The age-herald., 1901-10-13
Hettie Greene from
 Belle to Financeer ;.

East India trade. Tn that business were Grinnell, Mintorn & O., Rowland 6 As ptnwaIl and Forbes & Go. Mir. Green was millionaire merchant, his ships and his cargoes were the talk of the new and hourishing Atlantic port Of New York. Mrs. Green was a pretty, clever young society woman, with few thoughts beyond being a social leader. She was Mise Harriet A Robinson. the daugh- ter of New England quaker at New Bedford. Mass, which at that time was celebrated for it's merchant marine Her mother was Miss Rowland, whose fa- ther was also a great merchant and of the same family as the New York How lands.
 Mir. Greeri's millions, reinforced by his wife's millions, made then conepicuously rich. When in the zenith of social prom thence and mercantile importance the sun of their prosperity became clouded. Loss followed loss the disasters of the sea, the misfortunes of markets, the ev- olution in commercial methods began the work of destruction which was completed by the quicksands of Wall street pre- ciptated by the agitations incident to the conditions preceding the war. Mir. Green discovered himself ruined man.
 So far the fate of the Greens was easily and frequently parelleled but after that
 
 ashes arose the Phoenix. Mr. Green was crushed but Mrs. Green arose triumph ant. Out of the Mrs. Green of fashiona- ble New York arose Hetty Green the great female financier.
 They had two children Miss Sylva and a son Henry. Mir. Green and his son have been for years members of the Union Club. Mrs. Green made them a meagre allowance and paid their dues Anyone seeing the elder Green would wonder how 1t was he could belong to a fashionable club. He looked so poor with his trousers patched in the seat and frayed at the heels. What protected him was the ever-present golden haze of his wife's name Hetty. She had inherited over five millions from her father and this she had increased to fifty millions There was not, and is not great financial institution in the city to which she is not a welcome visitor and an inn portant customer. At the Chemical Bank she Is a power and at Pierpont Morgan's office she Is escorted by the great Nor gan in person to the door.
 A little shabby, hard-faced woman she is. Her whole life has passed Into ac- quiring wealth. She and her daughter live together. Apparently they have no home and no belongings. They fit from post to post from one cheap lodging to another seeking some place that is cheaper. Hetty Greens fortune Is esti- mated to exceed sS0, 900, and every dol lar safely invested. With an income of 5, ,000,000 year she seeks to live on less than $10 week.
 And yet Mrs. Green is not a miser Since the time she determined to. build up fortune she concentrated every thought, every faculty upon this sub ject She has no thoughts, no tastes be- yond those of acquisition. One day she decided her son sAould be rich and proRl- inent. She sent him to Texas, made him president of railroad forced him in politics, and desires him to become governor. Is this not an extraordinary development of a young society woman; but is it more extraordinary than the career of Mrs. James Brown Potter? One sought the road to wealth, the other the road to,a temple of art-and both &C., cepted hardships.
 The coming horse show promises to be even more brilliant from a social stand point than ever before. The boxes will all be taken at the customary ridicu- lous prices. One of the visitors, whose arrival will make an incident of this au- tumnal gathering of the fashionable tribes will be Miss Jennie Mason Gibbs of South Carolina Mrs John Jacob As tor, whose manners were marked with great distinction, and who unquestiona- boso-i-wSB, Od1y-ou4 ST H NEW MBFW bly, was in every sense of the word grand dame, was Miss Globes of South Carolina I refer to the mother of Will liam Waldorf Astor. Miss Jennie's fa- ther is a first cousin to the late Mrs. As tor. She is herself beautiful brunette. l She was here last winter and was greatly admired
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