The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-08-07
TEN THOUSAND A
YEAR is NEEDED
BY BABY SMART
At Least, That's the Amount His
GRANDMOTHER and Guardian
Says Is Necessary To Pay His
Living Expenses

Please, and won I the court increase
four.yesr old Richard Smart's pin mon.
ey to $4,000 a yearf sq.
This, In short, is the prayer Of a petit.
ton fled yesterday in the local circuit
court by Mrs. Elizabeth X, Knight, Of
Honolulu and San Francisco, guardian
Of the baby owner Of the big and rich
Parker Ranch on the Big Island. Judge
Ashford will have to pass on this little
request. L
Baby Smart has been getting $4,000
a year to live on, but his grandmother
the guardian, has suddenly come to the
realization that this is too small an
amount. ."H -. =
Grandmother Is Guardian AHA. "A. nj 4
In her petition the grandmother and
guardian sets forth that she was ap-
pointed guardian of the person, the
Trent Trust Company being guardian
Of the property, worth three million
dollars, on January II, 1915, Of Rich.
ard Palmer Smart, minor and an or.
|phan. On August 0, 1918, The local
circuit court, Judge Whitney presiding,
allowed the youngster $4,000 year on
which to exist. He was then only two
years old. The high cost Of living had
meanwhile set in, and the child is now
three years older, wherefore his living
expenses should be increased Eve times
the original figure. ...,..-.s st..,
Mrs, Knight sets forth that, follow
ing the death Of little Smart's mother
the father died on November 2, 1915
Baby Smart's income is derived, sayi
Mrs. Knight, from the trust created
by the mother, the late Annie T. X
Parker Smart, onl the charges against
the estates have been since liquidated
Baby's Neat Income ..sg}.
The haby's income last year amount
/, ed to $S7,3l4.S2 uni since then it ha,
been growing by leaps and bounds
What it Is this year of grace she say
not, but it might be an even hundred
thousand, If not more. .,.,.. ..vs... .
I Little Smart 3 apartments, or house
or chalet, or mansion in San Francisc,
cost last year 1865 a month, of $67St
for the year, the grandmother ant
guardian asserts. All this is exclusiV,
Of forty. dollars a month paid to thu
baby goyerness and hundred dol
lars o month spent in automobile joy
rides for. the four.year. II ais
took at least $500 TO, keep the chill
dressed, land the GRANDMOTHER ant
guardian believes that $3.50 should b,
allowed to defray the expenses of littl
Smsrt's annual vacation, for he need
II badly.
Baby Smart's mother was an Ha
waiian, while his father was q Virgin
ian. hut, little Smart must be educate,
as an Hawaiian--an American Hawaiian
l-r-wherefore it becomes necessary. tina
he visit his ancestral maternal home a
least once q year. The grandmothe
and guardian says that $l6S3.9O woul,
about cover the expense of such a pill
grimage. ...,..,.Ey4 .-. .,-.
ohu-cha Gar for Richard 80. ~, .l..
The guardian also believes that tn
baby should have an automobile al
his own aud she wants $3500 for tn
gasoline burner, besides $3.50 montl
or $4,000 .. year. to run it. Everythin
copsid ered, Mrs. Knight believes te
thousand dollars win Just about cove
the baby 3 merest needs year.
And then there Is the ancestral
uaternal-end Of the whole thing t
DE considered. '' .....-.
Because Of the ancestry of sal
child" says the petitioner, "and it
large interests in the Territory, an
strengthening the aloha which tn
child now has for Hawaii (Baby Smar
is already calling himself an American
Hawaiian, the grandmother and guarG
ian asserts), 1t is advisable that sal
minor should be taken to Hawaii a
least once q year, =. ~
The papers In the petitions were DIT,
pared, u is said, In San Francisco an
were filed by Attorney David Lathro
Wilmington, of the local law firm O
Castle & Wilmington.
Investigation yesterday develope
the fact that a. similar petition ha
been once before turned down by Wi
liam /. Whitney, who was at tn
time second judge of the local eircui
! court. 49,. .:.... :. : a.. /. 49,
Thelma Parker, the heiress of th
Parker Estate, married young Smal
in Honolulu q few years ago, The
Joprneyed to Paris and from theI
rumors of neglect reached Hawaii, o
the, way home the baby was born i
New York. Thelma reached as. far .
San Francisco in snch "a eonditio
that she died In the Coast city.
Her husband attacked, the trust lei
Ply ner aud the case was a cause celebi
10 the local Courts. A eompromise wa
eheeted and shortly afterward Sma,
died in * bis Virginia home. Bah
Smart's estate is valued all the wa
from two to Ave million dollars. I'll
property. in the main, consists of Ii
Parker cattle ranch in the Big Islam,
the biggest of its kind in the TER
tory. n + &HtF "a j&. g..