The evening world., 1894-07-21

economy aud shrewd investment to the
value of the original estate, so that 1t
now amounts TO figure which would
| surprise some Of Americas miliionailcs.
According 10 the letters received 10y
kat,e,s mother Mrs. Patrick Sullivan.
the little girls share in the estate, which
Is divided equally between herself and
! her cousin, Patrick, Will amount to
! nearly II million dollars in bank and
some miles OF fine titled and pasture
John Donohuc, who, III addition to being
| the lawyer for the estate. Is appointed
guardian of both Katie and Patrick.
| father was the first born. He was "A type
| of the fast disappearing irish country
gentleman lie was rollicting fellow.
passionate,y fond of q horse, q foX-hunt
or stecplechase. He liked his liquor,
Ike all his prototypes in Levers novels.
He aiways told ne" said Mrs; Su.li.
he was too much OF sport TO get along
with the old gentleman" - it happened
that when still young man. katie's
father left the ancestral han and went
to England to seek his fortune on the
turf. He managed 90 make an uncertain
sort Of living there for eleven years.
Then he came to this country and fell in
love with katie's mother. VIII! was then
widow with two children. They were
married twenty years ago, and lived to-
sether so happily that the sporty Irish
hod all day and bring home the larger
part of his wages at the end of each
week. Katie was the only child born to
the pair.
In 1883. the year of the blizzard. Patrick
died: The mother supported herself and
children by taking in washing and scrub
bling floors in office buildings She is IA
woman Apparently neither her years
nor her hard labor have told upon her
hardy. constitution nor her good nature.
htnr nfal ,falr II,
always a sport. but he was a fine man.
Whenever the money ran short and |
Worried about Katie. he always, said.
when I'm dead and gone, when youll be
proud to be the mother Of the little one,
and you'll know then that Patrick Sulli-
van, the sport. the hod-carrier and your
husband was as fine gentleman as
there Is in Ireland"
But after her husbands death Mrs
Sullivan made no effort to ind out
kept on scrubbing office floors. doing
washing, seeing that Katie went to the
Seyenty-ninth street School regularly
of people at No. 1853 Third avenue, with
plenty to eat. she put money in the
bank. Her daughter by her first hus-
own, but Katie she has always kept
with her. Two years ago the latter. by
a physician's advice was taken from,
was then far in advance of scholars of
her own age. Bit when she was for
hidden to study, Katie's ambition
turned in another direction. Il must
make money" said she. Il don't want
TO be a servant. ] want to have ser
wants" Then Mrs. Sullivan paid a
dressmaler n fee and Katie was taught
all about pulled sleeves, homeless waists
and the interminable whatnot of II
womans clothes. For "A year and q
half now she has made all of her own
and her mothers clothes, besides a lot
of other peoples.
Then, too, Katie always managed to
get home from her work before her
mother returned from scrubbing floors
and have neat supper prepared for the
latter. "Mamie Is no dummy" said Mrs
Sullivan: shes always had grand ideas,
but she's always been willing to work
and work hard. I'm glad she's got the
money, and when the time comes when
the lawyers pay 1t to her l know that
her mother will have fine easy time for
the rest of her life"
Katie sails for Ireland on Wednesday
next. She will be ,chaperoned by Mrs.
l.. O'Holley. a friend of her mothers.
After visiting her relatives there. the
little Irish heiress will enter a convent
in Derry County and there study music
French and other fine arts according to
provisions in her grandfather's Will.
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