Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-31

phvs,cjan. The child recovered before
be arrived, and o. his carriage drew 10
to the gate Il is said she call. d out from
q window with an economical visw:
"Ths child Is oil right, Doctor. Don't
come in "
INHERITs FROM HER FATHER.
Wall street hiss many stories to tell
Of this woman's eccentricities. A
leading banker said the other day ;
Years ego, when was living up town
IN a boarding. house, / had q hall room
with board for &c . week. Harriet II.
Robipson--for that was her maiden
pame--wss stopping at the same house
at the same price in spite oil GIL her
wealth." Her father, Z NJ. Robinson,
from whom she seems to have in-
beri,ed her business genius, was as
close as a yise, and was one OF the
shrewd, ignorant fools who devote an
entire life to the piling up OF useless
millions and who know nothing,
through their boorish illiteracy, as to
how wealth may be made to minister to
The higher enjoymentsof life-men VINO
never look into book, who read little
but stock reports even in newspapers,
TO whom science is a sealed book, and
to whom in art chrome is quite as &C
ceptable as a Corot, even if they know
the difference between the two. 1t Is
significant, doubtless by pure acct
cident, that the name Of the tabled
gold.producipg King Midas has been
applied in science to a certain inferior
species of ape.
THE FINANCIAL AMAZON.
Mrs. Green, the financial amazon,
who has proved herself match for the
scbemers and sharks Of Wall street,
who occasionally engineers mysterious
movements there, who has several times
put the bears to rout in corners on
Reading, in which her clutch on the
throats of unfortunate shorts was none
the less strong because it was that Of q
woman's iewelled hand, was really the
cause, it has always been held, of the
failure of John j. CiscO's Sons, the
bankers, last year. A Wall-street
sheet circulated rumor against the
firm financial standing. Mrs. Green
heard Of it. She had deposit there
of SAYS, 900, besides millions in secu'
rites in the firms vaults. She came
down town at once in cheap cab, and
demanded her money in full. 1t was
useless to tell her that the firm was
solvent, but that the withdrawal of so
large a sum at once would cause embar-
rassment, and that with a little for
bearance towards a house that had
served her interests faithfully for
twenty years with very inadequate COM
pensation, all could be satisfactorily
adjusted. They might as we'll have
talked to an iron statue of Minerva.
She demanded the pound Of flesh, al
though her own husband, it is claimed,
was a debtor Of the firm to the amount
of $500, 900. The bankers went to the
wall, and have never regained their
place in the financial world. If they
ever do they will probably be wise
enough to adopt the rule Of many saga
cious men, "never have any business
transactions with woman"
MATRIMONIAL PARTNERSHIP.
When she married E. II. Green he
was worth three quarters Of million,
and it was sort of matrimonial part
nership on strictly business principles,
though it is understood that the for
tunes of the two we're to be kept en-
tirely distinct. He came from Bellows
Falls, VT, where, as boy, he was es-
teerned chiefly for his good nature. He
is a changed man. lie scans a dollar
nearly as closely as his wife. They
have had two children-one, a boy, is a
cripple, the other, girl, is in delicate
health. The boy seems to have in
herited his fathers more open nature;
the girl, if she lives, will make finan-
cier after her mothers remarkable pat
tern. MIR. Z. II. Green is tall and
sparely built, and is occasionally seen
about town. lie is member of the
Union Club and one or two other SINH
lar organizations. Mrs. Green's aim
is said to be to make her son, the I'M
fortunate cripple, the richest man in the
United States. To this end she prac-
tees the most rigid economy. She
owns as little real estate as possible in
order to avoid taxation she lives in
hotels, whether she is in Bellows Falls.
VT, or in New York or in London, and
she takes the cheapest apartments.
She dresses very plainly; she is more
than masculine in the simplicity Of her
tastes. II have seen her," said q
banker, "goipg through the snow to
attend reception on foot rather than
hire a carriage" And the gossips add
that on such occasions it is the practice
of this frugal lady to draw pair of
old-fashioned wOollen hose over her
shoes as a protection against the ele-
ments. One redeeming fact remains
namely, the lady is strictly honest.
She is the financial queen of this
country.