New-York tribune., 1911-01-28
RELIEF FOR HETTY GREEN
Will Organize Trust Company to
Handle Manifold Interests.
SON HERE TO PLAN DETAILS
Colonel z. II. R. Green Says
Mother Would Lift Burden, but
Hasn't Any Uplift Ideas.

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Hasn't Any Uplift Ideas.
The first steps toward the formation Of
trust company by Mrs. Hetty Green and
! Colonel Edward H. r. Green. her son. were
taken Yesterday in the Waldorf in Room
No. 1855. Mrs Green spent the Gay with
her son. going over the numerous details
involved in launching tho new trust com
ranv. 10 be the medium for handling the
500 00aN0 at which the various holdings
Of Mrs. Hetty Green are estimated to be
worth.
Colonel Green said at the Waldorf that
he and his mother had talked over great
variety Of propositions during the day, and
that she had fallen in line with his sug-
gestion.
"Mv mother has wanted me % get busy
for some time now. and take from her the
burden of attention 20 the enormous de-
tails Of her business affairs, said the COLO
rel. who is forty-two years old. weighs
about three hundred pounds is hachei"r
and intends so TO remain. 1T was my
suggestion that II she wanted me to handle
her affairs I must have an office. and 50
I asked her how she felt about the propo-
sition TO start a trust company Of our own
She takes 10 the idea. ard think the or
ganization OF such trust company VIII be
effected in very few days"
I Says Mrs. Green Hates Publicity.
What will the trust company be called"
tho big man was asked.
Lord, don't know" he replied. good
naturedly. That doesn't bother me at
all We can find a name for it after
get hold Of some good lawyer who has
had experience in drawing mp organization
papers Of this sort"
VIII il be called. perhaps the Hetty
Green Trust Company" he was asked.
Good Lord. no; not with her consent"
he replied. Il tell you how it is. She
hates publicity. She gets sick and tired
Of ii. She can't walk down he alley I'm
the hotel here without people nudging each
other and saying, loud enough for her 10
hear There goes Hetty Green She iust
left the hotel a few minutes ago with me-
and the whole alley was nudGing right and
left and saving: Look, There goes T.. H.
/ r. Green that's Hetty Green's son. Amt
he whopper? Amt It too bad he's lame?
And II he had more teeth, what hand
some hoy he'd be, wouldn't he? No: itH
be easy enough 10 find a name for our trust
compony. but IT Will be something else
/ than Green. You can bet on that"
! Colonel Green added that the establish
ment Of the new trust company would have
no effect upon the present connections of
! his mother ard himself with New York
bankers but would Re the PRINCIPAL
medium through which the Green interests
outside OF New York City would be
handled.
In fact" Re said. 1T will he the centre
where We viii concentrate our Western
and Southwestern interests
The suggestion was made that vo ab
sorb one Of the old trust companies br,
favored starting with a clean slate Viii,
no taint Of somebody else's past which
course has practically been decided upon "
No Plans for an "UpIift."
Asked if he had any plans for the unlif,
Of humanity. as had been intimated in an
afternoon newspaper Colonel Green said.
Why, no; nothing special-at least not
/ that ] know Of at the present time. I get
on an average Of three hundred begging
letters day, no matter where 7 am. II
you're at all sympathetic and want n good
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you can cry your eyes out before you've
read fifty Of them"
do you still receive offers Of marriage"
Yes; the girls keep sending me letters
pretty regularly. Just got one from a girl
thirty-fve years old, who lives at Cincin-
natl She says her ma Is getting along
and that she understands am thinking
Of getting married. Sometimes. when I'm
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the girls who have written and proposed 10
me. Like as not. often md on investiga-
tion they are bunch Of young things who
have dared each other 10 do it. and none Of
them means anything by It,"
Have you any prediction in a business
way except the cultivation Of flowers"
"Of course flowers are my hobby. | have
twenty-seven acres under glass in Texas
Making 35 per cent on my American Beau
ties and carnations just had word from
some gentlemen not to do anything until
they saw me. don't know what kind Of
proposition they've got"
Finds Miners in the Hotel.
cold mine maybe" II was suggested
Good Lord, You don't have 10 90 out
side the hotel for gold mines. The alley is
fun of en- 4 man tried 20 sell me one q
couple II days ago. / turned % him and
said My dear sir. I'm working this alley
myself II you want 10 buy a gold mine
IN sell you one or. II youll Jump in and
help me sell mine I'll help you unload
yours ] haven't seen that fellow since"
"Win you enter politics. colonel"
Mono politics for mine I'm on the
Governors stan down in Texas. but unless
that's being in politics | am out Of that
game.
If | was in politics up here | don't think
I'd be a Roosevelt Republican. President
Taft is growing In strength every day down