Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-12-08
WORKED Up
| FIR. Green, Son Of Mrs
Hetty Green,
.x ms RAILROAD CAREER
WIN HARD woiIt As
FOREMAN OF A GANG
!. .rcr,o> HANDS N VERMONT
AT SALARY OF sio rnn
s,oSrm.
t ala, uichrst Woman On Earth
and yo~ President OF the
"a Texas Midland
FOREMAN OF A GANG

puflalo, n. y. sept. 2i.-Every
lrows Of Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest
and In some respects. the queerest
woman In the country. Everybody
p,ows she has husband, some people
have heard of daughter and son,
,ut few know much about them. The
,on ia Edward II. II. Green. and Just
nav ne is president and general man
.ger of the Texas Midland railroad.
Ned Green CHATS what they call him
where he Is known Is 81 years old.
He is stalwart young fellow, full
feet inches tall. and will weigh over
100 pounds He is broad-shOuldered
and erect, n splendid physical specimen.
He Is decided blond. His face is
frank and open and handsome.
II might be well to tell why and how
Mr. Green happens to be down in Tex
as when he left Fordham college in
1851 he went TO his mother and she
asked him what he wanted to do; what
he wanted TO make of himself. He said
he would like to have little money
:or three months vacation. and that
hen he would be ready for anything
that she might give him to do. Mrs.
Green asked Ned how much money he
would want. He replied. "Oh, about
5000 week." hardly hoping that his
request would be granted
Mrs Green turned to her secretary
and said: Please place $4,000 to
Neds account
Young MIR Green at the end Of three
months reappeared before his mother
with g cents in his pocket and told her
that he was ready TO get to work. Mrs.
Green asked a clerk for certain papers
connected with Vermont railroad.
They were given to her, and she hand
ID her son paper. appointing him
foreman NJ "A gang of section hands.
al a salary of s45 month. As might
be expected the hoy was considerably
aslonished, hut he took his medicine.
when he reached his headquarters he
found his gang of men large and the
work hard At the end of the first
month he had spent his salary and was
$40 In debt,
He wired his mother asking for n re-
mittanoe, She wired back, mot one
cent Then young Mr.. Green buckled
down to work again. lie worked three
months and saved enough to pay or hi,
debts, One day his mother came along
In her special car. took him In and
made him night superintendent OF the
position for some months and then
went to Cincinnati, y little later he
entered the Pullman service. in which
COMPANY his mother owns much stock.
For a time ne was a member OF the
board " directors Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Southwestern railroad
Two years ago he went to Texas and
took charge of the Texas Midland rail
road He Immediately got down to
hard work. There IL not anything in
practical rallrouding that Mr., Green
cannot do. He can run an engine fire
one, do bra kemsn's duties and work
on section. 1t Is no unusual sight
TO see him in jumpers and overalls
working as hard as any man on the
road He is blum. hearty. whole
souled young fellow, and is immensely
popular with all the people along his
line, In social life he Is very liberal.
nut he drives MS keen "A bargain as ever
man did
MI. Green now has charge Of all his
mothers property west of the Hudson
rivera mere trife. amounting 10 some
N0Oo OOO. They have $4,000. 600 or s10.-
woVO0 worth OF prouerty In California,
abont p000,0o0 In Texas, SIS, 900 or
Nv0eoOOO In Chicago and say 5000
~ In ST. Louis. II is all valuable and
paving we'll
Mr. Green lives in Terrell. Tex. You