Arizona republican., 1906-10-14
THE RICHEST WOMAN"
 HOMELESS WANDtRtR
Hetty Green, Practically a Vagrant, Flees Tax Hunters-Enthusiasm of Automobile Speed Contests Leads to Suggestions for Regular Track.

New York, oct. 13.-(SpeciaI corre- spOndence- of The Republican, )-Hetty Green, the worlds richest woman, is a homeless wanderer. She dare not take up her abode anywhere for fear of the ensurient tax collector. Hunted by the man with the tax list. she left her home in the metropolis and took up her resi- dence in Hoboken. New Jersey. There her quiet and frugal mode of living was interrupted by. the local tax office blOOdhounds who again got on her track. and she fled to the rural peace of Bellows Falls, Vermont Tn that place all went happily until the tax officers recently raised the valuation on her place from $1O0OO to $12.OOO. This Mrs Green viewed with horror, and again it is announced that she has given up her home and fled. This is another instance of the fact that the life of the frugal New York millionaire is not all beer and skittles. No matter to what rural wilderness he withdraws himself, the ShyIocks of the tax office find him. And they seem to insist upon treating him like any ordinary mortal subject to taxation and the law.
 The plague of fleas. which infested the upper part of New York during the month of August. has been sue ceeded by a swarm of beggars who clog the most crowded thoroughfares and poster the passersby with their in- portunities. Ever since last spring when Police Commissioner Bingham abolished the mendicancy squad. which kept the curbstone grafters on the run, the number of beggars In the city has increased alarmingly. Since early in
 
 10 lead vagrGnt life in the country during warm months, have returned to town. Many of the mendicants have waxed wealthy. one ragged fellow who grinds a pitiful hand organ on Herald Square every night. is known to possess several tenement houses. The patrolmen on the beat do not drive him away because he has a political pull. One beggar. apparently a one armed hunchback, with his sole hand crippled. was arrested at the Brooklyn bridge entrance recently. He exhibited deformities so horrible that the police court judge scored the policeman for arresting him. In reply the policeman ripped off some of the mans clothing revealing the fact that the trump was made of straw and the missing" arm was firmly strapped to the mans body, while even the crippled hand was a normal member cleverly held out of shape.
 New Workers who have their homes in the borough of Richmond Staten Island) must go to and from their business in Manhattan by one route ! the municipal ferry. Staten Islanders are rather proud of the ferry and as a matter of fact the ferry boats are the finest in the harbOr. When citizens of less favored borOughs of the city point out that the ferry is steadily losing money. Richmond folk smile gravely. So long as they have good service they do not worry if the city has to put up
 the weekly deficit. But recently the Staten Islanders had an experience that has made them take new view of the blessings of municipal owner ship. Nick Muller, political boss of Staten Island, wished to control the executive committee of the local demo- cratic club. so on the evening of the club election he had his friend Law renee HanlOn, assistant superintendent of the city's ferries. stop three boats for one trip each. so that the crews might vote for Muller. Of course hun dreds of passengers were put to great inconvenience. Unfortunately for Han lon. the people kicked up such a row
 that Mayor Mcclellan was forced to bounce him. But now New Workers are wondering what would happen if the city. to take an instance, operated the subway and Big Tim Sullivan
 wanted the employers to swell the crowd at his annual chowder party Perhaps the subway would stop for the