The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24
By Simply Dying, Skye
Terrier Involves
$l00, 900, 600.
ITS OW NER WAS
HETTY GREEN
When Pet Died Famous Finan-
cier was So Upset as to Bring
on Collapse and Seriously
Damage Her Vast Inter
ests - Her Son Tells
Story.
ESPECIAL to The Times-pispatch.l

lSpcCLdl 10 Lie
New York, July 23.-The real reason
for the mysterious physical breakdown
of Mrs. Hetty Green. the richest wo-
man In the world. four months ago.
didn't become known outside of her
intimate friends until to-day. when
her son, Colonel Edward H. R. Green,
arrived in town and told about it.
Colonel Green has come here to take
entire charge of his mothers vast in
terests, which, 1t is stated, have been
in need OF personal attention since her
breakdown. One OF the first things he
did was to explode the rumor that his
mothers illness was due to financial
troubles and to give the real reason
which is that little skye terrier dog
to which she was greatly attached died
suddenly.
THE whole trouble with my mother
said Colonel Green, was the death of
this dog. She got 1t as present from
friend about a year and a half ago.
and became very much devoted to it..
AS you know. she has always led a
very solitary life, taking very little
time for pleasure. and so absorbing
herself In business that she had scant
time for association with other people.
Well, she didn't know whether she
would like this dog at first or not.
But the little fellow ID q great lik-
ing to her, and showed 1t SO plainly
that mother began to get interested IN
him. This interest gradually developed
into a genuine affection for the dog.
and for year they were inseparable.
Everywhere mother went she took
the dog, which she had named Dewey.
II anybody took her picture, the dog
had to be taken with her. AT home
of nights she played with the dog
until she was tired. and he became so
much part of her life that it was q
great shock to her to lose him / do
not know how he died. but got word
OF 1t down in Texas and also that
mother was badly knocked out by the
loss of her little companion"
First Time in History.
The story OF the dog did not leak out
until to-day. It is the first time In
history that mere dog has created
such stir in the financial world. BY
simply dying, this little skye terrier
has changed the management of af-
fairs involving about s100,00o,o0O and
taken from the Green interests in
Texas the guiding hand of portly, good
natured Ed Green.
<hituou6i S-O1Ouel STeen is gong 10
be a resident of New York, he admit
ted to-day that 1t was uncertain how
much OF his time he would spend here.
His mother has about $200O0,00o Of
interests in Chicago, and he said he
would have to be in the West part of
the time.
1t was suggested to Colonel Green
that in View of his policy In Texas
of encouraging his employees to marry
as soon as they are able tot was
about time he considered matrimony
himself
Well" said the colonel, II ina CINE
matrimony is good thing, but l have
not had time myself to think much of
it. We want all OF our people in Texas
married and have always urged them
to 1t. but some of us fellows at the
head have been too busy to get mar
ried ourselves. The right woman has
got to meet you all of sudden, they
tell me. When You meet the right
one. they say, you'll know It quick
enough. I simply haven't hit the right
one yet I've seen several that /
thought might do, but before I could
get busy and get after them, some
one else has jumped in and grabbed
them. Just the same, I believe In
marriage, and | suppose I'll get mar
r1ed some day."
On the subject Of conditions around
the country Colonel Green was quite
Optimisticl