THE WEALTHIEST WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 664, 15 November 1909, Page 4

THE WEALTHIEST WOMEN.

\ By the death of.Jfr. E. H. Harriman, the railway king of the United Mates, his widow has I ,Become tho richest woman in tho world. 1 t CoawMntuig on this fact, the "Queen" point* i out that there is little or no evidonco that wo- ' men are less worthy than mon .to possess great wealth j on the contrary, tho balance of opinion would be 1 to tho effect that they aro omto as capable as men of managing and keeping money. 1 A large proportion of tho wealthy' women of the world are Americans, and so far England has had but ,fow nativo-born millionairesses. Ereii the wealth of the late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, which in early Viotorian ' times vas regarded as malting hor a female Croesus, was modesty itself compared with i , somo of the enormous estates owned or conf > trailed by a dozen or moro millionairesses!— C "Thus lira.. Harriman, who does not know \ ', accurately how much she po*scs«*, has a I* heritage- approaching twenty millions etcrf ling; lire. Weigbtnian Walker. Mrs. Russell ' gage," and l?rau Krupp eon Bohlan-Holbach I havo,eaoh a fortune of sixteen millions, and i Mrs. ' Hetty Greon, the somewhat eccentric [ Yankee .lady stock-jobber, owns abont eight ! ' millions. 'Other rich American women are Miff) Helen Gould, with AOflo.MO; the Canute* f , Bzeohenyi (Miss Gladys Vanderbllt), ,with V £2./M,tWi and His* Ellen Morrison, who baa „ nearly two millions sterling. In South Amei' rica we have Senora Cooeino, whose fertile* : is, put at and ifl Mexico there is i Mine. Creel, the Wife of the Mexican Ambassador to tho United StatW, With a sum ef I .£2,000,0(10, of her own. Of the use to which t their wealth is pnt wo know that in several \ instance good parposes aro putsued, as in the ) case of Mrs. Rnscsil Sage, who fs 'deep]/ interwted in v social 'reform. And now tdo latest ! exd richest heiress of them all, iiii. .Harris man, has informed the world that «hft means 1 to carry out everything which her 'husband intended 'doing during Ms lifetime, as.though S he.were still living.'' Tho imee rvwse-h.o,had

begun; to btnlei writ fas finished, ffito" Iho plane fOTittalated Iff Mr* BarriHsau will bo canned | c«t, ani hi. large cfeirrt{«3 continued. With i mosfc eemfflemfaiio wisdom elris far- seeing" wo 1 -1 man' otwwd «w of; he» daughter* to ba trained- fwm «t*ly jprthwod a. the "sciene* of fMettSaamr" Entuwntty fitted, both a* regards knowfedite and tamper* meat, fair the t«k doro-lving upon her, sfctf hjti her father's full eotifi&sncci, and tfrta hnn held many senotis emiveraiMnei rtgardlßf tfco acfiation of Bi» plans, both Soetal ani philantlvTopic She has *l*v (t«Tot<dl a gWaS part of nor time for iewrsl years to settlement 1 Ti-orlt, Mrs, Iferrfniaw «fa>te* that tha will do her dntf t& tlie>latiwost of her ability with the vast trust pisxxA in her hands, and, apart from the , cfoartKe* earned! on bj bcr daasthfer, means to imifai« the mariner of tife- of the witcs of IfrrtiU raildoiroers in England who take a per edustf Jnferwt in thdir employees and tenants, and become an up-to-date, iadj BonntiM. Passing by the- lirtfhed compliment to 'Hrrtish nays them by the. richest woman in the rrorld, one s"cs in the fntiiro of her daughter a »i'eta of philanthropic liftf more TOnd«rfiif thin that «W«r dreamed of by poets of wirW out in story by m»eli'<iM The piwueot of disposing of trtdlih literally "beyonif the dreams of avance,' r in eneoufajring arty ftflif every Bdocl work that appeals toone-, of having the power to- materialise dne-'s pet ideiU or earry out tile- charity that liesnrue<t to one's heart, mast bo most delightful t6 ftrtyon* who ratnear the wd mwery in the world, and t,m&t to ami tebew tlient. Mis* Harriman, her father's millions, in- charitable and social wotfe, rh»y well he lftflfeed on as s veritable modem good fairy, with a wand more potsnr ' for betieficeiit actions than that of any of tlio most p6iveifiil gttAi lirfagmed by tho stoiyi uilois of old."