The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-03

10 MS personal frlendS, members OF
his family, relatives and horde Of
pensi Eers dependent upon his bounty
he presented another $3.50, 000-mak-
ing approximately 100000 in all. This
should satisfy the craving of the Or
binary multi-millionaire who feels
with Andrew Carnegie that it is a
sin to die rich, but not so Mr.. Nor
gan. Some covetous one the other
night under cover of darkness con-
trivei to invade his burglar-proof
poultry house on his Highland Falls
estate and carried off fourteen prize
turkeys, recently imported by the fin
ancier. AS a connoisseur of the beau.
tiful in nature as well as in art. Mr..
Morgan regarded them as the finest
specimens of their type that ever
proudly stalked barnyard. AS he
| had singled them out as special prizes
| for some of his favored friends, their
theft got On his nerves, and it is
said he has spent twenty times what
the birds were worth from a pure
food standpoint in detectives fees
in trying to hunt down the offending
trespasser who annexed them.
| Left 100000.
| There was much surprise evinced
| III CClG alH IhlO WEN Wy lhO
| announcement made in the Surro-
gates Court that Mrs. Mary Agnes
| Ruiz, the beautiful woman whose
name was intimately associated with
| that of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, for
several years following his divorce
from his spirited wife, Elsie French
Vanderbilt, had left an estate of but
| $50, 1000. Mrs. Ruiz, 1t will be recalled,
y,1iffad c.,iosd1 in, ItffJn
| more than year ago in a fit of
dependency. At the time Vanderbilt
was cutting big caper in the Eng
| lish capital with his daily coaching
| parties from London to Brighton. He
was believed to be very generous
| patron of Mrs. Ruiz before they split
their friendship, and the impression
| had become general among their mu-
| tual friends that he had made her
independently wealthy for life. Hence,
the feeling of amazement excited by
| the report of the executor of the dead
| woman's estate showing that it
amounted to a trifle more than the
| gilded great grandson of old Com
| modore Vanderbilt Is reputed to have
| spent recently for the dinner that
signalized his installation in the Fabri
L
| had taken for the winter.
Sickness Costly.
With the Undertakers' Trust now
| threatening to raise the price Of
| funerals and the announcement Of
! Secretary Frederick D. Greene, gen.
eral secretary Of the Hospital Satur-
day and Sunday Association, that in
line with the general advance in the
cost of living 1t now costs more to
be sick than it used to do. Old
Crouch thinks the world is going to
the bow-wows. The proletariat who
sits on the park benches all the day
long communing with himself and in.
respectively solving to his own sat
| isfaction the ethical advantages of
| the hookwornn, feels ,Aat his estate is
no longer to be pittied, with its re-
lief from the worries that burden his
more affluent brother.
| In order to determine how the
growth in the cost of living has af-
fected the hospitals. typical institu-
ton was selected and the figures of
| ten years ago were compared with
those of the present time. 1t was
found that In 1900 the daily expense
OF maintaining a patient was SLY,
| while now the cost has grown to
$2.06. 1t is probable that the latter
figure Is slightly above the average,
which Is estimated as $3.50 per day,
but it is taken to indicate the gen
eral rate of advance.
As the institutions represented by
the association gave over d million
days of free treatment to the poor
last year, this increase in the cost
of illness imposes heavy burden on
them and makes necessary the raising
of $1,000, 900 annually to provide free
service for those who cannot pay.
| A Great Author.
Surrounded by host of admiring
| friends, Marion Harland" (Mrs. E.
R. Terhune), had real old-fashioned
birthday celebration the other day.
| The writer, sharingnone of the scru-
pies of her sex respecting the sec
rets of her age, owned that it was
her eightieth natal anniversary and
her sixty-fifth as a writer.
When she was barely fifteen her
first stories appeared in the early
magazines. In that era it was con-
siJered almost as indecorous for wo-