A LADY MILLIONAIRE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1354, 18 June 1885, Page 3

A LADY MILLIONAIRE.

If Vanderbilt is the richest man in America, Mrs B. H. Green is the richest woman. All her securities were in the hands of Cisco and Son when they failed, and when she heard the rumors affecting the credit of the firm, she wrote to have her account closed and her balanca of 450,000d01s transferred to other banks. The firm asked her to leave her deposit as cover for 800,000dols due from her busband, which she declined, as Bhe keeps all her financial affairs separate from his. At the time Mrs Green had in a box in iheir charge 26,000,000d01s in stocks and Governmeut and railroad bonds locked up as a upecial trust. Mrs Green was the daughter of a New Bedford whaler, who left, her 5,000,000d015, and being a " keen blade" she has multiplied her heritage on the Stock Exchange. She is even said more than once to have had a " corner" in Reading, and her interest in Louisville nnd Nashville is immense. She does business regardless of _ sentiment and relationship, is close-fisted, never indulging in luxuries. She has walked to a bouial reception in a heavy sLow-storm rather than pay for a coach. Once she got out of a Broadwav stage in front of the Cisco banking office in Wall street with a bulky parcel under her arm. Mr Cisco was looking out of his office window at the time; and a few minutes liter, when he found that the bulky parcel contained over 2Qo,oQodols iu negptiablp securities, which IVlrs Green bad brought down to plape in the vault, he said, "Don't you think it was rather risky for you to have brought these bonds down town in a public stage? You Bhould have tafcoa a

carriage." " A oarriage indeed |" said nhe t "Perhaps you can afford to ride in a carriage. I cannot." —Anglo-American Timec.