The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12
From the New York World.

MRS. HE From the New York World.
 With the death of Russell Sage there Is but one person left in all the country who can dip her hands in her money bags and say to Wall street: How much do you want and how much will you pay?"
 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 repeat edly gone to Wall street with her money when the financial wolves were ravening, and cent per cent was in the clouds, and exacted her merciess tribute.
 She is the one of all others who will replace the veteran Sage in the Wall street world of finance. She was his equal in ready wealth She was his equal in shrewdness. She was his peer in cool, immovable calculation. and in her capabil- ity of dealing with heartless and soulless corporations In a corresponding manner.
 Wall street knows this, and will well come this seventy-year woman with her $60OOO. 900 as It's financial money lend CT in place of the gray old man who. dying, left not dollar of his vast wealth to alleviate the worlds misery and who carried not dollar of it past the guard fans of the pearly gates.
 ''The King is dead; long live the Queenr' Long live the money lender of Wall street!' At last we know where to turn to get money now that Uncle Runssell Is deadl' said one of the Wall street manipulators yesterday. "Hetty Green can be no harder in driving a bargain than Uncle Russell was. They are both of feather
 And verify this is true. At times dur Ing her life Hetty Green has averred that the only sensible man In the world was Russell Sage. Her life has been a coun- terpart of his. She wears cheap skirts, where he wore cheap trusers; she wears cheap cloaks, where he wore cheap coats; she lunches on a doughnut. where he lunched on a red apple. All this, nina you. with an income of $50O0 a, day Truly the money bug makes strange havoc with its victims.
 But Wall street Is glad that Aunt Hetty is going to lend them a helping hand. They care not where the money comes from so they get it in goodly quantities. Where they pay Aunt Hetty 50 per cent for her millions, they Will squeeze the public out of 100 per cent by means of the power of her money.
 And withal Mrs Green is a remarkable woman. as well as one of the very wealth. est in the world She has reduced econ omy to fine art.
 She enacts Walpurgis tricks of witch like transformation, and generally mas two or three lawsuits on hand, in which she has been accused by some one who claims to have been worsted in bar gain. Chicago, Boston, Brooklyn ana many other cities have felt her strong hand.
 She has an ingenious attitude toward taxes and Is seldom concerned. She mas at different times, it Is said gone under inc names of Lewis, Dewey and Nash to hide her identity.
 The great Chemical Bank, which she practically owns, pays 150 per cent year, and It's stock is quoted at 4SoO' m us coffers are many millions of ready money as much, perhaps, as Sage ever hanuleo at one time-which at a moments notice and upon any occasion she can throw into Wall street for good or evil.
 But Hetty Green Is not a gambler III the speculative sense of the Wall street term. She deals in sure things. Buys mines which are on a paying basis. cotton mills, real estate and mortgages. She even buys diamonds when they are cheap, and waits patiently for the price to go up.
 The new ney-lender who will replace Russell Sage in the eyes of Wall sueel is strong-featured woman with white hair and keen, penetrating eyes. She IS tbe daughter of New Bedford whaier, wbose father at his death left her a for tune of several million dollars to begin life on.
 Shortly after her father died one of her aunts also passed away leaving her sev- eral more millions. Thus Hetty Green had a substatial fortune to begin her career on. which her prototype, Russell Sage never possessed
 She was not obliged to save the first +bousand, and thus acquire habits of thrift end nenuriousness Her instincts were in- horn. and with the S10.000.000 at her com mand she proceeded to make SoO,OOo,OOO r,ore to which sum she IS addlng two or three millions yearly.
 rhrouphout her long and varied career her habits have not materially chanseu- They have been saving not materially r,ay have been saving in the extreme .,a, without gilt-edged collateral that VIII -,,arantea its safe return with interest. It , no. Lnovn that she has ever been
 orstaa on any single business transac- ton. .ouo...
 Al the same time the veneral seeress has several times come to the aio or the city. and loaned money at reduced rates when Wall street was dlsposeu 'o put oi' the screws too heavily
 When the city's bond balances nave been made out in the past and when IL has been discovered that the city was in dire need of immediate funds, Mrs. Green has broken the market, and inter est rates tumbled. because she refused to press the city when the Wall street banks were demanding high rates.
 Last March she loaned sf.500.000 to the city at rates under those established by the big bankers of Wall street. and it is said that had more money been needed she would have opened up her coffers at the Chemical bank and loaned the city more.
 h short. the city can always rely upon