Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1937-12-02
Changed His
Suits Four
Times a Day

Times a Day L;o I ls;. nv W." w.
but by lunch time he appeared in
his bicycle suit. After taking spin
about the principal streets of Sa-
vannah for couple of hours, he
next appeared in his driving suit.
Late in the afternoon, he would ap-
pear in his riding suit.
Gin the yachting season, he was
far in the lead of other followers
of the water. He had seven distinct
ways of shaking hands"
The quick-change record, or the
Misunderstanding or something upped
him to the job of helping man the
teacups at the American embassy
in London. AS he prepared to leave
Savannah, there were routs, assem-
blies, fetes and army blow-outs to
honor him on his departure.
Seeing him off at the boat was
Commander E. Gillette, a salty,
weather-beaten old sea dog. Cap
tain Carter's gush of affection en-
barrassed him. The captain insist
ed that the commander make use of
his house.
The old commander was inclined
to suspect over-generous persons.
He pondered the
commanders captains conduct
Suspicious and then went to
A.. A-o,,e.J the office of the
engineering corps.
On map, he saw retaining wall
of masonry spotted up as having
been built at a cost of 100000.
Then he strolled down the river,
looking for the wall. 1t wasn't there.
He kept on exploring. He reported
to the war office that $7,000000 had
been spent for nothing more than
marks on paper.
THE courts awarded to Mrs. Mat
L thew Aston Wilks, daughter of
Hetty Green, the entire estate of
her brother, the late Col. Edward
H. r. Green, estimated as between
sec, 1000, 900 and $50, 1000, 1000. This, with
similar amount inherited from her
mother, and the fortune bequeathed
by her husband, makes her, accord
ing to all current estimates, the
richest woman in the world.
She is much like her mother. Six
ty-six years old, she lives in an I'M
pretentious house on Electric HILL"
in Greenwich, Conn.,, with a few
servants and a ten-year-old collie
dog named Prince-as did her moth
er in her later years. And like her
mother, she does her own market
ing, driving to town every day or
two in a small car.
The late Matthew Astor Wilks was
a great-grandson of John Jacob As
tor. When they
Hetty GlOes were married in
AdUice to 1909, in her moth
p.;J.r-,o er's flat in Hobo
o ken, Hetty Green
was quoted by the newspapers as
saying to the groom: Matthew,
you are sixty-fve years old and
you have the govt. Some day my
girl is going to have $4,000 day.
want to be sure that she is marrying
d IIldll VIII WILL AlCAp 1lSA echC NoA = Va
her money"
She has managed nicely. If her
$3.50, 900, 900 is bringing 3 per cent,
that's not 5000 but $13, 178.1 10 day.
For twenty-seven years she has
lived in the house near Greenwich.
Her husband died in 1926. Her for
tune consists of many blocks of real
estate in St. Louis, Boston and New
York and railroad and other securi-
ties. She has no box at the opera,
assumes no grandeur of the reigning
dowager and lets Observation-Disclosures
per capita wealth IN America-run
itself without her aid. Her partici-
patton in public affairs consists
mainly Of her annual contribution to
the Greenwich Firemen's associa-
ton
g Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
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