| Show 0 GHAT WITH HETTY GREEN Duslnoss Woman Talks About Herself Worlds nichost World foe and M < noy Manors Chemical BadIlDw She LoolaAs and Talks lDrkIADpiA is 1It Gmus Business IolllanGives Som of the SeIS She Freame a 11ow SlIt TIlls ali says Heaven u the Only Safe Place for Investments lJatiur I 1 lDnt dlucatwn and flow She olIdly crecni HaMsIIer Quaker f l ° unn Trials and Troubles of an American 11 ire Is Iler Am jgnslO t II So1llsr F e ri rcir as is Ara Ell bJ flint O Carperidr It I Naws SE11 YORK City July l4th 1897 RS Hetty Green was In her office inV the Chemical Na Iooal Bank hen 1 V called upon her one daY this week I lIetty Green II said I to be the rchet wo I woild I I man In the Her wealth II elli 1 I mated at from forty I < to filly million dol lars At 5 per cent 9 hr income must a dajor more than ft ante overlSoooa f itrute dy and night year in anti year L Her property il oC many klad and Investments stand out like great ckles no the fac of the United Slats oCn octopus her nlOrt ph me grip hoer 01 tbe most valu some race em IIle Its properties oC our bi itigest cities be and Francisco ten lJcslon aaJ San dollars 01 Into ber from every part Jntrybt een Maine and Texas If Ihe country ajidlrais railroads and steam oats in mines of IId coal and iron m the telegraph and jphone her stocks cover all kinds of operty and almost every variety of Justry The greater part of this vast rallh Is line lo her o n talcnls and she iraEOUallhersell She bad benat when I met ot lor more than an hour itlhe bank at n oclock jesterday crniD and it wal an hour more bee irtshecoiild be-e t rid of the men who me present ul lth business mitten by itvious appointments before she could me I HERE HETTY GREEN DOES COSINESS Diinnz part of this time I waited for ilitis her piwale office in the bank U cot tin to net access to this office itiiaparlol the bank oi kv His wiy one corner ol file big room in rib the cashier tellers and clerks mntd Up m i gilded I cages carry on one ihj biggest catkins businesses ol the United States Hetty Greens corner is i lighted from the roof At one side she Is fenced oil by H Ions walnut desk such as banker me for sorting bank notes or paper and on the tpposite side Is the win The space between forms the office of-fice It is i not as wide as the ordinary alley and all the furniture in it won not bring fifteen dollars at auction I here ale two little wi nut desks In the office One 01 l these has a flat top It is here that Mrs Green stenographer and typewriter a pretty young woman of about eighteen years of age sits The other desk is Jlelty j Greens It Is a small roller top afiair with a set of drawers draw-ers runuiux on one tide from the tibia tot to-t ic floor Toe desk i > I judge about three feet wide and the pigeon holes u iihm it are bluffed with pipers Upon the topi lies Mrs Green s bonnet and capejust as she has thiown them thereon there-on cc minI into tits office and upon the riekls the 5ltel pen with which if she WIStH th6 can sign checks Cr millions TLcre Is little a gn oC comfort or luxury about this little office Were Mrs I Gie n and her secretary not present you would not imagine that it belonged to a omn lliercisnotatola cushloa flora rocking chair in sight The fur elixirs uhich Ijnn the only furniture in addition to the desks and a tab e me straightb ickcd cnneSialed 1 ores such as are used in ether pails ol Ihe bank I here 14 i no titling crochet work lo b seen and the only feminine signs visible are Mrs Greens bonnet and cape and six p MS each at least IHO inches long inch are probably tote used for fasten papelf together Upon the table I is a ngJ about eighteen inches i bluaie and I afoot deep 01 just about file size of I those in which a grocer keep soap I Thi Lox Is of tin painted blaoc and as you look IOU think of the leaden casket of Portia In the Merchant ol Venice It is Mrs Green box for valuable papers and though its outside Is but homely tin1 doubt not that there areA millions in it A CHAT WITH HETTY GREEN I wish I could show you Mrs Green as she chatted with ms after her Los I ness callers had gone She is I a far dif lerent woman than the one you know in the newspapers She makes me think of one of tIe good old mothers whom you will find by the dozen In almost any country town n woman who Ins brought up a family i and done it I al le I do who I now in her j sixties nllho Jgll her life has nllhOJfh b1a1 been a hard one Is 1 I Eli 1 in tympathy with humanity and U i ready to battle onto on-to the close I dont believe a oman call have a lace like Helty I Greens and not have a heart prone to sympathy ind love I Her I eyes are blue and Irk ndly Her mouth though determlntd has motherly lines about it and a stroii chancier shines out of her every feuute She i still line ojklnr and she must have been a most bcauil ul girl During my chat she showed me ome dit > uer rejtypei taken ol herself when she was the dauchicr of tbe milllonn re Robinson Robin-son In nn unoitentit ous way she lod me something ol her simple life belme her father died and how she wn forced into