The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1897-05-27
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4 shTtwrd widow.
The curious and sdrolt ways 10 whioI
some people mausRe to make money in th
city on capital small In substance bu
large IN assurance were brought TO N,
mind the other night when went to TAX
dinner wi friend, said man al on
town the other day. My friend, by th,
way, is very prosperous and highly p4it
executive officer OF one Of the big CONNIE
eial concerns in the city. He occupies fo
the winter season sat OF apartments in ,
fashionable apartment house on the ives
side As he had announced his intention
OF remaining ia the city until June /, o
course | did not imagine any connection
between his household arrangements and
big moving van which | saw staLdng in
front OF the door tf the srartment house
as | approached, Men carrying furni' ure
lostled NE as ! entered, aud said to my
self. Here's some one moving out. But
when / stepped out Of the elevator at my
friends landing | met more men comm q
out Of bis apartments. carrying more furni
tnse. under the supervision OF an auction
eer, who stood At the landing shouting in
struotions
Just within the door found my friend
and his wife and servants and children 10
company with q man | afterwards found
was city marshal.
AT sight Of me my friend urst into
laughter, Come 10 he cried We can re
ceive yon In novel manner. Toe city
marshal had Inst about flushed bis work
and my friend led me through bis apart
meuts His pirlor was untouched, bat
every bed but one and every bureau and
char bad disappeared from his bedrooms
aud diuiug room snd kitchen. and the osr
pets we're gone from bedrooms and hall.
| guess ! won't stay to dinner, | remarked
when saw the bare condition OF the din
ing room OF, yes, you will, said bis
wife. | will borrow kitchen table and
some chairs from neigbor aud we will get
along. Thank heaven. we still have the
kitchen utensils and the dinner left. but
| don't know as we would have had these
if my husband had not got home before
the men got through taking out the furni
ture.
We had dinner and passed the evening
very pleasantly IN the psrlor and finally
left the family Of five persons to 90 to
go to sleep as best they could upon the
one bed aud parlor sofa that were left
While We ate dinner they told me how
they came to be in such FIX.
1t seems that when they were house
hunting this fall they saw this fl fil and
liking it's location dckered for its posses
sion A young widow was occupying il,
bat her business projects we're not pros
perlHg. She owned the furniture that had
Just been moved ont. She agreed. to take
q lease Of the place mp to June | and TO
subet it to my friend with furniture for
an advance S2j month for the use Of
her furniture Ny friend hired it on
these term' As my friend preferred to
hsve his own ps'lJr furniture and sonn o
other thinRs, be discarded tnat mnch oil
the widow go1ds. Then btiIiaut idea
struck her. The fat scfoss the hall was
Just being vacated, She saw the leaving
leaving uant, bought for tun' some
OF his furniture and moved in that which
my friend had discarded aud advertised
that a At 10 rent iuroished. In three days
she got tenant and made bargain with |
him by which she reaped smother income
Of s25 month for the use Of her iur1i'ure
in that fat.
Everything went along oil ripLt until
the day | went there to dine. when the
city marshal bad suddenly sppeared. It
seems that the widow had borrowed |
money on her furniture and siill owed |
some thing less than 800 She bad fall
en- behind in her payments and the mar
shsl had come to ioreclo'e the cbsttel /
mortgage. The widow settled the debt
the next dsy and had the inrniture moved
back the nert day. IL was during the
moving OF toe furniture. my friend tells
me, that be trst polsd the oheapness, snd /
be declares that the vido1 could have re-
placed il with moiern fat furniture for .
bout the smount Of The dbl, aud yet 90 /
this smsll Investment aud the little sItrs /
she had spent FOR the balanoe Of the iurni
ture 10 the other flh the ssruts widow I
was drawing % income Of 800 a uolth.
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