The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1916-09-20
AGED COBBLER GETS
HETTY GREEN COIN
AND SAYS MORE is COMING.
WILL KEEP RIGHT ON AT
WORK, HE DECLARES.

MINNEAPOLIS.-Do you suppose
that the little old one-story "shoe
hospital at 3243 Washington avenue
north was turned into scene of con-
fusion when the postman ducked his
head through the doorway and hand
ed Elisha Swan Youngs Cornell, the
aged cobbler, letter from New York
attorneys informing him that the is
one of the chief heirs to the Hetty
Green estate?
Not at all.
81 knew it was coming" declared
the old cobbler.
"You never said anything about
it," objected the postman.
81 am not in the habit of talking
about my rich relatives" rebuked the
old cobbler in return. "You see am
not like these Hetty Green relatives
you hear about-the kind that just
say they are relatives, but never saw
Hetty in all their lives.
"Fact is that | am a regular rela-
tive and suppose | am in for quite
a chunk of the estate. | knew Hetty
well; knew her son Eddie; used to
fish with him down in Texas; been in
correspondence with Hetty for years;
regular member of the family"
81 suppose then you'll be giving up
the shop; quit doctoring up old shoes
and let the garden go to weeds?"
suggested the postman.
Won't Give Up the Shop.
'No, sir, l won't be doing any
thing of the kind" responded Elisha
Swan Youngs Cornell. "It don't
make any difference how much money
I get, I'll be right here cobbling shoes
and tending to the little garden
around the shop. How do you sup
pose the neighbors would get their
old shoes doctored up if I quit work?
And how do you think this lot would
look if I let the garden go to weeds
around here? The people around
here have been relying on me to take
care of their old shoes and to make
this little lot beauty spot these
many years, and they can keep on re-
lying on me"
Which is the story of the news
which came the other day to Elisha
Swan Youngs Cornell, aged cObbler,
and the decision he came to as to
what he will do now that riches seem
to have come to him.
CobbIer Expects Great Sum.
'"This money l am to get now is
nothing to what expect to get when
Hetty Green's own property is dis
posed Of" explained Mr.. Cornell.
E'This letter concerns only the estate
of Hetty Glidden Rowland, who died
great many years ago.
"Her people made lot of money
in Whaling and when she died she
left the use of her rooney to her
niece, VINO af';"rWard became mrs.
Hetty Green. This money, you I'M
derstand, was not for the niece to
spend any way she wanted. She was
only to have the use of it and she
was to pay per cent interest for the
privilege. On her death the money
was to be divided among all the de-
scendants of Hetty Glidden Rowland.
81 see Eddie Green says that there
are about 1,700 relatives surviving.
Eddie was always inclined to talk big.
don't believe there's more than 100
of us living. My letter does not say
Just how much | am to get, but l
should get pretty good slice of this
old Rowland estate, which at the
time Hetty Green died amounted to
about 100000. But when Mrs.
Green's own will is probated / think
you'll see that 1 get more than from
this Rowland estate. / understand
she left, most of her money to her
daughter and Eddie, but l guess
there is plenty left over for others
near of kim"
-rnHATHNE