QUEENS OF WEALTH

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12826, 27 July 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

QUEENS OF WEALTH

£73,000,000 CONTROLLED 'BY FOUR

who tivf'Tp^ikM:!: life. The courts have designated Miss CJSiris tiria .ArbUckler'agea 72^- M Hhe udniinistrator of the £7,000,000 estate -kft by her brother; the late John Arbuokle,i;he "^sugar king,'.' who died intestate last March. .' ' <'""■■ '

Mr.. Arbuckle waa the herd h bf ! the famous "Baby Buriting'!' breach bf .promise, case, which occupied more f pages x)f the newspapers a ; quarter ...of, a century ago than any other similar" case on. rStford:- ■• . .'■•'•< •■ ' ./\ :-^i J. n-.r v This makes four American •woflieri'-'who-have exclusive .control over , f enormous: fqrtunes, the others being. Mrs JJ. f H. Hamman, tp whqm ' l%d late rhilwav magnate bequeathed £30,000,000 • ! Mra Russell Sage; whose •vftusbarfd I ''teft v Hr £10,000,Q00> and ,Mrs, , H^tty'/Qreeti, whose own estate is valued at "£20,---000,000. • a ; •' ■•■ ' ' :■ "' -

These four women tßis haVfe the site .management of property of the" itotsl Value of £73,000,000.^ '■'■•:,, „,»-* ..The newest recrujt t«iihe raiiks--of multi-millionairesses 'haa the same " personal characteristics that distrhg^'ish'^He others. She lives simply,- enjayirig Ilia company of old friends^ arid 'gives 1 her snare .time -to charitable wor^j which she accomplishes as" secretly as possible. . Miss v !ATbuckle assisted %er brother <S IH the management of his estate for-' semie years before his -death,, and ' she As i3hbtoughly familiar with the details oi< administration, i 'She' intends particularly to 'continue ' her ' 'brdtHer's- 'ipmlanthrd'pu: works m connection with IShe Brodkijfh church.of -whfch= it-he late Henry EWtird B^eclier. }yas pastor. ■ - '.",,.. „•■ ■' The public .administrator objected to. llisb Arttfdkle's "' ap^6iihihierit- * l Mtf • the courts decided tha^j despite' l her' V; dg6j sir© was fully competent tbt manage' the es--tate., 1 'Her administration r wiU. save the •estate £75,000 a year, which wouW have been turned into the New i York treasury as the statutory 'p'erceiMge ll^ the public trustee had been " 'given dharge. * <,/•-<