The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-21
COL. GREEN. A TOMORROW,
 IS MOST POPULAR BACHELOR

Perhaps the most popular and sought after bachelor in the world is Col Edward Howard Robinson Green, son and heir of Hetty Green, the fem dnine wizard of Wall street Col. Ned will celebrate his lforty-fourth be the recipient of scores of congrat- ulatory epistles from coy 1naidens who like the renowned Barkis, are "wil- lin'.'' Col. Green admits that forty four years Of single blessedness are enough and that he is now ready to travel in double harness, the only diff fleultS being to find woman who fulflls his ideals. Thousands of the fair sex, in age from fourteen to forty have taken advantage of leap year to write to Col. Green, but the mail order plan of getting wife does not appeal to the son of the worlds rich est woman. He has not spent forty four years on earth without accumu- lating some wisdom and he is not likely to buy pig in a poke. Old t'bachs'' are notoriously particular and .f1nnicky. and Col. "Ned' is no exception to the rule. He knows what he wants, and if he can't get the quail lties he demands in a wife, why, then, he guesses he can worry along with put spouse.
 Col. Green is an Englishman by birth, for he was born in London on August 22. 1S68 Both his mother and father were also in London at the time, being engaged in a grand tour of Europe. MT. Green graduated from Fordham College in 1888 ana@ was ad- mitted to the bar, but not with any intention of working at the legal trade. His mother had quite a few railroads scattered over the map, and she insisted that he fit himself to un- dertake their nagement. His first Job was as section hand on an east ern road, gradually working up to superintendent and managing direc- tor In 1893 Mrs Green sent Eddie he is still Eddie to the aged mil- Iionairess-to Texas to ecome presi- dent and general manager of the Tex ae Midland Railway. He has become D thorough Texan through long resi- dence in that state, and it is only In the last few years that he has spent much time in New York, His year, has practically turned over the management of her vast estate to Eddie" and it is a job that keeps him busy The Hetty Green fortune represents about $1O0000.000 worth of stocks and bonds of nearly every American railroad mortgages on real Bstate, and industl VI securities. Mrs Green has a bank S her own, and also a trust company.
 The Texas railway property placed in Col Greens hands less than score Df years ago was a bankrupt streak De rust and became Mrs. Greens prop srty through the foreclosure of 8 s7e0 900 mortgage. It is now worth at least s5.000 000, thanks to the Colonels managerial ability. Besides building up the railway for his mother, Col. Green, while in Texas acquired two banks, a life insurance company, a nursery, a moving picture company, a railway, a newspaper. cotton plant a paving concern, and other properties all his own His principal T@creationS are automobiling and flower culture He bought the first motor car in Texas, and he has suc- cedded in growing the finest Ameri- can Beauty roses and the most ex- quisite carnations found anywhere in the world Incidentally. he made money from his fad for his green houses in Texas, originally costing e1A-aoQ. are said to pay him a profit of