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Show Col. Greene's Marriage "Ad" Brings Him Results San Francisco, Jan. 31. His first day In San Francisco netted C,ol. Edward Ed-ward H. R. Green, son orIrs 'Hetty Green, said 10 be tho word,'s richest woman, nine proposals of marriage "They must have seen nV.ad In the papers," the colonel told report, who called on him today to learn what their "matrimony stories" printed In the morning had developed. He laughingly pointed to one of the "ads:" "Colonel Greene, heir to $100,000,000; railroad president, cow punchor, bachelor and 43.'" "My! ' he exclaimed, "that must look awfully good to a lot of aspiring young women." Colonel Greene refused to make public tho names of any of tho ambitions am-bitions homoHeokers. AH the letters, he said, were serious in tone and each writer declared sh'e was a "really, truly western girl," the kind he had declared in a New York statement that he preferred not tho "clothes horse" of New York, the "chameleon called a woman." The fact that woman suffrage has made such strides out hero Impressed the colonel as proving that the women wo-men of the west were better thinkers than their eastern sisters. "They are a more virile type," he went on "They know how to accomplish things that are to their advantage They read, and aro at the same time domestic." 00 |