The sun., 1905-12-31
CHEAP LIVING ~ NEW YORK.
Neither Rent Nor Furniture Need Cost tho
Amateur FInancier Much.

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Neither Rent Nor Furniture Need Cost tho
Amateur Financier Much.
| The ianitor poked little at the fire and
settled himself back comfortably in the
easy chair in he cosey corner of the boiler
room. The red light percolated through
the damper holes in the furnace door, light
ing up his grizzed features, and lending
| additional warmth to his CHEEKY smile.
There's an awful lot of amateur life
insurance presidents in this world he
began. That lavish family that's lived
on the second floor front for the last four
months moved out this morning, forgetting
| to pay the last three months rent. And
it's something grievous the way they hung
up the installment collectors.
Il went up to order them out this morning
| and found them looking as detected as a
! deaf man at sacred concert. The man
| said he'd done the best he could, but the
world had certainly treated him like de-
| feated candidate, and he wasn't going to
ask for no recount.
He gave me panatela and asked me to
find an expressman to carry away his
| trunks. | said | would, but told him he'd
have to leave the Grand Rapids and the
| cosey corners for security for the rent.
He gave me that soft, supplicatingi
| true lovers smile that every girl gets when
she asks the guy il she's really the only
only, and told me that that was what he
| had intended doing all the time-leaving it;
| and that he would square up like a mathe-
| matician, if he had to sell the alarm clock
at auction. l got the expressman, and he
| took their two trunks and suitcase, leaving
everything else standing just like it was.
| furniture, carpets, rugs curtains and
| piano"
Then what?" inquired the man from the
| fifth floor who had come down for quiet
| smoke in a warm place.
We'll" said the janitor, with a side
| glance at the steam gauge. 'tbis is the
| third time we've been stuck like a man
| looking for the best seats five minutes
| before the curtain goes up on the night
| of the last performance, and l should have
| yelled twenty-three long ago. But ! cer-
| tainly was slow getting next to this artist,
seen from behind, it appears that this
| Wall Street piker had his trunks dumped
| on the sidewalk in front of a swell hotel
| on Broadway, and as soon as the express
! man was out OF sight got another asphalt
| ferry to cart them off somewhere else
| and now he's probably changed his name
| and is shlffling the same old deck across
| the table in some other apartment house.
within an hour after he left he tele.
| phoned the furniture house that it was All
| off, and to come and take their stuff away
Before noon two big vans backed UP here;
full Of husky Sullivans who had a quart
of blood in each eye. He had paid only
the first instalment on the furniture, and
the house was stung for the moving charges
both ways. The piano man arrived soon
| after"
| We'll" remarked the tenant admirin gy,
you certainly ought to be the district
| leader in foolish ward to have a rare
| old whale like that handed to you
There's nothing bright and glietening
about the game, said the janitor because
a lot of people have been sitting in on it
during the summer. But 1 do object to
the way he took me a quarter mile into
the tall grass and lost me.
"You see, uring the summer all these
| bobtail flush apartment houses with the
4-l1-44 front and gladsome Railways gave
every new tenant the second months rent
free to take a chance on the buildings
not collapsing before the builder could rattle
it off to some confiding person tired of losing
money on Standard Oil securities and own
ing an ambition to turn his securities into
some permanent investment With new
building already full Of tenants the invest
ment looks to an old real estate hunter like
a soft thing with stone foundation,
We'll. there's any number Of people
take advantage of that second months
free rent and then move, and get another
second months rent free in some other
place. Buying the entire furnishings of
the happy little home from an installment
house saves paying moving charges, and
costs only SIS down.
4It's easy to stand of the second pay
ment The butcher, grocer, baker, deli
oatessen and beer bills are all paid the first
month.
Il don't collect the second month. you
see. The second month the furniture man
and the piano man are told that Mr., Come
man is out of town for couple Of week.
I get the same story the third month, and
she varies it little to the furniture man
by telling him that Mr. Copneman has had
lapse Of memory, but will take care "t
the matter In few days.
THE next two weeks she doesn't answer
the door bell The furniture and piano
men send notice. Mr.. Conneman writes
polite business note explaining hs tenn
porary business difficulties. but he will pay
up all back accounts in ten days.
while the fourth mo nth IL drawing 10 nu
end the piano and furniture men arc TX"
bashful lovers-they don't know whelh'I
they will cart away the stuff or not. ll"V
decide to wait and get one more payment
enough to pay carriage charges anyway
AT the last minute, when the hour hand
reaches the point where the alarm clock goo"
Off Father packs his little suitcase, Mother
slows the china in the bottom Of trunk
and they fade away like a package OF clgaI-
cites, having lived for four months on 81
rent and SIS for the Use OF $500 wort" ''
furniture"
"My!" said the man who had como dow
to find warm place, "but some people nav
a sincere ambition to hang on TO thp"
money