The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-05-11
MRS. HETTY GREEN PUTTING ON AIRS Takes Expensive Apartments
 At Hotel Plaza ACTRESSES AND ACTORS Both Make Bad Helpmeets, According to Cross Charges Filed-Little Stories of New
 York.
ACTRESSES AND ACTORS
B R. LEE EDWARDS.

supplied with a sensation this week, how ever mild it may seem to people who do not know how little it requires to create 0 sensation in the biggest city in Amer ica. Hetty Green, the richest woman in the United States, has moved from a s19- a-month fiat in Hoboken to sSO,0O0 apart ment in the Plaza.
 Not since Mrs. George J. Gould took part with Kyrle Bellew in theatricals for charity's sake at the new hotel has there been such q hubbub as over Mrs. Greens advent there. That ''the richest woman in the world" would abandon the com fortable rooms which cost her 75 cents a day for the French plate glass, Cir cassan walnut, tapestries and silk car pets of one of the most expensive hotels in town has created furore.
 Mrs. Green admitted today that she was not yet used to sandwiches tied with silk ribbons, and added that for the present she would continue to buy a 5-cent box of crackers to eat at the little room in the Chemical bank where she does her mortgage and bond business.
 Before beginning to establish branches in the various states, the Army Canteen association has received more than 10000 applications for membership from all parts of the country Though the asso- citation is a philanthropic organization for the benefit of the soldiers, 1t bars either an officer or an enlisted man from mem bership because it is believed that the people of the country should study the condition of the men called upon to fight for their land and do everything they can to benefit them. The army canteen bill will not be pushed at this session of Congress, but every effort will be made to put it through at the next, according to the statement of the officers.
 Comptroller Metz has begun counting up the city's riches in real estate, and started with the fire department, as he found this department had no record whatsoever of it's real estate holdings. Mr. Metz says it will take him the rest of his term as comptroller to find out how wealthy New York is in land, but he declares the aggregate value of it's property will probably place it at the head of the list of real estate ownership in the world, with the exception of the worlds great nations. lie figures the real estate values of the city at nearly $2, 900, 100000. s
 Actresses are failures as wives and actors are impossible Q, husbands ac- cording to the declarations made by Martha H. Davidson and her husband, Frederick M Davidson, both singers, when the marital differences between the two were aired before Judge Dckey in the special term, supreme court, Brook lyn The case came up on an application made by Mrs Davidson for $200 counsel fees and $50 month alimony pending the trial of the husbands suit for abso- lute divorce.
 Said Davidson in his answer: q have never known an actress who was a good household manager. Sire lacks love of order. Her theatrical training has left her without a housekeeping side. Things go to a loose end in the house. There never was man, however Bohemian, who did not want a well-ordered house. If he misses it he is liable to be cross and irritable.
 Tt pains me to say it. but actresses are the least neat of women. They get themselves up gorgeously for the stage and they look stylish and well gfoomed when they promenade Broadway in search of managers or engagements, but see them in their homes and you will find them addicted to the kimono wrapper habit. They advocate loose dressing and argue that the wrappers are the best cure for jaded nerves Perhaps they are, but it is an inartistic habit and not calcu- lated to promote harmony in the home. .It is but natural that the actress should be self-centered and ambitious, but these qualities do not make of them ideal wives. Man may be selfish, but he is the head of the family and wants some of her thoughts, at least.
 .If he finds her thoughts always occu- pied wits past and future tours and hits and press notices he would not be a man if he didn't protest and when he does, it's his neighbors, friends, rela- tives. tears, acting and mysteries This fife Is too strenuous for the average man"
 Mrs. Davidson Is not silent on her side and throws a bit of limelight on the actor at home. She says:
 factors are peacocks. They are the most conceted class of men on earth Perhaps we should expect them to be fckle Their lives make them so. But every fond, foolish woman expects the man she marries to prove the exception to this almost invariablc rule. The ex- ceptions are so rare that l do not know any.
 Actors are children, not of nature but of art. The best of them are never fully grown. No one would trust her life's happiness to child Neither should she trust in one of these child ren of the stage.
 Actors are vain conceited, fickle, eX- trayagant in one direction and miser- ably economical in another--all these facts make the actor the impossible husband that he is.'
 Before a crowd of thousands Joseph Hammer, a fireman of engine company No. 132, saved a baby of eight months s by carrying it in his teeth from turning tenement at 10 Saratoga ave- nue. Brooklyn. He held it in his mouth because his hands were necessary to the dangerous task of descending from the fourth story by means of scaling ladder. Flames had swept up from the cellar to this floor, which was the top; tn ere they mushroomed out and spread through the two flats.
 Arthur E. Schneider, the American artist who built a studio in the garden of the Sultan of Morocco and painted the latter's portrait, was an arrival by the steamer Pannonia from the Medi- terranean. Mr. Schneider painted