El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-22
Life Sketch of the Famous Son
OF Hetty Green, who Built one
of the Great Raj ways of Texas.
and by D0gged. Persistent Ef-
fort Made a Winner of Himself.

E. II. r. Green. owner. president and
general manager of the Texas Mid
land railroad. was in Ell Paso for a few
minutes Wednesday night. He came
with a party in his private car from an
extensive trip through h republic of
Mexico and left as o as the car
could be transferred to the Santa Fe en-
route for Chicago. In the party were
z. H. r. Green. of Terrell; John Ring
ling. Chicago; Henry Hamilton, Dallas;
Mr.. and Mrs. Burton. Chicago: DR..
Quill. Terrell; and Mis- sCruz. of Vera
Cruz.
Though last in the order named. Miss
Cruz was by far the most important
member of Mr.. Green's social family.
She is a native of South America but
had made her home in Vera Cruz for
some time.
She was an orphan with no kith or
kin within many thousand miles when
E. II. r. Green discovered her and be-
ing greatly attracted by her winsome
ways, adopted her. She was at once
as one of the family. Strictly speaking
she cannot be regarded as beautiful in
face or form according to the accepted
lines of beauty, her face being some
what smudgy, her eyes too small and
set too far apart, her nose of a non
descript character and her mouth being
perpetually wreathed in expansive
grins.
Her up-bringing also has not made
her n great stickler for the convention
alities. and it is difficult to get her to
wear anything but a bright colored rib
bon cut decollete. Nevertheless her
movements are SO agile. graceful and
full Of interest and there is such a de-
lightful uncertainty about what she
will do next that she secures the atten-
ton of the party throughout the en-
tire day.
She loves to have her back scratched
and will lie c~ontentedly for hours or as
Ions as some one will do the scratching.
She spends a good deal of her time
playing with a Chihuahua dog. and the
tender. gentle with which she
handles the little canine is truly re-
markable for a monkey-for it should
have been mentioned that Miss Cruz
is a monkey of the most ~aristocratic
species.
When the reporter for The Herald
called at the a he found Mr.. Green
busiIy engaged in alternately teasing
Miss Cruz and giving her dainty IN
fections. So wrapped up in his femi-
nine friend was Mr.. Green he could
scarcely answer h questions propoun-
ded to him by the reporter. Eventual
ly. however, he ~vouchsafed the infor-
nation that he had been into Mexico
on a pleasure trip exclusively. When
asked If there were any new develop
ments in connection with his road, the
Texas Midland. he replied in the neg
alive n resumed his attention to
Miss Cruz. The reporter next ventured
to enquire the present prospective stat
us of republican politics in Texas, to
which Mr.. Green replied that he was
out of politics for the present. but that
as far as he knew. everything was Sc
reEe in the republican camp. And the
reporter left Mr.. Green and Miss Cruz
engaged in the most animated discuss
of how to run a railroad.
Mr.. Green is a man who stands a full
six feet and then some inches to spare.
He has a rather heavy face. good ma
tured. but with plenty of determination
and purpose in it. AS the son of Hetty
Green. the h woman in America,
theer are many stories told about him,
but there are more told bou him a
on his own personality. Ned" as
his mother calls him. did not have an
easy time from his youth up simply be-
cause he was the son of his mother.
When at school it is said hat he did
have as much pocket money as the
son of an ordinary tradesman receives
Ulle fedTHlnS the lnCTlCdcieS OF the
three RS" When he was old enough
to go to work his mother sought to in
spire him to great things but he tool
everything so easily. indifferently and
good naturedly that her yearnings re-
ceived several severe shocks. She set
him to work oun the house doing a
little carpentering here and a little
painting there and paid him according
iv, but each task and each stipend
was received with the same bland good
nature. Finally Mrs. Green said to
him one day in an outburst of i'm |
patience:
Ned. I've given you every mental
piece of work l could think of to see if
il wouldn't prick up a little spirit OF
humiliation in you and inspire o to
10 something worthy of a man as big |
as you are. Apparently it has had no
effort and / am going to
urn you loose to shift for yourself.
Now I've got a piece of railroad down
Texas that l took on a mortgage. Its
twenty-five miles long and it is