The morning news., 1893-12-03

OUT means OF ner own, ana 70 MAKE uut
and proper provision for any children
that might result from the marriage.
And this contract Mrs. Green has always
enforced to the letter.
For some time after their marriage the
/ Greens resided in London. where their
two children. boy and girl. were born,
but IN 1872 they returned 20 New York,
and during the decade that followed Mrs
| Green was one Of the heaviest, shrCwdest
ard most successful operators in Wall
street. Like her father, she had con
Cludcd that speculation was a good thing
whenever the degree Of risk was reduced
10 a minimum, and in her purchases and
sales she was guided wholly by her own
| iudgmCnt-a Judgment held in high
esteem by the keenest and ablest men in
the street. Her wOmau's intuition al
ways enabled her to avoid the pitfalls and
ambushGs often laid for her. Moreover,
she was a skilful strategist, and many
mysterious but powerful movement in
stocks was traced to her, yet always when
it wa$toO late to thwaTt her designs. She
adroitly manipulated several corners in
Reading, in which the unfortunate
''shorts" were. squeezed without mercy
and she was a frequent and heavy opera
tor in Louisville and Nashville. For a
time she owned a controlling interest in
the latter property, and was powerful
enough to make her husband its president
anu a lACAiADCA VI Auo uOdl "a Va III CN WI
INVESTS LARGELY IN DIAMONDS.
Her husband is an acute and level
headed financier, but Mrs. Green early
proved herself the better man OF the two
II is generally believed that her fortune
had increased from $4,000, 900 to 10000,
600 before she was married, and the sum
last named, by accumulatiOnS and success
full operations, she has since more than
doubled. For many years John L. Cisco
was her banker, and when he failed, in
1885, it was found that she had on deposit
with him S25, 900, 900 in government bonds
and hrSt-claSS securities. These, more
over, represented only portion of her
vast wealth. She now keeps her bonds
and securities in the Chemical National
Bank, and also has deposited there one of
the finest collections of diamonds in
America. She picks up her diamonds as
an inYeS tment which will not depreciate
in value and can instantly be turned into
cash, and it is very doubtful If she ever
wore one of them in her life. She would
scOrn such a display as evidence of prodi-
Cality and vanity OF late years she has,
to all practical purposes, withdrawn from
the street, and now deyOtes her time to
the management of her widely scattered
properties and the judiCious investment of
her dividends
Mrs. Green is the embodiment OF hon
tolN uub - dINdN y uL Illt lOOhOuL " save
an honest penny. Her household expenses
do not exceed three or four thousand a
year, and l have never seen her with an
outfit that cost over $50 on the outside.
She patronizes the elevated and surface
cars, whenever possible, and was never
known to hire cab. One day John J.
Cisco saw her crossing the crowded street
in the direction of his office, carrying a
leather bag. When she reached the office
and opened the bag, her banker found
that it was filed with securities worth
million or more. Surprised at the risk
she had taken in carrying the bag through
the streets in such a careless and un-
guarded way, he said; Mrs. Green, what
in the world makes you take such risk?
You might have been robbed. Why
didn't YOU take cab2"
''YOu may be able to ride in cabs, Cisco
but am not, was the cool reply of the
female CrOesus. She used also to keep
her family plate in the Ciscos' vault and
once a month would visit the bank and
burnish 1t up with her own hands. She
will permit no one but her husband to aid
her in clipping the matured coupons from
the bonds she has stored at the Chemical,
and once when one of the coupons was
missing organized n search that lasted for
an hour and demanded the attention of
all the employees of the bank. When
Reading affairs were undergoing a period
ical reorganization a few years ago, Mrs
Green went to the cOmpany's bankers to
have her old bonds sent over to Philadel-
phla for exchange. She was informed
that small fee would be charged for the
transfer, sum slightly in excess of the
cost of a round trip to Philadelphia-and,
so without moments delay, she returned
the bonds to her satchel and took them to
the Quaker City herself, A prominent
doctor, noted specialist inlthe diseases
OF children, tells story of Mrs. Green
that throws a curious light on her char
acter. One day, dozen years or more
ago, he was called upon by a plainly
dressed woman, accompanied by a half
grown boy, afflicted by a serious knee
trouble. The woman said she was very
poor, and the doctor, though for some
time he treated the child regularly
forebore in consequence to speak of pay
ment. One day, quite by accident, the
doctor learned the identity of his Gus
toner and lost no time in sending her a
bill for handsome sum- This bill, after
some delay and protest, was paid. Still
there are those who accept these stories
of Mrs. Green's parsimony with gener-
GUS grain of allowance. Members of this
class say she is a sturdy, conscientious
woman, who believes in doing good to
others, and that there are a few charita-
BILE organizations in New York, Philadel-
phia or Chicago that have not disbursed
large sums in charity for her.
HER WHEREABOUTS A SECRET.
One of the peculiarities for which Mrs
Green is noted is fondness for keeping
her whereabouts a secret from the pub
lie. Her bankers and agents, of course,
know where she is at all times, but the
tax collector, process server or reporter,
who goes in search of her, soon learns
that she is about as hard to find as the
proverbial needle in the haystack De
sire to avoid taxation is said to be the
reason for her living in hiding all the
time. When in New York, she lives in
some modest hotel or boarding house. and
in Chicago and other cities she follows
the same rule. For some years she passed
her summers in very modest cottage at
Maspeth, l. l., but in recent years has
spent the greater part of her time in Bel
lows Falls the Vermont birthplace of her
husband. When in Bellows Falls, she
stops at the leading hotel of the town
but selects the cheapest apartments in
the house, and INDUCES neither herself
nor her family in any Injuries She is a
standing source of wonder TO the people
! of the town. Her costumes though by
no means costly, are often as pronounced
in effect as those worn upon the stage;
she often rides or promenadcs wearing a
hat in which are combined'all the colors
Of the rainbow, and in winter she wears
old hosiery for overshOeS She pos