The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-20
SHE SENT FOR HER SON.
VIII Manage Her Millions While
Mrs. Green Takes a Vacation.

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From the New York Journal
Last night there was noticed among the
men who thronged the corridors of the
Waldorf-Astoria figure that lowered
above all the rest. 1t was that of young
man, six feet four inches, and weighing
something like go pounds.
The man was Edward H. r. Green.
president of an important Texas Repuhli-
can executive committee. president Of the
famous Tarpon club which has almost
$ many millionaire members as the Union
League club, and a director in dozen
or more Texas banks.
He is also the only son of Mrs. Hetty
Green the richest woman in the world
which is a very important matter, just
at this time
Age and hard work are beginning to tell
on Mr. Green's rich mother and she will
do something that is not usual for her
that is, take a rest, and during her vaca-
ton her Texas son will conduct the bust
ness which has rarely been intrusted TO
any one else.
She is now giving him the finishing
touches of a business education commenc-
ed ten years ago 50 that he vii. be thor
oughly equipped TO handle the vast inter-
ests which she will soon confde to him,
an estate which al a fair valuation APP
proxmates the respectable figure Of $780,
00000 and which is now increasing at
the rate of several millions a year.
Mrs. Green had in Texas a couple OF
streaks of rust on a rtght-of-Way" that
ran from Garnett to Roberts a distance
of some sixty-fve miles. The road was a
| scrap of the old Houston and Texas Cen
trail System. which was shed after the re-
ownership MS worthless, as it went from
| nowhere to nowhere. Her son took charge
of this in 1892
To-day that road Is twice as long as 1t
was when he took hold, and it is said by
those who are familiar with the facts that
it is not only the finest piece of road in
Texas, but il is one Of the best equipped
in the United States. It's termini are in
Ennis and Paris, two Of the most prosper
Gus towns of the state, and its equipment
equals the best to be seen on the Pennsyi-
| vania or New York Central.
Young Green has opened up rich terrific
| ry founded thriving towns. equipped them
with banks, electric lights, water works,
| etc. The people who live along his line
| think he is the biggest man il the country
| He has never had strike, he knows all
| of his employees personally and he sees to
| il that none Of them suffer II misfortune
| happens to come along.
In 1886 Green became interested in noii-
ties. At the state convention he was chcs-
| en- chairman of the executive committee
and commenced to organize the state just
| as if Texas hadn't always piled up six
figure Democratic majority. His amol-
| ton was to carry Texas Republican.
Wen. he didn't do it. He accomplished
wonders however, Up 10 that year tbs
banner Republican vote of the state wa
that cast for Blaine in 1884, $4,000. In ls9-
this had dropped TO less than $1,000. By
| organizing every county in the state ano
lifting the standard of Republican polite
out Of the mire he managed TO get out toi
| Mckinley nearly 600 votes, an increase
of over 100 per cent within four years, ant
the largest vote Mckinney got IN any
southern state excepting the border
states of Kentucky and Missouri.
Green was reelected chairman two year,
ago. and IS now slated for the ua1iona
committee from Texas. His party friends
have been anxious for him to stand 10
the governorship, but he has refrainet
from going into politics so deep, owing L
the opposition of his mother.