The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-31
HETTY GREEN'S BIG
SON IN TEXAS
E. H. R. Green Popular in the
Broad Western State
WHICH EE CALLS HOME
Something OF This Versatile Young
Man-Promoter and Bncker of
Ball Team-In a Number
OF Enterprises

From the New YORK Press.
Texas Is going to lose one of It's most
prominent citizens. Edward Rowland
Robinson Green. Hetty Green's son. Ed
die" Green. as they call him down In
Texas, has been a resident of that state
for the last II years. Texas never has
believed that he would stay there. The
Texans who know Eddie Green and his
activities best think he has outgrown
even the broad limits of the biggest state
In the union. They feel he has served his
novitiate among them and now his future
work will be in making name for him.
self In New York
t0ut Hetty Green's son Is not leaving
Texas for any such reason as that. II Is
commonly said that his taking up MS
permanent residence here Is because his
mother realizes she Is growing old and
must transfer to other shoulders the bur-
dens of her great wealth. 1t is probable
however. that Hetty Green feels she needs
a protector in the person of her big son
rather than a financial understudy.
Everybody knows Mrs. Green Is one of
the wealthiest women in the world. Every
day she receives multitude of begging
letters. Some of these are appeals for
financial aid and nothing more. Others
are more Of command for help and are
backed by black hands and dire threats
II the writer's wishes are not complied
with. Mrs. Green does not have n secre-
tary to read her mail and to destroy such
letters as she would not care to see. She
reads everything herself, and she has
been getting % many OF these threaten
ing letters lately that it has gotten on
her nerves. She is almost at her wits
end to know what to do.
1t Is because of these threats. COM
Ing day after day from all sides and
from all sorts Of impecunious and des-
perate people that she has fitted about
from place to place. This is one of the
principal reasons. 1t Is said, why she left
here little apartment In Hoboken to take
up her residence in the Plaza hotel. She
hoped that there surrounded by a multi
tude Of servants, she would be safe from
the threats. But instead Of the number
decreasing they grew greater. At last in
despair, she left the big hotel and Since
then has moved from one inconspicuous
lodging place to another. Much of her
time has been spent In her home at Bel
lows Falls. VT Now. her friends say, she
has concluded that the best place for her
by her side here in New York.
Started as Railroad Clerk
Mrs. Hetty Rowland Robinson Green
will be rs years old next November. Her
son was born in 1868 and was gradu-
ated at Fordham college when he was 90
He studied law and was admitted to the
bar after that, but did not practice. He
worked for while as clerk In the office
of the Connecticut River railroad and In
1893 went to Texas as the president of
the Texas Midland railroad, which runs
from Paris to Ennis. 1t Ia only 125 miles
long, but is one of the best-equipped
lines in Texas 1t runs through very
rich agricultural country and crosses half
dozen important railroads It always
has gotten its share of the freight traf-
fic and a little more than It's share
of the passenger business, for Eddie"
Green has made 1t the model road of
Texas. If not of the United States
1t is not as railroad president or
as a captain of industry that Eddie"
Green will be most missed by the peo-
pie of Texas. He Is a big. whole ouled
man. without any false pride or false
notions. He Is about 6 feet inches tall
and weighs nearly 300 pounds. He is
mans man: one who has lived much out
of doors and takes a big, healthy view
of everything. He loves baseball game
can root as hard and es loud as the
most strenuous fan that lives. He would
rather sit on the players bench and en-
courage his own team and roast the
others than he would to sit in a plush
lined box and hear grand opera with
Tetrazzini, Mary Garden, Caruso, Dali
mores, Slezak and all the rest OF the
star singing at once.
Ran Baseball Nine
when he first went to Texas he made
his headquarters at Paris and managed
his railroad> from there. Although he
made the Texas Midland model road
and spent a great deal of time in hunt
ing up new things in the way of equip
ment. he did not neglect his passion for
baseball Paris, Texas, was a town of
about 1000 inhabitants. and Eddie
Green did not think much Of the brand
of baseball that it afforded. He decided
that It ought to have its own team in
the Texas league and as the town
could not afford such luxury, he as
sumed the financial burden himself He
got together as fine lot of players as
could be secured in the southwest, and
did not miss a game from the beginning
of the season to the end. He went on
the road with his club and paid the
members fares whenever there were
any fares to pay. If the club played
real good ball the boys had a real good
time. Sometimes they rode In Mr.. Green's
private car. When the Paris club was
winning, no one In tho state Of Texas
made SO much noise as Eddie" Green
Not long after he had the Paris ball
club going in good shape he established
for his own pleasure the Tarpon Fish
ing club at Rockport and built a cot
take down there that was a delight.
He sent invitations broadcast to his
friends and acquaintance end we'll
wishers to becope members of the Rock
port Tarpon Fishing club at 500 a year.
and he got lot of people to join The,
had the best tarpon fishing in the United
States 1t was no trick at all to get
tarpon down along the jetties at Rock
port-no more than 1t Is to get them
off the Galveston jetties-and the cost
was trifling Green Is still president of
this Rockport club, and it has grown
to be one of the most famous institu-
lions of its kind in the country.
His Political Career
Another of Eddie GREEN'S pleasures or
yecreations was in trying to run the re-
publican party of the state of Texas. On
normal occasions thees democratic ma
jority in that state runs between 10000
and 250,000.. Green once had a real fine
satellite in the persons of ''Gooseneck
Bill Mcdonald. "Gooseneck" was about
the BLACKLIST negro in. the whole state
of Texas. He got his name from the
extraordinary long and ostrich-like neck
that he possessed. "Gooseneck Bill' was
supposed to be the cleverest negro poll
tician In the state after the death OF
Wright Quincy, but even with his skillful
assistance Green was not able to reduce
the democratic majority to any appre-
ciable extent.
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