Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1906-08-16
Remarkable Career Of Worlds
Foremost Woman Financier.
stories Concerning Woman whose
d Legal Residence Is Bellows Falls
. and who AXE Russell snge's
Place RS Chief wall street
Money Lender.
HETTY GREEN'S CAREER.

Start of fortune-Large inheritance
from her father, Edward Mott Robinson,
who died 1865.
Observation-Disclosures II. Green died March
10, 1902
Legal observation-disclosures Falls, VT.
Onice-No. 10 Broadway, New York
city.
Financial position-Richest woman in
America with, the possible exception of
Mrs. Russell Sage, and foremost woman
financier of the world.
Estimated fortune-S6o, co., 900.
Daily income-s5.000
Chief property-The Chemical National
bank. stock quoted at $4,000 a share.
Household eXpenses-sO n month.
Cn~ildreu-EdWatd Rowland Robinson
Green, president OF the Texas Midland
railroad, and sylvia Green, unmarried.
With the death of Russell Sage there
IS but one person left in all the country
who can dip her hands in ner money-bags
and say to Wall street: How much do
YOU want and how much will you pay?'
says the New York World.
That person is Hetty Green, the richest
woman in America. with the possible ex-
ception Of Mrs. Russell Sage herself.
Even with Russell Sage living. she has
repeatedly gone to Wall street with her
money when the financial wolves We're
raving, and cent. percent. was In the
clouds, and exacted her mcrciless tri-
butte.
She is the one of all others who will re-
place the veteran Sage in tho Wall Street
world of finance. She was his equal in
ready wealth. She was his equal in
shrewdness. She was his peer in cool.
3nmovable calculation, and in her capa-
hility of dealing with heartless and soul
less corporations in a corresponding man
ner.
Wall street knows this and will well
come this seventy-year-old woman with
her $50, 600. 900 as its official money-lender
in place of the gray old man who, dying,
left not a dollar Of his vast wealth to
alleviate the worlds misery and who
carried not "A dollar Of 1t past the guard
fans of the pearly gates.
The King is dead; long live the
Queen Long live the money-lender of
Wall Street, AT least we know where
To turn to get money now that Uncle
Russell is dead" said one of the Wall
street manipulators yesterday. "TIetty
Green can be no harder in driving a bar
gain than Uncle Russell was. They are
both of a feather"
And verify this Is true. AT times during
her life Hetty Green has aVerred that the
,aII SAGE. Har life has heen , counter.
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Uses OTHER NAMES
She has an ingenious attitude TOWARD
taxes and is seldom cornered. She ha,
at different times, it is said, gone unde
the names of Lewis, Dewey and Nash L
hide her identity.
The great Chemical bank. which sh
practically owns, pays $50 per cent.
year, and its stock is quoted at 300. Il
ats Golfers are many millions of read,
money-as much, perhaps, as Sage eve
handled at one time-which at a moment
notice and upon any occasion she ca
throw into Wall Street for good or evil
But Hetty Green is not a gambler in IN
speculative sense OF the Wall Stree
term. She deals in sure things. She bay
mines which are on a paying basis, cot
ton mills, real estate and mortgages. Sh
even buys diamonds when they are cheaI
and waits patiently for the price to &
up.
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