Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1921-04-29
Coming Marriage of Young
Leeds to Princess Solves FL
nanceS of Royal Family.
YOUNG GIRL IS TRUMP CARD
Great Fortune Built Up by one-Time
Indiana Florist, Then Tin Plate
King and Railroad Pyramider
to Go to Greek Nobility.

New York-Royalty. rather bat
tered now by fortunes and misfor-
tunes of European wars, seems in a
fair way TO gel practically every pen
NY of the ''tin plate" millions of the
American Leeds family. Good old
America
The great fortune built up by the
late William Il. Leeds, once Indiana
florist humble railroad worker, then
manufacturer of tin plate, then rail-
road pyramider, is going for the bene-
fit of impoverished titles of Greece.
News came from Athens the other
day which, it is now disclosed here,
means that royalty as represented by
King Constantine of Greece and his
relatives, have won the lone chance of
getting the Leeds fortune.
King Plays Trump Card.
And a seventeen-year-ol girl was
the trump card of the king of
Greece in the game of royalty VS..
American millions. The girl is Prin-
cess Xena Georgievna, second daugh-
ter of Grand Duchess Marie and niece
of King Constantine. She is to marry
William Il. Leeds, Jr., elghteenyear-
old son of the late w. Il. Leeds and
Mrs. Leeds who is now Princess
Anastasia of Greece.
Young Leeds is sole heir to the mill
lions his father left from his exploits
in midwestern and Chicago finances.
Mrs Leeds, now Princess Anastasia,
of course, has the use of the estate,
yariously estimated $30,000,O0O to $40,
100000, but on her death, under the
terms of the Leeds viii, the whole es-
tate goes to young Leeds or his heirs.
N other words, Greek royalty didn't
stand much chance of keeping the
Leeds millions unless they got the son
of Mrs Leeds princess Anastasla)
into the royal family some way or
other.
Princess Anastasia has been Ill of
late. too In fact she has been so i'll
. in Athens that young Leeds recently
rushed from New York to France,
then by airplane TO Athens, to be at
the bedside of his mother.
II is interesting TO note that Athens
press dispatches say that young
Leeds proposed to Princess Xenia the
day after he arrived In Athens 10 see
his sick mother He was promptly
accepted And Xenia's acceptance
means the battered and unlucky roy
atty can struggle along few cen
turtles more with the new riches. I'M
less politics or whims of subjects
change things from royalty to demOc-
racy.
Building the Fortune.
And now the details &c now the
Leeds fortune was started and built
up are being recalled and uncovered
Few persons OF great wealth had a
humber start In life than William b.
Leeds of Richmond. Ind 1t is a
strange contrast TO the life of the
king, princesses and others of Greek
royalty who now share its benefits
Leeds started in Richmond as flor.
list, and by his marriage in 1883 to q
relative of Harry Miller, then gen
eral superintendent of the Pennsyl
vania railroad. he got work IN thu
railroad field. AT length he was dl
vision superintendent of the Richmond
division of the Pennsylvania aud ri.
wife inherited a surge sum of money
Then With Daniel G. Reid as
partner Leeds went into the max M
of tin plate The tariff laws wer,
aimed at the development Of home IN
dustries and tariff on tin plate per
mitted the growth of that business
down In Indiana
Moore Brothers as Partners
Acquiring the aid of W. III. and ]
II. Moore Of Chicago. Leeds and Rel
soon organized the business on a ma
tiOnal scale under the name Of tn,
American Tin Plate company. In 1S9'
the United States Steel corporation