The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-15
$500 Bsqussl Does Not Tempt
lumas Rsyt Holmes.
AUNFS WILL VERY PECULIAR.
Sought 10 Psrpstuits Tho Name Of FTlsbls.
Tsstator Lived Tw,nty-FM Years In
One Room In Hotel.

( New York, Aug. .15.-Through the filing
pf will for probate yesterday the Pc
culiar life led by Miss Louise Frisbie in
this city became known. Miss Frisbie
ditd In the Ashland House July l.
For a quarter OF a century she had lived
In the same room in the hotel, practically
with tho same furniture about her. She
! Mss a little woman eighty-four years,
who went TO and fro paying little atten-
zion TO those about her.
The will provides legacy In trust Of
$500 for her favorite nephew providing
lie abandons his name. Lumas Hoyt
Holmes and assumes that of Louis David
Frisbie. The nephew refuses 20 change
his name and will receive but $500 OF the
$500
Few in the Ashland House knew that
Miss Frisbie had any interest in Wall
street or the ups and downs of the stock
market, But she was regular trader
and shrewd one. Those familiar with
her operations In Wall street say that she
never made losing deal IN a quarter OF
a century.
BOUGHT STOCK OCTRlGhT.
Her maxim In Wall street was never
10 buy on margin but TO always pay cash.
In that way she said she was always
independent OF the convusions which
shake the stock market and of the raids
made by the big nnanciers. She was pa
tient, and sometimes waited year or
more for stock she owned 10 reach the
selling price she had fixed.
Her estate IL worth between $4,000 and
$50, 900 During her lone life she gave
literally but unostentatiously 10 charities.
or the estate would have been much
larger
The will was filed yesterday by the law
firm OF Phelps a East, or No 80 Broad
street. attorneys for the executor,
stephen VI. Thayer, VAS unique docu-
ment
IL covered seventeen pages OF the legal
cap. contained about 5000 words. and
was written by the tcEtatriX herself;
without legal aid Both Mr.. Phelps and
Mr.. East declared yesterday that the
document was invulnerahle 90 attack in
toe courts. so clevery was it drawn.
The bequests are involved and some OF
them unusual The Will was executed
oct %, 1850. nearly twcnty-onc years ago
snd no additions were made TO IL since
that time.
family, her birthplace being Norfolk. ia
Litohneld country Conn, and there she
was buried beside the graves OF her faith
or and mother. as she stipulated In her
viii, which also declared:
WISHED A SIMPLE FUNERAL.
81 wish my funeral TO be AS simple
and Inexpensive as possible, and that my
EXECUTORS cause TO he purchased AZ a
cost OF not more than 800 plain marble
hesdstone, thick and low, inscribed with
my name aud the date OF my death, TO
mark my grave.
The most interesting hequest is the one
OF 500, in trust 10 Robbins Battel
Wall street broker for the benefit OF her
nephew In this connection the Will says:
II have always called the boy I.uly'
or Louis, and 7 have told him that
should give him something only on con-
= dition OF a change OF name. David Fris-
bic was the name of his grea grand
father and also of his great uncle. and
] desire To have the name perpetuated.
rs ] wish 70 have perpetuated the in
tegrity and the generous temper and the
strong intellectual character OF the man
who bore II and whose virtues ! hope he
will emulate"
Should nephew fail to take legal steps
within six months 10 have his name legal
" changed he will get hut $500. the re-
naming 5000 going 70 Vasssr college for
the founding OF a scholarship.
NEPHEW is IN BUSINESS.
When the will was drawn the nephew
was a boy of fifteen years. He is now
man OF thirty-five or thirty-six years,
and Is engaged in business in Springfield,
Mo IL is understood that he will not
change his name TO get the legacy.
There are a number OF legacies, and
the residue is divided into four parts. One
fourth goes TO her physician. DR. Edwin
G.. Freligh, OF No. 81 West Twenty-fourth
street: one fourth 10 Henry ". Boody.
an uncle OF ex-Mayor David A. Boody,
another fourth TO various friends and rel
atives and the last fourth was the one
designed for her nephew.
Wellesley college gets $1,000 to endow
a professorship OF political economy; also
$4,000 10 establish a free scholship for Con-
nectcut girls.
Miss Frisbie was said 10 he something
OF a man-hater. She had never had love
affair as far as her friends here know.
in this respect one section OF her will.
as follows. Is significant:
"All legacies 10 any woman or female
child shall be under the sole control OF
such person when arrived AT full age;
and shall be subject 10 no control or
claim OF any present or future husband"