THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1949.
Hetty Green,
gold-greedy miser
¡ORTY years ago, in a But when'
New York slum. a she
F
Wont Beat the shrewdest business
grey old woman was back home
wrapping newspapers under she still had
her grubby black dress to £200 of her brains in U.S., but was too
left.
keep out the cold of winter, original £240
It would have been pathe tic if she hadn't been Hetty Groen, who made £20,000,000 "all-by herself and was a
fabulous miser.
She was 26 mean to buy a dog licence
when her mother died.
Helty bore the loss equably. it was physically ill when she heard that her mother's
Her father, "Blackhawk" Robinson, was one of the richest and meanest money went to her father. traders on the Puritan New England coast.
Aching for a fortune of her own, she went to live Hetty adored him and with her ailing Aunt Sylvía, woman in the grew in his penny-pinching The richest image.
the financial columns of the newspapers to him.
town.
At six she was reading Hetty male the bed-
ridden invalid's mery, bullying her will.
life A her about
She that
murely
ran
the
housu,
At 13 she knew more of
1 }}{ stock market
many brokers.
A
by..
PAUL BRICKHILL
With business recovery, the money poured in for Hetty.
A pint of milk would last her and children two The free and easy Mr Green the played the market too, but for three days, and he didn't have Hetty's chrewd- Dually caught ness. He was auf lost all his money.
Greatest
crime of all-ho Jost £100.000 of Hetty's loo Jelly turned him out of the house for that and
never let him back in aqinin--thoighi' ahe terangant allowed young
him a pension of 45. About this time her who ripped the skirt and grandfather died. Hetty bundtee off a cook's back for listened to his will. wasn't a penny for her, and food. she cried all night.
There not using
At 16 her father sent her off with £240 for a season 11 New York. Hetty benr to spend any couldn't of it, even for party dresSNON. Her relatives paid.
DANCED with Prince of Wales
SHE
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she berame even more attached to her onion 2 Aoy
because
helped preserve her from the extravagances of appetite.
If she ne out it was to get
a three-ba'penny piece of pie art
bin!
of Borups
After
this right
she got a Bide easy about stocks and Hent, food, cluthes, and every- went in for real estate instead, thing for her und the young With the development of year, stems cost her some is, a day.
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Increasi
About Agri
40 pow, lietty Trasf deep square kines
to her
Finally Aunt Sylvi was theat liging enough to die in enormously in value 1865, but she left £200,000 To charity and only the in- terent on smother £200,000, in frust, to Hetty.
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Hetty contexted the will. She claimed her munt out of her mind, tred to
ribe the judge, and finally tavimperech with the docu- There were ugly
acrusations of forgery
Was that season 14 social whirl, twice dan. cing with the Prince uf Wales, later Edward VII.
Prefab Meals Make U.S. Wives Lazy
fermune dead.
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louts chosen rallway. ad wark bea
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The case went on and she ti Trist.
but in the meantime maket.
MASTERS OF
MONEY
Number fi
y was tight in the Ince.
the grasping "Blackhawk" Now here in more decency in jdies, and at long last, at the Tossiness than most people think, Tage of 30. Hetty had her wood when money as tight the
MOPY 1200, DON! in
is unify Cash bare
duspapy to be helpful and meet (and the interest na aund her
hus debtors half Way. Not TROO DOO,
Hetly!
FREMTORN
her
Wan
H
mouth straight, thin, and tight like the mouth of her purse.
where they brushed on the street. Only the bottom fringe, therefore, med be washed--for half-price. Ami so it was.
As she grew older and richer, she began to worry that some- one might fich her money from
her her might blackmail So ale kidnap her.
took carrying a revolver.
her money-st the black-
mail rate of 10 percent.
The bank was only too happy to take it and enve its skin.
she Hound about this time refused to pay us for a licence fer her dog, Dewey, whom atte
adored.
it to
Daughter Sylvin paid Gave Dewey from the dog- catchers.
or
When aged 72 she made the
life of her bla sacrifice
for
to
Sylvin, whu
Was
30 and
slidin't
a husband.
