The Wealthiest Woman.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 August 1914, Page 2

The Wealthiest Woman.

The decision of the German Government to add extensively to their armaments recalls the fact that Frau Krupp, the proprietrix of .Krupp's, Germany's leading gunmaking firm, is the richest person in that Empire. By an interesting coincidence the wealthiest taxpayer in .France is also a woman. She is Mme. Lebaudy, mother of .Jacques, Emperor of Sahara, and it believed to be worth at least £8,000,000. She holds her wealth in horror, and lives under an assumed name all the year round in a small flat in Versailles, where the domestic staff consists of one servant who is assisted in the work by her mistress. Mme. Lebaudy gives away nearly the whole of her income, most of her donations being bestowed anonymously. It is an open secret, however, that for many years past she has made up the annual deficit of the leading French Royalist paper, which usually amounts to about £ 1(3,000. Great as the wealth of these two ladies is, there are at least two women in the United States with even larger fortunes. Mrs. Husst'M Sage administers an estate worth about £28,000,000, and Mrs. A. E. Harriman controls but. little less.