Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — She Managed Iron Works. [ARTICLE]

She Managed Iron Works.

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, who has just died in England, was distinguished not only in London society, but also in many charitable undertakings. She managed the Dowlais Iron Works all through her son’s minority and shared with Baroness Burdette-Coutts the distinction of being a free woman of the city of London and a member of a city guild. A married woman cannot, by rules and regulations of these ancient guilds, attain this honor, and it was before her marriage to Ashmead Bartlett that the baroness received the freedoom of the Turners’ and Haberdashers’companies. Lady Charlotte, who was about the same age as the baroness—that is, in her 80th year—was elected a member of the guild of fanmakers on becoming a widow and her collection of fans is one of the most complete and celebrated in the world. Australia grows one-fourth of the total wool production of the wo^ld.