Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-31
MCGOWAN PRESENTING MEDALS.
ENTERING CITY HALL PARK.

all over with jewels than by their own
love of horses, rich food and gay times
What are the moneyed men doing to
stop the panic?'
Oil Fine to Come High.
Nothing. 1t has got to run its course.
The Standard Oil Company or John d.
Rockefeller could stop the hard times
today with the stroke of a pen. but they
won't do it. 1t will cost the United States
government $2S OOO.OaD to collect that
tWenty-nine- million-dOllar fine
Slowly circle of listeners had closed
in upon the richest woman in America,
stopped talking. Hetty Green likes TO
talk to one good hstener-not TO an au-
dience.
Mrs. Green travelled to Bellows Fails
In an ordinary day coach; no Pullman
for her 81.
When lunch time came and the first
call for the diner echoed through the
car Hetty Green leaned forward, dipped
her hand into the deep pocket of her
rusty lawn frock and drew forth an
apple and two crackers. She bought
neither sweets nor reading matter from
the sOlicitous "newsy."
At Bellows Falls she alighted from the
train and nodded right and left TO at
taches and hangers-on at the station.
There's Hetty Green. exclaimed
for the White mountains rushed forward
for view of the richest woman in Amer
lea. To think they had Travelled on the
same train with her and taken her for
poor charwoman going home to see
the folks,
Scorns Hack Ride; Walks.
V tytlk N eb? uNfrR SUM etaoishrdlu
And the last view they had of her was
rusty but sturdy figure scorning the
village hack and walking briskly across
the bridge and up the steep street tina,
winds along the rivers edge to her home
A servant had gone ahead to open the
house. but signs of opening were hardly
visible. The old colored stucco house with
it's dull greenish black blinds gave forth
no air OF welcome. The only blind open
was the one giving on the little roof OF
the front porch. All others were forbid.
dinghy closed and locked At this one
open window a tired-looking muslin cur
tain tapped in the breeze. The fence sur
rounding the place had gradually fallen
to decay and been carted back to the
barn. The walks. however. were i'm fairly
good condition. but the grass had beer
cut roughly by scythe. not mowr
smoothly. like those of the stately homes
adjoining the Green place.
Goes to Bed Early.
which occupies fine point of vantage
Fall mountain with its stern rocks anc
softening cvergreens rises, but Hett,
Green did not stop to study the maSnifi
cent view: she hurried around TO the real
door and disappeared.
That evening her daughter Sylvia wa.
seen just at dusk giving her little dos
an airing on the elm-lined street. but b,
o'clock the house was entirely dark. TIL.
Green family had retired.
The next morning the richest woman II
America really started her vacation. Ant
what do you think her chosen amuse
ment is?
Talking!
She dropped into Cray's cash market
bent on the purchase of a pint of mo-
lasses a cake of laundry soap and a
pound of bulk crackers. She arrived be.
fore trade had really picked up. so the
few fortunate ones and the reporter were
able to put few questions to the oracle
When the crowd grew too large she re.
turned home.