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Show I WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. ParJon frvvvr ri vv'vvf n vrrf WVf NEW YORK. Oner! in M. Carter, eighty-one years old, a(!ain np-pcals np-pcals to the Supreme court in his incessant nisht of 30 years for re-admission re-admission to the Capt. Carter army anc the Again Seeks voiding of the Vindication court-martial verdict ver-dict which sent him to prison for fraud. Powerful Influence has backed the former captain and his friends call J him "the American Dreyfus." The case against him, on charges of fraud involving many millions, was one of the notorious scandals of the McKinley administration. He had been in charge of river and harbor har-bor reclamation at Savannah. Handsome, gifted, of a distinguished distin-guished family, Captain Carter was second in scholarship only to Robert E. Lee in all the history of West Point. A newspaper account of March, 1889, reveals him at Savannah Savan-nah just before the turn of his fortunes: for-tunes: "Captain Carter was an exceedingly exceed-ingly popular man in club circles and among his numerous female acquaintances. ac-quaintances. He was polished in his manner, exceedingly cordial to all and ran toward the rapid set. He was a very fashionable dresser. "He generally appeared in three fnnr suits of clothes daily and never failed to don Changed His j,js evening suit Suits Four for dinner. In the t- r,., morning he wore Times a Day husiness suit, but by lunch time he appeared in his bicycele suit. After taking a spin about the principal streets of Savannah Sa-vannah for a couple of hours, he next appeared in his driving suit. Late in the afternoon, he would appear ap-pear in his riding suit. "In 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 hand-shaking 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, assemblies, assem-blies, fetes and army blow-outs to honor him on his departure. Cr,ir,o him off at the boat was Commander E. Gillette, a salty, weather-beaten old sea dog. Captain Cap-tain Carter's gush of affection embarrassed em-barrassed him. The captain insisted insist-ed that the commander make use of his house. The old commander was inclined to suspect over-generous persons. , He pondered the Commander s captain's conduct Suspicions and then went to a a J the office of the Are Aroused engineering corps. On a map, he- saw a retaining wall of masonry spotted up as having been built at a cost of $7,000,000. Then he strolled down the river, looking for the wall. It wasn't there. He kept on exploring. He reported to the war office that $7,000,000 had been spent for nothing more than marks on paper. THE courts awarded to Mrs. Matthew Mat-thew Astor Wilks, daughter of Hetty Green, the entire estate of her brother, the late Col. Edward H. R. Green, estimated as between $60,000,000 and $80,000,000. This, with a similar amount inherited from her mother, and the fortune bequeathed by her husband, makes her, according accord-ing to all current estimates, the richest woman in the world. She is much like her mother. Sixty-six years old, she lives in an unpretentious un-pretentious house on "Electric hill," in Greenwich, Conn., with a few servants and a ten-year-old-collie dog named Prince as did her mother moth-er in her later years. And like her mother, she does her own mantei-ing, mantei-ing, driving to town every day or two in a small car. The late Matthew Astor Wilks was a great-grandson of John Jacob Astor. As-tor. When they Hetty Gives were married in Advice to 1909. in her moth-. moth-. . er's flat in Hobo- Bndegroom ken Hetty Green was quoted by the newspapers as saying to the groom: maimew, you are sixty-jive years old and you have the gout. Some day my girl is going to have $5,000 a day. I want to be sure that she is marrying a man who will help her take care of her money." She has managed nicely. If her $160,000,000 is bringing 3 per cent, that's not $5,000 but $13,178.10 a day. For twenty-seven years she has lived in the house near Greenwich. Her husband died in 1926. Her fortune for-tune consists of many blocks of real estate in St. Louis, Boston and New York and railroad and other securities. securi-ties. She has no box at the opera, assumes no grandeur of the reigning dowager and lets Greenwich highest per capita wealth in America run itself without her aid. Her participation partici-pation in public affairs consists mainly of her annual contribution to the Greenwich Firemen's association. associa-tion. C3 Consolidated News Feature!. WNU Service. |