News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1886-12-02
A WOMAN OF MILLIONS.
! The Extraordinary Career in Wall Street
of Mrs. Hettie Green.
[From a New York Letter.

From New YORK Letter.
see that Mrs. Hetty Green has Sc
cured the control of the Georgia Central
Railroad. She is also closely identified
with the Louisville and Nashville Rail
road, owning large amount of its stock.
She is a remarkable woman. She is the
wealthiest in the United States She
has reduced money-mak1ng to fine art
and let avarice replace some of woman's
highest attributes. This seems severe
language in speaking OF a 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 robust
build, about fifty years of age, with
irongray hair, strong features and keen,
penetrating eyes. She is the daughter
of a New Bedford whaler. who left her
$9,00O.OOO Not long after an aunt
died and bequeathed her $1,000, coo
more. With the $13, 900, 600 she is
credited with making 100000 900
more. Yet she feels poor. On one oc-
casion several years ago she came down
to her bankers in Wall street in a stage
with a valise containing several hundred
thousand dollars worth of securities.
''Why did you not come down in a car
riage?" 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 Baby
Ion, Long Island, and she sent for
physician. The child recovered before
he arrived, and as his carriage drew up
to the gate it is said she called from
window, with an economical view:
"The child is all right, Doctor; don't
come IN"
Mrs. Green, who has proved herself
match for the shrewdest men in Wall
street, who occasionally engineers mys
FERROUS 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. Ciscos' Sons, the bankers. last
year. A Wall street sheet circulated a
rumor against the FIRMS financial stand
ing. Mrs Green heard of it. She had
a deposit there of $475, 900, besides mil
lions in securities in the firms vaults.
She came down town at once in q cab
and asked for 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 en-
barrassment and that with little for
bearance towards a house that served
her interests so faithfully for twenty
years all could be satisfactorily adjust
ed. She demanded the pound of flesh,
although her own husband, it was
claimed, was debtor to 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 90. they will probably be
wise enough to adopt the rule of many
sagacious men, ''Never have any bust
ness transactions with a woman"
When she married E. H.: Green he was
worth three-quarters of million, and it
was a sort of matrimonial partnership on
strictly business principles, though 1t is
understood that the fortunes of the two
were to be kept entirely distinct. He
came from Bellows Falls, Vt, where as
boy he was esteemed chiefly for his
good nature. He is a changed man.
He scans dollar nearly as closely as his
wife. They have had two children; one,
boy, is a cripple; the other, girl, is
in delicate health. The boy seems TO
have inherited his fathers nature; the
girl, if she lives, will make financier
a ter her mothers pattern Mr.. E. II.
Green is tall aud sparely built, and is
occasionally seen about town. He is a
member of the Union Club and one 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 practises 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 london, and she
takes economical apartments. One re-
deeming fact remains, namely, the lady
is strictly honest She is the fin anciaI
Queen of this country.