Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-19
THE DlNGEE MILLION.
Strange Adventures OF q Fortune
Left by . Gambler.
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Old New Workers may remember
Dingee's famous club house ia lower
Grseae stssss. From 1870 - ls5o it vas
the most fashionable gambling house
Ia the metropolis. it, founder Al2hoRse
Dingee, having been the first sd intro
duee reskxss and r0sss e n0sr into the
new world II was Ia 1850 or a little
later that III health Obliged lis son
Cyril ~ sell the business out he re-
tired % bis country seat ~ bricksburg,
quite . psIati4i residence for those
days, where DC died shortly after, leay-
= round million dollars and one child.
. daughter, Daisy. spite Of the fact
that she Was popularity known through
Qua the country ~ the gamblers
daughter" there were several respect
able young men IN the place who would
have been only too happy 70 administer
an estate worth = round million with
Daisy thrown in for better or worse
But D~isy Dingee knew what she
wanted. and IL was nothing more nor
less than an alliance with the most
aristocratic family In the country, to-
wit. the Dclurys, whose large white
mansion st the otner end of the town
was Is tumble down and shabby look
ing a. D~isy's was neat, fresh and well
kept Miss Dinsee, therefore, pro-
eeeded ID throw herself at the head Of
one Monmouth Delury. mentally and
ply sically . cosorIess sort of an indi-
vidual, who for want cf sufficient intel
lect To make an honest living passed his
time going 10 seed with the thousand or
20 acres of Land belonging u him and
his maiden sisters, Hetty, Prudence and
Martha, three women who walked as
stiff a. they talked, although they never
were known To discuss any subject
other than the Delury family.
When Daisy's proposition was made
known 10 them they tried To faint, but
were too stiff to fall over and were
Obliged 20 content themselves with
gazping out:
What, Daisy Dingee marry our
brother, the head of the Delury fam
ilye"
But il was the first idea that had ever
entered the brothers head, and he
chung tn II with parents affection for
and Mrs. Monmouth Delury set out for
Paris with THAI provcrbial speed with
which Americans betsle themselves TO
the French capital when occasion Of
fers- They found IL a much pleasanter
place than Bricksburg. Delury i'm
proved rapidly and Daisy fell quite in
Love with him. made her viii in his ia
vor. contracted the typhoid fever and
died.
Whereupon the really disconsolstc
widower sent for his three sisters 20 join
him. They had but one objection TO
going-that was to part company with
the dear old homestead, but they over
came it the day after receiving Mon
mouths letter, which happened 70 be q
Friday. and took tina Saturdays
steamer.
To confess the truth. the Delurys had
been so land-poor that their spare. aristo-
cratic figures were rather the result of
necessity than inclination- Six months
Of Paris life under the benign protec-
ton of Ungee's round million made diff
ferent women OF them. 1t was wonderful
what q metamorphosis Partisan dress
makers and restsurateurs effected in
their figures They became round and
plump. They stopped talking about
Bricxsburg. signed themselves the
Misses Delury, 81 New York, enrolled
themselves as patrons Of art, gave ele-
giant dinners, and in a very short time
set mp pretensions 10 being the leaders
of the American colony.
But remorseless fate was at their
heels Figaro unearthed the secret of
old Dngee's million and the Dclurys
suddenly found themselves the sensa-
ton OF Paris, the butt Of ridicule in the
comic papers Monmouth had been in
poor health for several months and this
killed him
Dingee's million was now in the eye
of the law divided up among his three
sisters. but fate willed 1t otherwise, for
the following year Hetty, the eldest
died of Roman fever and six month";
later Prudence fell victim 20 rat poiscA
in . small hotel at Grasse. a city of de-
liahtful odors in the south Of France.
whittier she had gone in search of
halmy air sor her sister Martha, who
had suddenly developed symptoms Of
consumption
Left thus alone in the world with old
Dingee's million and an incurable all
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reach Bricksburg and die in the old
white D-lury mansion. Tt seemed 10
her that its great. spacious rooms would
enable her 70 breathe more easily and
70 fight death OF for possibly another
year-
But IL was not TO be. She got as far
rs Paris when old Dingee's million again
changed hands. going this time by will
10 Mar.ha's only relatives. twin broth
ers. John and William Winkletip. prod
uce dealers in Washington street. New
York.
The win was . peculiar one a. was To
be expected: II give. devise and be-
queath all the property popularity
known - the Dingee Million to my
cousins John and William winkIetip.
produce dealers. of Ne~ York. as Joint
tenants for their lives and the life Of
each II them. with remainder over To
tine eldest son of the survivor. his heirs
and assigns forever. provided that said
remainder man shall he of fun age at
The time If his fathers deeease and
shah thereupon enter the ministry Of
the Methodist Episcopal church and de-
vote his life and the income If this IS
tate to the encouragement Of legislative