The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-06
Shown That Women Are as
Adept at Feat as Are the
Men in America.
BUSINESS OMEN OF NOTE.
THEY ScoRN ADVICE OF THEIR
FRIENDS AND AS THE RESULT
HAVE AMASSED LARGE FOR
TUNES OF THEIR OWN.

New York, June 6. In these
lays of suffragettes and eman-
cipated females generally one is
entering the arena of finance and
matching their wits successfully
against the most astute of their male
rivals. But for woman without any
training in the arts of speculation to
put it's cleverest and most resOlute
bears" to flight and to make $4,000
in a few days is a feat for which one is
scarcely prepared.
An yet this was the achievement a
few weeks ago, of Nine. Rochelle Of
Paris, who, in order to save her hus-
band from bear" raid on the stocks
which he held, fought them single
handed, and came out of the unequal
contest a winner of 3OOO,0oO francs.
However novel and startling such
feat may be in France, in America. it
would scarcely excite any attention;
for across the Atlantic women have
proved for some years past that the
men are no longer to have monopoly
on million making.
One of the most daring and success
1ul VI THESE lduy 1luduCiclS Is WI .. IlCl =
mann Oelrichs, who is held in cons!d-
cradle awe by her masculine rivals in
Wall street. A few years ago Mrs.
Oelrichs decided to take the manage
ment of her business affairs out of her
husbands hands into her own. Nat
urally, all her friends were aghast at
such audacity, and predicted that she
would soon make ducks and brakes"
of her fortune. But Mrs. OelrichS on
ly smiled-the smile of the confident
capable woman. She knew better.
Realizing her estate, she commenced
operations in Wall street with a cap
ital of 100000 and by clever specula-
tion in railroad shares she had in
creased her fortune five fold in a year,
making money at the phenomenal rate.
even for America, of S2,OOOOOO per an
mum.
Smart in Business.
But even Mrs Oelrichs has a fOrmid-
able rival of her own sex in Mrs. Ella
Rawls Reader, who has earned the
right to be considered one of the
smartest business women in the whole
world. A dozen years ago Mrs.
Reader was addressing envelopes in a
New York newspaper office and four
years later she was head of the largest
reporting agency in the city.
Then it was that this remarkable
woman, who is still in the early thir-
ties, and who is described as very
pretty, with fascinating smile,
charming manners and a sweet, gentle
voice." determined to show what a wo-
man could do in the realm of finance.
And how far she has succeeded is
proved by the following, among many
similar sensational coups which have
made such financial giants as Mr.. Pier
pont Morgan gasp with wonder.
She has organized a $2O00.OOO rail
way in opposition to Mr.. Morgan him
self; induced the House of Lords to
adopt the Sprague system on the Cen
trail London tube" wrested from pow
erful rivals a concession for a railway
through the dominions of the Sultan
of Johore; settled a South American
revolution at her breakfast table; en-
tered into competition with Wall street
to control the copper interests of Peru
and fought President Roosevelt for
concessions in Santo Domingo involv-
ing over $2O,O00,OO0.
Mrs. Hetty Green has. of course
long been recognized as one of the
shrewdest of American financiers with
a knack of piling up the millions as
few men have exhibited. Starting
with capital of about half million
CHI
mate, twenty times that sum. For
many years past she has at least add
ed 100000 yearly to her capital. And
yet so thrifty is this lady for millions
that she is said to live on less than 81
a week, spending in year less than
she earns every four hours.
/ Mrs. Richard King. another Ameri-
Acan lady who has been the architect of
her own fortunes, is today owner of an
elFtate two and a half times as large as
Whales, which she manages herself
with consummate skill, Her estate
Is bounded by forty miles of coast, and
girdled inland by 800 miles of barb
ed wire fence. She is mistress of 2OO,-
600 cattle; employs 300 cowboys for
whose use 200 ponies are provided:
and swhen she wishes to leave her do
maira of which she is a veritable queen
she has to drive Is miles from her
door to her front gate.
Al n equally capable woman is Mrs.
Annie X. Rikert, president of the
Stockton and Tuolumne railroad, who
at ~ was left a widow. practically
pennihess, with an infant daughter.
Makin& her way to the California gold
fields, she began prospecting. and,
although\ entirely without skill was
so successful that within six months
she had $4,000 in the bank and own
ed several VI aluable mines.
A Crane Family Medicine.