The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-11-25
'HETTY LOANS A
! ROUND \ MILLION
Richest Woman ii the World
Celebrates list birthday
MADE A GOOD BARGAIN
ROSE BEFORE DAWN OF BIRTH
ROSE BEFORE DAWN OF BIRTH.
DAY, GOT HER OWN BREAK
FAST, THEN ORDERED
BANKERS AROUND.

New York, Nov. Economical in
most of the affairs of life, Mrs. Hetty
Robinson Green, yriches1 woman in
fne world, has at lasI become spend
thrift.
She yesterday threw away year.
The world thought she was seventy
She is n1t. She is seventy one. She
laughed about il happily--like a girl. II
was the one joke Of her natal day
yesterday.
No friends thronged the mansion in
Hoboken, where Mrs, Green lives,
None came TO press her hand and say
kind things 10 her--none save gro.
GERS boy and a Hungarian who
whistled up the tube to her dingy
fiat and asked her fer 81 900 TO com,
plete an education thar was indeed
lnadequate-even TO the point of NOT
knowing what manner of woman the
richest woman was.
Her Lonely Little Flat.
Alone but for a dog, she arose. NOT
as Mrs. Green, but as Mrs. Morton. in
The $2G month fiat at No. 1908 Wash
ington street. The Hobolien elite call
il The Barracks" 1t was nor yet
light. Even the gray dawn that comes
from across the river where Mrs
Green golden stream flows was astir,
Walking a block Mrs Morton" went
to Burns grocery store, at Eleventh
street and Washington. She ordered
some ham and green tea and sugar.
Then she started home.
Returnng--ahe perhaps recollected
that it was her birthday-sile order
ed some crackers and fruit biscuits,
John Van Twisd, the janiter of YThe
Barricks,' was putting out the ashes
and chasing stray Hebuilendogs out Of
the cellars. Mrs. Green had bEeahfasr,
She was her own guest. -.Qi rde e.
Al O'clock the famous black BON
net and the old cape were adjusted anc
Mrs. Morton" locked her lonely apart
mont and started for the Barclay
street ferry, where. as Mrs. Green, the
richest woman in The world she was
TO direct the flow of millions from her
office in the Chemical National Bank
Bankers Paid Court to Her.
Here her secretary met her. Here
The cashier and his assistant, their
secretaries, the vice presidents, telIers,
slerks. office boys and private deteol
riyes waited upon hero Al noon spret-
~ nearly every one else Went TO lunch.
IL is not on record that Mrs Green
ate any lunch. She attended two di-
Ieetors' meetings in the afternoon and
At 6 o'clacll, alone Mrs. Green started
home.
Swallowed up in The flow of toilers
along Broadway. the richest woman"
was lost in the old lady in black.
Mrs. Green Went to bed at o'clock
BY candle light, which she uses TO save
gas. She had reached her home by
;; ing through back alleys and enter
ng the hat house through the eel
ar
Mrs. Green came to her present adj
lress two weeks ago She has been
! tenant in the same house before as
Mrs. George Dewey and as Mrs Sara
han
Vigorous Despite Her Age
As she went over the ferry. on her
way home. Mrs. Green's head was benz !
ar forward. but her form was erect.
Her step was firm, her eyes, not un
indy. shone through the folds of
Hack veil with a keenness that belied
he years that had sped while this
old woman was rolling
~ her Millions with The precision OF
machinery.
Mrs Green, financier. was left he |
ind AT the bank.
II was Mrs C. Morton who landed |
n Hoboken. unseen, unwelcomed. She |
oarded a Washington street car a;
he ferry. entrances with many better
ressed and more prosperous looking
'orl'ing women. She alighted near
er home-the twenty-sixth fiat in
The Barracks"-an then she was
wallowed up behind its gray walls.