Show ns of the metto polis news of new york town outlined in brief form W limelight unpopular with hetty green N EW YORK mrs hetty green does doea not like the limelight and threatens to give up her luxurious apartments at the plaza since her removal boval moval there from her simple flat in hoboken she lias liag been pestered with all sorts of cranks who believe she la Is carrying a too heavy load of tile the me zuma and want to relieve her of some of the burden they think top too that she he has no more regard for filthy lucre than the of daroda baroda or the nawab of and fleets of would be borrowers are cruising about the hotel they have the aits nits mistaken impression that mrs airs green ha has s tap ped an unexpected gold mine the richest woman in the world however has avoided in every way making any display but she finds 4 that she cannot get away from the widely published fact that she la Is living in a hostelry hostel ry famous for its luxuriousness urious ness its many millionaire guests and its possibilities of spending money with both hands and a shovel mrs green could dine on rare wines and exotic foodstuffs it if she wished but she has only an 00 appetite for simple foods from Ilo hobokan boken to the plaza Is a dizzy climb and the contrasts are worth noting in hoboken the woman who has cornered the long green market got along with 1850 a week for expenses her rent was 19 a month at the plaza she spends a month for her suite when she lived in her hoboken flat mrs oreon green spent 11 cents for muslin curtain in her hitchen to keep out the eyes of prying neighbors the curtains that screen her from tho the vulgar gaze at the plaza are of the finest valenciennes her grocery man in hoboken never contemplated tem plated retiring on the proceeds of mrs greens greenb custom A quart of milk lasted her throe three days he said it was kept on the window sill to save ice bills in hoboken the richest woman in the world could look out on a 4 backyard inhabited by dingy cats and across which were strung long lines of ragged washing any time she feels like taking a stroll through the hotel corridors mrs green can bump into people who count their money by the hundred thousands and in somo soma cases millions and to whom the ole luxury that to her seems beems so ao wonderful at her first elp BID has haa grown to be a simple necessity of life |