
Seminary, of Troy, N. Y, and 1925, 900
to the national committee of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
She has laid aside $4,000 900 as a
Sage foundation for the promotion of
of living conditions IN the country.
In Mrs. Sage's words: 1.-The means to
that end will include research, publ
cation. education, the establishment
maintenance of charitable and benef
cial activities, agencies and institu-
ti0ns, and the aid of any such activities,
agencies and institutions already es-
tablished."
Mrs. Annie Weightman Walker, both
before and after the death of her faith
er, the rich Philadelphia manufactur
ing chemist, VIM. W eightman, showed
admirable qualities as a business wo
man. Every morning she was at her
desk in the Office of the big drug man
ufacturing plant; she attended strictly
to business, and it is, said that the
merger with Rosengarten & Sons, the
firm Is chief competitors, was affected
by her. After the merger Mrs. Walker
retired from business, and since then
has been leading q quiet life.
When VIM. Weightman died it was
learned that he had left his entire for
tune. without reservation, to his
daughter, Mrs. Walker. She lad long
been his principal business assistant,
had led quiet life, going out little,
and was in constant attendance upon
her father. She took up the reins of
management when they fell from his
dead hands, and showed thai she was
a master.
After retiring from active manage
m ant of the'great concern she quietly
from public view. She
divides her time between New York
and Philadelphia. Perhaps Mrs.
Walkers hobby may be said to be the
raising of orchids. Every year at the
Horticultural Show in Philadelphia
she carries off prizes with her orchids. |
She maintains splendid conservatory. |
Mrs. Hetty Green rides in an auto
mobile which cost $12, 0O0-her one ex
travagance. Yet, because the board
of assessors attempted to raise the as
sessment On her property at Bellows
Falls, VT, from SIC, 900 to $4,000 she |
to desert the home OF her
youth.
"They IL impOverish me, {" Mrs. Green |
is said to have remarked to a neighbor |
"Why don't you give the house away |
to be used as Carnegie Free Libra
ry ?" was asked.
To this the aged millionairess re-
piled vehemently that she had no use
for Carnegie libraries, and did not pur-
pose to give libraries with strings at |
tached.
Mrs. Green is said to possess for
tune exceeding $780, 600 900. She devotes
most of her time to accommodating
money, bringing lawsuits against peo
pie who, she says, try ito do her," and
practicing the gospel of thrift.
One of the most remarkable of
America g rich women is Mrs. Helen
M. King, the ''cattle queen" of Texas.
She owns more than 1,000,0 acres of
land and her fortune is estimated at
$50, 900, 600.
In her time Mrs. King, who is past
70, has battled with desperadoes,
fought against Indians, land has ridden
the plains bareback, a typical woman
of the West. 1t has been said that it
is so miles from the doorway of Mrs
Kings house to her front gate.
But the richest woman of Texas is
never lonely She possesses a mag
nifcenJ library, and in the evening
her chief pleasure is reading or play
Ing the piano. In her employ Mrs.
King has 1. 900 men. Within two years
she has given away 100000 acres of
land.
| Perhaps the unique personality
among the wealthy women of the
United States is Isabel Lewis, a 13-
year-old negro girl. She is the richest
girl in Oklahoma, and lives in a little
log cabin in an obscure part of the
State philadelphia North American
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