The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-24
FROM the Brooklyn Eagle.


Millionaires to Terms-Bent on a
Society Career for Her Daughter.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Not a small part of the fame of Brook
lyn can be laid TO the credit of the re-
markable women who have lived and live
| now within its borders-women who have
taken rank and honor in almost every
walk of life. 1t is well-known fact that
very large proportion of the real estate
is held in the names of women. 1t is not
a widely-known fact that the woman who
is reputed to be the richest in the United
States lives in the City of Churches, and
right in the classic section known as the
| heights, too Her wealth is variously es-
| timated at from $40, 600, 900 to 800 O00, 600,
and her name is Mrs Hetty Green. Her
name and personality are more familiar
| to Wall street than they are to Brooklyn
society That is because Mrs. Green has
chosen to devote all her time to the ma
nipulation of her fortune and has let So
ciety get along without her. Hetty
Green at an Ihpetonga ball would create
a sensation, indeed, but it is not likely
| that such an occasion will ever be re-
corded by society writer's.
Hosts of people have brushed elbows
with shrewd and rather calm faced
woman, apparently fifty years old,
rather short, wearing a plain, old
fashioned shawl and bonnet so
far beyond fashions plate that no one
| would ever suspect it had been in it, even
years ago. Nobody ever saw her with a
dress which was not severely plain and
hnr hoo, I oh
not carry an old style and well worn black
sachel. Her appearance would never
cause the uninitiated to think that she
was anything more extraordinary than
an old fashioned woman of moderate
means and simple tastes, who was on her
way to the corner grocery or the bakery
| on the block below. Yet, if money is
power, this same staid looking person is
one of the most powerful human beings in
the country
In an old-fashioned house on a corner in
PierTrepont street Mrs. Green and her
daughter Sylvia, have lived for several
| years. The modest apartments they oc-
cupy are hired from a pleasant faced
woman, who keeps the house and who has
an admiration for Mrs Green, which she
| does not conceal The richest woman in
the United States;has a son. who has been
spending some time in Florida seeking to
improve his health. Mrs. Green has been
a widow for many years and her daugh-
ter is about 20 years old. Since the death
of her husband Hetty Green has become
a tnancier of unusual shTewdness. She
has indicated by her actions that she has
small faith in brokers, and that if she
wants anything done the best way is to
do it herself.
The weather beaten sachel has carried
securities representing millions of dollars.
1t has knocked about New York and
Brooklyn and other big financial centers
with precious burdens, and Hetty Green
has always had tight grip on it. She
does not believe in spending her money
on things that she does not want, and as
she wants very little she spends but very
little. Her children and her fortune are
the sole objects of her solicitude. Mrs.
Green is said to be very anxious to have
her daughter become one of the leading
actors in the famous four hundred of
Manhattan Island. Something of an OBJ
stacle in the way of this is the daughter
herself, according to report. Miss Green
is credited with caring as little for the
dazzle and newspaper notOriety of a social
career as her mother. She is a girl
whose tastes are quiet and to whom
dress is a matter of little con sideratiOn.
If she consulted her own desires entirely
and did not listen TO her mother, she
would let society whirl along without
her.
Mrs. Green, by way of foundation
for her daughters social debut, some time
ago settled a large sum of money on that
young woman in government bonds. The
amount is stated to be 5000, 900. Little
more was necessary, as Mrs. Green is
well known in the Leary family of New
York. Miss Green and her mother re-
ceived invitations to balls, receptions
and operas, but few were accepted and
those only by the daughter. Last sum
mer Sylvia Green was guest at the
Leary cottage at Newport. She went
there with a costly trousseau, which her
mother insisted she should have, but even
Newport is said to have contributed little
to Miss Green's love for society Last
winter she went to New York but few
times, though there were stacks of invi-
tations for her and her wealthy parent.
The death of young Arthur Leary oc-
Cured and the family did not go to New
port this year. There were those who
said that it was Hetty Green's wish that
her daughter should have married a
wealthy society man.
Incidents in the career of this remarka-
Bile woman have stamped her as a bold
| yet cautious operator in stocks and secur-
| tiles When the financial panic of 1884
| occurred Mrs. Green had a large deposit
| in a firm of Canadian bankers named
| Cisco & Co. of New York Information
reached her that the bank was in an I'M
| safe condition, and, without waiting to
hear more, she went to the institution
| and withdrew her entire deposit. The
| firm had no alternative, and, after paying
her her money, was compelled to suspend,
and finally failed completely Hetty
Green is the largest property owner in
! the city of Chicago. She holds title to
block after blocko of land in the business
section, and her son assists in looking
after her interests there. For many years
she lived in the western metropolis, and
she spends much Of ner time there when
away from Brooklyn.
Her recent characteristic bargain with
eX-Judge Henry Hilton is fresh in the
minds of financiers The money which
the judge wanted so badly is generally
conceded to have been used in buying out
the interest of his SOD, Henry B. Hilton,
in the dry goods firms of Hilton, Hughes
x Co., and Hilton Bros. He went to Mrs.
Green, or his lawyers did, and made a
request Of a loan of 81 $50 600 in cash
Mrs Green was willing to lend, but in
| sisted on having mortgage on the mar
BILE palace at the corner of Broadway and
/ Chambers streets, New York, the Stew
art building, which, with the land, is sup
/ posed to be worth 5000, 600 She would
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