WOMAN BANKER'S PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 172, 11 July 1908, Page 4

WOMAN BANKER'S PERIL.

"BLACK 11 AX IT' DK.MAXDS OX MliS. HETTY (JUEEN. New Yurk. May 1.5. .Mrs. Holly Green, New York's'woman banker, toiuinoiily described in the newspapers liere as " tlit: richest woman in the world"'- although .Mrs. Uussell Sage is still wealthier-has been forced to accept an escort, of four detectives to and from the Chemical Bank, where she sits daily counting out dollars. Since siio discarded the coal-box bonnet, and laded silk dress which she had wont in recent years, and donned fashionable garments and a rose-coloured hat, -Mrs.' lirecn, who last week left her humble, quarters in llobokcn to live ill handsome apartments at the L'laza hotel, has been the recipient of a number of

"Klack Hand" letters. Tile writers warn her in print-like characters that :'f she values her life she will hand over a slim of CI (WO to a mcssciigr/- nlio will visit, her ill the next few days. Mrs. Oreeii is noi perturbed l,v these threats, which she regards as I lie price of licr financial greatness, since .Mr. .Morgan. Mr. Rockefeller, and many others have been rce.enl.lv siiuilarlv honoured. But the l'laza hotel management, which feels responsible for her safety, has appointed four detectives to ilCCOllipilllV le'i: on Hi:modest uninibu, on which, disdaining a private carriage, the woman banker I ravels daily to and from business premises.