The Saint Paul globe., 1899-02-26

| has lived in his own apartments and
| daily visited the club when he was
| able
Ten years ago Hetty Green is said to
| have remarked to a relative: MT.
/ Green is too old to live in the hurly-
burly of business life and so we have
| fixed him up at the club. At seventy
| a man cannot bear as much as he could
/ at forty"
| So Edward Green at seventy gave
| the reins of his fortune into the hands
of his energetic wife and settled down
quietly to become "Hetty Green's nus
| band"
| Nor was Mrs. Green less capable in
| 6isposing of the rest of her family. Her
| son, Edward, having grown to man
| hood, was sent to different parts of the
| country, to New England, to the Paci-
| fic coast to Europe and to Mexico on
{ business missions. The daughter Sylvia
| was put into the hands of an eldery So
| ciety woman of New York, who intro
duced her to old knickerbocker society
! at a tea and then allowed her to spend
her time in the quiet way which pleas
| ed her
| A Wall street man said that Hetty
| Green told him at the time of her sepa-
ration from her family that she did not
! like Mr.. Green because he spent monsy
too fast But if is very doubtful if
| she ever Solu SuCI d tIlluS. II was Hol
| a case of incOmpatability, but only one
| of business For the richest woman in
| the world found herself with $50 many
! irons in the fire that she positively
| could not darn socks nor attend to the
needs of a husband. That was the
whole secret of 1t.
AS for herself, Mrs. Green lives quiet
ly at one Of several places. Part of the
time she lives in a hotel in Brooklyn,
h1.id cyp @ -
mored to own. Here she occupies a
single room and eats at the public
table. She never takes dessert, and re-
fuses all but the most substantial food.
When she is in New York she occu-
pies a very comfortable room in the
middle of the town, and generally has
the society of her daughter, who is
very fond of her mother. Mrs. Green
and Sylvia have been photographed to-
gether very often, and the daughter
in speaking of her mother is enthusiaS-
tic in her praise of her disposition and
business qualities.
When Hetty Green was young girl
she was a great belle, and, as she says
now, she wore silk stockings and went
to balls" She was the intimate friend
of Miss Catherine Wolfe, who enriched
New York. with a marvellous art collec-
ton. Forty years ago these two young
women Miss Robinson and Miss Wolfe,
were the great catches of society-the
great chance for titled noblemen-for
they each represented millions, Just as
Miss Fair and Miss Goelet do today.
Edward H. Green is i'll now! Report
has 1T that he is very feeble and his
wife has been spending all her days
with him to the great exclusion of her
business interests. The same rumor
whispers that he is eighty-two years
old, and that he can not possibly live
long.
Public tongue is always mischievous
about this interesting couple, and a
year ago when Mr. Green had an at
tack of influenza and required a train
ed nurse the public told queer story
of Mrs. Green's jealousy-of how she
discharged the nurse and went out and
hired one of her own selection, an ugly
faced girl, to whom Mr. Green would
not make love.
1t IS considered very smart today to
go to the Philippines. The first man
who comes back from the Philippine
colony with the newly earned millions
In his pocket will be famous. but forty
years ago Edward Green did that same
thing, and nothing was thought of it.
Besides earning 81 900 in the
Philippines he made $40, ,0O0, 900 by mar
rying the right kind of girl and that
Is pretty good record for one man.