The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-29
Giant Texan Shows Collection of
Missives From Women Who
Would Be Brides.
HE IS WORTH MILLIONS
Most Of the Writers Mention
Love, but Not one Word
About His Money.
Leased Wire TO The Tribune.

BY Leased Wire TO The Tribune.
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Dr. Colonel Ed
ward II. r. Green. the hale. sturdy bach
elor son Of Mrs. Hetty Green, after much
persuasion, consented TO allow some Of his
intimate friends to read some of the many
letters he has been receiving from women
proposing marriage. At his suite at the
Waldorf Astoria hotel. where he has been
stopping since his return from Texas,
Colonel Green opened a large trunk to
convince some of the more skeptical who
These" he said. "are some of the
sive."
1t appeared that the number must have
increased since the announcement that
Colonel Green was about to form a
SloVOOO,OO trust company to handle his
immense fortune.
'I take It," he said, "as a joke from
some of them, for ones after I had re-
celved two letters from a certain city,
called TO see the writer's when l was
there. and / found the girls, who were
chums. had written them on a dare"
Fear He Is Lonely.
This is one OF the letters:
My Dear Mr.. Green: | have rend much
iH the papers about you and 1 think how
lonely you must be and how tired you
must sometimes become. with no one to
cheer you up. / think from what / have
read about you that I would love hus-
band OF your disposition
Another letter reads.
l.. Dear Mr. Green-I would love awful
ly we'll TO see you, for / think from
what / have heard about you, YOU are
such nice man. and would like you
ior husband I know you must feel
lonely living by yourself. l am lonely.
why live all TO yourself?" says an
other. You must feel unhappy with
out wife TO love you. l am 35 years
1Ct-a
IN suburban homo and when you come
70 -- / would be glad to
have you call. for 1 believe we would
like each other when we became ac-
quainted."
Now comes one from Boston:
think of how lonely you must be
living out there in the great west. with
home, the letter began
Colonel Green a Giant.
THE prairie must be beautiful and
appeal TO the fancy OF one who loves
the open country. If they are pleasantly
situated to enjoy life, long to live in
| would love you. for I have read so
much about you. I am 26 years OF age.
NlH,ri1 My height l54 is 5 feet inches. and I
fond of outdoor life
These letters came from all sections
OF the country and apparently from all
them, II is said, are much more ardent
than those quoted
The colonel. who reaches six feet four
Wall street lie has launched success
fully a number of enterprises in the
southwest and almost as many stories
have been told about him as about his
hook. He owns stock in banks which
pay from 20 TO 35 ler cent dividends: In
florist enterprises which yield 35 per
cent. In cotton plantations. electric COM
panics. thcaters. fast freight lines He
owns, with his mother the Texas & Mid
land railroad of which he Is president
and he runs the line according TO his
own notions.
He was born in London. England,
forty-two years ago and lived in Bel
lows Falls, VI. before Mrs. Green sent
him ont 10 Texas to hustle. He started
work as a section hand and learned the
railroad business from the cross ties to
the presidents desk. He is n Renub-
lican and everybody in Texas calls him
Ned" as his mother does.