OCR Text |
Show Hetty Green Lives in $19 Flat. "Go away Stop ringing my bell or I'll sn?ream for the police" was the way Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman in America, welcomed a caller who found her living under an assumed name in a J19-a-month flat one block from the ferry in Hoboken. Mrs. Green disappeared after an interview in-terview attributed to her in Boston two weeks ago, in which she told how she had lent Harry Payne Whitney $1,300,000 and had refused to lend the Vanderbilts money even after they offered of-fered her family jewels as security. Mr. Whitney characterized the story as absurd and the Vanderbilts would not discuss it. Mrs. Green moved to her present home about six weeks ago. It is on the fourth floor of a dyspeptic looking house, not far from where she lived before. There is no elevator. Mrs. Green's daughter is with her. Mrs. Green goe9 to her office In the Chemical Chem-ical bank three days a week. "Her daughter comes here every morning," the corner grocer said. "She gets a pair of eggs, a loaf of bread and a pint of milk in a cracked pitcher. pitch-er. Their trade ain't much, but they're good pay." "She ain't a bit sociable." said one of the other tenants. "I tried to get the makings of a cup of tea from her, and she informed me through the keyhole key-hole that tea was bad for me." |