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- : , ,;r.IAGA2INErSECTI0ri THUEE .'-,' 1 Cs 4 ,: PORTLAND OREGON, SUNDAY ORNING,v A?RIL '12; -.19031 mAlP! mM'PA'V .... l; :-:mi ;'-;K V ' n iv.'At.: ;-A,5:fi? ':)'VlL4 TAJJY,' past 30 'dark f J ; graceful, with features of the ....... 0UKMMC tyycp ntxwj iuhutci tfni having-entree to , the Jbest tocctft co-. " 1 ,.V ' her Mother td $60,000,000, -tvould: like 'to meet t an elirible rentle-i v:Vr; : wow. ? has fheen trained Uy frugaUty Vp- -., 'England mother, s Object, ;. matrimony, '""'4 ' References :j Chemical NationalJBank' and-' " Countess Anne Learvl' Fifth avenue. 'Neva iV.!' I yorJfe. "Address, Sylvia- Green', Hoboken. v " a ; 1 . ILonly the "Love. ITrusi, one oVvohbst ' (a.-asexc'. female arents. has' Just '.been convicted of f sAr,A false :r'frjetettsestn ChicagovihsUUts-neh.' ' - , . . V . :, VSS&ioacz ' V::"n ' -I happens thai tk& xuothWt j"f. rvw -y-.-. T"-.-.-name ;ia Hettr. The nniTewaL'rush for Ho- jnserted,;tn good'fatth, that, advertisement , boken, inspired by the aioii of" a, tall, I dark. uunnv me ncyaay ui in, yrinycriiyi craceiuL.. cultured woman of-30.. able to v , rorwnue roretrn nooiemenana ptners , in the: beat: aocietyl and bearinff ,the move: romantic to whose Tmtnds iy fortunes f enhance, the name, .Sylvia-a;rush but little hampered by tne ' Ichamstof Amer . :-JlJ-it, it J " eome bnef instant, be checked by the diacovery .patgntng on these shores and cfpfrpngjur, that , her, motbijr , famous Hetty Green, f young women of wealth, one of W great' who,'in the -course, of her. adventures, has met ' ' est of living heiressei has beet pursuing her and defeated more men, lightweights and heayy- "'quiet way; apparently iunmiridfuV of physique 1 as. well aa-intellect, .than . . - tin'i 3 ... irjr.-'. tL-ItL -11 all the lmnir ouirilists. from Jeffries to Sullitan. , proved less - tng ifWW,0AtflfAftf r? brunette than she was painted; and Hetty,' Green, xjne ining: seems eertatn miss'iirccnc to;those'wo really, know ner Justory ana ner wiu never oecome- tne tmae 01 a.imca-iov t."v l,?, rr vv-v eiptermfiMbesto m nviviM vtikcii b HurvivuiK uaicub asp bug AmmtHs-tJho. then: ttuttt eaitur ' the vr .-ftodfnni -?at nW t1 ntirnrisiTiff i y;" lTT ' ....... r. ..- . . f y . ,. w, v.-.vn irv-..,-.-yj - . tt . r leiier 01 ine anT-mintiAi pnTirnat . j r master-whaler jin hia day.and generaUon, wno .. T-w ... . ; JLiowland. in ma , . v " 7T; ,T, p - rich ; and enter- 'i-cent out of ,tne nches of, hia wife, which were rrininffmftftterwhftlpr; - ' ' multiplying:, on the ganwr scale, and' largely by IT EIKES8 to the ' richest woman in - . The? rich whaler, his fortunes -long- before - the-same. methods, that characterized the.enor- 1 1 ' I 1 America, if not in the worlds sensible ? :afcMishBd nrxYiTiiifsnfll nition miallv se-- ' fflous growth; of .the millions.1 of Russell' Sage. I - I V ? and ; kindhearted, Miss Sylvia-Green, cured died in 1865.!- Hetty inherited $1,000,000 . He' died at last, on March 19,1902; after having VI mencanX Who, j tww 'capture ing 0f . New Bedford, a ?ery rich anc . -richest prize',nqw7awaiting the f coming of master , whaler jin hia day. and ge: the knirhtf ; N - V t ; i v - ; , married the daughter of Gideon H ," v- , J. day and generation; likewise a rii '? '!r'atfV .v " ',..;-ii'y.,J','.'''ii'X nrlairnr mooter KilprlEJk?'.';',t-'--.'-tfr of his money in her own right and $9,000,000 in, trust for her 1 descendants. - X-i - - v: She was one of the most sought after, belles of her-time an American variant of 'Baroness by last accounts resident in Hoboken, N. J. one block.? from .the .ferry; .in, a fourth floor flat, for which' the rent of $19 per month is punctiliously paid, remains unmarried. wealth,' rrand event Krupp, with her millions made out of cannon,; -'could discern no" reason ; why her fortune should has found Jber lite partner; Uladys vanderbut, - debar ' her from .matrimony, -although! sbe 'aur been the object of the most assiduous.' affec tionate care throughout the. winter on the part' of his wife and1 hia daughter. ;t It,was a nursing' such as only a tender woman and a devoted wife '. could give a helpless husband. The diseade was is- one of "the? few women of. great Burdett-Coutts,; to propose to whom every gen- ?f P1 give helpless husband. ;;The disease'was present t or ' prdspective, awaiting the '? tleman of Europe considered it a duty. 