The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-02-14
Richest Woman Admits She
Doesn't Oppose Daugh-
ter'S Match.
lac VAN TWISK
GIVES HIS o. K.
Handy Man Sure Marriage to
WilkS Will Come
Off.

NEW YORK. Feb. I4-IIetty Green
daughter Sylvia is to marry Matthew
AstOr Wilks, within "a few weeks. JAG
Van Twisk, superintendent of the "Yel-
low Kids" apartment houses I'm H0bOken.
gave ont this information today
lit viii be a bigger surprise than the
dinner Mrs. Green gave at the Plaza,
he said
Just the nature of the surprise van
Twisk would not describe. Strange as
IT may seem to those not intimately al-
quaiuted with the curious ways OF the
richest woman in the world, the super
intcndent of the apartment houses or
Washington street Hoboken, derisiveI
termed the yellow Kids" is the one
person who enjoys the confidence Of
Mrs. Green. He is her only social crony,
private investigator, protector, and gen
eTal handy man about the Green house
hold. For nine years he has acted In
this capacity. He is an ordinary Ger
man Of average education, married. and
fond OF his pipe and talking with neigh
bors.
Away at Funeral.
AT the home of Mrs. Green, al Bloom
field and Fourteenth streets, HObokeu,
today a young woman who answered
the bell through the speaking tube. said
Mrs. Green was out Of town attending
the burial of a relative. Owing to the
famous scarcity of relatives OF Mrs.
Green. the information was surprising
The same young lady stated that she
was the servant, and that IL she should
tell where Mrs. Green had gone she
would probably lose her position.
AS Mrs Green employs no servants.
doing her work herself, this Information
was also remarkable.
OF wish you would deny the stories
tl .se New York papers that Mrs. Green
OPP -es tle wedding OF her daughter
.-. tea cODll1 s-1- The stories ln tie
Ue.ge-s aie All r.ade out OF whole ClotE.
Every thing is agreeable TO Mrs. Green.
i don't see why tho papers print sueA
when VIII Mrs. Green be back
"Ilat i can not say
Mrs. Green Appears
Shortly afterward Mrs. Green In a
black silk dress came out Of the house,
and, going through Fourteenth street to
Washington street, entered the Tat OF
Jac van Twisk, on the ground floor Of
one or the central apartments Of the
yellow Kids"
When she came out she was asked:
Mrs. Green, is 1t true THAI you op-
Mathew AstOr Wuks2"
Al first bIrs. Green seemed disposed to
deny her Identity IN accordance with
her usual custom, but she changed her
Absurd, the wedding is agreeable TO
me IN every respect She Terminated tne
interview abruptly, then hurried back to
van Twisk was sitting IN his shirt
sleeves smoking his pipe, when seen
Had you been here a few minutes
sooner he said, "you could have seen
Mrs. Green. She is soon TO be alone
and she is thinking some now OF com
ing to board with me and my wife. For
nearly nine years she lived IN fats I'm
this row OF apartments. and all that
time she has made our home her only
visiting place. Now that her daughter
is going away she wants TO come with
us"
Displeased by Publicity.
The stories printed recently, according
10 Van Tw:sk have angered Mrs. Green.
According TO the neighbOrs I'm the vIciH-
fly Of the Green home, they we're ex-t
pectlug the announcement Of an en-
gagcmeut between Sylvia and a young
man from Brooklyn. They had heard
that the young man was In moderate
circumstance and they looked for q
surprise when the engagement was an
uOunCed
Van Twisk says the young man was
simply q friend of SVlvia's brother AT
ter the brother left for Texas the young
man kept up his friendship with the
family. Outside of this young man, and
Mr. Wilks. no other callers have been
seen entering or leaving the Green
home. Iu AN the time the richest woman
in the world has lived in HC AOken.
While living iu the yellow Kids" |
Mrs. Green never left her apartment by
the front door. She always went out
through the rear yard. She did this &c
c0rding 20 Van Twlsk TO avoid Cranks