The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 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
fair way to get 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 b. Leeds, once Indiana
florist, humble railroad worker, then
manufacturer Of tin plate, then rail-
road pyramider, is going for the bene
ut of impoverished titles of Greece.
News came from Athens the other
day which, 1t 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 seventeen-year-old girl was
the trump card" of the king Of
Greece in the game of royalty VS..
American millions. The girl is Prin-
cess Xenia Georgievna. second daugh-
ter of Grand Duchess Marie and niece
Of King Constantine. She Is to marry
William B. Leeds. Jr., eighteen-year-
old son of the late w. B. Leeds apd
Mrs. Leeds. who is now Princess
Anastasia Of Greece.
Young Leeds Is sole heir to the mil
lions his father left from his exploits
In midwestern and Chicago finances.
Mrs. Leeds, now Princess Anestasia,
Of course, has the use Of the estate,
variously estimated $4,000, 900 to $40.-
100000, but on her death. under the
terms of the Leeds will, the whole es-
tate goes to young Leeds or his heirs.
In other words. Greek royalty didn't
stand much chance of keeping The
Leeds millions unless they got the son
of Mrs. Leeds princess Anastasia)
into the royal family some way or
other.
Princess Anastasia has been i'll of
late, too. In fact, she has been so III
In Athens that young Leeds recently
rushed from New York to France
then by airplane to Athens. to be al
the bedside Of his mother.
1t Is interesting to note that Athens
press dispatches say that youns
Leeds proposed to Princess Xenia the
| day after he arrived in Athens to see
7, 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. un
less politics or whims Of subjects
change things from royalty to democ
racy.
Building the Fortune.
And now the details of how tn,
Leeds fortune was started and bull
up are being recalled and uncovered
Few persons of great wealth had |
humber start In life than William B
Leeds Of Richmond, Ind. 1t Is
strange contrast to the life of th
king, Processes and others of Gree
ROYALTY who now share its benefits
Leeds started In Richmond as a floi
| list, and by his marriage in 1888 to
relative Of Harry Miller, then ger
erai superintendent of the Pennsy
yanla railroad. he got work In tn
railroad field. At length he was d
vision superintendent Of the Richmon
division Of the Pennsylvania and h
wife inherited large sum of none.
Then with Daniel G. Reid as
mariner Leeds went into the maxim
OF tin plate The tariff laws wei
aimed Mt the development Of home II
dustries and tariff on tin plate pc
mitted the growth of that bushes
down In Indiana.
! Moore Brothers a. Partnera
, Acquiring the aid Of w. II. and
, n. Moore Of Chicago. Leeds and Re
soon organized the business on n
/ tlonal scale under the name OF n
American Tin Plate company. In lSs
Ne United States Steel corporate