The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-17
MADE HIS MILLIONS IN MANILA.
Husband of Hetty Green Founded His
Fortunes in the Philippines.

| MADE Ills MfLLiONS in MANILA.
Husband of Hctty Green Founded His
Fortunes in the Philippines.
Forty years ago there came out of
the little village OF Bellows Falls, VT,
a young man who was destined to be-
come famous In several days. Like the
| prince in the fairy tale who died ia
| nous without ever knowing 1t, Edward
| I'll. Green has won a reputation along
| lines of which neither he nor the world
knew anything. ParadoXical as this
| may seem it is a fact that Edward H.
Green might make a name for himself
upon any one of the many things
which have come to him by fate, or
which he won by fortune. He Is the
husband of Hetty Green, who is the
richest woman in the world He is ex-
tremely good friends with wife with
whom he does not live because she is
| so wealthy. He was the first Ameri-
can to make a fortune in the Philip
pine Islands. He introduced into the
United States certain varieties of Ma
Mia hemp, rope and paper, which have
become very valuable in the CONNER
| cial world. Though the husband Of the
| richest woman in the world he lives
| on a few hundreds a year.
| AS the husband of Fetty Green, Ed
ward II. Green has achieved more no
toriety than will come to the husband
| of Wilhelmina of Holland BY noto-
rlety Is meant certain amount of fame
| both enviable and unenviable: for at
times Mr.. Green has found the fact of
his relationship SO unpleasant that he
has bribed the attendants of the hotel
at which he lived to keep out inter-
| viewers and turn visitors away.
AS the maker of a million in a strange
| land, the name of Edward H. Green
was so well known 90 years ago on
Wall street that millionaires and bank
ers were proud to receive a letter in
one Of his business envelopes, and the
greatest of them was willing to take
off his hat to the tall. well built, self
made man of millions. But riches fled,
and as they vanished Edward H. Green
lost his family with them.
All New Englanders are wealthy.
Born upon hard soil into which they
must dig deep for the slender rewards
that come forth they learn to pinch
and save. Soon they have a cOmforta-
Bile thousand where the young man
who is born upon the more generous
soil has not a dollar
Edward H. Green was one of these
Endowed with some money and adding
to 1t by his own efforts. he sailed in his
young manhood for what was then a
remote corner of the earth-the Philip
pines. To-day the Philippines are still
at the antipodes, but they are not near
~ so far away. You can go to Manila.
now in month. Then it took Edward
Green three times as long, for he went
in sailing vessel and the journey was
fraught with danger.
He went to make a fortune at Ma
Mia, for he knew in a business way of
the great chance there was to deal in
hemp and rope, in Manila fax and
paper and all the products of that Won
defful plant, the Musa textilis, the
plant which is so closely allied to the
banana, which grows in wild state in
the Philippines. They had never sue
ceeded In getting the pure Manila rope
from any other place, and young
Green understood this and wanted to
take commercial advantage of it. He
also dealt in other commodities of the
Philippines.
It did not take him long to make his
million. A man can make a million
quickly in this world; at the time 1t
seems slow to him, but when he looks
back upon it at the age of 50 years he
feels that he made it very fast. Young
Green, a little older and a little grayer,
came back to Vermont with his pile.
His exact age at this time it was impos-
sihle to tell for family reasons which
will soon be evident. Soon after his
return he discovered that he was in love
with pretty, sensible Ietty Robinson,
the daughter of a Bellows Falls mil
lionaire, and, like any man in love- he
wanted to get married, But here the
trouble came. Her folks were violently
opposed to the match. Miss Robinson
was the only daughter; gay. generous
and the type of the good New England
woman. Edward Green was twice her
age, a man of the world, worn out with
fortune-seeking and ready to settle
down in life. The Robinsons felt that
1t would be an uneven match and thew
could not bear to sacrifice their daugh-
ter, Yes, Edward Green was too old
and too settled to make a young girl
happy,
But true love, after suffering as only
true love can, and surviving as true
love always does. carried the day and
saw the white feather of surrender rails
ed over the Robinson homestead, Hetty
Robinson and Edward Green We're mar
ried and, after honeymoon went to
London to live. Thew had too many
interests to remain long in New Eng
land. or even to one continent,
Two children were born, Edward H.
Robinson Green and Sylvia, and the
Green family was happy one.
But the fever of speculation spread
over the country and the germs attack
ed Edward Green, the father of the
family. Twenty years ago he went
into Wall street, and Wall street did
for him what it has done for many
another man. It sent him forth pennt-
less. l1ured on by the fortune which
seemed ever within his grasp, he spent
money freely and became known for his
generosity to public charities and to
the street poor. Commodore Vanderbilt
once called him "spendthrift Green"
and that name chung to him. 1t hap
pened in this wise:
A visitor said to the commodore,
"Green was in to see me to-day"