The Savannah morning news., 1902-12-29
HETTY GREEN CALLED sTINGy.
Mrs. Ives Lent Her Husband Chair
and Couldn't Get IT Back.


and Couldn't Get 1t Back.
From the New York Press.
After a transaction with Mrs. Hetty
Green, the richest woman in the world
Mrs. j. H. Ives of Brooklyn denounces
Mrs. Green as the Fstingiest woman
on the face of this earth" The trans
action involves a chair and a sofa
which Mrs. Ives says she lent to Ed
ward Green, Mrs. Green's husband
who is now dead. Mrs. Ives says since
his death she has been unable to re-
gain possession of her furniture. The
Brooklyn woman may sue Mrs. Green
but isn't certain yet
Mrs. Ives is the stepmother of ma
poleon- of Finance" Ives, whose sensa-
tional career in Wall street was a
seven-day wonder In the late eighties
Ives owed more than $12, 200, 900 when
he became bankrupt, and apparently
his stepmother is in modest circum-
stances now. Mrs. Ives is a sweet
faced, sweet-naannered woman with
snow white hair. At the mere men,
ton of Hetty Green's name last night
her eyes blazed angrily.
Every time ] think of that woman
my blood boils. You see, she has done
so much to make me unhappy. We
were schoolgirls together and for many
years we We're friends. That is long
time ago. But you want to know
lip curled scornfully and then she pro-
ceeded.
Was Sorry for Mr.. Green.
II always liked T.da ard Green and al
ways sympathiZed with him, and even
when Mrs. Green and ] were friends /
knew what that poor Old man suffered
at her hands. Why, ne couldn't call
his soul his own. But I am losing the
thread of my story.
when my furniture was borrowed
from me, .Ar. Gi cen and his wife were
not living together and he had a tiny
room in TIE Cumberland. where the
great Flatiron building stands to-day.
He was ill and rheunati1, and when
called to see him enc lay ] was aghast
at the furnishings Of his room, There
were only bed and IL wasbntand. ard
that poor old fellow ill not have a
chair to sit upopi
But he did not on,,,iL':, lie lived
with her too long to think of complains
ing. Then / offered 5.ie use of 4 sofa
and a rocking chair that had been in
my family for many yeas. We are
from Nirg; ail, and ] priced those lid
mahogany pieces highly. 70 maze Mr..
Green more comfortable sent my old
colored ma my, whom | had brousht
from Virginia, 10 10 little old things
for him ard hec use he really neeItG
some sort of attention.
Took Fortune Along.
when Mrs. Green and ne were re-
united and he went to live in her fiat
in Hoboken my furniture went with
him. l. didn't think about It. again
until he died, last March. Then |
asked that they be returned. / could
never get any satisfaction from Mrs
Green. Finally she agreed 10 lend me
some money on another lot of furni-
tnre. This was a sort OF concession
on her part, and my sofa and chair
were to be included In the lot But
Mrs. Green put off this loan and final
~ she said she could not take a chat
tel mortgage because there would be
a public report OF II IN the newspa-
pers, and she hates that sort OF thing
worse than anything else. 50 these
negotiations We're dropped aud I APP
piled for possession Of my furniture
again.
~ VIII give her credit for having
made one effort to send them 10 me II
WAS last autumn. and she employed an
sKpfessFnan ~ take them from her Of
nee IA the Chemical National Bank 10
my place here ~ Brooklyn. After
wr9nRiinK with the eKpresaman she
made contract ~ move she furniture
Tor 81 1897 the dag was hot. and bel
returned Wifh the load about ter mlus
utes after De started ana demanded
"a fenff more fhls che refused ~
alFe an1 ~ my belongings nefa ngi
asussfea ~ patleuae Nas about