Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-20
HER MANY MILLIONS.
Hetty Green Tells How She Has Made
Her Enormous Fortune.
TALK WITH A WONDERFUL WOMAN
Who Is Credited With Having Accumulated
Over $4O,OOO,OOO.
THE FOUNDATION OF HER FORTUNE
rcoRRrsPoSDEScE OF THE D1sPArcH.l

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPArcH.l
New YORK, Nov. 1S.-The other day ap-
peared list of the wealthiest Americans
Seventh in it was a woman. Those who
preceded her in the category were Wander
bilts, Astors and Rockefeller. The richest
woman in the United States, if not in her
individual right, at least by her own talents,
is Hetty Rowland Robinson Green. Her
estate is valued at 10000, ,000 But the
truth is, that neither she nor anybody else
can estimate its full value, and she, W no
knows better than anyone else appro1i-
mateiy what she is worth, is adroit in de-
clining to make an estimate.
Recently friend of Mrs. Green said to
her: "Win you tell me how you made your
fortune?" Mrs. Green, who is far more q
woman of action than of words, was at first
wary and reluctant; but when satisfied, as
she speedily was, that the question was put
in good faith, and that her reply to it would
be employed honorably and truthfully, she
consented to tell what is assuredly re-
markable tale. the more absorbing because
Mrs. Green never before consented to tell
the tale herself As it was not taken down
in shorthand but is given substantially
from memory, it may err in unimportant
particulars In the main it is absolutely
authentic.
A Phenomenal Woman's Looks.
Mrs. Green, it may be well to state before
the story itself begins, is a phenomenal
woman. Her head is shapely, strong and
compact. 1t is. singularly square. The
average woman's head is low above the
brows, broad across the eyes, narrow at the
tips of the cheek bones round at the
blending of cheek with chin, dimpled and
bubble-like at the chin itself, bowlike in
the lips, with fullness and redness, where
poets delight to find cherries parted to show
pearls The average woman's head is more
round than square; and the portion phrenol-
oqlsts designate the temporal ridge of the
frontal bone-that is, the sides of the head
from the ewes to the hair line and an inch
or two under that is generally well e1-
banded. Hetty Howland Robinson Green's
head differs essentially from the head of the
typical woman. 1t possesses nothing indeed
Of that sentimental and aesthetic conforma-
tion which sculptors have handed down
from Greek days as the ideal feminine head
round, mild, delicate, and If extremely
beautiful in perfection of mould and SYM
metrv of lines suggestive of imagination
and taste, likely also to suggest indecisioH,
if not teebleness
Mrs. Green's head is shapely, but it is
SQUARE. 1t is almost rectilinear. Take a
block of good proportions; take a keen
batchet, square the sides, front and back,
square the chin, sccentuate the tips of the
cheek bones, square the bumps indicating
reasoning powers and resolution, omit the
swelling on either side of the upper part,
supposed to suggest imagination, give this
square head firm, straight nose, little
broader at the nos:rils than straight noses
generally are; thin out the lips, but leave
Them ruddy; insert sharp gray eyes, setting
them back we'll under the bony gables;
make them furtive, watchtul, perhaps sus-
picious; develop the preceptive line across
the ewes square the entire head now to these
thin lips. keen eyes, and high cheek-bones,
and there is the richest woman in the
United States. perfectly preserved, brown
in her hair beginning to gray; her age, say,
55
The Story of Her Fortune.
"How did 1 make nv fortune?" Mrs
Green said with aDiable ard yet abstracted
interest "Well, to be candid, did not