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Show World's Richest Woman and Picturesque Figure in Financial Finan-cial Circles, to Retire. BEGINS HER PREPARATIONS FOR THE INEVITABLE Will Practically Give Entire Management of flcr Great Estate to Daughter. BY MARGARET WATTS DE PEYSTER. By Leased "ttrlro to The Tribune. NEW YORK, April 23.. Airs. Hetty Green, the world's ricliest woman, and tlie most picturcsquo flguro in American Ameri-can financial circlos, has begun to shift hqr burdens upon tho shoulders of her daughter, Mrs. Sylvia Wilkes. Mrs. Green is not going to retire altogether from tho arena of business; sho eould not possibly do that even though she is 73 years of age, aud her liealth has bogun to fail; but sho is going to transfer a large burden, of her business responsibilities to younger shoulders, she said today, and at the snmo time sho proaehes an eloquent sermon to the American women, praising prais-ing hor native shrewdness, but criticising criti-cising her with frankness. Mrs. ureen thinks tnat; tne men are as extravagant as tho women; many men, alio believes, are more extravagant than women. Tne rich pcoplo of today to-day live amidst too much adornment and think too much of their personal pleasures. Sho suys it is just as easy to make mono' now as it ever was; that tho women now have a far bettor opportunity to acquire wealth than they had twenty years ago. While Mrs. Grcon did not say so. it is bolioved that sho will practically give the entire management of her $f5U.-000,000 $f5U.-000,000 fortune to her daughter. Sho had hopos that hor son, Edward II. K. Green, might prove a master of finance, fin-ance, but tho money-making (raits seemed to skip tho son and settle in the daughter. Wearing hor proverbial black dress and bonnet, with her white hair combed hack over her head, Mrs. Greou sat at her desk in the Chemical National bank today looking somewhat pale and wan, although her keen eyes wero .list as shrowdh alert as ever. Declinos to Give Public Plans. "You couldn't expect me to mako public my plans," said she, "as it has novor been my custom. Hut it is truo that my health has been bad for montliB, and mv physicians havo convinced con-vinced mo that E must not r.ontinuo personally per-sonally conducting tho dotails of my business affairs. Here sho smiled quaintly, quaint-ly, ami continued: "You know my liuaucial. affairs are rather large. 1 believe be-lieve tho newspapers havo said so, and they call me tho richest woman in the world. I do not like to dispute the newspapers, so I shall allow them to continue publishing their stories about mo. "I have been handling business and financial affairs for a groat many years. Tt has become a part of niv life; ! get my recreation from it. Where another an-other "woman might get jay from a trip, I get plcasuro from business, Not jCoutimied on Pajro Two, HETTY GREEN IS SHIFTING CARES Continued From Pago One. that I need more money, but just bo-causo bo-causo 1 have an inherent likinp for it. "7 have been pleased at tho aptitude apti-tude which m dnughtcr shows lor business. I have tried auiotly to train hor for business and instill a liking for it in her nature, for some day sho will hnvo a very big estntc to handle." This seemed lo give the woman, financier finan-cier a new thought, for sho continued: "The possibilities of the women in busi nc88 are without limit. Conditions have changed in the past score of years so thnt tho American woman stands an equal ohanco with her hunband or father in tho amassing of a fortune. Few women, however, improvo their opportunities oppor-tunities and in time other women will take their chances until some da3' there will bo a koon race in tho chnsc for wealth between men and women. The American woman is naturally bright and shrewd. She is well educated nnd tho nowspapcrs keep hor informed of doings do-ings jn tho business world, if she is willing will-ing to rend thorn instend of the society columns and tho bargain counter advertisements. adver-tisements. Why, from my own experience experi-ence some of tho brightest bnrgainoers I have met havo been women. A woman in business can still retain all the womanly wo-manly grace that men admire. Now Eaco Springing Up. "Some women are spoiled by indulgence, indul-gence, but a new race of women is springing tip. Thoy think for themselves them-selves and they act. for themselves, and they are independent." At this -juncture Mrs. Green tacked again, and she gazed scarchingly at hor interviewer, as she. said: "People talk of tho extravagance ex-travagance of women causing tho high cost of liviug. Please allow mo to say that many men nro more extravagant than women. I cannot sec why persons per-sons of woalth cannot livo lives of comfort in a healthy environment, instend in-stend of allowing thoir money bags to get tho best of them. "Man3' rich men and women reside among too much adornmenf'in the- fashionable fash-ionable hotels and apartment houses, and their lives arc artificial and extremely ex-tremely unhealthy. That naturally breeds discontent among the poorer pooplc, too. Of course, every person is entitled to live the way he wishes nnd enjoys most, if within their means. But it seems thnt they forget the simplicity sim-plicity of the old-i'ashione'd home nnd the lann. when wealth comes. That is one of its bad agencies," |