She
her
It
con-
She used to park spicuously on her desk when Interviewinst tough customers At this time she was taking on
H ATTA GaI and generally beating America's biggest industrialists
'JUDGE has done mo dirt'
I'
COLLIS
HUNTINGTON once made an oblique threat at Ned when he was arguing a land deal with Hetty She
grabbed her gun and pointest
tire hollow end at him. "You've
When Ned was 14 he dislocat ed his kneecap. and Hetty the loving mother emerged Night after night she sat up poulticing
t it with
staje brend, and did everything 1 case his pal exeril spend money by sending for doctor. She'd wanted money 50 In her dulity honwilling whe
Finally.
when there was no the rai men Hom. that now.it was the whole avi asked
ive and cry oldest brea dealing with Hetty Green option, The coine anl that matteral. the
see her bringing clothes and half-carried Ned to the Jonly thing
woman," she sakl. "Now casti WHH them They hospital as She could buy anything she ant
a charity patient. you're dealing with Hetty Green have the vanh 1111 wanted but the work! haul conditii raise it in TENIS
the anther. Get out." Han nothing she wanted except meme with apologten Conte and
Hagten went, Hetty was
She
.
mare told V.
By FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK. THE Am mean hom wife is lazy. If he were
THE
Two vents Inter she mar
Edward Green, made
not. fond prters would have rice come down much further.had
26
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Ko
Talate her iper raid was
whee
TOO mean to rent an office
QUIK
Fed
in mortgaged
mysterionAN
This is the opinion of mem-12200,000 in Manila. ber of a Senate committee
m food.
He was a penial soul who CHE perbed De muter woman, they have liked spending more Bonet, is demend ng Tool fearning.
The Krimet shi ready to put she
than
kim perl She wonate more teh.] Over the next code of venes
had it r Next
Sylv les Menughter
me foorin more ready-prepared ¦ the v
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1st mid
Toasty
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Str wands Tool Tere, an mantike kept to farg death, packages just enough for two, antes
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that she
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And
when K vegetables she
wants them ready priten and washed
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For
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fetty
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Her Holdings woud is thertore Cantart shit 1
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The terror.
Over
The maysay,
queller
... Tracks. Je spousa Ludways, and real estate
A great property DOSTA Whe
HUNT for lost wages
+1 fow
have moved with Sylvin from
Lia week
tenement into
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£20-a-day sulte in New York's awakbeat hotel, the Plaza.
She took a 80-guinen beauty grim face course, having her stamed and muḍpacked, bought new gowns and false hair. Theo she gave banquets on gold plata with gallons of champagne.
The entire U.S. Was over L
'MONEY' way
to romance
\NCE again Helty's judgment
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The DETAMORE, WORLD TRAVELLER AND BIBLE LECTURER, engagement was announced of Sylvia Matthew Astor Wilks, an ging (57)
of selon Inmous Arler Candly.
the
With the rngagement official, gowns,
He took the land deal to court Hetty sold all her new
Jade: in typical Betty SK Sed cut to work after
fambient. She <*i } el in Wrang toties in a Mandaly Furt
big local nickel Mortgages of free pervy bilis) a day. He paints 3 tr> Tors
on the aghast ni laving to raise hore, and Het y stayed up motory so quickly with him all night again-out the streets with a lantern
Just m
Je kit Ertal
A te she kept De R
cadren froth
1. sar Tepement to ansther, often uades Bebe names
1x
liberaly
mod having
We line Meuti to rent are silite pay Exed susidence Helly, will hesself
10241 f several hundred
She aper to wazi ut an old While fi het children, cell-typ desk in n corner of a
Brunetal
bank which led the waterving world agam ang Husn Trunebed privilege uť holding a lot of And all these this. food her own business carver She ber money.
add the com took a dirt inte gold Emones and
Ameria cleared £200,000 proßt husbands would spend for hoss
PROFESSORS DOVY mifted cost money
on food if their wives would do
Little 1001 work.
Raisins for the pigs |MERICA'S Pigs are to dine A off
£4.284,000 worth
She used to travel to it on a wurkranti'g ticket. She was 100
1 1873 There was a hint of mean to hire stoff, too. Almos Aumneral parale Hetty had undelivably. she did all her evolved her Own system-10 work herself.
Bromsari! chilar t
with. DWAY
paying much fack en a workmon earning
£2 week.
year, kot
b
By this time they were call. ing her the Witch of Wall- Attest
She was nearly 4 10- mal lastitution.
