Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-07-25
MRS. HETTY GREEN INTERVIEWED.
Interesting Things About Richest Woman in
America.

Interesting Things About Richest Woman in
America.
(, An interview with Mrs. Hetty Green
was recently published in the New
York Advertiser, a part of which is as
follows:
ITO what do you owe your success ?"
Mrs. Green was silent for moment
and then she said:
at is a peculiar question, and yet |
think can answer it. My father was
business mana good business man.
When l was-well, good bit younger
than l am now, | heard him lay down
these principles:
a dollar-a good dollar-on the day you
promised to pay. Don't pay him
dollar and quarter and don't try to
pay him 80 cents. Give him the full
dollar. Then he will know that you
are neither a thief nor fool. If you
find man in your employ dishonest
get rid of him-quietly, if you can, but
let him go. This is not harshness; it is
proper justice to men who violate their
faith
"There was more than this" Mrs.
Green went on, "but these opinions
alone form coed business creed and,
if you wish it, to them more than any
thing else l attribute any degree of sue
cess that has come to me.
"There are two things that / cannot
and will not abide
GA fool or thief. They may be
about me, but they will not be if l
know it, and most of the time L know
it.n
"Yet, l am told you are lenient and
kind as rule with your employees,
Mrs. Green"
81 am just with them, and as result
l get good service. | do not think you
will find anyone who has ever been EN-
ployed by me who will not say that |
always treated him at least as fairly as
he treated me.
1.-The best way to be beneficial is to
be useful. You may, perhaps, have
thought that hoard my money and
count over and over and gloat over it o.
nights. Well, 1 don't.
Every man, and for that matter
every woman, ought to work and to
get paid for the work in accordance
with it's value. Now you have read of
me as a mean, grasping old woman.
You have never read of me giving away
vast sums in charity. You have not
seen my name at the head of donations
for free this or free that.
81 will tell you what I did do,
though" Mrs. Green went on; II built
houses in Chicago, blocks of them at
time, when men wanted work. / paid
good wages, and the money was always
there on pay day. In the business of
managing my affairs and in working
in my various affairs / employ great
many men-yes, and women, too. 1t
takes great deal of money to pay these
but they are paid, each one of them, as
much as they are worth within my
knowledge.
"And do you know" she said, ~
think work harder than any of them?"
"But, then, you have the largest sal
airy, Mrs. Green" / ventured.
with smile. "But / think / am
worth it."
This was incOntrOvertible.
"And the woman in politics, Mrs.
Green?" asked.
"She is better out of than in politics, !"
was the reply: "She is better in her
own home with her own children"
"Politics may sometimes help a man
but very seldom woman. Men who
run for office get in love with it. / do
not quarrel with the women who want
to vote, but 1 don't want to vote my
self.
Another thing 1 will say. L have
never needed vote to protect myself.
l have handled my large interests
largely myself, but not at all times.
Yet they have not suffered. l have
not bought politicians. had no need
to. Remember, as | said before, l am
not against woman voting if she
wants to. l don't want to. Politicians
if you please to call them SO, who study
the interests of their own neighborhoods
find that railroad or other interests are
interests of their own friends, and it is
not at all necessary to buy them"
This is not literal quotation. 1t is
a condensation but fair one.
OF course, it was impossible to refrain
from asking Mrs. Green what she
thought of the "new woman" and her
answer was Delightfully."- naive.
"The new woman " she said; "why
really, haven't thought of her at ALL
| am an old woman of the old sort, you
know"
The new woman is getting some
hard knocks these days and this is not
the softest of them.
Then Mrs. Green turned again to the
subject on which she had touched be-
fore. 1t concerned woman and her
rights.
II have told you BEFORE" she said,