Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-04-21
WILL GIVE UP CANAL
WHEN MILLIONS COME
Gabriel Shipley, Heir to $1,000, 900,
Will Quit Excitement OF
Lock Tending.

Hagerstown, Md, April 20.-Gabriel
Shipley, the well-known millionaire, tos-
sed another plinpent bucketfull into the
trough and, wiping his sweating forehead,
exclaimed, "Ain't they a beautiful Ill
bunch o hnwgs2 Only paid sT.2O apiece
for 'em, tool
No idle bit Of fiction is that sentence.
No romance. And Gabriel Shpley, at the
moment he said il, presented the picture
OF u millionaire "a sT,c00,oo0 millionaire
--enpaged in the act Of feeding pigs.
What sight for the sore eyes OF the down
trodden workingnan "A millionaire iced
ing pigsl
c,ale s the tender Of the lock just above
Dam No. I on the Chesapeake and OHIO
Canal and he has just inherited 81 ,oOO, 600
from his Uncle Jimmy Mccoy. The most
money he ever had seen IN his life was the
SCI he got the first month they raised the
pay Of lock-tenders from s35 a month As
n matter of sober fact, he hasn't seen any
more vet And saddest Of all he really
doesn't give hang whether he ever sees
any more or not
when Gabriel shipley got letter from
his sister. Sal Crune. in Washington. - g.,
saving that Uncle Jim" Mccoy had left
him $1,000 900. he deliberately reduced
was afraid he might accidentally, IN n sud
den wave of generosity, give them more.
Tho news having been. given 10 the
world last week that Gabriel Shipley
had suddenly Inherited sT,000000 a cor
respondent went up into Washington
county TO see what he looked like. He also
wanted 10 learn whnt "Gahe' proposed 10
do with such vast fortune, what his re-
actions were. what ideas he had about
spending il and So on.
Gahe thinks nc viii quit the lock-tend-
ing business within ~ hours after he
really gets the fret inatallment OF the
sT,000,000
lie thinks he will move away from the
house by the canal
He thinks he will buy himself little
place in IIagerstowu and settle down to q
quiet life
And that's about ali
He wns in the kitchen eating hot apple
pie when the correspondent footsore and
weary after a long tramp arrived at hrs
front door. Ills wife, Irilly. was in the
kitchen, baking more hot apple pics. Ills
daughter. Mrs Frank Winters. and bahy,
| Lois we're IN tho kitchen cleaning W hot
| apple pie crumbs.
In the places on the table not oocu-
pied hy hot ample pie. there was hot pork
aausape made from the real pig and slabs
&c white. homemade bread and hook d
/ hmm
Gale and his wife, Irillv, and his
daughter. and everybody talked freely foi
/ p,tblirafion. Later on Jack Shipley, hi
ann. came over from across the canal ant
/ talked frarlv Gabe had no secrets abou
himself nr his fortune The only thing h
eouldni toll about it was where 10 wa
and when he was going to get IT, He hadn'
heard n word since the letter from IN
sister Sal in Washington.
lie was the most democratic million
airp the correspondent ever had seen
/ And Jolly? When the photographer sap
he wanted Gabc and his wife, Brllly. 4
pose for a picture, he SAID, What, the
ugly ol womanp You don want no pic
ture Of herf
Gate being n man Of immense wealth
the correspondent crowded close when h
| leaned over tho stove with one foot on th
fender and. removing his corncob plpf
whispered contidentially.
Gnbc has one great advantage Owe
most newly-made millionalres. His plaG
il very hard 20 reach. He couldn't b
more deeply hidden in rural businesses
he were as chronic n millionaire as hi