New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-16
w llker to Stay
In Little Flat
Despite Riches
Searles's Heir Refuses TO
Talk of Sudden Wealth
and Says He Has No
Plans for Future as Yet
Hint of Will Contest
Employees of Paper in
Which He Owns Share
Look for No Changes

Arthur T. Walker, heir to nearly
$5O,000,000 through the death Of his
former employer, Edward F. Searles. in
Methuen' Mass, nine days ago, has no
plans for the future and doesn't see
why people should be interested in
them if he had, he said yesterday.
1t was said that employees of "The
Globe" in which Walker inherits q
large interest, believe that he contem-
plates no changes in the policy of that
newspaper.
A nephew of Walkers benefactor
who inherited $25OOO0 under the will
mas sought ADVICE as TO contesting the
document. MIR. Walker, though uncom-.
munlcatlve, was likewise unworried
II have no plans at all now. and T
think that | have filled enough snace
IN the papers," Walker said. az don't
believe the public would be interested
in my affairs" w."
Walker said that he would keen m
hvlng IN his two room, third floor front
at rs Pierrepont Street, BROOKLYN
where he has a view of New York har.
Dor and glimpse of the nations fnan-
clal center tie listened patiently to
questions about his family and his
earlier life, before he entered Searles's
employ some fifteen years ago, but to
all OF them his reply was that such
matters were not of public interest ana
should not be published.
Walker Refuses to Talk
Walker was told that this attitude
was OF interest, inasmuch as he is now
the real owner of The Globe and Com
merclal Advertiser" established in
for THE Globe" but insisted that he
had no plans for its future. He said
that in his newspaper reading he Sc
lected the newspapers which were not
sensational.
Walker said he did not intend to dis
cuss his position, and hoped that he
might maintain in prosperity the
privacy that had been so easy in the
past.
How difficult that is Walker learned
yesterday. He would not answer his
Dell. Neiighbors obeyed instructions
try, they did not know where. Finally
another resident in the house, which
IS merely an old private house divided
into small apartments, admitted a re-
porter, who said that he wanted to
thrust written message under
Walkers door. The reporter departed,
walked the length of the block and
then returned to Walkers door. The
envelope containing the message had
been withdrawn. Persistent knocking
brought Walker to the door and in an
exceedingly firm voice he declared his
policy of silence.
Elevator operators at II Broadway
were careful to withhold their names
yesterday in discussing Walker, but
they were strong in his praise. Walker,
who does not smoke himself, deals out
good cigars generously, they said, and
although a hard worker does not keep
elevator men working overtime by fire.
quenting the Office at night and on
Sunday.
"He comes in at 8 o'clock and leaves
at o'clock, like every other regular
clerk" one elevator operator said.
"He goes out to lunch when he feels
like it, sometimes not until 3 o'clock
not long ago he told me that was get
ting bald, and when l told him that l
was forty he said that we were the
same age
The negro Office employee, who is the
only other person in the Office, talked
about Walkers good fortune conf
dentially until Walker instructed him
not to tell anybody a thing. Since then
he won't talk. The negro has been in
the Office longer than Walker, seven
teen years, Or since he was thirteen
years old.
No Change in Paper
Stuart P. West, financial authority on
"The Globe" said it was his under
standing that Walker would have
large interest in the newspaper, but he
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