The evening world., 1920-09-03
BIZ 1IGrQuCrite Dean.
BY Roger eatohelder, printed

'THRANK WORKS. grandson. Ed
Il mund Maurice Burke Roche, Is
- one long step nearer-and only
one step away-erom a British peer
age II he becomes Baron Formoy,
=. with 81 900 acres in County Cork. Ire
land-the title and estate TO which
his father has just fallen heir.
through the death OF Maurice's uncle,
and for which Maurice now stands in
direct line OF succession-what will
the fiery and pugnacious Split Of
grandfather Frank Work do TO the
descendants who have brought TO
nought all the pet codiSDn Of his re-
uarkable viii?
at was made public about nine
years ago, at the time OF the death
Vf the ninety year-old railroad
Rnancier and horseman, the associate
VI Commodore Vanderbilt, jay Gould
2 and Jim FisSe, the Dean Of Madi-
son Square" as he was called, for his
clipRing TO his old home on East 26th
street long after the world of fash
ion had moved out of that locality
and the skyscrapers had moved in.
Frank Works will was a remark
able illustration OF a masterful old
mans resolve TO control the des-
\ tinies OF his descendants. Upon
r,AdAurice and Francis Burke Roche.
9ilds- twin grandsons and two of the
! most popular young men in New
York society. the will imposed these
y prohibitions:
enT~ They must give up the name OF
Burke Roche and change il to
b-sMork.
Ia Asia or Africa, but remain in the
llniKaAs
They must become American
citizens.
They must have nothing to do
fl. with their father James Boothby
Burke Roche, Irish soldier Of for
tune and M. p.
They must not marry foreigners.
II they did any or all Of these for
bidden things they were to forfeit
their share in the Work estate
amounting TO nearly $1,000, 900.
And yet the boys got the money
10 paraphrase the Republican cam
,uaign slogan. How was IT done?
Through the simple and magnani-
NOUS action OF their aunt ana Frank
Works elder daughter Mrs. Peter
Cooper Hewitt. She had not trampled
on her fathers most precious preJl-
dice. She was a 100 per cent. Ameri-
uan-born one and married one tat
though she has since divorced mimi.
So she got $1,477.2S7 in gilt-edged rail-
road shares, without any strings tied
10 the bequest Yet she might have
annexed the bulk Of the Work mil
uons-for coercion by Codicil did not
appeal to the Burke Roche boys-had
!, ,she not voluntarily signed a legal
agreement binding herself not to pro-
,nfit by any action her sister, Mrs. Fran
. ces Burke Roche-at one time Mrs,
.-AuPel Batonyi--Or Mrs. Burke Roche s
r,vchildren might take in violation OF the
" will.
syitSo despite Frank work and his pet
! . domination, a foreign title, Maurice
}, Burke Roche, the elder of the twins
by a few minutes, seems likely some
day TO be a perfectly good baron
1 with the exception of marrying non
American women, the Burke Roche
boys apparently have hOuted every
sgrandfatherly codicil up to date.
I'm going to keep the name Iv'
"a. bean carrying as long as / live!
syAlaHrice announced determined!
shortly after his grandfather's death
" Neither he nor his brother has since
'Hssumed the surname OF Work z
iB4 Within less than year OF Franz
sHworks taking-off they sailed for Eu
rope and had nice long visit Will
their father, who lives in London
And yet codcil No. II, after sternl.
tUrbidding transatlantic voyaginG
periodically asserted: II make theS
provisions for the protection ant
benefit Of my said daughter and
grandchildren, and IN the belief tina
they can find in the United State
enough TO interest, instruct an,
amuss them and all the varieties o
climate At any time necessary or de
airablS for the purposes OF health"
Three years ago the petitions c