Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-09
WOMAN OF MILLIONS.
The Extraordinary Career in Wall Street Of mrs.
Hetty Green.

The Extraordinary Career In Wall Street 81 mrs
HsttY Green.
New York Letter.
/ see that Mrs. Hetty Green has ee-
cured the control of the Georgia Cen
trail Railroad. She is also closely
identified with the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad, owning a large
amount of its stock. Sheis the wealth.
lest IN the United States. She has re.
duced money making to a fine art and
let avarice replace some OF woman
highest attributes. This seems severe
language in speaking OF 8 woman, but
Mrs. Green has usurped the place OF
men. and does not ask the privileges
OF her sex. -,
Mrs. Hetty Green is worth $50, ooo,-
600. She is rather handsome, OF ro-
bust build, about fifty-years OF age,
with iron-gray hair, strong features
and keen, penetrating eyes. she Is
the daughter Of a New Bedford whaler
who left her Sc, Ooo, 900. Not long aft
er an aunt died and bequeathed her
81 600. 600 more With the 3d.
oOo. 600 she is credited with making
soc. 600. 0O0more. Yet she feels poor.
On one occasion several years ago she
came down to her bankers in Wall
street in a stage with valise con-
taining several hundred thousand dol
lars worth OF securities. why did
YOU not come down IN a carriageg
expostulated her banker.
Il had no change" was her remark
able answer.
Once one of her children was
taken with commissions during a stay
at Babylon, L.. l., and she sent for a
physician. The child recovered before
he arrived, and as his carriage drew
mn TO the gate it is said she called
from a window, with an ecomical
view: 1.-THE child is all right, Doctor.
Don't come in" :.
Mrs. Green, who has proved herself
a match for the shrewdest men IN
Wall street, who occasionally en-
gineers mysterious movements there,
who has several times put the
bears to rout in corners on
Reading, was really the cause,
it has been held, Of the failure OF John
j. Cisco's Sons, the bankers, last year.
A Wall street sheet circulated arumor
against the firms financial standing.
Mrs. Green heard of it. She had de-
post there of S475, 600, besides mill
ions in securities in the firms vaults.
She came down town at once In a cab
and asked for her money I'm full.
It was useless to tellher that the firm
was solvent, but that the withdrawal
of so large a sum at once would
cause Embarrassment, and that
with q little forbearance toward
n house that had served her
interests faithfully for twenty years
all could be satisfactorily adjusted.
She demanded the pound OF flesh al
though her husband, it was claimed,
was debtor oft firm to the amount
of $500, 900. The bankers went to the
wall and have never regained their
place in the financial world. II they
ever do, they will probably be wise
enough to adopt the rule OF many sa-
eacious men," "Never have any bus
mess transactions with a woman"
When she married f. III. Green be
was worth three-quarters OF million,
and it was q sort ofmatrimoniai part
nership on strictly business principles,
though it is understood that the for
tunes of the two were to be kept en-.
tirely distinct. He came from Bellows
Falls, Vt, where as boy he was es-
teemed chiefly for his good nature.
He is ehsnged- man. He 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 inherited his fathers ma
ture; the girl, if she lives, will
make an able financier after her
mothers remarkable pattern. Mr.. Z,
II. Green is tall and sparely built, and
is occasionally seen about town. He
is a member OF the Union Club and enc
or two other similar organizations.
Mrs. Green's aim is said to be to make
her son, the unfortunate cripple. the
richest man in the United States. To
this end she practices the most rigid
economy. She owns as little real es-
tate as possible in order TO avoid
taxation; she lives in hotels, whether
she is in Bellows Falls, VT, or in New
York or London, and she takes
economical apartments. One redeem
ing fact remains, namely, the lady is
strictly honest. She is the financial
queen OF this country.