THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 261, 21 October 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD.

If Sonora Cusino is not the richest woman in the world she is certainly one of them, for she is credited with the possession of coin, valuables, and estates which amount in value to £40,000,000 •sterling. She comes of an old Chilian family, and since the death of her husband, Senor Cusino, she has managed her enormous properties in silver, copper, and coal mines with wonderful success. She owns a fleet of steamers, a magnificent estate near Santiago, and employs hundreds el workpeople in her vineyards alone. Ii fact, she owns a town —tho mining i>ort of Lata, whence she ships coal to al: the South American ports This tawr. is “ run ” by this remarkable woman, even to its drapery and grocery stores.

AN INCOME OF £lO,OOO A WEEK

There is no doubt as to who is the richest lady in Germany. She used to bo known everywhere in tho Fatherland as Bertha Krupp, but she ha» now reached the dignity of a married woman, and is Frau von Bohlen. It is quite impossible to state what the daughter of the great gun-maker— the Armstrong of Germany—is worth, butit is generally believed that her income is £lO,OOO a week—a sum v.Liab would bo regarded by the great majority ol this lucky woman's fellow - country - women as a very tidy fortune in itself. Frau von Bolden is one of the most popular women m Germany, and,’ like manv’ other wealthy women, including more than one member of the Rnyal House, is a model in all good housewifery as well as in the virtue of liberality. . When she was married, four yeais ago, she wore a trousseau made by her own hands, and made cheaply at that, for its cost did not much exceed a hundredth part of one week’s income. Moreover, she still makes her own clothing, and often goes into the kitchen and helps with the cooking and the housework. Her family outside her house is. however, perhaps’her greatest care, for she has 40,000 people dependent upon her,' or, at any rate, upon the works of which she is the head. On her marriage she gave £50,000 to the workmen’s invalid funds, and she is •instantly engaged in investigating cases of need and striving to meet them in the wisest way. Mrs. Hetty Green is one of the very richest women in the States, and a cute business womun, too She is one ©f the few woman who hive ever lieen able to hold their oun on the Stock Exchange. Sho is looked upon in Wall Street as n perfect " whale ter finance," and is said to bo tho possessor of a lortnne exceeding £12,000,000. Mire. Creel is the richest woman n» Mexico— that hind of romance, insurrection, and fabulous mines! In fart, sh® must be one of the richest, women in tho world, for her income is said to be u.OOO.OOOdoIs. a year. She owns 280.000 neves (:f land and <>'.)»,ooo head of cattle. Her husband lias the Mexican Minister at Washington for some time, anil Madame’s hats were the despair of the diplomatic corps. But then one ought to be able to get a decent piece of millinerv for 300'101.5., a sum which sh® noinmonly gives for a hat.

A MONTE CARLO HEIRESS. She is really by no moans an extravagant woman, in spite of the fart that die buys a pair of silk stockings for every day of the year, for her dresses never cost more than £3! She is very generous and entertains on a large, it not a verv lavish, scale., for it is said that 400 friends—not by any means all of them rich or influential- sit at her table every day. The daughter of the late Prince Roland Bonaparte is immensely rich, and is probably tho richest woman in France. But she did not get her wealth, a' might be supposed, from her blood relationship with tho scourge of Barope. Tho prosaic fact is that her father married the granddaughter of M. Blanc, the founder of Monte Carlo, the famous gambling Casino on the Riviera. Princess Marie’s fortune was raked in by the croupiers. What it amounts bo nobody knows, but the wildest guesses are made, which, after all, probably d» not greatly exceed the facts, BRAINS AS WELL AS GOLD. The Prim-ess Marie Bonaparte, however. is not merely an ornamental millionairess who depends upon her money for her distinction. It goes without saying tlial -'ht name is one to eonjuro with."but she is also a very remarkable woman. If she were not a millionairess, for ilistin'' e, she would probably bo singing in grand opera and coining her voi,e into g"ld. Fa iliiii.r that .-ho might be the foreign cnrrespundi nt of rome great- business house, for she speaks a (lozcii languages at least, mid that fluently. Moreover. a> though this were not enough for one young woman oi twenty-seven. she lias studied tho .stars to such good purpose that, without discovering the lucky one under whir-h she was born, she has secured h**r admittance t-.i half the scientific societies of El 1.-ope.