The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-12-26
Big Prizes To Be Rewon
WEALTHY WIDOWS WHO WOULD BRING IMMENSE FORTUNES
TO HUSBANDS IF THEY SHOULD REVIVED.

ionables. But she left the impression
tneradicahle that her former husband
had merely heen caught by freshness
of features, not by any superiority in
real beauty.
The unfailing wonder of Paris. for
beautiful Mrs. jackson Gouraud.
whose graves have been lauded by ad-
mirers for several years. while her in
come. 100000 a year-the bulk of
her fathers $1+.O00.0 900 having been
LETT to her mother. whose heiress she
is-has filled scores of ambitious sui
tors with a cOvetousness equal to their
genuine eagerness for her charming
self. She may be regarded now, like
the second Mrs. Leeds. as welded to
her celibacy: the defeat of her wooers
has been too unvarying.
l. Not more than half a dozen years
have passed since Mrs. Ogden Goelet.
mother Of the duchess Of Rosburghe.
wa reported to be engaged to the
Count de Coutant-Biron. Well. she
wasn't. But she was another widow
the fortune in her case being $780,
900 and an additional income of $780,
600 Il Ncar-whon: popular opinion re-
garded as possibly willing. hut bound
to surrender to the very right man
alone.
Even the brilliant w. Bourke Cock
ran III not win the famous Mrs. Jack
Gardner OF Boston when their engage
ment was reported a little after the
Goelet-Biron match. The United States
from her when she paid the taxes on
the works Of art III her museum. The
same i'll fortune has attended the ru-
NOR that j. j. Van Allen was to marry
Mrs. j. b. French. widow Of a former
partner of j. Pierpont Morgan.
Marshall Fields widow. whom he
married when he was 20 years old.
estate of more than 800. 600, 900. The
direct bequest to her in his will was
81. 900. 900; 1t supplemented a nuptial
Gift OF $4,000 00. AS Mrs. Cation she
had been his next door neighbor for
thirty years. and his loneliness in age
finally brought them together. Not
an overpoweringly wealthy woman as
modern fortunes go. Mrs; Field be-
came the owner of a fortune whose
size was the same as that left to his
widow by the late James Henry Smith.
the silent Smith," who married the
former Mrs. Rheinlander Stewart.
mother of Anita Stewart. now Duch-
ess de Eizeu. The same level headed
ness has characterized Mrs. Smith,
even though she gratified her ambi-
tion. and her daughters. by letting
- HSA ~ VIC
Braganza. She fastened to let her
self out of all matrimonial engage
ments-and she kept herself out. with
equal p~ositivencss. Of the princely am
billions Of her son-in-law's family by
refusing to finance him for the upset
throne. She squelched all that talk
by stating that it was just silly, and
the hopes that were based on the por-
ton of the Smith millions that came
to her went mmer
Among the wealthiest widows in the
world, not excepting Mrs. Russell
Sage. and even Mrs. Hetty Green. is
Mrs. Mary w. Hartman. whose for
tune. at first appraised at $71, 900. 900.
is believed to be between $780,
0o0. ZOO, and $3.50, O00. 900. Under the
will of the great railway king she is
absolute mistress Of 1t all. But under
his confidence in her she is as abso-
lutely removed from chances Of mar
riage as II he were still alive. Far
less given to society than Mrs. Potter
Palmer. the widow with $3.50, 900 a
year as her income, Mrs. Hartman
is accepted as being quite as indiffer-
ent to any possibility of changing the
single estate that has come to her.