The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-17
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When Edward Green Lost his mana,
the Green family might have bee,
straitened In circumstances had If mn
peen Tor the wife. Mrs. Green, who hat
some money left her from her fathel
which she had wisely invested. sud
denly discovered that the money hat
peen turning itself over to very goot
pront. she also found that by assisting
| IL IN Us revolutions she could add 6
great deal to the bulk, and so she and
the money together could keep rolling
the sum into vast fortune, She turn
60 her attention to Wall street. But
instead or Specializing, she studied up
sood investments and was anxious to
loan little here and there. The agents
! OF mlilionaires would quietly notify her
when their patrons were out of money
ana she would just as quietly loan them
soo,000 or SO with a good rate Of inter-
| est
She did nothing i1legitimately. taxed
nobody unduly and, though she drove
| hard bargains. she kept her agreements
and did all she promised to do and a
| little more.
Meanwhile Edward Green, overcome
by the lack of fortune, desired quiet
He needed constant care and the rest
of a horne. This his wife, with her
money interests. found 1t impossible to
give him, and when he suggested that
he would be very comfortable at a no
tel in New York where he had once
lived, she readily agreed, and with her
own hands fitted up very nice apart
ments for him. His rooms were near
the Union club, of which he was
member, and from that day to this he
mas 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, MIR.
Green is too old to live in the hurly-
burly of business life and so we have
fixed him up at the club. At 70 a man
cannot bear as much as he could at 49,"
So Edward Green at 70 gave the reins
of his fortune into the hands Of his en-
ergetic wife and settled down quietly
to become 'Hetty GREEN'S husband
Nor was Mrs. Green less capable In
disposing 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 Pa
cific coast. to Europe and to Mexico,
upon business missions. The daugh-
ter Sylvia, was put into the hands of
an elderly society woman of New
York. who introduced her to old Knick-
erbocker society at a tea, and then al
lowed her to spend her time in the
quiet way which best pleased 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
money too fast. But it is very doubt
full If she ever said such a thing. Ii
was not a case of incompatiblity. but
only one of business. For the richest
woman in the world found herself
with so many irons in the fire that she
positively could not darn socks nor at
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was the whole secret of it,
AS for herself. Mrs. Green lives quiz
city at one of several places. Part Of
the time she lives in a hotel in Brook
lyn very near the bridge, which she
is rumored to own. Here she occupies
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 occupies
very comfortable room in the middle
of the town and generally has the soc!-
ETY. of her daughter, who is very fond
of her mother. Mrs. Green and Syl-
via have been photogra phed' together
very often and the daughter in speak
Of her mother is enthusiastic in her
praise of her disposition and business
qualities.
When Hetty Green was a young girl
she was great belle and, as she says
INV, ohe "oie Silh SloChlISS dItt
went to balls" She was the intimate
friend of Miss Catherine Wolfe, who
enriched New York with a marvellous
art collection. Forty years ago these
two young women. Miss Robinson and
Miss Wolfe, were the great catches of
society-the great chance for titled no.
noblemen-for they each represent mil
lions, just as Miss Fair and Miss Goe-
let do to-day.
Edward H. Green is i'll now! Report
has it 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 So years old and
that he cannot possibly live long.
Public tongue is always mischievoLs
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 a 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 to-day
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 40
years ago Edward Green did that same
thing and nothing was thought of it,
ippines he made s40,000.00o by marrying
the right kind Of girl, and that is a
pretty good record for one man.