The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-01-14
TRIALS IF HEIRESS
 WHO HIRED OUT Rich VaSsar Girls Fight to
 Make a Living SHE BURNED THE DINNER Studied Cook Book and Is Happy Be- cause She Is Now a Model Do-
 mestie-she Will Take
 a Rest.
SHE BURNED THE DINNER
speoIaI to the New York world.

1 Speclal to the New York World.
 Pittsburg.-NIiss Kathryn Gray, the Vas sar girl who has been working as a do- nestle here, will go to Washington to claim the fortune of about s5O0.0OO which has been kept away from her many years. Miss Gray will be accompanied by Marcus ". Achison, Jr., an attorney of Pittsburg, who has been retained to look after her interests
 Miss Gray was here at the home of B. w. Bausman, where she has been employed for the last four months, and where she Is still working as a domes- tic Clad in blue gingham. dress, and wearing a regular mess apron, 1t was she who opened the door.
 "Yes, I am still working" she laugh ingly replied You see I have been working now for the last seven years, and now that I am to receive my for tune I cannot break off all at once. will keep on working here every day until next week, when I will go to l Washington to meet my Uncle Jack, and get my money. ts~
 It's strange story, and now that it
 
 laughing at all of the troubles I had. I was only an infant when my mother died and almost immediately after her death my father, ex-Senator Asbury Gray of Virginia went to California, where he 1 died seven years later. l never saw him except when they brought the body home. l When 1 grew older I was told that my father had left me fortune, but that it had been lost That was all I ever knew.
 Lived With Uncle.
 "I had always lived with my uncle, John Gray at Richmond, and was treated as his child. It was he who gave money to put me through Vassar and to other wise educate me. I had never worked a day in my life when I returned from college and met the ultimatum of mar | rying my uncle's old friend or leaving his house. I refused to marry him and was forced to leave. That was seven years ago.
 'I went to Philadelphia, where for a time I lived with my aunt, Mrs. Joseph Johnston, of North Fifteenth street, and afterward with another aunt Mrs. Ben jamin Johnston at Swarthmore l had an income of S25 a month, but that wc not keep me, and l knew l would have to go to work.
 "No one will ever realize what it means a who has never been accustomed to work I made the rounds of every store in Philadelphia, asking for employment. Al ways the first question that was put to me was whether l had references from my last employer. 1 could not furnish them and that ended it.
 "Thoroughly disheartened, I decided that the only thing that was left Tor me to do was to apply for work as a domestic. didn't want to do so in Phil- adelphia, and so I went to New York where I procured place as handmald to Miss Jessie Milworth, an actress. Three weeks of such work almost drove me crazy, and l returned to Philadelphia without letting them know where l had been.
 About that time I learned that my l Uncle Jack had discovered my where abouts. Believing that he was still attei me to marry his old friend, 1 took the first train for Pittsburg. 1 knew no one here and that was why I came. To nc one except my aunt in Philadelphia dlo confide my destination.
 | "When I reached here I bought a | newspaper and picked out the people wht were advertising for servants. The nrs place that I applied for work was here at the Bausman home. I didn't wish te appear in a false light and so l made | a clean breast of the whole affair to Mrs Bausman, that Is so far as my experience went. She was very good to me.
 She Burned the Dinner.
 "They did not complain when l burned the dinner, nor when I placed too mucf bluing in the wash, so that 1t had to bt done over again. But l studied as l never did at college. I don't think thai since have been here I have read line oi anything except the cook book. l know Il by heart. At first I thought the worl l Irf1l I kap at became accustomed to it. Now 1 donf | mind I can now cook a good meal, car wash and do any work that is expected from a house girl, and am proud of the | fact.
 "At first I didn't let my relatives know what was doing. When they diC find out I thought that my aunt would die of horror. She thought that the fam ily name had been disgraced forever, bu | I soon convinced her that 1t was nc disgrace to earn an honest living. Peo ple would not accept me as colleg, woman and I had to get down to harC work Even when I was working hardes I was happy with the thought that i was infinitely better than tying myself to man old enough to be my father and whom I did not love.
 "Now that 1t Is all over, I am goinl to take a rest. After I finish up my business in Washington. l am goins south with MT. and Mrs. Bausman, bu not as a servant. My uncle Jack is now S2 years old. It has been intimated that he has wilfully kept me out of my for, tune and that he was responsible for al of my trouble. Well, if he was, I have forgiven him, and will make him nc trouble. After I return from the south expect to purchase a home, either in Pittsburg or Philadelphia, as I prefer the north to the south.'
 ligent She has abundance of light brown hair. beautiful large gray eyes and a good complexion. She Is thirty years old.