THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 67, 2 November 1911, Page 2

THE RICHEST WOMEN IN THE WORLD.

If Senora 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 ol steamers, a magnificent estate near Santiago, and employs hundreds of workpeople in he.r vineyards alone. In fact, she owns a town—the miningport of Lata, whence she ships coal to all the South American ports. ‘ This town is “run” by this remarkable woman, even to its drapery and grocery stores.

AN INCOME OF £IO,OOO A WEEK

lucre is no doubt as to who is the ricnest lady m Germany. She used to uu, known everywhere in tuo r atheroma as Bertha ixrupp, but sue has now icached tne dignity ol a married woman, and is Frau von Bolden. It is quite impossible to state what the daughter oi tne great gun-maker—-tne Armstrong of Germany—is worth, out it is generally believed that her income is ±;iU,U(JU a week—a sum which would be regarded by the groat majority ol tins lucky womans' iellow-country-women as a very tidy fortune in itself. Frau von Bouien is one of tne most popular women in Germany, and, like many other wealthy women, including more than one member ol the Royal House, is a model in all good nouse-w ifery as well as in the .irtue of liberality.

When she was married, four years ago, she wore a trousseau made by her own hands, and made cheaply at that, for its cost did not muen 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 40,01)0 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 tire workmen’s invalid funds, and she is constantly engaged in investigating cases of neoci and striving to moot them in the wisest wav.

Mrs. Hetty Green is one of the

very richest women in the States, ami a cute business woman, too. Sire is one of the few women who have ever been able to hold their own on the Stock Exchange. She is looked upon in Wall Street as a perfect “whale for finance,” and is said to be the onssessor of a fortune exceeding £12,000,000. Mine. Creel is the richest woman in Mexico—that land of romance, insurrection, and fabulous mines! In fact, she must lie one of the richest women in the world, for her income is said to lie 5,000,000d015. a year. She owns 280,000 acres of land, and 600,000 head of cattle. Her husband was the Mexican Minister at Washington for some time, and Madame’s hats were the despair of the diplomatic corps. But then one ought to lie able to get a decent piece of millinery for 300 dollars, a sum which she commonly gives for a hat. A Monts Carlo Heiress. She is really by no means an extravagant woman, in spite of the fact that she 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, if not a very lavish, scale, for it is said that -100 friends—not by any means all of tliom rich or influential—sit at her table every day. The daughter of the late Prince Roland Bonaparte is immensely rich, and is probably the richest woman in France. But she did not get her wealth, as might be supposed, from her blood relationship with tin? scourge of Europe. The prosaic* fact is that her father married the granddaughter of M. Blanc, the founder ol Monte Carlo, the famous gambling Casino on the Riviera. Princess Mr' ricks fortune was raked in by the croupiers. What it amounts to m-bo-lv knows, but the wildest guesses are made, which, after all. probably do not greatly exceed the facts. R re. ins ?.s Wei! ns Cold. The Princess Marie Bonaparte, however, is not merely an ornamental "’•'lianairrss who depends upon her money for her distinction. It goes without say-in." '.bet low n;r«o b on>to e»n ip re *> ph, but she is a l so .a very remarkable woman. If r.be \v ■ ■ ■ at ■■ rui l,: ''” ’■ * ■*■• ‘ \ v mdd rrobablv bo singing in grand opera and coining Imr voice into (odd ’•’ailing that, slm might bo line foreign correspondent of some great business ’•ense. for she speaks a. fPv.en languages at Pcb a aVoro.over, as tl'.ougb. this were not enough for one vnira 0 f f W en_ tv-sovon. she has studied ih« stars la such good' purpose that, without hi eovciing the lucky w nu b r which -■-o was barn, she has sccim-M her admittanee to half the scientific r.--detics of Europe.