business I by having to right the biggest I big-gest lawyers oI tire court rl fir her ei The late costume Mrs Green she wore dresses yesterday very plunly would not have been out of place upon the dt in iotherlyold I lady whom afo I tied to above Iltr dress waist was of ome black good trimmed wIth vdvt which wis rather rmty than new The skirt nlatk Tt was a sateen of black spotted 1 wilb white and upon her head the wore i veil which was twisted about so as to loot like a dp Ahhoiiili tin spell four linguages the words she usd were plain AnloSaxn and she never hesitated to call a spade a spade She has a slight Yankee accent which come I supp se from her having been raised in Vermont There was not the slightest affectation about her I did not see an alum if the trickiness 112rdnzss or oC the sup leas character lIually essocialetl ith tl de sc pitons of her 1 found her in fact rather modest than anything else VUIIKEIIETIV CKI1EN GOT HER BUSINESS BUSI-NESS TRAINING One cl my fit quts ions was as to v lien she first discovered that she had bns ness ability She replied I don it know that I hive much business busi-ness ability but sue1 bell nest ability as I posseS has been developed by the ne cesiiy of taking cire of my fortune You see I was not born por Ve have been lich lor three generation The house in which I was born in Vermont had twenttwo room end two bathrooms bath-rooms an I mv father giandlither mid grandfather were rich The first idea that I ever got ol business was from my grand ather I used to help him In Ins I correspondence and I absorbed tome oC his biibincsi methods Still I had nothing really to do with business uht I my father died It was then lint you bejan your fight with the law yers was it no rYes r-Yes replied Mrs Green It was that Jilin that has made mea business busi-ness woman You see the lawyers tried to wallow up the estate I let them go along for a time but I soon saw that I could Irutt onlv myself I was lorccJ Into the studying I up of financial matters mat-ters and I hid to take everjtnmg Into my own hands I had lo learn step by step and at the same time to fight my way in the courts 1 have been tight ng lor the last thirty Sears and have not fin shed yet INIIERITED MONEY IS ONLY A TRUST But I should think you would get lired of it Mrs Green I dont see how any person can Ule more than the In i come front million dollars Why dont you stop and crhv your > elfr I dont know 11 Yoalrsde the womin of millous I look upoT my properly largely as a trust t I take care of It on much the same principle tint you would take care ol valuable animal were It left In your charge You sc my fuller inienlled t idea I that the money which one Inherited should be given over until mm shed to the next generation lien thought that the lie-n who Inherited it 1 tosg1 rhiltr had the full right to the use of I the in cone but that he ought not to spend pelbuitptbi felt 1 This is the way I have I Ye Mrs Green I said I Dut you I hive greatly Increased the principal I You ire said lo be the richest woman In America How did you make so much money What are the secrets of your l success 1 do not Ihlnk I am the richest woman wo-man in America replied Mrs Green It it true I am rich I have been blessed in my investment and that is all I dont know that mv fortune Is due to any fixed principles I only use common com-mon Lnso i buy when llnng are low and nobody wants them I keep them until they go up and people are crazy to got them Tint is I believe the secret of all successml business THK BEST INVESTMENT Yes I suppose it is i said I Dut the thing of it is to know when things are cbep Where would loU advUu a person to Invest just now to get the most outol Investment I would advise him to Invest in the other world was the quick reply All the other things that are offered just now are mighty uncertain Dot I doat mean heavenly investments invest-ments said I 1 mean eaitblv ones You are said to speculate a great deal in Wall street and to make money there Tlut Is I a mistake replied Mrs Green I never speculate I sometimes some-times buy stocks but I buy them as in vestmntt and not as speculations I nver buy on a margin Wrien > ou buy I suppose trou use your own ju Jgment do I you not Not altogether was the reply I advise with my friends very often If they are all against me I hesitate i good del I btfore Io 1 in 1 I do the same as to my law 1 suits If my Ineuds i and lawten 1 rigds I tf il me there is 1 no chance for me I would rithtr compromise than take the chance of suci ceding by fighting HOW ONE HIGH WOMAN LIVES The conversation here slanted to AIrs Greens rapidly for hard work and i I asked Ier something as to her habits She replied I dont believe there U anyone woiks harder than I do It takes all of my time to attend to my business I get up at 8 ocock in the morning and I am at wok until lite in the evening I am very careful in my eithg I use the best 01 plain food but avo d knickknack I avoid sugar and butter for I be eve they do not agree with me It is not on the grounds of economy but of lualth Why I have just come