Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-07-04

oil King, Edward Mott Robinson, known to be worth 10 million dollars? But Hetty Robinson, while she : tasted the delights of the Four Hun dred, was not dazzled by them. She was extreme example of New Eng { land thrift. Economy for her was a : passion, a vice, a habit from whose clutches she could not escape. As the years went by her closeness increased. She became the personfi- cation of money getting. She never relented
 She lived as poorly on fifty million as she had on ten, and when, in 1911, she finally turned fortune variously estimated at $75,000,000 to S100,000,- 900 over to her capable son, Col. How ard H. R. Green, she had an unbroken record of steady self-enrichment probably never equalled by any per son, man or woman, in the worlds history.
 Hetty's father owned fifty whaling vessels and controlled the sperm oil trade of his time as ccmple ely as John D. Rockefeller ever did the pc troleum trade in his.
 His ancestor, John Rowland, had come over on the Mayflower. acco d- ing to some accounts (othcrS say 1t was his brother and that John came later) and founded New B dford. The family had always been wealthy-and close.
 Hetty was sent to a Quaker school on Cape Cod and later to a Boston seminary Her father and her aunt. Sylvia Ann Rowland, ove" whose fortune of several millions the niece was later to fight a famous lawsuit, educated her in the fine points o Yankee finance.
 It was 'aer fathers idea that she see New York society. She succs ed ed in New York very well, from the point of view of New York, for she was not only invited everywhere, but liked.
 New York did not please her so well as she did the metropolis When attending a party on a winter night Hetty would not spend money for a cab. Of stock which braved the rigors of Boring sea on q tiny whaler. she simply pulled on pair of wool stock ings over her sho:s and ploughea through the snows.
 Began Saving Early.
 When she got back to New Bedford l showed her father almost all the S1,- ooo pin money with which she had started out. The old oil king was startled, but not little pleased.
 Hetty did not mary until 1867. There is some dispute about the date of her birth and she herself was frankly uncertain concerning it when questioned once in court She said -,, 1,,f could not name the day. So she was about thirty-two years old when she became the wife of Edward H. Green, who had made fortune in silks while United States consul general in Manila.
 Hetty brought him more than he had Her father when he died in 1863 left her million dollars outright and the income from eight millions. the principal to be held in trust for he" children. She had fought il court for her aunt's millions. been accused of forging a will, and finally forced a compromise which probably meant million or two to her. A p-e-nuptial agreement was signed between Miss Robinson and Mir. Green which said that the wife's money should never be used to pay any oS their joint expenses or to settle his debts.
 Before his death, in 1902, MT Green had become a poor man by Wall Street speculation. while his wife, running separate accounts with brokers under hcr own name, had become fabulously wealthy. Lived in Cheap Boarding House.
 She lodged for many years in a cheap boarding house in Hoboken To this she travelled from Manhatttan in ferryboat. walking at both ends of the water trip. Her home was liter ally shabby and if she herself was not so it was because she bought clothes which would stand an inn mense amount of wear. Her little black bonnet and sombre suit were known to all Wall street i habitues. She was often to be noted in the subway by those who knew her face. When she finally succumbed to buy ing an automobile, many years after they had become common, New York gasped and it was remarked that Eetty must be 'losing her grip" She QlQ not dllOW le'. SoH, COi' Green. to have large affairs to handle until he had become 9 middle aged man and had proven his ability. It is said that when he was boy his mother sent him out on the streets to sell the morning papers she had bought for their financial news. with the double object of making little money and trying his steel
 To dodge the tax-collector. she often had the name of her pet dog Dewey" placed on the name plate of her humble abode.
 She kept her daughter, Sylvia, from society for many years, although She finally consented to her marriage af the age of thirty to Matthew Astor Wilks, a rich man of fifty-seven years. Col Green never married. 4
 Outside of lodging taxes. haHt she shared with most wealthy per sons, Mrs. Green was never aceuse 1 | of underhand methods in accumulIatlng her money. Her msthor was simply to save and reinvest. She bought