A LADY FINANCIER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81859, 6 October 1906, Page 4

A LADY FINANCIER.

One ~f Hi,; ni"st remarkable »f the Amctuaiis who -wanned in.o London this summer i- Mrs Ella Reader, whose -cnsational company promolions and ut'rr deals in New York liave In, n curd as a pn of that men have no monopoly of linaii'ial genius. Thcie are (writes .1 London cot respondent' bundled* of American women who have succeeded on a scale net approached in other c< tin rics by members of their sex—every colonial who has been through the United States must have had some oppor•nity of studying specimens of their '.ass—and without injustice it may be said that they form a rather unplcasin? c ass. The famous Mrs Reader s, however, an exception. I. is part of her abnormality to have known how to remain norma! in speech ajid manner. Hard-headed in an extraordinary degree, a dealer in millions, and as true a lover of the game as any confirmed Yankee man millionaire, she yet pre-rrves a quiet, woman-, 'v air. a soft, deliberate voice, and an : nteres: in several matters purely feminine. Sh? is under 35. dresses in good taste, and may still be called handscm". The average successful business woman of New York or Chicago is usually faded and hard- featured before she readies 35. and has acquired an abrup economy of speech —this perhaps being somewhat of an

affectation. Ore of the lates of Mrs Reader's great scheme- is founded n concessions granted to her i;i San Domingo, and said to be worth several millions. She i* being opposed in this deal by President Roosevelt. bui believes she will ultimately win. Mrs Reader is the wife of an ex resident of Wellington.