The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-07
Col. Edward Green VIII Consider
Matrimony and He Has Money
BY The Car.
load.
IS SON OF HETTY GREEN
Promised His Mother to Remain 4
Bachelor for Twenty Years
And the Time Ia
About up.

NEW YORK, Aug. Colonel Ed
ward H. R. Green. president Of the
Westminster Company, with assets OF
land railroad and son of Mrs. Hetty
Green, is going to marry within
yeaf
Who the bride-to-be Is he doesn't
know, but he said in all seriousness
at the Waldorf Astoria that his
baohelorhood would end before he
was year older
Here is the secret of why Colonel
Green, who will be 43 years old on
Aug. %, has so long lived the life OF
single blessedness. He promised his
mother nineteen years ago when she
| took him down to Texas to break
him in" as railroad section hand
/ that he would remain q bachelor for
twenty years. He has kept his word.
but when the time limit expires next
year he is going to take unto himself
| q wife
Three hundred proposals Of mar.
riage have reached Colonel Green
since he came to New York year
ago to take charge of his mothers in.
!, terests Scores of the aspiring maids
enclosed photographs, and letters
have been received from half OF the
states of the union. while some have
come from Europe and even from the
Hawaiian Islands He has answered
none of the letters.
The future Mrs. Edward H. R.
Green must be woman who Is will.
: ing to accept the Texas colonel Tor
himself and not for the millions which
he will inherit from his mother.
i I'm just one year of the age when
! a man should get married." Colonel
> Green said. my time limit will expire
within twelve months and I'm going
to make good"
. Colonel Green has never taken any
4 interest in society He has found time
for politics, automobiles and aero
). planes, but aside from these things ne
d has devoted himself entirely to busi'
g ness since he was graduated from
Fordham college in 1888 Ten years
\. ago his ambition was to become gov.
8. ernor of Texas, but he has now retir'
A. ed permanently from the field of poll
al tics
e He believes the problem of marriage
lie is far more serious for the wealthy
,e man than for the poor man. Colone
Id Green objects to divorce, and when ne
v ceases to be a bachelor he wants tt
cs have the satisfaction of knowing tha
la he is the loved head Of the household
o. and not the treasury vault
in Talking on the subject of matr1
Ill mony, Colonel Green said:
tie "The problem as general thing
nj no small one, tell you. There is no
he a wealthy man in America who ha
ed not had dozens of chances to MARI
er, members of families of birth an
he breeding, but he must seek the inne
recesses of the woman's soul and nm
If her affections ring true
Colonel Green is proud of his mt
ther She is now in her seynty-slXt
I'D year. Colonel Green's father, who die
in New York, in 1892 lived to be ne
to ly ninety years old, He says he doe
not expect to live that long
"Father and mother were brougi
up on wholesome and sensible food
'dy he said. They ate corned beef ar
a cabbage. I eat lobster salad, planke
as steaks and other rich foods. l wou
ian like to eat corned beef and eabbag
but, like other persons who live
on, New York hotels, am always afra
.wo some one else will see me-"
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