Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1898 — “Mr.” Hetty Green. [ARTICLE]

“Mr.” Hetty Green.

Al! the world knows Mrs. Hetty Green, richest and most eccentric woman of America, but few know that there is a Mr. Green, and yet there is, and this Mr. Green was once, before the war, known as “Spendthrift” Green. In those days he was In the China trade and he made a fortune in Hong Kong. In 1866 he went home to New Bedford, Mass., and met and on July 11, 1867, married Hetty Robinson, daughter of a rich whaling ship owner. Wall street broke Mr. Green completely and he became a dependent on his wife. Mrs. Green oatorpd Wall street and made money and she makes a small allowance to her husband, who is now 7? years old. He can be seen each pleasant morning on the porch of Mrs. Green’s house in Bellows Falls, Vt, reading the newspapers, his sole relaxation. The tradespeople rarely do business with Mr. Hetty Green. They know Mrs. Hetty Green only, or rather, think they do. Sometimes they wonder whether they are not mistaken. A woman who deals in millions must look on a shoulder of mutton or a veal cutlet as the Olympic gods, after a draught of ambrosial nectar, might sniff a snuff from a skin of Libyan 'Wine. But the same determination that Mrs. Hetty displays in buying a block of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy is visible in the way she takes to herself a pint of sugar beets or a box of August huckleberries. If the beets are 6 cents at one place and 5 at another fourteen blocks down the street, she takes the other kind and profits by the exercise.—New York World. 1