The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-20
WILLIAM zIEGIER, HEIR TO GREAT BAKING POWDER
 FORTUNE g TO-DAY


 Baking powder has made many men
 rise in the world, but the greatest of all fortunes derived from the manu-5 fracture Of that popular culinary com- pound was arnaased by the late W1l-S liam Ziegler who was also noted aa
 the finarcial packer Of polar expedi- tions. The making powder king left an estate valued at about $20, 900, oo0s
 and the larger part Of this biz for tune, which is constantly increasing
 now belongs to WilIiam ziegier IT,, the foster son Of the multf-mfll llionaire
 manufacturers Mr. ztagler, who is
 one of th e richest young men In A Iller- ica will be twenty three today Since
 he Inherited his vast fortune young
 ziegler has been involved in much lit igatfon In 1905 his foster mother,
 widow of the baking powder king, attempted to upset the will but set- clement was reached by which she re- cefved $1 100000 in cash and $1s 300, 900 in baking powder stock, instead of the ! $50. 900 annual income bequeathed9 t0 her by her husband. Young zieglerss
 sister, Florence Louise Brandt, a
 school teacher at Davenport, Ia. later brought suit, asking half of the $24s- COG, GOO estate which had fallen to her
 brother. but this case was settled out of court last month by the payment of $sT5.D00 to the Iowa young woman George w and Anna Brandt were the parents Of the youthful millionaire
 They lived in Brooklyn until 1888, when
 they removed to Chicago. William Conrad Brandt. now William ziegler, Jr, was born on July 20, 1891. Four William ZiegIer was half brother of George w Brandt, and was very fond | of the latterss children. The baking powder king,H after much persuasion,
 Induced the father to part with the. youngsters The daugnrer eventually went hack to her father and in 1902 went to Davenport. where she became teacher in settlement. The boy who was only four when he took up his residence with the millionaire, was le-
 gally adopted 2 year later, and his name was changed to William Ziegler, Jr. He was brought up to believe that the nanufactarer was his father and 1t was not until ziegier died in 1905 that the lad. then fourteen. learned
 the truth about his narentage.
 A delicate lad when he Was adopted, , , young ziegler developed into an atn- letic youth. and at one time enter tained an ambition to head one of the
 arctic expeditions in which his foster father had been interested. Later he l turned his attention to music and the stage. He studied at both co1umbfa and Harvard, specializing in music and in classical poetry. While at Co.,
 Tunbia he wrote a musical comedy which was presented by~ fellow stu-
 dents at q fashionabie hotel. He has also acted as 'sangels to theatrical enterprise, and. strange to say. is al- Ieged to have made money out of it.
 In 1912 shortly after he attained his majority, the boy millionaire married a playmate of his youth. Miss Gladys
 CT part of his time in a. New York of fee, attending to his business af- fairs.
 q am going to drink every drop in
 the cup Of happiness that life can offer
 me- is a sentiment recently attributed 1 to the young millionaire, but he add ed: sNo one is going to be shocked by what do or how do it..s
 1 Great wealth has not turned the 4e4d of the broad -shouldered. bespectacled youth. and the sowing of wild oats does not come within the scope of his definition of happiness.
 The first machine by which pins were manufactured cheaply and in large quantities were invented in 1880 by l in Ridgefeld, Conn., 121 years ago to- day, July 20, 1793. Pins were first
 manufactured by machinery in Epg- l land in 1924, under a patent Of Lernuel
 We1lman Wright. an American. but the process was slow and expensive, and the machine that revo1utionized the pin industry. Howe, who was a phy-
 sician as well as an inventor and benefactor of the fair sex. died in
 Birmingham, Conn.,. in 1s76 Brass pins, made by hand. were invented in
 France in the sixteenth century. be-
 fore that pins were made of bone and
 silver. for the richer classes. and of
 wood for the poor folks. Metal pins I were introduced into England in 154o and three years later a statute was
 passed entitled "An Acte for the true
 making of Pynnes.'. in which 1t was enacted that the price charged should
 not exceed six shillings eight pence or about s1.6o per thousand. When pins
 were made by hand they were con-
 sidered a very appropriate New Years gift for ladies and the custom of giving pins on that day became so gener al that the money used in buying them l was called ttpin-money.e