The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1885-01-29
Tile Richest Woman III America.

Mrs. e. IL. Green, who Is popularity
proclaimed to be 1.-The richest woman in
America" had $3.50, 900 in cash and $780,
5000 of stocks and bonds locked up in
the vaults of Cisco & Sons, who recently
suspended. Mrs. Green, when rumors
affecting the firms credit began to be
whispered about, wrote to close her &C.
count and demanded q settlement. The
firm replied to Mrs. Green's letter, in
forming her that her husband, Mr.. e. H.
Green, formerly Vice President of the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, owed
them sSOO,0O0, and requesting her to
allow her deposit to remain for the time
being as an offset to that loan. This she
promptly declined to do, as it has always
been her invariable rule to keep her own
financial matters entirely separate from
these of her husband.
Whereupon Mrs. Green proceeded to
put the screws upon Cisco 4 Sons, who
then, in the slang Of the day, "tumbled
10 the racket"
Her securities are safe and will be re
turned intact
The New York Times gives the follow
ing interesting account OF this remark
able woman:
Her father, New Bedford wha!er
named johnson, died some years ago and
left her, it is said, about s., 100000. She
has lived frugal life, exercised extraor.
dinary keenuess in her investments, and
by embracing every good opportunity
that the stock market afforded she has
mare than quintup'ed her lleritage. Old
Wall street operators give Mrs. Green
credit for having as intimate q knowledge
of railroad securities as any person they
know. A broker said yesterday that lie
knew of more than one Instance where
Mrs. Green had gotten up a corner in
Reading stock. She is so largely inter
ested in the Louisville and Nashville
securities that it has been frequently
said that she practically owns the road.
The "richest woman in America" has
some strongly marked characteristics.
She does business on the strictest bust
ness principles, regardless Of sentiment
or relationship, and she is economical in
the most elaborate sense of the word.
She seems to have made it {. rule of her
life to indulge in no personal luxuries.
She has been known to walk from her
hotel in this city to q social reception
through heavy snow storm rather than
paw for the use of Il coach. 1t is related
that one day, when John Jay Cisco was
alive, she got out Of a Broadway stage in
front of his banking office in Wall street
with bulky parcel under her arm. Ar.
Cisco was looking out of his office win
dow at the time, and a few minutes later,
when he found that the bulky parcel con-
taincd over 100000 in negotiable secu-
rites, which Mrs. Green had brought
down to place in the vault lie said:
"Don't you think it was rather risky for
YOU to have brought these bonds down
town in Il public stage? You should
have taken a carriage"
"a carriage indeed :" said she. "Per.
haps you can afford to ride in carriage,
| cannot"
The 'richest woman in America"
would seem to be one Of the most pcnu-
rious of womankind. She is rich in
money; but day will cone when her
great treasure cannot be taken OH the
long journey; she is to go alone, and to
an accountability that the yeriest panper
may be far better prepared to stand.
Possibly, like the late johns Hopkins,
she is gathering a pro,ligious store Ct
money to benefit mankind in her final
bequcst. Let us hope that tie "richcst
woman in America" will become the
most phian;hropic. Then, if she can-
not afford to take Il carriage here, she
may ride in chariot of glory hereafter.
= Doors have been so far improved by
recent invention that now they may be
hung so as To open either way and from
either end with equal facility.
= Recently the churches Of Mt. Zion,
Bush River and Cross Roads, in Newber'
ry County, have been entered by unknown
parties and robbed of hymn books, bibles,
carpets. &c.
= 3eventy.fye years ago the first
tomatoes grown in this country were
cultivated as a strange and showy horti.
/ cultural curiosity in a garden in Salem,
Mass. Forty.fve years ago, or a little
more, they began to be used as yegcta
+! BILE in season.