The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-02-14
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Americas Richest Woman.

Americas klcneSG WOmans
New YORK, January 2o-With
fortune estimated at $50, 100000 Mrs.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in
America, lives in dingy hall bed
room in a Brooklyn boarding house
and eats in the kitchen, paying seven
dollars a week for board and room.
Although she has husband, son and
daughter she has no home, but mi
CRATES from boarding house to board
ing house, careing for two things
her money and her privacy.
The eccentricities Of this Cresus in
petticoats are as sands of the sea.
She lives the life Of e rowing hermit
because it gives her an excuse to re-
fuse to pay taxes on her personal
property. Whenever tax collector
is fortunate enough to locate her she
sends him away empty-handed on the
ground that she is a nonresident OF
the city, or County, or State. She
has been so shrewd in her endeavors
to conceal her temporary residences
from the public that at no time within
ten years have more than score nf
persons known where she slept or
where she ate her meals. &
Here is pen picture Of the woman
in her daily garb. She is well above
the medium height, with large frame
and plenty of flesh to cover the bones.
Her hands and feet are Of generous
proportions. She is not only square
jawed, but her whole head is singu-
larly square. She has high cheek
bones, a firm, straight nose, thin lips
and keen, gray eyes set we'll back un-
der the broad forehead. Her hair,
once brown, looks as if it had tinge
of green in it. It is combed down
straight on each side Of her forehead
aggressively.
There is an aggressive air in the
poise Of her head and the well-squared
shoulders and erect figure. She walks
with quick, yet shutting stride.
Her features are not coarse and an ex-
preston of good nature, sharp and
shrewd, yet kindly, is on the face that
haunts many mortgage debtor in his
dreams, /.
WEARS sHop-woRN CLOTHING. 8
She wears faded black cloth dress
that she paid 81 for at secondhand
store in 1892. 1t is frayed around the
bottom and the skirt is rusty. Oyer
this was $1.9O cloth jacket, bought
two weeks ago after she had called
once week for three ,or four months
to inquire the price, which was origi-
nally Sc. After shop-wear had
brought the figure down to $1.90 she
took the jacket.
Her bonnet is small and black, and
unobtrusive enough in appearance
from the front, but the ribbon with
which it was faced cannot conceal a
great patch Of faded yellow at the
back, which you can recognize any
where. She wears heavy overshces
over her thick button boots. Three
or four buttons are gone, and the wo-
mans feet lock obtrusive under the
short skirt. Her overshoes are loose,
too, and her shoes of coarse leather.
Tightly clutched under her left arm,
this golden princess in peasant dress
carries black cloth bag, with pucker-
ing strings, which is her constant
companion out of doors.
OWNS A FoBTUNE. IN DIAMONDS. .
Once in very great while Mrs.
Green "dresses up She has a
strange passion for diamonds and
keeps a marvellous array of them
locked in her strong boxes in the
Chemical Bank. Once upon time
she yielded to the beseechings Of her
landlady's daughter and brought from
the bank an immense bundle. She
uncovered on the kitchen table acol-
lection of diamonds. and precious
stones such as they had never, seen.
There were diamond brooches and
necklaces and string Of pearlss
which Mrs. Green admitted was worth
great many thousand dollars, andin
addition, very handsome black satin
gown, with black lace founces on it a
foot long.
The old lady {she is over 6O) was
persuaded to go up and put on the
dress and diamonds, when she looked
like queen of wealth, as she is.
Even then she wanted to eat in the
kitchen, but the landlady insisted on
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