The evening world., 1911-03-16
FRANK WORK DEAD,
LAST Of FAMOUS
0lD-T|ME BROKERS
High liver, Sportsman and
Lover of Horses Passes Away
at Ninety-Two.
lONCAN NOTABLE FIGURE
Later Years Filled With Quar-
rels With Daughter and His
Former Friends.
lONOA NOTABLE FIGURE


Frank Work, nlnety-two years old,
Aied ,o.dsy n, His homo. No II East
Twenty-sIxth street. I'm the davs when
Jsv co,t, t,,, ret ana n,,tu n,ov
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WI was " oIoNcr anu '""'e money
WI" '"e o'S| u 'he"'
High I'er' quick tempered. affection
ate. the record Of his life h checkered
with qaurrels In and out Of the courts
and with countless acts OF generosity
and pen,,o,ess IN man an, ,oas, >.,or
~ he o,orr.,. ,t,. nj. 1a,u,,.n
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OF Nuie' h"tony'' 'he PROFESSIONAL Wh'p'
cleared the way FOR her children. Fran
els and Maurice ana Mrs. Arthur Scott
Burden TO inherit a hait or the enor-
fortune to when Mrs. Burke
Roche ana her sister, Mrs Peter Cooper
Hewitt are the heirs'
E%stranaed From Friends.
., a.. Lao, a,o.
81. No. r.a,r VT i'll -
estranged from his few surviving old
friends and from members Of his family.
In the Twenty-sixth street house. Some.
times he went driving behind venerable
Survivors of his once famous stable OF
t~rotters. But govt. the heritage OF his
~livclier days. kept him indoors much.
and he sat with his logs and coldc
his few callers for the faults OF the
world which had left him behind.
Frank Work was born In Chillicothe.
O., When he was nine years old his
teacher punished him BY striking his
outstretched hand with n ruler. lie
went crying home to his mother for
sympathy and was whipped for hav-
ins been a bad boy. with a five dol
lar gold piece and thirty cents In his
pocket he ran away that night. lie
never saw his mother again.
The boy worked mis- way down the
Ohio and Mississippi on the boats and
grew up In New Orleans. lie never
had to change tina. fve-dollar god piece
and on his birthday "a few weeks x
showed IL proudly to his callers. Wal
street made an opening for him, and in
a short time he became one of the firm
AZ Work, Sturgis n strong.
n... -. a., r.u.
IN inc "ass ~"en De'"'on'eos wa.
NOR ct'D 'n", ,u,'n' anu
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raaary.1 for ,hom rrork worL ,,.
alwavs ,hcre. telling stories. boastipy
Of his horsex making bets 1, was
,her. ,ha, ne had his ouarre, Win yoh,
DANIEL. n merchant. over ,ho d,,. ~,
an oncieu, murder. which, ended with
no, of y.eO which Daniel insls,ad
work triad "a nav with N ch.cL o. ,,oo
Even during the life of Co-mmoao,a
VANDERBILT. Mr.. Work had a ,,ahia
which commanded the resnec, NJ nor.
,ar,,ors lie freoueptiv raced ,ha c.
r,odoro n, The road Amo,y the ,a,ons
work horsa. vera Edward lao w,,ar,,o
.nd nick svivoIler rbo las, nurcr.so
,or the s,abIc was abou, ,e, year ,yo
vher he houph, peter STIRLING for 90 9co
hecause his older horses seemed to foe,
,hs hurder NJ taxing him and for hi.
,.,, driv.s
$500 s,.u ,,u ~ =,
a. .a~ -,
uf'o"s'' P'a""e" as d i"d! pouoo'''
one near MS nome ana 'he other III
F1tty-seNenth street near 'entral
Park. Mr.. Work had a farm AT Green
witch TO which he sent his rundocyn
horses. lie never sold a horse or let
H., ornya, ,,,u,, ~, al ~.
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IN one Hunoreo Nunawsys.
The Hist Of his accidents while driving
contains nearly a hundred runaways II
~ht.h 10 ,as sor,,tm.s "a rucb -
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'hat 10 ia" " ''"' " "S "eu ''r
month lie was frequently N the ponce
courts for fast driving and for cu'sini
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