![]() ![]() ![]() She would haggle with merchants and waiters over charges as low as 15 cents at a time when she owned a railroad and some of the most valuable property on Michigan Ave. ![]() Sometimes she was recognized and made to pay the bill, which made her furious. She actually did dress herself and her children as paupers to receive free medical attention. There were several times when NYC approached and received loans from Hetty Green of over a million dollars to keep public services running.There are many stories about her greed and some are true. She had an amazing business sense, which she gained from her wealthy father, to know when a piece of real estate or a bond would be valuable in the future and to keep her head when the stock market plunged. I first read about her in The People's Almanac as a kid and thought she was fascinating, as did every newspaper during her decades as the wealthiest woman in America. Hetty Green was known as The Witch of Wall Street around 1890, as she dressed in shabby old black gowns and outdated bonnets while she saw to her business about New York's financial district. ![]()
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