The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-02-02

Mrs Hetty Green.

IL Mrs Hetty Green.
10 The Sunday World gave whole page h
~ ', Hettv Green and her mystery. As the rich
~ est woman In America, worth 500 OOO, 900,
r says of her:
" Mrs Green breads publicity for a very goo,
- reason. She lives the life of q rowing hermit
bee 'use II gives her an excuse to refuse pa!
tax collector is fortunate enough to locate her
.. she sends him away empty handed on tn,
II ground that she is non resident OF the CITY o.
II county or state. She Is miserlv and suspicious
- she 10 constantly haunted by a dread of begging
= letters and newspaper men and cranks and mer
Win schemes n,s Who want her to invest money
= Anarchists. Al thSN POTION of her dislike fol
= notoriety. and very probably one Of the msiu
y, sSr ner way Of living is he,
: shabbiness Ia the greatest protection she could
have. NO ore would ever think of rObbing a
s OF n es, carrying
black cloth bag, Mrs Green often lugs papers
i, ana securities OF great value up and down the
Mrs Green has no home of her own and has not
for years She has been 80 shrewd In her en-.
deavors to conceal her temporary residences
ten years have more than score OF persons
known where she slept or where she ate her
meals So surrounded by mystery have been
OF newspaper readers all over the country will
learn with surprise that she has husband
even. she lives In boarding house and pays
under the same roof. Her husband is Edward
n Green, and he can be found any afternoon
and evening at the Union club. Fifth avenue
very tall man ami chews tob acco constantly.
he mas not been In active business for many
years ana his life is as . Osaic as possible. He
and Mrs Green makes him an allow
ance from her own enormous wealth.
She has an Unsuitable appetite for bargains. She
| annftQ6 mi nfr Sno ohnr Yin.
dow In Nassau street which she thought would
t her son. She kent track of that suit for nearly
year, until finally II was shop-worn and out Of
| styl and the tailor had reason to believe, not
entirely free from moths. Then the Nassau
| street merchant yielded 70 Mrs GREEN'S impor
tunities and ,d sod her the suit for 81 50 He
| wanted $l?. but Mrs Green that he was
cente and fnalIv got IT, Then she went over TO
which pro 1ably hundr de OF thousands of dol.
lars we're concerned Last summer young Ned
Green made serious talk to his mother and
told her that It was really her duty to spend $40
and get nice silk dress but the woman OF mill
Ions would not listen to this proposition at all, |
and rehuked her son very sharply for his ex-
Sylvia, who partially shares her mothers eco
nomlcai Ideas, is quite handy with the needle, |
AND she has often suggested that MIRA Green buy
cloth TOR ne dress which the daughter could
make up. The female CrBsus alwavI replied |
that she would do this If she could find bar
gain In cloth, but that most of the barRains OF
this &c sort were already made up. and che thought
thing at a secoi d.hand store. Mrs Green's
costly collection OF di amonds, whic she keeps
IN her strong boxes. was not accumulated be-
cause she ex poets at any time to wear the gems
herself. She buys diamonds purely as an In
vestment just as she buys real estate Tiny
holes we're drilled in her ears At an early age.
ana occasionally she wears pair OF earrings
which she has had for nearlv is years. They
are OF the sort known as "Rhinestones," and
me bits OF glass are backed by pieces of silver
hr ~. l.
liant than their natural crystal. This bit
OF jewelry cost seventy I've cents Mrs
when in that city she stops At a hotel she often
goes to Bellows Falls. ". because she holds or
owns mortgages on numerous parcels of prop. {
erty there Among 9th things she owns the ,
the little Vermont village half her time Ia spent
attic toll Office watching the pennies come In as
an Of any millions calls this r. sting but 1t is l
business as we'll because once when Rhe had rea- U
,on to believe that the toll gate keeper was
snocai1 r. dow 9 Mrs Green sImmarily dis
Ind took toll hersel. fer several hours until che =
rad hired another gate keeper Bellows Falls '
Mrs Green visits there she stops at Towns hotel Il
For some reason probably because OF the many d
mortgages she holds in the neighborhood she 10 I,
Tot popular at the hotel. One summers day n
ng a new sa usage machine which some one had <
'rought to the llage and to their intense de. g
Ign, the proprietor rot, Of the hotel produced
o woman al d was labelled "Hetty Green " "
mid the uproarlous laughter of the entire par. 81
ne sausage machine and came out Of he little u
nj u links. White eSekyboIv was enjoying ~
lughed the loudest and, the longest was the "
wner Of the motel She pretendedto enjoy the II
rs az else but the next
nd It changed proprIetofe within q week. y! "a
Y. Green's daughter. syvis, Of whom so little ~ ~
the poor house BY thu death Of her aunt, St
ylvia Ann Rowland, Of New Bedford. she
sht. This money was invested in real estate II, n
y her BY the TILE Guarantee and Loan Com. ~
my not many months ago. Miss Sylvia and Ut
,r mother have many tastes and ideas IL com %
on, and Mrs Green has often said to intimate up
lends that her daughter would probably take to
liter care OF the Green fortune than her broth I'M
ID she 10 very proud Of him, although she has d,
suspicion that he is inclined to be extravagant
10 hss . positive knowledge that once there ~ ~
IS loss Of ten cents which he could not ex- LOT
ain In his expense account. and at this time he
Q threatened 10 disinherit him. This was
any years ago. Miss .nne Leary. of Fifth Tn
Ell, is a friend Of the Green family, and has a ~
ways taken great interest In Sylvia Two or xi.
rec years anb 1t was decided that an attempt ~
ould be made to launch Mics Green into 80 gre
ty. Miss Leary volunteers to chaperon her. it,
ss Sylviv had several new dresses and was the
rmttted to wear some of the Green 1t I
smonds, bnt as society bud she was ntt
especially successful. This WAS due ,or
friends said, not much to her rather plain Iol
,tures and quiet disposition as to her own We
liable world SVlvis was at Newport last sum.
y with Miss Leary but participated In very I
Y OF the gay eties OF that resort, Edward bac
cen. the son. is a tsl', well built young man am
10 wears glasses IKE all the rest OF the fam. ~
and has q mustache and mild. inoffensive ~
10 whiskers. He walks with slight limp. the pa
ut OF al accident to his right leg lille coast ihe
at Bellows Falls. Vt. when he was seven Jul
ars DID, Young Green's education was OBJ. alo
ned ~ for"nam college and his chief amuse. bin
% In hanging around the engine house IN 18th
Get near Broadway and chatting with the fire
n. Ne Is remembered there yet. Nobody n
ew at the time that he the con OF the rich oil,
woman In America. When Edward Fl Green ~
oed and won Harriet II Robinson he had Gu
his money In Wall street about 10 years ago era
since then he has developed into . club to
,helor" He hae q small room on 18th Get u
the neighborhood of the Union club. Every
ernoon at O'Clock he goes to the club where era
ertain chair near the Fifth avenue WINDOW the
rays awaits him. When he leaves the club j
ise 1t is to 90 to his room and to bed. Mrs arc,
not Meet vaxr ~ IT, 70 ua nm nrsieS allo
simply agreed To i've saart many years ago. j.
Green tells her friends that she is happy In chill
life she leads and would not be content to A
any other wav. She has two passions In of
!. business and desire TO keep out OF tbs tina,
,lic gaze. Nothing peases her more than to III ,
We such bargain as she forced ex Judge III
nry Hilton Into last summer. eoiu
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That female minr-re q dev rather oot Tho w"