The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-28

and his opinion was eagerly sought by man
ayers on first nights.
Since be has made Chicago his home the
theater has been q favorite rendezvous,
whsre he can be found six nights Of the
week when there is no business to be done.
Everybody who haunts the foyer knows
him and has learned to expect him, as a
matter of course, at every performance Of
| the popular shows
Perhaps his fondness for the footlights
sprang from an experience he had In Bel
lows Falls, VT. A mortgage on theater
had 70 be foreclosed. leaving 1t on his hands,
50 be assumed the duties of a manager. The
sTraight-laced Green Mountain people were
wont 70 look upon a theater askance, so the
EVIL thing" found itself doomed, and it had
TO be abandoned. The profits for the two
weeks were just II cents-hardly colossal
enough to make the business seem attract
I've.
With all his money he has not been en-
tirely free from the opportunities of the
gentler sex, and many is the watchful
mamma who has set her daughters cap In
dainty lace to draw him into an alliance.
Thus far no maiden can call that big heart
her own; but then it was only New York
girls who tried, aud the wideawake, push
ing lass of the Windy city should not be
dismayed. In almost every mail comes
perfumed and brazen notes that betray an
aching heart anxious to grab off million
or two. as Daudet says, and win the man
who can make her daughter-in-law of
Hetty Green. As rapidly as his single state
becomes known come more propositicn ms ,aud
In the soft warm springtims the amorous
maidenfs pen will not be idle in directing
her shafts toward room 1l05, Owings
building.
For long time Mr.. Green and his mother
lived at the Southern hotel on Wabash
a avRslf n
were found out. Men with schemes with
billions in sight besieged the place and their
suite until they were forced to fee Mrs.
Green has gone to New York and Ned TO the
Clifton house, which he makes a dallying
point to his office in the day and the theater
at night. The hotel is no place to rest in
the evening, for these same men with the
same schemes lay in wait there until the
foyer. reached through an alley, affords the
only relief.
Some months ago Mr.. Green picked I'D a
paper and found that he was president of
railroad. 1t came like a thunder clap and
paraly zed him, so to speak. The road was
on paper aud was marked to run to some
obscure place on the Ohio river to open the
vast stone quarries in Indiana. He took his
cane-which, by the way, is a trick and is
loaded with cigarettes and matches-in his
hand and started out to find his board of
directors He failed. But the failure does
not prevent his friends from looking upon
him as railroad president and they are
forever asking for passes. He writes
them out readily and easily from
any place to anywhere, but SO
FAR they have never been honored If
there Is anything new in the world Mr..
treen is sure to have it among the first, and
his room is filled with a bric-a- brac assort-
ment Of discarded fads. According to his
idea there are onlV few placas in the world
TO live, and Chicago is one Of them, and he
intends making it permanent home. His
accessible wealth has made him party to a
large number of schemes and transactions
In the city, and there are very few projects
going on that he does not know about, as
his office seems to be about the first place
men turn for aid. All manner of charities
knock at the door, and few 60 away empty
handed when their cause Is worthy and
publicity can be avoided. There is no osten-
tation about these gifts, but they are gem
orally effective.
mo, indeed, just because a man has got
money 1t is no sign that he has an easy time
of IL" said he. II guess he has thousand
more things to worry him than the me-
chanic who earns 80 a day and has family
TO support. be can generally go to bed
with an untroubled mind, while those rich
fellows are kept awake, wondering who will
try TO cheat them in the morning and how
to go about it to make their dollars bring in
the most returns. | try and not let these
things worry me, and L haven't lost much
flesh by It"
Generous, a thorough business man. he
makes model of the richest of the rich
young men of Chicago, heir to half the
fortune of Mrs. Hetty Green, whose $50
100000 makes her the richest woman iu
America.