Irom Chicago While there I stopped at the best hotel In l the city Icouldluvecatenilonit eich men and it would lr not have cost me a cent more but r I confine i myself to I about three things You see my li ter ests are such that I have to travel great deal I have my properly to look after and every now and then I have a law suit to attend to I find that things always go better Allen I am on te ground IIBR QUAKER TkAIVINO You keep VlV OJng lhrouh It all Mrs Grain sud n I looked at her brghtejes and noted the clergy and vivacity with whicn she talked Yes perhaps I do was the reply You see 1 never worry ibont things I am always ready to fight for mv lights nd 1 do the best 1 can every day as i go ilong After I have done er turn I II I Fet the matter droj My business seldom keep mcmake at night I seep wel 1 and as I hive told IOU 1 eat ear u ly I attribute my ircedom irom worry largely large-ly to lIe fact that I nm a Quaker mid that my father brought ire up teaching me to Leap myeU well I in a lund He used to tell me that if I would learn how to mInage my brAin I would know how to manage my fortune I can rrmtmb r when I wits i very snnll child and lather noticed that I Via out of sorts about something he would say Hetty daughter art thee ingrv I II I replied jes 7hh would I answer Well I Hetty thee must not spnk lor fifteen minutes P At the end i f that time he would ask if I was st 11 angry and if I replied yes he vvoulJ tell nit not to speak for an hour At the end of the hour I in ght be told to keep s lent for three hours and if I proved still contu 01 I maciuus I was forbidden to spcik until i the n xt morning 1 his taught me sell discipline I learned to holJ myself in check and the result tint I can now ue my brims to the best advantage I have had much experience in courts and with lawyers They cant make me lose my head and their cross quesuoning does not annoy me HETTY GREEN AND LAWVER CHOATL 411 I think the lawyers know that they tt r colitinucy cant worry me Mrs Gieen continued You remember how Choate catechised Russell Sage about the cost ol his clothes in court not long ago lie tried to make Sage ridiculous i I would like fni l rtd ke fn tth tw to have I seen li m attempt that with me If he had asked me about my clothes I should have said Now Mr Choate if there is anI thing I have on that Mrs Choate wants or neds I will go into one of the ante roons here and take it oil and let IOU hive It All that I ask is that you leave me enough so that I can get back home without Anthony Comstock Com-stock or the police getting after me I dont be ieve lie would have asked the question twice I cant see what business busi-ness it is of Choate what I wear or what Mr Sag wens and it seems to me that such questions are rather impertinent to say the lent INDIAS WIDOWS vs AMERICAS HEIR ESSES Your figlt with the lawyers has been a long I one Mrs Green said I Yes It has was the reply I have had an awful time and no one can real fz how much I hale been persecuted Why If I were asked whether I would mkJ prefeto I have 1 my gobefillurnel w at I hive gone through or be burned at the take over Ihere In front of the city lull I 11h I wculd siy Let her be burned 1 I here Is no Xrel In the world br here women < a n e persecuted ns here Amcrcis heiresci have a worse tine than h Indian widows The wido is or India an Mini themselves on the liner I pyre ol their husbands If I they ire lich they ought to be Inppv for U save them loU of trouble As for mc Have I been roibcd all mv hfs I have had my daughter so Injured by the brutality ol a law > crs 1 nssltint who threw her agnnsl a safe door that she can lIwr recover I have Ieen mis presin 01 1 and abusd in Ihe nevis ipcrs in the attempt to mll e me out crazy and lor thirty yes1 have had to light for every inch of my way YOJ inv a seen the stories which have teen lib ishcd about me Many of them are disscminited by the invvcrj I verily believe they ould kill me if they were lot ifr Id of the law 11 Take that story of mvsclf and my black bag Mrs Green went on I used to carry a big w tit me > ou know when I came down here to the olhe I brought my papers In it for I do i great deal ol vvorv it my home The law yes circulated the report that I had a great teal tat money in that bur I have no doat but that they thought some orem ore-m gilt assault me in order to gel posses lion of it I t At allY rate a policeman died at the bank one day and told me that I had better give up carrjinff It and I have done so A DUTTON HOLB nOOUET ROM SAN I KANCfeCO By the way Mis Green continued I tot a CUrtouS present the other dAy from San Francisco lt wisVs alter my fight with C 1 Huntmgton eon In Texas I beat him in the courts there and the tejple I of San FrancISCo were delUhteJ M mv success One ot them sent me a 44caliber revolver with n lot oC ammuniton and a belt 00 that I could hang it at my waist In the letter ccompanvjnj the box ihe writer stated hit this waS a little buttonhole boquet front he citizens 01 San Francisco and thai if 1 came out there they would meet me at the depot 10000 strong and