HETTY GREEN'S FORTUNE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 211, 22 September 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

HETTY GREEN'S FORTUNE.

Mrs. Hetty Green, who died in New York on July 5, left over £20,000,000 Slue was America's best-known business woman, and popularly reputed to be the richest woman in the world. Almost till the last she pursued her profession of moneylending and buying property on foreclosure. She has been described as a genuine counterpart of tho late Russel Sage, Wall Street's thriftiest multimillionaire. Like him, she denounced the extravagance of the times, and exhorted everyone to save. She was a specialist in mortgages, and in general business could compete successfully with the "foxiest" men in New York. What she preached as regards economy she practised in home life. She was always poorly dressed, and invariably lunched at a creamery for .» few cents. Her one ambition was to leava her son, Colonel Green, also a successful business man. "well prow'dod for." Hetty Green leaves no successor m Wall Street. She is described by the New York "World" as "perhaps the most picturesque figure in Anierhn life, a woman with more than <; masculine genius for finance, a captain of industry in skirts, and possessing alon» with her great wealth the capacity for administering it. And with her genii's for money-making on a large scale was linked a singular contempt for the luxury of Wealth, a frugality amounting almost to penur.'ousne-s. Few shopgirls would lie content to dress as this richest woman dressed." Possibly the best description of Hettv is th.at she was by all odds the American woman in Whom tho pub-lie took the liveliest interest.