Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-04-27
OLD PET LIVES HIGH
WOMAN BEQUEATHED $4,000 FOR
CARE OF HORSES.
Only One Is Now Living-Coachman
Whose Income Depends on the
Animals Life Gives Him
Tender Care.

Animals Life Gives Him
Tender Care.
Boston-An old bay horse, a wealthy
and eccentric Boston woman and an
old legacy probated a short time ago
have just made James Moriarity, a
coachman, the leading figure in one of
the queerest situations ever created by
woman's will.
A lifelong lover of dumb animals,
Miss Mary B. Duclos Snow, who re-
Gently died in Hartford, Conn.,, left
$32, 500 to be paid in annual stipends on
1.-The sliding scale" to her faithful"
coachman, James Moriarity, for the
care of her pet horses.
At the time when the will was made,
nine years ago, five horses, each men,
toned by name in the legacy, were
alive, and the will prodvided that upon
Mrs. Shows death Moriarity should be
paid compensation of $4,000 year
from the trust fund SO long as any
three of the horses remained alive, and
that after the death of four Of the
horses he should receive $1,000 annual
iy until the demise of the last horse.
When the last horse died the coach
man was to be paid $500 year out of
the fund until his death.
Previous to the death of Mrs. Snow
all except one of the equine pets
passed away, and now, to continue
the earthly existence of Prince, bay
steed % years old, decrepit, infirm and
longing to give up the ghost, has be-
come the burning ambition of the old
coachman.
If Prince dies Moriarity's annual in
come will at once be cut to $500. AS
long as the horse can be coddled into
continuing his existence he will draw
$1,000 by the terms of the legacy.
To-day, housed in luxurious box
stall, swaddled in blankets and PAM
pered as probably no old equine was
ever before, Prince is an object of un-
paralleled interest and solicitude to his
old caretaker.
Drive the Prince! Moriarity would
as soon think Of becoming a Tory.
Each morning, after carefully pre-
pared meal of lukewarm cereal pre-
pared with cream and served in dish,
the horse is carefully assisted from his
padded box stall to the barn floor.
where Moriarity places his ward before
the glass doors to allow the sunlight
to reinvigorate the frame of the old
steed. If the day is exceptionally
warm Prince is taken for short walk
around the yard Of the Snow estate.
If the coachman deems the weather
too severe Prince is merely allowed to
thrust his nose through an opening in
the window Of the barn and refresh his
lungs with the fresh air for few min
utes. Then he is tenderly led back to
his stall and left until dinner time.
At noon his food consists of large
quantities of milk and cream carefully
mixed and sman bundle of English
hay, but partly because the horse
through age has lost most of his grind.
ers the larger part Of the hay remains
uneaten. In fact, Prince now shifts at
any diet SO commonplace.
During the afternoon. if the sun is
shining. Moriar1ty again leads the
horse carefully around the drive of the
estate, frequently six times, but he
AYERS that six are usually too many fol
the "critter" and that five are about
enough.
At tea time" Prince gets another
ration of mixed cereals and milk, witt
an added portion Of fine feed mixet
with little ground wheat.
!, Then he Is bedded down for thu
, night. Only the softsst straw in 1arg'
, quantities is used for this purpose, ant
!, in addition the old horse is tenderl.
blanketed even about his fore shoul
ders and neck.
q To the old goodman the existenc
I of his equine protege has already be
t come the all important object of e1
h istence.
j The will of Mrs. Snow, with its cd
|. bequest. has become the subject G
8 much discussion.
In addition to the legacy for he
0 horse. $4,000 was Also left for the car
Y of her 80 dogs. now all dead, the st
pend for their care to be paid to Mis-
|. Phila G. Miller of Orange, Mass. b
s the death of all the CANNES this none
0 now goes to Miss Miller.