Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — HETTY GREEN. [ARTICLE]

HETTY GREEN.

Will Tw« Over All Baatneaa tm Her Dsaghter. Mrs. Hetty Green,, celebrated for years ad the richest and shrewest business woman in that-world, will -soon retire from active business life and will turn over the handling of her Immense fortune, estimated at $50,000,000, to her daughter Sylvia, now Mrs. Matthew Astor Wilks. For months It has been rumored that Mrs. Green’s health is failing, and these rumors have been partially substantiated during the last few weeks by the Irregularity of the aged woman’s visits to her office In the Chemical National Bank, and her feeble appearance when she does materialize there. A.mong the few persons in close touch with Mrs. Green it is understood that for years she has been quietly training her daughter to successfully manage her Immense fortune, and that since her daughter's marriage to Mr. Wilks, with Its accompanying possibility of an heir, this training has been increased. It is reported that the transfer of the active control of Mrs. Green’s millions to her daughter for management Is only a question of a few weeks at most. Hetty Green Is 73 years old. Her age, coupled Ttltfr —her monotonous business routine, has begun to tell upon her. She no longer is able to put the snap and dash Into the handling of her affairs that characterized her in the past, although her shrewdness, It is said, is as keen as ever. One of Mrs. Green’s geratest disappointments in life, It Is said, has been the noninclination of her son, Edward H. R. Green, who lives in Texas, to become as famous a financier as herself. At one time she put $20,000,000 into southwestern railroads for h'er son, so that he might become a railroad magnate. The accumulation of wealth, however, is not a fad with Edward H. R. Green, who Is content to live well and carry on sufficient business at the same time to keep his mind occupied. Sylvia, the daugther, takes more after her mother, and It is on this account that the control of her mother's enormous fortune will soon be turned over to her.—New .York American.