New-York tribune., 1919-03-20
Lad of l6, Heir to Fortune of
$2O,OO0,O00, Happy on 81 Week
Rnt Just Wait Till Thomas
Austin Yawkey Gets Some
Time to Shoot Ducks
And as for Fish-Whew!
other Ambitions Are to Go
10 Yale and Fit Himself
10 Manage Big Estate

vr$HERE Is going to be tremendous
slaughter among the ducks Of
South Island by a youthful gunner.
rks fish OF stream and sea will learn
"a dread the rod and tackle Of a new
and enthusiastic angler. Those authors
who can justify tho claim Of writing
~Uss O. Henry and Richard Harding
Davis" are to have another patron, and
II the brethren be kind Psi Upsilon
Fraternity may gain some dav new
member whose name, Thomas Austin
yswkey is worth $20,000,000.
That ia what his share Of his foster
fathers fortune means first of all TO
.be sixteen -year-od schoolboy, who
lives with his adopted mother at IL
East Eighty-sevcnth Street, and has
for spending money 81 a week
hut TO Thomas Austin Yawkey, Joint
heir with his foster-mothef to timber
and mining lands worth In tho neigh.
borhood Of s4o,000,o00, tbs prospect OF
absolute financial independence does
not bring only boyish dreams OF duck
shooting and fishing, OF reading books
Of adventure and making" good
fraternity.
Wants TO Fill Fathers Shoes
Their glamour has been dimmed by
the death Of the man he loved as a
father. At sixteen, the same strain
Of blood that enabled William Hoover
Yawkey, his uncle and foster parent,
to wrest wealth from undeveloped
lands, has begun to speak. Back of
The boyish visions of which he talks so
enthusiastically are others that he dis
cusses more gravely.
He told of these also yesterday, al
most shyly, with his arm about the
waist of his foster-mother.
q am going to YALE he said, "when
I graduate from Irving School at
rarrytown I'll take the academic
course there. and after that I want
to take year of law so that III be
able to handle business intelligently.
"You see" he continued, 81 want to
fit myself for the management of the
big interests that my father left me.
'1'll be happy" he added, after a
pause, "if | can make myself a big
enough man to step into his boots"
For moment the fair haired, we'll
knit lad seemed suddenly to have
grown older as he stood besids Mrs.
yswkey and spoke of his father and his
fathers accomplishments.
Living Yawkey Memorial
There's anotherthing that am in
terested in," he went or. Father men
toned it in his will. He spoke of some
permanent charity-some living memo
rial under the Yawkey name. Mother
says she is going ahead to carry out
his wishes. | want to see that done.
Father was very good to me-" he
said, softly, "and so is mother here"
and he squeezed her affectionately.
In another moment, the look of ma
turity had fallen away and he was talk
Ing eagerly and boyishly of his school,
football, tennis and duck shooting.
There is no glitter of wealth about
Thomas Austin Yawkey-born Thomas
Austin-and one OF the richest boys in
the. world through the terms of his
foster fathers will. TIE face under
Il
the sleek blonde hair Is fresh and un-
spoiled by indulgence. He wears plain
dark clothes, low soft collar, black
Knitted tis and square-tnad "sensihle"
shoes.
win Get s4,ooo,0g0 at rs
from his early childhood he has had
20 prospect Of riches to look forward
" Tor under the terms of his own
m'sher's will he will receive 81 900 900
whsn he Is twenty-five. His share Of
ns foster fathers estats will be turned
over 70 him when hs reaches the ago of
thirty.
me boys father died when he was
shrss years old, and ho WAS taken into
me household OF his mother's brother
:" 1910 Two years ago he adopted
'hs iawkey name and had II conferred
upon him legally upon tho death Of his
notnsr In September, 1919.
S'rs. Yawsey explained that no was
'sSen INTO the family because his own
'aothef was ailing, and 1t was felt TINT
/" would be better for him TO be
'''aEnt Up Under his unclc's direction.
..A'er' he was adopted legally, 30 that
'ne name Of Yawkcy might not die out.
LIE as student at the Irving
s.shooi Is much more vital affair to
Sne lad to-day that tho future prospect
~ 'hs immense fortune that will some
aay. be his.
I'm just like any other boy,o he
ssa with an appealing grin. "Ive
pssn iicked a couple Of times, but I've
s'~ays been able TO como back at them.
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