Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-09-25
Edwin FORESTS Estate.
Mr.. M'ARDLK, DISAPPOINTED BY THE TERMS OF
THE WILL, STILL TRIUMPHANTLY RETAINS
POSSESSION OF TIRE HOUSE.
Correspondence of the Newark Advertiser


THE WILL, STILL TRfUMPHANTLY RETAINS
POSSESSION OF TIRE HOUSE.
Correspondence of the Newark Advertiser.1
PHILADELPHIA, September Ii, 1874.
1t will sstonish your readers 10 be told that
the great American actors will has been q very
stumbling block TO the executors, and it will be
painful reading for you TO learn that the actor
executors have not amicably hitched horses.
Mr.. Forrest had tGo female servants, sisters,
hat he had found for years faithful and true 70
aim. It was supposed that the good servants
would have some provision made for them, but
no; they were net mentioned in the will. The
business manager, too, Mr.. AcArdle, had served
Ar. Forrest well for years, but, unfortunately,
~ come accident, had lost - 900 of the actors
money, and instead OF finding an item friendly
70 him in the will, one charging him with this
3 600 was found. The opening of the will Of
course made CONSERVATION, and MIR. Dan
Dougherty, one of the executors. thought il
best TO shut up the Forrest brownstOne mansion
IN Broad street. In an exceedingly shabby
manner he offered te pay the women one weeks
.alary if they would leave the house His priu-
cipal reason for getting rid of them, II was sup
pOsed, was to prevent Mr.. McArde from hsv-
nsnt and left, refusing the pittance which Dan
had offered them. But Dan failed so far a.
McArdle was concerned, for he stuck, and
sticks TO this day, and the neighbors say that
the late comings and goiDgs into the once loved
mansion or the actor would now make him turn
in his coffin, if ii is granted him 10 keey an eve
over the corner of Broad and Master streets 10
this city of Brotherly Love.
Mr.. McArdle, as stated, sticks, but he wit
pessed the destruction of property by fire in a
quarter where there were neither defective
hues nor leaky stoves, and to this day the peo-
pie of the neighbOrhood cannot for their lives
see what caused the fire in the library of the
great tragediOn. Mr.. Dan Dougherty has been
recently offered Si20.000 for this property but
IL is hinted that he has advanced the price be-
cause the purchasers are Sisters Of Charity, and
be does not want to run the risk of being
charged with favoritism in giving the Forrest
mansion TO his co-religionists. The property is
IN the possession OF one who regards not the
executors pleasure as TO whether he should be
there or not. The books that Forrest loved to
con are cased and musty. The property is
worth great deal of money. With a country
home waiting to be enlarged and renovated to
make an asylum for worn-out actors, and sll
this stubborn inactivity, because sthere's
always 8 flaw in a donkey's will"
But then the home for sged actors is so beset
and infringed in by section this and clause that
as to how the poor actors shall compose them
selves, and when they are to sleep aud whether
they are TO snore, that 1t is questioned whether
any seven poor travellers or seven poor actors
can ever enjoy meal, frugal or otherwise, or
avail of its sheltering roof Indeed, It is hinted
that be was not much in accord with those OF
The sock and buskin. Of the stage he did not
tolerate them much, il at all.