live would march on together to victory against Huntington and punish him for Ins outrageous treatment ol the people ol the Pacific slope Till RICII AND TUB POOR What do you think about rich men Mrs Green Dont you think they are to a large extent the cause of the hard time timeNo No I do not replied Mrs Green I think the chief trouble comes from the men li the rich and the pojr It Is the middle men who are causing the distress They want to arouse a haIred of the poor against the rich in order to nuke money out of it Il Is the middle men who organize the big corporations cor-porations and water the stok and gel rich men to buy it It is i they also wno stir up disaffection among thu poor How about anucnlns 1 have never lound the anarchists very bu 9 II Mrs Green I have ju t come from Chicago tits city of an nrrhiiti The trouble chit the nnarcli IsH H that they are mid Most of them t will do Ihe right thing when they know whit It It Yon may remember that I had a fuss with some of the anarchists an-archists a few years ago It I was when my boy Ned was jist gradual ng I am trying to teach him bu < mtss you know nn J I wanted hin to learn whit Q it cot to miko a buildin nd what at1i went into it In at tint cio lc would know S1nlthlO vf I lahil a rringage 011 suh a build its wor I I wa pill ting up a block m Ch cago mil I told NcJ tier was a chine to learn all about painting and other work bj I bought a pair I of overalls l for him gave 14 tb 1 lo II vk feve him a brush I aril a keg of wliitn leid and ircd I n man to teach him to punt He was laying on the stuir when one of the onarctlists came to hllll and threatened threat-ened to throw him into the lake fcr Inking ing the bread out ol the orking mans mouth I reasoned with the man and showed him that Ned was not gelling any money for h s work that the job hid already been let out b > contract and that the painters woud get all tnat there atitnhe I was m U flu result was that te went away satisfied 1I IKTTY RLENS AUDITIONS FOB HER l SON What is vonr ambilion for lour son Mrs Green I asked 141 I have none rep led the woman ot millions Ail that 1 can ask or hope Is that he will make an honorable and upright nnn I would like h m to he ticright ti able to manage Ins properly lt and to make the most of himself and It IIETTV GREEN AS A NURSII Nits Greet spoke ol her daughter I who is an invalid and I whom she sptnds nlllch tlllle nurlnj Airs Green is very proud oC her ablllles as a nurse Slid sue I can taks a patient and nurse him I quite a < well as these trained nurses ot toe hospital I I look carp of my father during ins last illness He died before 0 Iud trained nurses I remember that I kept a record ol his ten pcral I ues the times he received nourishment and he times I gave him medicine I just a i l the nurse GO nn 1 have often t nurseJ I people In the hotels I here 1 have been stepping and I dont believe that I have ev er had It greater pleasure than seLang mem get well under my i gse ofe nUur mr care The secret ol good nursing is common sense jut as common sense is tbe secret of money making HOW IIErrv KILLED TilE WORSt Common sense it worth more than doctors sense Mrs Green went on I remember n cute I had hich lllus trates this It was my laundress She hid been working for me for many years and all at once she became Ick She tried the doctors but could not get better bhe thought she had a worm in her stunuch which crawled up at eight and ate at her throat almost cooking herAt her-At last I said that I wou d come and nurse her I first took her out on Continued on faft ten A HAT WITH BETH GREEN = Continued from fagt West I the frort porch when lie sun was shinIng shin-Ing so Ill Porcch oud get a good eight other ot-her ard I ooka her over I made herr opin her iroutb wide und on looking 1 1 hilensher varekn4lpallateg r I cv in I saw that she had a very Ion palate and that her losils were quite Sire You Fee her pahto bad dropped down at melii 1 and she thought it was a worm I told her that could kill the worm and I tent lot toms nljm and a preparation or iron I PUI the alunl I tore oou nud touched to I her pjlaie You know how Alum acts It puckers jour palate up I I then ued the Iron pripiration four hr tonsils Well that night the worm did not bother her r continued the treal meat fo several days and it made her ellA ell-A RICH VOMANS Mtuosoiitv IN A NUT SIICLt Now CQiicmIed Mrs Green that cur wai accomp ished by ihe use of common sense Common sense I bt lIve is the most valuable posussioi anyone can have SUCh siccess 1t11 I have had in llfelm been due tolland to the fact tlOI1 1 was 10t nfr1 J to uie such coin men Store as God gave me 1 believe I ill the Ten Comnnndmenti and I obey them as far as 1 cm 1 Irylo treat every unt lairly anti I think it is my duly 10 dit1cria mysel when I am Imposed upon As to Son I care nothinz for U I live ilmp bfcause 11 I Lite ID do so and icciusc p I believe I it is i I better t for my health The chief e d of my life is not to make a show but lo 10 thewoik which seem to lie before me just as well IS I can q Tl k is CAAt IIII |
