The evening world., 1908-10-05
HETTY GREEN
LOOKS FOR A
HOB0KEN FLAT
Her Old $40 a Month One
Taken and No Others
Vacant.

Mrs. Hetty Green. America's riches,
woman returned to New York from
New Hampshire on Saturday to spend
the winter. over TO Hoboken on q Bar
clay street ferrybon, and then by car
TO her old $lo month apartment at Nc.
1911 Washington street she went imme.
diately.
To JAG Won Twisk. the jani.or OF the
big block OF tenements, she exclaimed
We'll. Twisk. you see I'm back and
am mighty glad to be here. I want to
get my old fiat. When can / move imp
I'm sorry, Mrs. Green" said Twisk,
but you are just fifteen minutes too
late. I have rented your fat to soma
one else. and we haven't got one vacant
in the building"
The janitor suggested to her that she
go to No. 1907 Bloomfield street, two
blocks away. which is owned by the
same landlords, the Hoboken Land and
Improvement Company. Apartments
there range in price from $50 to $4o a
month.
Mrs. Green acted on the suggestion,
and, unable to find the janitor, went
into the building and rang the bell Of
the third floor apartment OF Mrs.
Samuel C. Fisher. whose husband is a
prosperous Hoboken candy manufac-
turer.
Offered 500 to Vacate.
Mrs. Fisher answered the doorbell
herself. and said she didn't need a
laundress.
Mrs. Green smiled and explained that
she was looking for q nat Whereupon
she was invited in.
Il was the most surprised person
you ever saw, when found out who
she was" said Mrs. Fisher, in discuss
ing the incident. Il found Mrs. Green
a very lovable old lady. She stayed
teresting things. She liked my five
room fiat 80 well that she offered me
500 cash II would move out and let
her have the apartment.
II thanked her, but declined her Of
fer because I like the apartment pretty
we'll myself. I said to her. Mrs Green,
why don't you buy the building for
yourself! Then you could move every
body out II you wanted to. And you
would never even miss the money.
She laughed and said that she had
1000 apartments and houses in Phtla-
delphia, Boston and other places and
that she guessed she had enough al
ready to take care OF.
What She Thinks Of Hotels.
Mrs, Green talked TO me at length
about her experiences in hotels She
said: I'm JUST sick and tired OF them.
] stopped for while In stylish and
high-toned hotel in New York this
year. and I was bounded to death by
beilboys and employees, and there was
steady stream Of beggars trying to
some kind OF philanthropy or to ad-
vance some crazy business scheme.
ITS altogether too much money to
pay Tor living anyway. what you have
Nobody is any happier for it. I feel
ever SO much more contented and
happy here in Hoboken and have
comforts too It's sinful waste OF
day to pay for comfortable nat for
month"
Mrs. Green called on three other fam
lilies, Offering each of them bonus to
move out. She was unsuccessful
Won Twisk said he thought that II
Mrs. Green couldn't get an apartment
in either OF the company's two build
ings that she would go to Providence
and spend the winter.
I'D like to have her back here" he
said, "for she was one OF the best ten
ants we ever had. She Is n fine woman
and generous one. no matter what
they say"
Van Twisk knows whereof he speaks.
on several occasions Mrs. Green ha.
given $50 to 500 to him. the neighbors
say, for warding on persons who were
seeking to separate her from some OF
her money.