Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-31
YORK MAY LOSE
hrs CELEBRATED
CETRAL PARK
HEFTATI0N DUE TO
4 VANISH, EXPERTS SAY
l Too Poor to Pay for New
'oiI, May Be Forced to Sell
.reathing Space for Building

lots,
.o.e,al Correspondence Morning Journal

.,aI Correspondenee Morning Journal
Nv York. July 2S.-New York,
wtt h IFS debt limit reached, now finds
III. If confronted by the unpleasant ne
aas sitv of raising $4,000, 900 or else
ing its famous Central Park reduc-
III TO a lust heap. Nearly twenty
RS ago the importance of this prob
l4pn was brought to light and disre-
uarded. Since then matters have been
get ting more and more serious until
toaa Y the city finds itself in danger
iii losing its greatest spot of natural
apauty, as well as its greatest breath
lng spot. For years it has been in
e~reasingly difficult to continue the
MI with of trees. shrubs. flowers and
MI bass. Not in forty-nine years, that
III. since 1853, has the soil been re-
Id wed or adequately treated. AS a re-
sult ii has Just come to the point
where all vegetation is due to dis.
appear. So long has all consideration
iii this matter been ~sidetracked that
nothing short Of heroic treatment can
XII ep this wonderful park from de-
al nerating into al eyesore bare of all
VI getation. ordinary methods will
H. suffice to save it. experts assert.
H. soil being too far impoverished,
n Treatment never before undertaken
Viii have to be res6rted to, for so ex-
is the. soil at the present that
h actically nothing could be raised on
II This, in itself, is serious enough,
but in addition there is the question
A TO the n in which Father
II ~nckerbocker is to raise the money
necessary 20 save his park. With his
borrowing capacity exhausted the
problem is extremely serious. Indeed
\ al estate men who have ~prophesled
Bat sooner or later the park would be
tut up into building lots see in the
Present situation the likelihood Of an
farly fulfillment of their prophesy.
Poor Hetty Green is now reaping
he financial whirlwind. Her brief
fojourn in one of New York's most
Expensive hotels has gotten in its in
9%uitious work and undermined the fl
nancial training of years. For now,
las, Hetty-America's Wealthiest Wo-
han-actually gives tips and that to
PIE astonishing amount of nearly four.
collars a week. 1t is even whispered
'hat she now spends nearly a thous-
lndth part of her income. In two
priet months she has thrown aside
Inc paDnnnU- of wars IN tha fret
Fay Of May she was living in a $19
month flat in Hoboken, with all
Dther expenses limited to 50 a week.
Four weeks later the money spend
ing madness having seized her she
was installed in a $3.50 a month suite
n a metropolitan hotel where meals
POST ten dollars a day. SO severe Il
strain was this on an income of a
couple of millions a year, and the
cash balance in New York.
fhat h has removed to a Madison
avenue boarding house. But the
of expensive life are now
claiming their due, for it is stated
In her present surroundings her
expenses for her dog, her daughter
and herself average forty dollars a
week. And the woman who was never
known to tip until her flight into ex-
metropolitan hotel life, is
now, 1t is stated, giving thirty cents
? day to her waiter, and as much
more to others who serve her. 1t is
announced however that she Is to
retire to her Vermont home where
expenses will be only 500 a week.