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| read, thought, talked and dealt with little
! else. 1t was upon her advice, gained from
her study Of conditions, that her father In
vested in Chicago real estate in the early
days, later netting S5.00O,OO0 profit from the
venture
Until Hetty Robinson was nearly 80, she
| devoted her time to society and money
| making. Then Edward Green. for 20 years
| United States Consul at Manila and inter-
| ested in big silk importing house in which
| he had made several millions Of his own,
publicly announced at New York dinner
that he proposed to marry the wealthie5t
heiress in America. Hetty Robinson, he was
told. was that person. Green obtained an in
PRODUCTION and made good his brag. They
were married July 7, 1867.
1t was rather cold-blooded proposition,
however. Miss Robinson agreed to marry
Green only after he signed n contract pledg-
ing himself never TO touch penny Of her
fortune and to support both herself and
any children there might be from his own
funds.
The Greens had two children. Sylvia and
Edward Rowland Robinson Green. In 1909
Mrs. Green married off Sylvia to Matthew
Astor Wilks. a man with more than mill
lion of his own. Financially Sylvia unmar-
ried was a dead loss to Hetty Green. and
the wedding ceased the debit side of Hetty's
ledger.
SUIT SBOI FOX SUN.
1t was the boy, Eddie" as his mother
always has called him. despite his $50 burly
pounds of huskiness. that found the soft
spot in Hetty Green's heart Eddie was the
only human being to whom Hetty Green
never openly begrudged money She EVIL
denced her affection for him by devoting
the last SO years of her life TO an attempt
to make him the richest man in the world.
She sought with business craft and cunning
in hundreds OF ways to accomplish this.
But she failed. Just as in her ambition to
be the richest woman in the world, she
failed.
Shortly before her marriage to Green.
Hetty Robinson inherited the Sl0,0OO,O 900
from her parents. Just about that time
Sylvia Rowland an aunt, also died. Sylvia,
Hetty always understood, was going TO
leave fer her estate OF 1880, 600. but the
will showed half OF 1t left to charity and
the iroome from the other half left to
Hetty. A month later, after learning this.
Hetty Robinson came forward with what |
she said was a later will, leaving her the |
whole fortune. In the sensational legal |
battle that ragged up and down the Robinson |
and Rowland line after that Hetty was |
charged with serious offenses, one OF them |
being forgery 1t was one OF the most |
bitterly contested will fights in American
legal history. Hetty fought like tisress.
She wanted that money. She got II.
The will case settled. Hetty Robinson was
married and for seven years the Greens
lived abroad, being received at the court
OF England and royalty entertained on
the Continent. Eddie Green was born
abroad
Upon the return to America, however,
Mrs, Green at once began her career OF
money making which in the
end broke up her family and closed only
with her death. Green, luxury loving con-
noisseur of books and art, was the first to
give in to her new policy and. separating
fF0ul hia wife IOOk his FaRidanRa a ha |
Union League Club, where he lived until
his death.
Meantime. Mrs. Green began selling the
horses, the more eXpensiv furnieture and
dispensing with the servants and every
Thing that in any way entailed cent OF
cost IL was at this time that she is de-
,lared even to have sent Edward, the son.
nto the street each day TO sell the evening
paper, after the family had finished reading
t. in order to turn another honest penny.
A WORLDWIDE FIGURE.
Green lost most OF his own millions in
Wall street. Mrs. Green, however, con-
ented to a beggarly allowance and on this
10 lived until he died. not seeing her during
he last seven years OF his life until she
anne TO his death bed In 1903.
Once launched upon her career OF finance.
drs. Green's parsimony and iron-handed
Methods made her a worldwide figure She
Ived for years IN a tenement, where dollar
day was sufficient for he'd table. She
Sors the same old hat and gown for years
Personally Hettle Green was very eccen-
rio. She always went to her office ana
7oFked on her birthday. She thought the
fasting Of whole day on anything but |
usiness was a crime. Her favoFits odd
abit was 10 boil an onion every day and
AIRY a piect OF Il around IN her pocket.
ibbling il while she worked. She did this
egularly for nearly quarter OF a century. | !
Each day-she walked usually to save
appeared az her once IN the l
hemical Nati2nal Bank IN New YORK. 4