The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-03-21
4 SHREWD WIDOW.
ucr Income or $50 n Month from Tive Sets OF
Cheap Furniturc.

Her kncouao OF $50 . Month from Tive Sets OF
Cheap Furniture.
THE curious and adroit ways in which some
persons manage to make money in this city on q
capital small in substance but large In assur-
ance were brought to my mind the other night
when 1 went to take dinner with a friend" said
q man about town the other day. My friend,
by the way, is a very prosperous and highly
paid executive officer OF one OF the big CONNER
cial concerns in this city. He occupies for the
winter season a set OF apartments in a fashion
able apartment house on tho west side.
As he had announced his intention Of
remaining in the city until June L,
OF course I did not imagine any connection be-
tween his household arrangements and a big
moving van which 1 saw standing in front Of the
door OF the apartment house as l approached.
Men carrying furniture jostled me as I entered.
and l said to myself: Here's some one moving
out But when 1 stepped out of the elevator at
my friends landing 1 met more men. coming out
of his apartments carrying more furniture, I'M
der the supervision OF an auctioneer. who stood
at the landing shouting instructions.
Just within the door I found my friend and
his wife and servants and children in company
with a man whom l afterward found was a city
marshal.
AT sight OF me my friend burst into laughter.
Come in,' he cried: we can receive you in a
novel manner The City Marshal had Just about
finished his work, and my friend led me through
his apartments. His parlor was untouched. but
every bed but one and every bureau and chair
had disappeared from his bedrooms and dining
| room and kitchen. and the carpets were gone
from bedrooms and hall. L guess I won't stay
to dinner l remarked when I saw the bare con-
dition OF the dining room. Oh, yes, You WILL
said his wife. L win borrow a kitchen table and
some chairs from a neighbor, and We will get
1.-- TlanE ava MA I hnvA fhA
utensils and the dinner left, but 1 don't know
that we should have bad these if my husband
had not got home before the men got through
taking out the furniture
I'VE had dinner and passed the evening very
pleasantly in the psrior ana l nnaiiS sett the
could upon the one bed and parlor sofa that were
left. While we ate dinner they told me how
they came TO be in such a hN.
last fall. they saw this fiat, and liking its loca.
was occupying it, bur her business projects were
not prospertnE. and she was about to give up
Just been moved out. She agreed to take a lease
OF the place up to JGne /, and to snslet it
nj IRE My m friend hired int it on these terms,
AS my friend preferred to have his own
parlor furniture and some other things, he dis
carded that much Of the widows goods. Then a
brilliant idea. struck her. The fat across the
ing tenant. bought for a trife ONE OF his turni.
ture and moved in that which my friend had
oiSIarne1; ahS aa'Ss.iseu maj ne 70 rsn' auri,
made a bargain with him by which she reaped
another income OF S25 a month for the use Of
her furniture in that Hat.
Everything went along all right until the day
] went there 10 dine, when the City Marshal had
suddenly appeared. 1t seems that the widow
had borrowed money on her furniture. and still
owed something less than 800. She had fallen
behind in her payment. and the marshal had
come to foreclose the chattel mortgage. The
widow settled the debt the next day and had the
furniture moved back. 1t was during the NOV
ing OF the furniture. my friend tells me, that he
nrsr noted the pauCity and cheapness. and he
declares that the widow could have replaced IL
with modern fat furniture for abous the amount
OF the debt. and yet on this small Investment
and the little extra she had spent for the balance
OF the furniture in the other fiat the astute