The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-04-01
HORSE LIVES IN LUXURY.
Fortune Left to Equine Pet b,
Boston Woman.

An old bay horse, wealthy and
eccentric Boston woman and an odd
legacy probated last week have just
made James Moriarity, a coachman,
the leading figure in one of the queer
est situations ever created by wom-
ans will.
A lifelong lover of dumb animals,
Miss Mary r. Duclos Snow, who re-
Gently died in Hartford, Conn.,, left
$32, 500 to be paid in annual stipends
on "the sliding scale" to her faith
full" coachman, James Moriarity, for
the care of her pet horses.
At the time when the will was made
nine years ago, five horses, each
mentioned by name in the legacy,
were alive, and the will provided that
upon Mrs. Shows death Moriarity
should be paid a compensation of
$4,000 per 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 $500 annually until the de-
mise of the last horse. When the
last horse died the coachman was to
be paid $500 per 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 con-
tinue the earthly existence of Prince,
an old bay steed twenty-eight years
of age, decrepit, infirm and longing
to give up the ghost, has become the
burning ambition of the old coachman
If Prince dies Moriarity's annual
income will at once be cut to $500
per year. AS long as the horse can
be coddled into continuing his exis-
tence he will draw $500 by the term
of the legacy.
Today, housed in a luxrious box
stall, swaddled in blankets and pamp-
cred as probably no old equine was
ever before, Prince is an object of
unparalleled interest and solicitation
to his old caretaker.
Drive the Prince !Moriarity would
as soon think of becoming Tory.
Each morning, after careful prepar-
ed meal of lukewarm cereal. prepared
with cream and served in dish, the
horse is carefully assisted from his
padded box stall to the barn floor
whereMorarity places his ward before
the glass doors to allow the sunlight
to reinvigorate the frames 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 open
| ing through the window of the barn
and refresh his lungs with the fresh
air for a few minutes. Then he is
tenderely led back to his stall and
left until dinner time.
At noon his food consists of large
quantities of milk and cream CAREFUL
mixed and a small bundle of Eng
| lish hay,but PARTLY because the horse
through age has lost most of his
grinders, most of the hay remains
uneaten. In fact Prince now shifts
at any diet so commonplace.
During the afternoon, if the sun
| is shining, Moriarity again leads the
horse carefully around the drive OF
/ the estate frequently six times, but
he AYERS that six are too many
for the "critter" and that five is
about enough.
i At tea time" Prince gets another
/ ration of mixed cereals and milk with
an added portion of fine food mixed
with little ground wheat
Then he is bedded down for the
night. Only the softest straw In
large quantities is used for this pur
pose, and in addition. the old horse
is tenderly blanketed even about his
fore shoulders and neck.
To the old coachman the existence
of his equine protege has already be
come the all-important object Of ex
istence.
H The will of Mrs. Snow, with its ode
bequest has become the subject o.
discussion.
II In addition to the legacy for hel
/ horses. $4,000 was also left for tht
care OF her thirty dogs, now all dead
| the stipend for their care to be paif
1 to Miss Phila c.. Miller of Orange
Mass. BY the death of all the can
ines this money now gets to Miss
Miller. Boston Bost.