The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-07
AT Least That's the Story Spread
Through the Block by a
Successful "Peeper."
ONE BOTTLE OF MILK FOR
MOTHER, SYLVIA AND DOG
Mistress of $23 Apartment Cuts
Housekeeping Expenses
Down to the Bone.
TspesIal to the EvenIng star.l

HOBOKEN, March Under the
name of Mrs. Warrington, Mrs. Hetty
Green is once more established here in
a $23 a month fiat on the fourth floor
of the Elysian apartment house, 1907
Washington street, just one block from
the ferry, which she uses for her trips
to and from her bank in New York.
Hetty Green's neighbors say that she
has discarded the faded shawl formerly
worn by the richest woman in the
country, and has taken to wearing an
equally antique long black coat. They
imagine she believes that it adds to her
disguise. Her bonnet, as described by
her %neighbors, is a tiny affair. tightly
covered with a black mourning veil,
beneath which the wrinkled face, whose
ines are daily growing deeper, looks
out grimly upon the world. Mrs. Green
never uses the front door when passing
In and out of her 500 fiat. always enter
ing through the back gate and going up
the cellar stairs.
The occupants of the surrounding
fats are greatly interested in Hetty
GREEN'S movements, and man. are
the gossipy comments whispered
over dumb-waiter shafts. About the
most popular woman in the whole
block is the one with whom Mrs.
Green made friends two years ago, and
upon whom she has been known to call.
The first time she spoke to her Mrs.
Green demanded if she ever talked to
newspaper reporters, and it was only
upon the woman's elaborate assurance
that she did not. that Hetty Green re-
Taxed from her customary aloofness.
Her Household Economics
1t wa to this friend thai Mrs. Green
stated that it was her ambition to
make her son the richest man in the
world.
Most all her neighbors are interested
in Mrs. Green's housekeeping arrange
ments. 1t seems hat n bottle of
milk daily suffices for her and hel
daughter Sylvia and the small dog,
who does his best to intimidate all who
ring her bell. He refrigerator consists
of q wooden box, nailed to the window
by the head janitor, whose family she
visits. And it is whispered that her
house is uncarpeted. But, contrive as
they may, none of the neiahbors has
had h least opportunity to see for
themselves. One woman nearly lost
her balance "rubbering' from an upper
window into the Green fiat, and she
states for a fact that soap boxes are
used for chairs.
rolls Curious N~ciEhbors.
Now "A cheesecloth curtain has been
hung across the window, and she and
the rest must needs content themselves
with speculation. Cheap lace curtains
arc in the dining-room and perlor WIN
dows.
For the past eight years Hetty Green
has spent her winters in the Elysiar
apartment. 1t. was a grim sense oil
humor that made the owner of those
1879 homes under one roof name them
"Elysian." Brick yellow n yellow
brick predominate everywhere. Nearly
every one of her neighbors would give
a fortune, if they had it, to know why
! she chooses to live thus when the bes'
in the land could be hers.
Poor Hetty Green, for whom this
world seems to hold so little of JOY
One wonders if she ever stops to ask
herself if the life she is living is really
worth while.