Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-02-09
RICHEST WOMAN.

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With fortune estimated at $780,
100000, Mrs. Hetty Green. the ricn
est woman in America, lives in u
dingy hall bedroom in Brooklyu
oarding house and eats in the kitch
en-, paying 81 week for board and
room. Although she q husband.
son and daughter, she has no home,
but migrates from boarding house to
lvarding house, caring for two things
her money and her privacy.
The ecceptricities of this Creosus
in petticoats are as the sands of the
sea. She lives the life Of rowing
hermit because it gives her an excuse
to refuse to pny taxes OH her person.
al property. Whenever tax collector
is fortunate enough to locnts her she
sends him away empty handed Oh
the ground that she is u non. resident
of the city or county or State. She
has been 80 shrewd in her endeavors
to conceal her temporary residences
from the public that at no time with
in ten years have more than score
Of persons known where she slept
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Here is pen picture of the woman
in her daily garb. She is we'll above
the medium height, with large
frame and plenty of flesh to cover
the bones. Her hnnds and feet are
of generous proportions. She is not
only square jawed, but her whole
head is sirgularly square. She has
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nose, thin lips and keen gray eyes,
set well back under the broad fore.
head. Her hair, once brown, looks
as if it La tinge of green in it. 1t
is combed down straight OH each
si'le of her forehead aggressively.
There is III aggressive air in the
poise of the head and the we'll squar
ed shoulders and erect figure. She
walks with quick, yet shuffling
stride. Her features are not course,
aud an expression of good nature,
sharp and shrewd, yet kindly, is Oh
the face that hnunts many u mort.
gage debtor in his dreams.
WEARS SHOP WORN CLOTHING.
She wears q faded black cloth
dress that she paid 81 for Mt sec
ond hand store in 1892. It is frayetl
around the bottom and the skirt ia
rusty. Over tubs was a 81 90 black
cloth jncket, bought two weeks ago,
after she rad called once week for
three or four months to inquire the
price, Which was originally Sc. AT
shop wear had brought the figures
down to $l.90 she took the jacket.
Hor bonnet is small and black and
unobtrusive enough in appearance
from the front but the ribbon with
which 1t was forced cannot conceal a
great patch of faded yellow at the
back, which you recognize anywhere
She wears heuvy overshoes over hei
thick button boots. Three or foul
buttons are gone, and the woman's
feet look obtrusive under her short
skirt. Her overshoes nre loose, too
and her shoes are of coarse leather
Tightly clutched under her left arm
this golden princess in peasant dress
carries black cloth bag, with puck
ing strings, which is her constant
companion out of doors.
OWNS A FORTUNE IN DIAMONDS.
Once in very great while Mrs
Green dresses up" She has
strange passion for diamonds ant
keeps a marvellous array of then
locked in her strong boxes in til,
Chemical Bank. Once upon tim,
she yielded to the beseechings of he
landlsdy's daughter and brought from
the bank an immense bundle. Sh,
uncovered on the kitchen table a col
lection OF diamonds aud preciou
stones such az they had never seen
There were diamond necklaces an,
brooches and string OF pearls, viii,
Nrs. Green admitted was worth
great many thousand dollars, aud, il
addition, very handsome black sat
in gown, with black lace flounces %,
it foot wide.
The old lady (she is over SOY wa
persuaded to 20 up and put on til
dress, when she looked like queer
Of wealth, as she is.
Even then she wanted to eat in tb
kitchen, but the landlady insisted 81
her sitting with The other boarders
But Mrs. Green quickly donned he
other garments, saying she felt like
fool in the others.
The rich woman's life is the m If
humdrum possible. She Uses arl,
and after breakfasting in the kitchen
walks across the bridge to New Yorl
unless it is stormy, when she wi
spend three cents for chr faro Ono
over the river she goes struieht t
the Chemical Bank, where abe In
her office: She is one of the larges
stockholders In that institution, nm
keeps her spare cash there, amount
ing to three or four million. In th
vaulb' OF the bank are Mrs. Green
strong boxes, where are some SOS
100000 worth of government bond.
securities, mortgages and mapuif