The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-01-25
CHEAP LIVING
IN NEW YORK
Neither Rent Nor Fur
niture Need Cost
the Amateur Finan-
cier Much.

and settled himself back comfortabI
in the easy chair in the cosy corner
the boiler room. The red light perco
lated through the damper holes in tn
furnace door, lighting up his grizzle
features, and lending additions
| warmth TO his CHEEKY smile
| There's an awful lot of amateur Iif
| insurance presidents in this world" h
| began. THAT lavish family that's liv
ed on the second floor front for the las
| four months moved out this morning
| forgetting to pay the last thre,
| months rent. And it's somethinE
grievous the way they hung up the
| fnstallment collectors.
4 went up to order them out this
morning and found them looking as
detected as a deaf man at a sacred
concert. The man said he'd done the
best he could, but the world had GER
tainly treated him like a defeated can
didate 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. l said l would, but
told him he'd have to leave the Grand
curity for the rent.
He gave me that soft, supplicating,
true lovers smile that every girl gets
when she asks the guy if 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 mathematician, if he
had to sell the alarm clock at auc-
ton. l got the expressman, and he
took their two trunks and suitcase,
leaving everything else standing just
like 1T 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.
Well" said the janitor, with side
glance at the steam gauge, this 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-t three
long ago. But l certainly 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 expressman was out of sight got
another asphalt ferry to cart them off
somewhere else-and now he's probably
changed his name and Is shuffling the
same old deck across the table in some
other apartment house.
within an hour after he left he
telephoned 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 Sulli-
vans who had quart Of blood in each
eye. He had paid only the first in
stallment 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 admir-
ingly, you certainly ought TO be the
district leader in a foolish ward to
have a rare old whale like that handed
to you
There's nothing bright and glisten-
ing about the game said the janitor,
because a lot of people have been
sitting in on it during the summer.
But do object to the way he took me
q quarter mile into the tall grass and
lost me.
You see, during the summer all
these bobtail flush apartment houses
with the 4-11-44 front and gladstone
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
owning an ambition to turn his securi-
ties into some permanent investment.
With a new building already full of
the investment looks to an old
real estate hunter like a soft thing
with a stone foundation.
We'll, there's any number of people
lake advantage of that second months
free rent and then move, and get an
other second months rent free in some
other place. Buying the entire fur
lishings of the happy little home from
an installment house saves paying |
moving charges, and costs only SIS |
lown.
Its easy to stand off the second |
payment. The butcher, grocer, baker, |
and beer bills are all paid |
he first month.
II don't collect the second month, |
Tou see. The second month the furni- |
ure man and the piano man are told
hat Mr. Conneman is out of town for |
couple of weeks. I get the same |
tory the third month, and she varies
[ a little to the furniture man by |
cling him that Mr.. Conneman has
lad a lapse of memory, but viii take
are of the matter in a few days
The next two weeks she doesn't an
wer the door bell. The furniture and
iano men send notice. Mr.. Conneman
yrites a polite business note explain
lg his temporary business difficulties,
ut he will pay up all back accounts in
EN- days.
While the fourth month is drawing
D an end the piano and furniture
zen are like bashfuI lovers-they don't
now whether they will cart away the
tuff or not. They decide to wait and