The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-07-07
LIVED ON SEVEN CENTS DAY.
Hetty Green of Sixteenth Street Whose
 Income Was S35.


 Income Was $35.
 With the death of Mrs. Hans Satchen at PA West Sixteenth Street, the neigh. borhood lost one of its richest an( certainty It's most eccentric characters Although not nearly as wealthy a. Hetty Green, she was known as the Henry Green of Sixteenth Street For 15 years Mrs. Satchen lived on the third floor rear at this number on seven cents day, yet her daily income was, to be accurate, $35 day. This income came from bonds and real estate left her by her husband. The entire pro- perty now reverts to her husbands brothers son, who owns several parcels 'of real estate, and, although rated a close man on a deal, has none of the eccentricities of his late aunt,
 "Ain't no use to spend money. You can live just as nice on seven cents as on 700 cents, the old woman fre- quently replied to inquisitive neigh bors.
 lAt the time of her death she was 75. In all the 15 years she had lived at No PA no person had been inside her rooms except some immediate relatives. She never made close friends of any one and never invited any of her neighbors into her rooms. What she ate and drank-how she managed to subsist to seven, cents a day-was gleaned from a something that might be called the diary of her daily life. It was written in German script. There was an item of 12 cents for a sack of coffee, another for 10 cents worth of sugar, and still another for 30 cents for a pound of black and green tea mixed.
 Thus tea and sugar and coffee, with five cents worth of rolls she brought about every second day from baker in the same building, were the sum and substance of her eating.
 Her nephew says she may have had probably half a dollar in cash when she first began to live this eccentric life, which would explain a surplus of some 10 or 12 pennies found in a cupboard after she died
 While she was eccentric in her greed for money and rather subsisted than lived the old woman was scrupulously clean in person and her quarters re- fected that vlrture. She would go out once a day for a walk, usually as far as Union Square Park. On these walks she wore peculiar cap of white mater- ial, much after the fashion of night cap, but more elaborately trimmed with lace and long strings in a bow.
 There goes Hetty. the boys playing on the street would whisper to one an other. Not even the boldest dared say this aloud for the old woman had that in her which commanded respect. She never noticed children, and, as far as is known the most beautiful child never appealed to her. Indeed, the neigh bors say, with some feeling, that she was afraid to look child in the face, for fear she might like it,and well, might be prompted on the moment to make it heir to her all.
 At home she passed her time reading German Bible and German papers brought to her by relatives. When re- latives visited her tea was served If they brought eatables, she ate sparing- ly, and if they didn't there was no eat ing. From time to time relatives tried to get her to live with them, but she seemed to care more for the solltued of her own quarters than the luxury of her relatives' Death came to her like sleep to a child. She had no faith in physicians, and no physician was ever known to have visited her. During the last five yearsshe~ e~shrank 'into de- crepit, pale-faeed old woman, spare and sickly.
 But she never complained, She took her walk daily with the aid of a stick. The day before she died, she sat for nearly q quarter of an hour on the stoop, a something she had never done before One woman says she saw her smile on q little one as 1t passed by She went into the house after that, and during the night the tenant on the floor with her heard loud knocking on the wall. The man of the house got up and forced his way into the room Tho old woman was lying in bed with the stick in her hand. There was a smile on her face, but it was plain that death was not far off, The man had his instruc- tions before. He rushed out and called in @ physician, then some relatives. When they were all gathered in the room, the elccentric old woman, this Hetty Green of West Sixteenth Street, lifted her eyes a moment, then her head fell to one side-New York Tribune.