New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-11-22
MRS. HETTY GREEN IS Il
Feels Five Years Younger than
at Her Last Birthday.
RICHEST WOMAN KEEPS BUSY
Tells of One Charity She Has
Helped Recently to the Elk
tent of 100000.

! Mrs Hetty Green had a birthday yesterday
and on her own acknowledgment is TWO
years older than the newspapers called her
when the occurrence of the. last birthday
was noted by them. The reference books
agree I'm saying that she was born on NO
vember q, 1885. which would make her
seventy-six years old. but she herself SAID
yesterday that the year was 1894. and that
she had arrived at the age of seventy
seven, and at that felt five years younger
than year ago.
Within the last few years Mrs. Green has
often been reported in feeble health, ana
the Improvement in her condition in the
last twelve months is attributed by her In
large measure to the assistance which mas
been given her by her son, Colonel r. H.
r. Green, who used to make his home In
Texas, but since the beginning of TINS
year has had offices in this city and has re
lieved his mother of much of the burden
OF management of her property, which is
so large as to entite her to the name Oh
the richest woman in the world
Mrs. Green has an abiding faith In the
value Of work and the simple life as a
specific more potent than medicine against
the ills Of mankind. and so IT was not sur
prising that she should spend her birth
day downtown as usual, attending to her
business affairs For about a quarter Of
century she had her headquarters IN the
Chemical National Bank Building. and
was a familiar figure to all customers OF
the bank. as, clad i'm rusty black, she USED
TO come down from her upstairs office TO
consult the late George G. Williams VINO
was at the head of the institution during
most OF her stay with 1t.
Calls Her Son from Texas.
Nearly three years ago for reasons which
have never become known, Mrs Green
suddenly transferred her Office from the
Chemical to the National Park Bank
where large room on an upper npr WAS
fitted up as her business headquarters. She
seemed to be bowling under the weight OF
her years and responsibilities, In strong
contrast with her present appearance OF
health and energy, when her son came
from Texas at her request, TO settle IN New
York and to assume gradually the burden
Of the family riches. IL was at hrst
planned by them to organize trust com
pany, to which should be transferred all
of the property which represented inter
ests in all parts of the country, real es-
tate. mortgages, stocks and bonds ana
loans on approved collateral other than
real estate.
But IL was found that the trust company
plan was not feasible. and the Westminster
company was organized, with offices at No.
III Broadway to concentrate the owner
shin and the management of the property.
I l. RI az
ness day. and there she was yesterday, after
having made a visit 70 her safe deposit
vault f. the National Park Bank, as is her
daily habit.
Asked If she would tell Of some act Of
charity which she had done within the last
year Mrs. Green said:
zone way is to give money and To make
big show. That is not my way. am of
the Quaker belief. and although the Quakers
are about all dead I still follow their
principles But 7 am not hard woman
and have done acts Of which | am proud.
An ordinary gift to bc Dragged about is not
= gift i'm the eyes Of the Lord. ] might tell
YOU Of a school for boys and girls Of the
intermediate age which ] have helped with
between 5000. 600 and 100000.
This school is in New York state The
land for IL was bought In the panic Of 1907
and cost one-third what il would have cost
at any other time. The buildings were put
No Al a time when the poor needed employ
ment Lastly. there was the benefit OF the
completed school. where boys and girls are
being taught practical things"
Her Fortune About S80.000o00.
MIS-. Green's father, Edward Mott Rob
! inson. who died in 1865 left her fortune
large for those days, which her remarkable
! business acumen and her unremitting indus