Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-03-27
HETTY'S ECCENTRICITIES
Efforts of the Richest Woman in
America to Dodge Taxes.
Cohasset to Be Her New Home-Never
Would Have an Ofice-has No Faith
in Her Husband-Sharp Bar
gains in Clothes.

It IL little surprise TO the tax assessors
and several other persons in New noIN
that Hetty Green, the richest woman III
the United States. is going to snake the
dust of the richest city in the In'ten
States from her feet and live for SIX
months of the year in little Massn,hi-
sctts coast village where the tax rate Is
cu1v $500 per thousand. says the CORE
spondent of the Philadelphia Press She
has been threatening to move away from
New York ever since BROOKLYN ther homc'
IVES taken into the mulicipal union.
1t was scarcely to bc expected That Het-
e., Green would follow in the wake of other
New York lti-milliouaircs and 20 TO
NCwnort If her daughter sylvia. had
her way this would doubIlessly be the next
move of the Greens for Sylvia is n prepos-
scssng woman about - years old ana Us
CREDITED with social ambitions
Cohasset has large summer colony, but
prncipalv Boston folks quite out of the
New York set. Thomas ". Lawson. the
copper correrer and owner of the Slph"
pink has a country scat Il few miles from
the Thompson estate in North Cohlsset,
which Mrs. Green is alleged to have pur-
chased with tho idea of giving up her per-
rIanont residence in New York.
A BANK HER OFFICE.
Cohasset is about 81 niles cast Of l}os-
ton. on the old Colony railroad. II YOU
catch the right trains 1t Is less than seven
hours journey from New York. TIL" per
manont population of Cohasset is -iN. to
he exact, and it has five churches and 4
bank.
Tho latter fact is significant, particular
~ to Hetty Green, because she invariably
makes her office in the hank where she has
Ceposit. For many years she has trans
acted whatever business she found neccs
sary in private room in the Chcmtca
bank this city, which has been the reposi
tory for most Of her funds and in which
Yho Is a large stakeholder. In a little room
over the main entrance TO the bank she
aised to stand for an hour or two many
days. Watching the passing throns, witt
tho famous little black bag beneath hei
elbow on the window sill. No one outside
of Mrs. Green's family ever got a slimps'
Of the interior of that little black bag. Il
was her "omn'Cus gathorum," as she once
expressed it, Many and many a forum,
has iL carried back and forth over the old
time fulton Ferry and later over thu
Brooklyn bridge.
Really Mrs. Green never required an Of
fec. She said that it would only he n Nee
ca for b, ggars and she did not wan Il
lave two or three rnen outside her door t.
keep them away from hcr like that poo
MI Russell Sage" The few men and wo
mer of business she wanted to see sh
went to SOC.
When Hettv Green went to live in Brook
lyn she paid 81 week for one room in
Picirepont street boa, ding house. 1t va
a rear hall room on the sixth ;1oor. Sh
ate her breakfasts in her room. her din
rers In New York ard her suppors AT lit
tie restaurant in Fulton street. Brooklyn
net far from the ferry. At that timt he
wealth was estimated at 5000 on.
For years and years she lived the life o
a rover because it gave Ter chance 70 re
fuse to pay taxes on her personal prop
erty.