The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-21
counterfeit PASSED
ON mrs, HETTY GREEN
Also The Famous Feminine Fl
nancier Is Trusted for
Her Carfare.

New York, JAM 2o-Tell it softly:
Hetty Green, richest woman in Amer
lea, and the oldest feminine financier in
the world, accus
Mrs. Hetty Green toned to handling
S. all kinds of money,
Caught during her more
80 than half century
by Counterfeit of life, has had
counterfeit col
passed on her. The amazing story came
out today in the office of the Public
Service corporations in Hoboken, when
Mrs. Green paid the transportation COM
pany 5 cents, on account of a fare
which Conductor Charles Krell trusted
the wealthy woman last Thursday.
With characteristic acumen, Mrs. Green
demanded a receipt, in order that the
weighty transaction might never bob up
agaln~to worry her in her declining
years. The officials Of the company
filled out an imposing document reciting
the sum Of 5 cents received from Hetty
Green for one ride on their cars in
Hoboken Thursday, Jan. Is, 1906, under
the following circumstances: =
"When the said Mrs Green boarded
a car near her place of residence at No.
1923 Washington, street, she was asked
for her fare 6 eents).' She handed a
halfdollar coin tosthe conductor. :. .
Sorry, Madam but L can't take
that. It's not good.'3N 4. .,...4-
Mrs Green then searched in her
pocketbook but found she had no
money. .. - - - -. ~
"'I guess you can trust me for a
ride to the ferry. You can ask the
postman opposite who am, she said.
He will tell you that my credit is
good :" E~~
"The postman vouched for her, and
the conductor rang up the fare out of
his own pocket
For the first time in it's history the
municipal civil commission is out with
rewards that will lead to detection of
80, those in or out Of
Antl-Graft Plan tn 9 d e partment
who offer to sell
Devised informa o O.
y can d i d ates for
IN City Offices various positions
in the city gov
eminent. The. board makes it's offer
thru its president, William Z. Baker, in
an advertisement published in the City
Record. The offer is made in connec-
ton with the forthcoming election for
patrolmen in the police department, ap-
plications for which will be received
from Feb. l to Feb. 20. This action re-
calls the old stories of scandal which
connected certain officials Of the police
and civil-fservice departments to sell
promotions and positions for a consid-
Grafton. Some men have been dis
missed from the police department
mainly for this reason. They would
have been prosecuted criminally but
there never was enough legal evidence
D, for the reason that the briber was Just
as guilty as the receiver and would
never dare to testify.
Following the collapse of Senator
Chauncey NJ. Depew, it was learned to-
day on unimpeachable authority that
the thing which
DepeW's Collapse more than any
other is response
caused BILE for his break,
down was the dis
by Yale Enmity covery that there
was a. movement
afoot to GUST the senator as a fellow
of Yale University corporation. Di
rectors Of this corporation are called
fellows. Among them are President
Hadley of the university, Rev. Ansor
Phelps Stokes, and all the executive
officers of Yale. It is learned that g
nephew Of Secretary of War Taft. ar
alunlnus of Yale, has been getting sigma
lures to petition to President Hadley
insisting upon dropping Senator Depev
from the list at the next meeting of the
fellows in February. Another source
OF sorrow to the senator was the deci
sion, said to have been arrived at b1
the Montouk club Of Brooklyn, not t.
give him birthday dinner this wear
For twelve years this club has bee,
giving the senator a dinner on April %
To let him down easy it is said thu
senator received an intimation that ;
refusal of dinner in his honor shoul,
be sent by him this year.
If plans of the Friede Globe Towe
company are carried out, Coney Islam,
will soon present to the world it's crown
ing wonder in tn
7OO-Foot Tower shape of a.
amusement towe
g.. Planned 700 feet high, t
..- contain at vari
for coney Island Gus attitudes
roof garden, hir
podrome, dance hall, revolving cage
observatory, palm garden and othe
amusement features hundreds of fee
in the air. It is expected to be read
for the public in 1907. It will have
diameter of 800 feet and contain 500
900 square feet Of floor space Til
hippodrome will be $50 feet above til
ground, the cafe and dance hall 80
5 fet, and the palm garden 400. feet, an
I SO on until the observatory and wire
less telegraph station are reached
z nearly an eight of mile above tn
( noisy throng in Coney's thorofare:
Ten of the largest electric elevator
I in the world will be built to lift an
lower the. crowds and it is estimate
that the tower will have capacity fc
all the people who are likely to visi
it. The cost will be about $1,000 ,OOt
Tens cents is to be the admission fe
and it is calculated that the earnin
capacity. of the enterprise will h
{ $1,353,00Q each season, while the o.
E Grating expenses are figured out 8
h only $230,750. In the top of the struc
Fl ure is to be a government weather b