She never gave a cent nway, bit
shn tint militons sch millions millions, on sound security, to
the
the
MONROUND.
have to
and won. Hetty went for the took a refund on the uncoin-
Green pleted beauty courso
and weat back to her klum and old black com dress, saying. "The hotel's too wrre expensive and besides it's utter
Why you kep dressed on the time,"
As she left the hotel the staff urled 16 farewell her, with expectant smiles that died 13 Tietty sailed on, her purse 715 tightly clamped as her mouth. The doorman was the last to bry "Cali?" he beamed ni her. "It Tonks lie rain."
If
a
"A judge has done me dirt." yodd them "Get him out
14 hod
The business. men flattered the page into re- caning by run fog a hagher post
the dumped ham.
Shghtly only neve Astuteness.
she 35/265. ket p Anancial
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"Thon't kok like rain to me. 7:30 P.M. Wed., Thur., Fri. & Sun. Nights
snapped Hetty. "Anyway, I've got my umbrella and There's It was She guessed the approach of nothing like walking."
probably the first time o guest Live 1907 putate.
had got away from the Pinza without tipping.
She put what she could into
Fun vush and just before the started on the banks she drew
nearly £400,000 out of her ac- counts.
The day of the big run she
SON was a spendthrift
Hetty
When panic cate und fright- and millions, she had mis panies, cities, and people at rode raund with it in a cab at business y rered from
Jeush
in on men's fear.
By this time
INCH E.
She But
for wil precisely
her wealth she HA 다 miser
prime Californian raisins during ned
the next nine months.
shareholders rushed to To huld sell. Hetly bought hugely
up prices for farmers (and also would hold-for years if need ved
for the woman who just wants for the recovery and rise, 'traditionally lives, in dirty slum to bake rake) the Govern- and then sell,
ment have ordered 120,000 tons
to be kept off the market.
Every time a pig cats a ton
of raisins, Uncle Sam will hand
a cheque for £28 119. 5d. to his owner.
Nylon gloves for men Now on sale here at 25%, a pair turg nylon wash-them- yourself gloves for men. They colours:
ate offered in three brown, grey, charols; and have
a suede-like finish.
For men, too, cocktail glasses with a magnifying, stem are on sale at 30s, for six. A bathing girl-minus bat
bathing sult-comer Into view as the last drop of the cocktail disappears.
For anglers, there is a new idea in fly-boxes, in which the flies remain hently arranged around a central magnet and cannot be either lost or damaged. This sells for £2.
The public 'tolophono TEW YORK'S 250 epr-tele- phons users have been warned; it has been discovered that the telephones can be overheard by, as, many as 80 other subscribers, and by hun- dreds of short-wave radio amateurs.
Private delectivo George Palocalk Bold: "I picked up the telephone in my car and heard someone tell a man to meet him with 1,000 dollars to close a car deal. If that min had been held up and robbed, he would have wondered how anybody know!"
-(Londen Express Service).
rooms and on scraps of food.
the regulation six percent.
She had a squabble with a washerwoman.
Pottleoals, argued Hitty, only
day, and towards closing time, when a large bank was teeter- ing on the brink of failure be-
cause of lack of funds, Helly
(who eventually inherited £20,000,000 fortune).
her
Ned sen borrifled her. Year of Hetty's spectacular stinginess
got visibly dirty at the bottom, drove up and offered to lend it had given him a powerful de-
EXPLANATION
HE WAS FRIGHTENED BY
A RAMSAYMACDONALD IN HIS INFANCY, Y'KNOW...........
"POOR CHAP
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sire to do more with money than count it.
Before long he had a string of girl friends, had bought two yachts, an airship, and £50,000 worth of liquor all in one order.
Early In 1910 Helly's beloved ittle dog Dewey became sick. but couldn“! She nursed him
to spend money bring herself on a vet and Dewey died.
She was crushed with grief. Her only friend, Countess Annie Leary, took the old woman to her
home to look after her. Dour Helty recovered and, back to normal, started bossing the place.
She went down to the kitchen and accused the countess', cook of wasting food
scraps. Tho cook answered back.
Hetty exploded with rage, ill suddenly ahe staggered and dropped to the floor with stroke.
Another Rtroke followed... a. third. She can't live said the doctor. "Three strokes are fatal"
It took six to kill - Hotty Green.
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