Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-07-17

ing businesses of the United States. Hetty
Green's ccrEer is lighted from the roof. At
enc side she is fenced Off by a long val
Hut desk. such as bankers use for sorting
bank notes or papers. and on the opposite
side y the wall. The space between forms
the Ctfce- Ii is not Wide as the ordi-
nary alley and all the furniture III IL would
Hct bring fifteen dollars III auction. There
are two lutte walnut desks in the office.
one Of these has nat top IL is here that
MIS- Green's stenOgrapher and typewriter,
a pretty young woman OF about eighteen
years o; age. sits The other desk Is Het-
" Green's II is + small roller ton af-
lair with set Of drawers running on one
side from the table 10 the floor. The desk
is. judge. about three feet wide and the
pigeon holes within il are stuffed with
papers. Upon the top lies Mrs Green's
bonnet and cape just as she has thrown
them there. on coming into the office. and
upon the desk Is the steel pen with which
II she wishes she can sign checks for mil
lions There is little sign OF comfort or
luxury about this little office. Were Mrs
Green and Eey secretary not present vo,,
"ou4d MOI imagine that IL belonged to a
woman There IS not sofa nor cushion
Icr rocking chair in SIGHT Th. four
caelrs which form the only furniture in
2lGltion to the desks and liable are
sLF-lGht-hacEed cane-seated ones such as
are GSt4 in other parts OF the bank There
Is 10 i&tttng CT crochet work 10 be seer
ana the only feminine signs visible are
MIS- Green's bonnet and cane and sly nins
80 - east Two ms hes toEg, which are
PROBABLY 10 be used for fastening panars
toSethSr- Upon the table is 4 hay about
eisA'esn inches square and a foot d.cn Of
Jas' about the size of those i'm which a
sroeeF Keeps soap This box Is of tin
PaiItel back. and you look you thint
OF the ieauen casket of Portia in The NJ
chant OF Venice Ii is Mrs Green's ~
loT valuable papers, and though IT'S ont
see Is but homeiy tin / do1ht no. 90.
there are millions in it, that
Chat With Hetty Groom
WISH 1 could show you Mrs. Green 40
end tea with me after her business
callers Rad gone She Is a far djrrera,,
iA 'i'ah the one you know in the
newspapers She makes me think If owe
So" old mothers whom you will
Al!u oS the dozen in almost anv cor,.r
towh a woman tho has brought nm :. g.,
ny ana done II well, and who nov In r.
e.AHes' aithoCSh her life has been n bard
AMI q sun II sympathy with humanity
- d Tedcy 20 battle on TO the close +
I'm oeieVe Il woman can have A face uka
etS 'rte- and not have heart prone
70 sympathy ana love. Her eyes are bjne
ara friendly Her mouth, though detar
mined. has no:herly lines about - 81 =
strong Character shines out of her er.rr,
IedtCre- She IL still fine looking, and she
I-st nave been a most beautiful Girl
curing my cAat she showed me some ia
suerreotypes taken of herself wbar ~
was the daughter of the millionaire I.ob-
lnSOn In an unOSt entatlous way ~. 80,
me something of her simple life 6efor. 30.
father died. and how she was for,e1 -
business by having to fight tne bigg.st
lawyers OF the country FOR her estate Nrs
Green dresses very plainly. The costume
she wore yesterday would not have hen
out OF place upon the mo;heriy Old lad,
whom referred to above Her dress -yais.
was Of some black goods trimmed with
velvet. which was rather rusty than n.vv
lie skirt was sateen of black spofted
with white. and upon her head she woe
veil, which was twisted about so as IN
look like cap Although she speaks four
languages the words she used were pIain
Anglo-Saxon- and she never hesitated 10
call spade a spade. She has a slight
fsnhee accent which comes 1 suppose
from her having been raised in Vermont
There was not the slightest affeetati,n
about her. did not see an atom of the
thickness, hardness or of the Suspicious
Character usually associated with the de-
scrlptions OF her. l found her, In IA 1T
rather modest than anything else.
Where She Got Her Business Trnfni,,,
One Of my first questions was as 70
when she first discovered that she had
business ability. She replied:
II don't know that 1 have much bust
ness ability. but such business ability as
possess has been developed by the neces-
sity of taking care of my fortune. You
see. l was not born poor. We have been
rich for three generations. The house
IL which i was born In Vermont had