Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-03

aud lighting. II is an undertaking IN
which Their, Is astonishing possibilities.
Up to this hour, the latcat persons TO
fall heir TO immense estates IN England
are the Duffys OF Connecticut. Their
fortune is only Sl0,C0o,00O, quite baga.
telle The Towlcy affair Is now worth talk.
ing about. IL Is $500, 100, 900, and every
dollar Of IL Is, am llrm'y convinced, on
paper. Yet there is scarcely state In
the Union that does not claim as a citizen
a Lawrence family heir. In Eastern Mas
saohusetts, the Chases aud .AAstns are
particularly active, aud there ase whole
claims OF supposed heirs In Olrss, lndi-
ana, Missouri, North Caroline and
New York. IL has lust been
reported by q Liverpool io,anal
that the British government has decided
TO pay over the money ut once. This Nas
set about 1--WE thousand Americans in n
simultaneous fintter. Visions OF palaces
and brown-stone fronts loom up-in theis
minds. One individual Of the name of.
Fargo sa}s he win take &sG0, 600 for his
Interest. Doubtless he will--when he
'can
don't bslleye an American hair viii
ever see dollar of this estate, even Il
sich an Ostagp exists, which " doubtful
Tie British governments isn't in the bust
ness OF handing over vast sums Of money
To heirs of questionable Identify. Il is
sai3 this money IS held in eiancery.
Wen II may hc, and a isllkely 10 be
held arere for some dine 20 come.
Tore the case OF the Bank of Ipqiard
That i5a private iuSututisn possessing
certain 'monopulies granted 4 many wears
ago by parliament In its vaults thprc
are noNA or was at tae last annual RESORT,
St6,HS3, $50, the prosperity OF "a peuple
who had lost their certificates af deposit.
and iailiag In their efforts TO recover 4;
without those documents, have given rpI
the confess and CD persons who have
forgotten THAT they heal balances In the
bank, and N,ye lalled TO call for them.
BY far the greater portion of the sum was
derived from this latter source The ac-
count runs back something like two hun
dred years. Heirs of these people, when.
ever any clow has been obtained to cstab-
lish the fact OF heirship, arc continually
~ law with the Bank of England In the
tndearor to get possession OF some oa the
money The bank, however, almost in
@rably wins, and the surplus annually
becomes greater Gnd greater,
Again, In this same chancory where SO
many fortunes are supposed to be held In
tust and fairly going begging for Amer-
can heirs, there is no less sum than
G59O00,0 00--S $3.50, co., 900, according TO
the last report, Accommodations OF the past
100 years, from defeated litlgants, those
who have become tired of lighting for
their rights; those who failed TO settle
and take away their balances after their
cases had been docided, and those
who are ignorant OF any balances
being there to their credit There
are shystor lawyers in london who mike
it Il business TO induce Americans and
others to Institute proceedings In chan.
Gerry for the recovery OF some OF this
money, they OF course securing tho posl-
ton Of attorneys. Now the amount OF
wealth that this vast miser box of the
British government has asyet been made
To disgUlge is inAuiteaimally small. In
fact Il You and'l had an OF it, we would
not no able TO maintain respectable cs-
adjustment IN tho late Mr.. Vanderbllt's
neighborhood in Filth avenue. Thou-.l
sands Of suits In the British courts are
pending, and the shyster lawyers are
reaping what benefits there are.
Don't say anything abou! it,
but it Is easy enough for
you and TO SEQ that II Is from these same
schemlng lawyers that all these stories
about immense, uudiyided estates In
England awaiting heirs in America
emarAte. Those shysters seem to have
recently hred Barnnm as an advertising
agent.