The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-12-04

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Mrs. Hetty Green has secured
the control of the Georgia Central
railroad. She is also closely linden
titled with the Louisville Il Nashville
railroad, owning a large amount OF
its stock. She is a remarkable
woman. She is the wealthiest in
the United States. She has reduced
parsimony to a fine art and LET
averice curdle the milk of a woman's
highest attributes. She has unsexed
herself for gold, and stands Shy
lock in crinoline, the object OF
smiles and sneers among those
who see only the mortal hideous-
ness of such Walpurgis trick of
witch-like transformation, and do
not pity the victim of this moral
cancer and eating avarice that no
wealth can satisfy. This seems
severe language in speaking of a
woman, but there is too much bow
ing and cringing before wealth in
this country; too much crooking
Of the knee that thirst may follow
fawning. There are several classes
of women whom society condemn
with looks of stone, but the female
miser is received in polished circles,
though mortally meaner than some
of her sisters who cannot here be
named.
WORTH THIRTY MILLIONS.
Mrs. Hetty Green is worth thirty
millions of dollars She is rather
handsome, of robust build, about
30 years of age, with iron gray hair,
strong features, and keen, penetrat-
ing eyes. She is the daughter of a
Bedford whaler, who left her 80 ,0O0,-
600; not long after an aunt died
and bequeathed her 81 10000 more.
With the 100000 she is credited
with making $4,000, 900 more. Yet
she feels poor. On one occasion,
several years ago, she came down
to her bankers in Wall street in a
stage with a valise containing sew
eral hundred thousand dollars
worth of securities. Why did you
not come down in a carriage?' ex-
postulated her banker.
81 can't afford it," was her re-
markable answer.
Once one of her children was
taken with convulsions during a
stay at Babylon, 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 out from a win
dow with an economical view !:
" The child is all right, doctor.
Don't come in J"
HER ECCENTRICITIEs.
Wall street has many stories to
tell of this woman's eccentricities.
A leading banker said the other
day: Years ago, when l was liv
ing up town in a bording house, |
had hall room with board for $6 a
week. Harriet II. Robinson-for
that was her maiden name-was
stopping at the same house at the
same price in spite of all her
wealth." Her father, +. M. Robin
son, from whom she seems to have
inherited her business genius, was
as close rs a wise and was one of
the shrewd, ignorant fools who de-
vote an entire life to the piling up
of useless millions and who know
nothing, through their boorish illit-
eracy, as to how wealth may be
made to minister to the higher en-
joyments of life-men who never
look into a book, who read little
but stock reports even in newspa-
pers, to whom science is a sealed
book, and to whom in art chrome
is quite acceptable as Corot, even
ifthey known the difference between
the two. 1t is significant, doubtless
by a pure accident, that the name
of the tabled gold-producing King
Midas has been applied in science
to certain inferior species of ape.
A MATCH FOR ALL THE SHARKS.
Mrs. Green, the financial anna
zon, who has proved herself a match
for the schemers and sharks of
Wall street, who occasionally engi-
neers 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 a
woman's jeweled 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 ru-
NOR against the firms financial
standing. Mrs. Green heard of it.
She had a deposit there of $4,000,
besides millions in securities in the
firms vaults. She came down
town at once in a cheap cab and
demanded her money in full. 1t
was useless, to tell her that the firm
was solvent, but that the withdraw