'i? 80 years rent of woman's career, now that Bertha w .- Unlike ' the ."famous English . heiress,' she ola h W2 i ' ;:--i's.$?! J; with the .millions made' out of railroads,' has found hers,' and ' Mrs. 'Anna M. Walker, with millions made out of. quinine, has xound hers.': , . In only"two! particulars both of i them daunting at ,"first glimpse, neither of -them io very disheartening tupon ; reflectionwould the Love Trust's advertisement have departed from the strict and narrow Hue of yericy. , . .',' . v One of them, at most, could have been con-a strued as an bver-statcmcnt that she would like to meet an eligible gentleman.'' Even at .that, the- history of the -courtshipa that have'been tendered her 'offers -no evidence' which gainsays the observation. 1 , , On .. the 'face of the facts it would seem' - more : than probable, that Miss Sylvia: Green is a perfectly normal woman wno, like all: other ... 1 . . 1111: . mised every reason ior keeping her wealth' in her. own" capable handa-in those hands which, dur--; ing the later, years' of her father's !life,' had so shrewdly' assisted him. ' s ' ' , ' ' ' " ," " "' ' 1 ; ' ; - She married 'Edward ; A."'. Green, -a. million- Mrs. .Green.:when the serions nature .of his malady became apparent, ' gave ' to ; his v sickbed ' . every hour she1 could stint from her immerise in terestsin rlw Yorlc. When it became grave : she 'transferred all -her i business activities 4 to JBeuows xalls,. wnere, with stenographers and a ' corps .of ; clerks, she. made, her headliarters. u aire by virtue i of hia trading onerations in the -wnue ner oaugnter, under ber direction, saw to VPhUippines;and 1 she; carefully made an-ante- . tne details of tbe sick nuptial agreement, under ' which her) husband normal,;unmarried4women,would like to'meet. tionsl His health failed him. so that for years an eligible gentleman. Her measure of eligibil-i ,he . continued a- chronic 1 invalid ."in the , Green - ity. However, is prooaoiy exacting, v bomestead at liellowa lalfaVf lne otner particular couia ecarceiy be eon- trued even as ; an , under-statement for -when were incumbrances itemized 'in a .matrimonial advertisement i and J what : right-minded . man would consider the first name of his prospective mother-in-law any incumbrance at all! ' man's care.. There is, -in brief, the 'life and career of It -is !iar-from ; being 'an- unpleasing -picture, isntitl-i "f.. 4 ' . JL social belle, in her youth, eagerly sought , and : generally -admired, . Hetty ; Green proved precisely ; that type 'of heiress whose disappear i anco ,the. nation 'is universally. Jamenting--a woman given over to no futile frivolities, misled v by; no r social gauds,; her duty,; to the race per . formed years : before- modern critics' suspected ' Tdodern woman's-recreancy,. her devotion to an". . itjvalid husband as -unflagging as that of, some His wife, ffreatlr-churned with the .melodrama, 1 her of her inheritance-that had been speedily aug-' f are l0.r "tw cwldrm re; scrupulous tban mented by $4,000,000 ; left her: by. Sophie Jinn V: het twlicitudo for her millions.. Rowland, her aunt-was constantly engaged in f :-Two charges have been repeatedly launched . affairs in New York, and esewhere. : MrNGreen,tMftt thl8 ' n?rtime, belle and present ruling possessed of a modest iaajma scrapeLuypul.cJ5 ':. '- tWicrnijfBJi pN insids page.)' v must : support her and ! his children,1 and must not touch a dollar'-of .herimoncy." ".,' "' She felt she could attend to. all-of that her self ; and she did attend to it. ;; The event showed that her 1 judgment, caution, ' self-reliancq call it what we will was; wholly justifiable, ' " ' Her husband eventually lost practically' all . his fortune, the"; direct" -avenue of vloss, it haa been ? generally understood,- being stock opera- t " '." t ,' ;., .... , 2 .,." -... '. 'J . ..' s. ; . VIST. . X- J . t ft- 1, nr. " . A - , ' t JJ ' ' f ' - " .
