Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-09
THEY AL WANT IT
Heirs of E. \. Peek Wranqll
 Over n Administrator.

uS H0dIlu6 Ou tuc appointment OL an administrator on the estate of the late Franklin A. Peck took place in the probate court to-day before Judge Lowe. All the heirs excepting Horace Lockwood of Washington, b. C., and Clifford Matthews, a clerk for the Plume & Atwood Go, were willing that Mrs Peck, the widow, should re- ceive the appointment. MT Matthews was represented by Attorney James E. Russell, and Attorney Cole repre- scented the widow and most of the heirs. Mir Lockwood favored the Colonial Trust Go and MT Matthews favored himself.
 The Colonial Trust Co.," said At torney Cole, Ifs nothing but a shadow, a mere shadow. To appoint that concern would mean considera- ble expense to the estate. The first thing they'd do would be to appoint some one to collect the rents. Then they'd have a lawyer to advise them 'and another lawyer to advise him, and there you'd be with expense pill ing up all the time"
 Attorney Russell opposed the ap- pointment of. the widow on the grounds that she knew nothing about business and could not handle such an estate as her husbands. "Mr Peck was silent man and he never told his wife thing about his es- tate. Two or three times he was dangerously ill.," said MT Russell. "and he should have made his will then, but his wife showed no tact and he in consequence died without leav- ing a will"
 Attorney Cole said that quite the contrary were the facts. MT Peck, he said, always took his wife with him when he was collecting his rents. and, in fact, for months before his death she did all the work of the es- tate. Attorney Cole was with Mir Peck two hours before he died and he guessed he knew MT Peck's senti- ments on this matter
 Mrs Smith favored the widow above the Colonial Trust Go. She saw no reason why a woman couldn't man. age the estate as we'll as man. Lord a massy," she said. did God give the men all the brains?" She herself has been in the real estate business fourteen years and she knew how to handle plumbers and their bills, too. She would like to know in what way a man is superior to a womarfn affairs of this kind. She favored the widow every time.
 Then Mrs Peck. the widow. had her say. She wished the people to un- derstand that she had the fullest con- fidence in her husband and he in her. If there was some unhappiness in the family few years ago, she was not to blame. It was drink, not her. If her husband thought of making a horse trade he consulted her. Fur thermore, she has been collecting rent all her life for her aunt.
 Attorney Cole thought MT Mat thews was the poorest suggestion that could be made. MT Matthews, he said. was born into the world under brighter star than any man in the room and see what he is, clerk in a factory. poor boy. He may have abil- ity, but he has not shown it.
 That's all very well," said Mir Russell, but good men. finely edu- cated men, men qualified. and in fact those who have led men on to glori- ous victories, died poor, while men uneducated and illiterate have ac- cumulated piles upon piles of prop erty. There was President Polk, for instance. He was 30 when he ran for congress. and he was considered fool, and some one said that fool at 30 is fool forever. Yet he be- came president after all"
 Judge Lowe said he would adjourn the case to next Wednesday and probably decide then who shall be administrator.