The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-09
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

BELLOWS FALLS. VI, Oct. S.-Hetty
Green. one OF Americas richest women.
five hours the other afternoon on the
riciiety steps OF her former home here
while ,workinsmen removed several old.
crumbling stone posts from the wall In
front OF the house.
II am so tired ] wish l could so
and lie down. but I couldn't rest II
hauled into the woodshed and ] had
turned the key on them" she said.
Mrs. Green is not as retlcent AZ most
women arc about telling their age, for
she freely divulged that secret sacred
TO every woman's heart
~ am 79 years OF age and I get tired
growing to look so old that I'm ashamed
10 have my picture in the papers. To
| I,TnsgS wssS handsome woman once" she con-
In the Long Ago.
Twenty thousand people came to lool;
q me when l used TO 20 TO Saratoga.
President Van Buren, OF the United
Mrs. Green ratified off many names
used 10 entertain me. But I have been
too busy spanking people and fighting
Of late years 10 think much about
clothes.
Now. there is my daughter, who mar
rled Matthew Astor Wilkes short time
dressed up and her hair frlzzled. and does
lots of entertaining. When she came 10
sec me a while ago in New York City
she was so tired that she went TO bed and
stayed there two days"
Don't you miss your daughter very
much since she married?' Mrs, Green was
asked.
''Yes. do. Nobody knows how much.
and ] wart her and Wilkes TO come here
and 1--we in this house. But Wilkes don't
like this place"
blow does II feel 10 be so rich7" Mrs.
Green was asked.
Il do not feel any different from any
one else. I've always worked hard and
there Is living for every one II they
will work for il. Ny father used TO say
that il you set me on a log in the ba ok
yard would find something TO do. I'm
so active,
Prayer and Litigation.
You see that little white cloud up
there? That cloud puts me IN mind Of
a stained glass window j saw In Trinity
church In New York city once when |
went In TO service. ] was being sued for
several thousand dollars and IL looked
as If | would lose my case | prayed
10 God that II it was right for me TO
lose my case TO make mo reconciled, but
didn't think II was right that l should
lose. told God that | didn't have any
one in this world 10 help me and that
needed his help. We'll. there were three
supreme court judges connected with tho
case. One OF the judges lied for three
days. and The third day they caught him
in lie and l won my case.
II am religious woman. My father
not 10 speak when | was angry. Some
times / would not speak for an hour, and
sometimes | would not speak for whole
day. as ! could not get over my angry
mood.
"T believe that ones soul lives after
death You know when Elijah asccnded
into heaven lie did not take his clothes
with him, and I can't take my clothes
with me. and that's why ] don't have
fine ones.
az arm going back to New York. she
continued. ITO meet my son. Ned. n
the Waldorf Astoria. Ned Is n smart
bank in New York
DO you like New York Ci,y:" Mrs
Green was asked.
Likes Strenuous Life.
"Yes, | like New York. like the
hustle and noise of the city and 1T does
not Tire me ne, Ag1n; think nbo 1t would
country where | could keep cow and
n few hens and a horse for I am very
fond of horses. but would wnnt TO ger
is ticd with convicts; YOU can buy any
mans vote down there
y have lived in IIoboken n j.. ir !
the Same apartment house for five years
and | never had a night with the janItor,
think that is pretty GOOD recommen-
dation for peaceful lady"
Mrs. Green laughed heartily, for she
has a good sense OF humor.
Did YOU live at the t'lazn hotel at
one tlme?"
"oh. that was where | gave the din
nor 10 Sylvia and we ate off OF golden
do you like hotel life?"
"Wcli, T hate 10 see those kzy women
sitting around the hotels, with their soft
hands and with pink satin slippers which
they can't put the ground. j believe
In On active life. ] spend most of my
time in the park bank. where employ
240 people I own only forty houses, I
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