WOMAN RAILWAY OWNER.

Mataura Ensign, 27 September 1913, Page 6

WOMAN RAILWAY OWNER.

LF.SSONS BY A DYING HUSBAND. While on his death-bed Mr Jesse V. "Williams, of Atalanta, Georgia,_the millionaire president of the Georgia,_ F'orida Railway, completed the coaching of his wife in the management of the railwa- and his other businesses, -estimated to be worth £'2,000,000. • Mr and Mrs Williams had no children and the husband long ago began the task of qualifying his wife as a railway manager. Mrs Williams has now inherited' all 'her husband's oroperty, which includes all the bonds and !>() per cent, of the stock in the railway. She is to be elected president of the. railway, and she, will also manage 250.000 acres aiH lumber land on lines taught be.- by her husband.