Thursday. Julv 15, 1937
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bale Carnegie
5-Minute Biographies
Author of "How to Win Friends
and Influence People." ■
HETTY GREEN
She Resold Her Morning Paper and Spent
Hours in the July Sun Sorting JRags, To
Increase Her Fortune of $65,000,000 *
At one time, Hetty Green was
the richest woman in America. At
her death, she was worth at least
$65,000,000, possibly $100,000,000.
Yet almost any scrubwoman wears
finer clothes than Hetty Green
wore, eats a better dinner, and
sleeps in a better bed.
Her income was $5 a minute, or
S3OO an hour; yet she would buy
a morning newspaper for two
cents, read it, and then have it
sold again.
On cold winter days, she often
padded herself with newspapers
to keep warm. She bought a cou
ple of railroads outright—bought
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them lock, stock, and barrel—and
she owned bonds of almost every
railroad in the country; yet when
she was taking a train journey,
she never indulged in the luxury
of a pullman berth, but sat up all
night in the day coach.
Once she invited her friends to
meet her at the Parker House in
Boston for a dinner party. Every
one expected it to be quite an af
fair. Ladies appeared in their
evening wraps, and the gentle
men wore dinner coats. But after
her guests had arrived, Hetty led
them out of the hotel and walked
them a long distance to a cheap
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boarding house and treated them
to a twenty-five cent dinner.
Sometimes when she was in
Boston, she ate at a restaurnat In
Pie Alley—a place where one
could get a plate of beans for
three cents and a small wedge of
pie for two cents. Her income then
was more than eight cents every
second. That meant she would
have had to eat four pieces of pie
every second just to keep up with
her income.
When she was seventy-eight
years old, a newspaper reporter
asked her the secret of her good
health. She said that she ate a
teriderloin steak, fried potatoes, a
cup of tea and some milk every
morning for breakfast and then
chewed baked onions all day to
kill the germs that were in the
steak and the milk. Unfortunately
she didn't say what she chewed to
kill the germs in the onions.
On a sizzling hot day in 1893
Hetty Green crawled up into the
attic of a warehouse that she had
inherited from her father. The
July sun boiled down upon an iron
roof and made the attic just a
trifle less hot than the outskirts
of Hades. Yet Hetty Green work
ed in that devastating heat for
hours . . . Doing what? sorting
white rags from colored ones be
cause the junk man paid a cent
a pound more for white rags!
She had to. spend most of her
time in Wall Street looking after
her investments. That was dan
gerous and she knew it. She real
ized that if she rented an apart
ment in. New York City, or owned
even one stick of furniture in the
state, the tax collector would
swoop down upon her and take
$30,000 from her every year. So,
to dodge tax collectors, she drift
ed about from one cheap lodging
house to another. Frequently she
stopped for only one night in a
place so that even her best friends
didn't know where she was hiding
half the time. She lived under as
sumed names, dressed in rags, and
carried so little baggage that su
spicfcus landladies often made
her pay for her night's lodging in
advance.
As she grew older, a miracle
happened. A friend persuaded her
to spend S3OO for beauty treat
ments. Each treatment was guar
anteed to make her look one year
younger.
Always fearing that some crook
would forge her signature to a
check, she never signed her name
unless she had to. She saved all
the envelopes that came address
ed to her through the mails, and
wrote her messages on the back
of these envelopes. That relieved
her of the necessity of signing
her own name.
A friend of mine, Boyden
Sparkes, is the co-author of a bi
ography called Hetty Green, A
Woman Who Loved Money. He
told me that Hetty Green used to
keep several million dollars on de
posit at the Chemical National
Bank in New York and so she
made herself at home there. She
left her trunks and suicases in
the bank and she kept her old
dresses and dusty rubbers in the
vault. She brought an old one
horse buggy to the bank, took the
wheels off and had it stored on
the second floor; and when she
gave up her apartment in Hobok
en, she stored her furniture in
the bank.
Yet, in many ways, ,she had a
kindly heart. For example, there
was a parter at the bank, an old
fellow who washed windows and
ran errands and looked like a
tramp. One day the . bank fired
him, and Hetty Green felt so sor
ry for him that she spent almost
a week of her time getting him
another job.
She died at the age of eighty
one from a stroke of paralysis,
and the nurses who cared for her
during her last illness were not
permitted to wear their, white Uni
forms. They wore street dresses
so that Hetty would think they
were ordinary servants—for the
old lady could not have died
peacefully had she suspected that
they were expensive trained nur
ses.
(Copyright, 1937)
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