Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, April 22, 1921, Night Extra, Page 8, Image 8

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515,110 ILL
STRANGELY GONE
Wide Search Made for Last Tes
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DAUGHTER RUNAWAY BRIDE
htiMns nnclatM nf thi nvptitno
Calvin Armor Stpns me iiiri thnt
he Ipft ii will iliiosinp n( n . 15.000,000
otntc when ln died in Trlnitt Hospi
ml Knit Ww York. Mnrcli 20 Init
Stevens' (In ii nil t or Mis Knlp Sir
trns. Init week elopeil with Rleliniri
F'nsnn. n Pnrtinriiith freshman
The senrrlicrs for the will nr spurred
on by the hope thnt if il l found Home
f them, nt lennl. will reap in rewnr-l
a portion of tin vatt Kolden honrd that
the eecentrle nuer of Hio.nl treet"
I reputed to linve piled tip
Captain ("iileb ( Collins, who snid
that he hnd been Hwoomted In biiti
nen with Mr Stevens for thirty -four
Tenr nnd hmed nn offlic with him in
the "l,nrk RullilinR ' 30 llruml street .
io positive thnt the axed milllonniri'
left a will Stevens lived in the build
Inp for two jenr
Wiilou Couldn't Kind Will
The widow Mr .leime I Steeni
nf tlenxmihur.t, filed n petition to be
appointed guardian of hr lieireoq
HaiiRhter. Kntp Steveni Kflgiin with the
surrogate of Kings count on March
20 lat
In her petition "he -nj thnt her
hnband left perionul propeit not
exceeding $10,000" and thnt Iii4 renl
prnperH w.i subtnntinl but thnt the
xn't Ainnuiit ai 'unknown She
deposed thnt n "enich for ii will had
been iiiiinccessfiil
She wns appointed gunrihan on April
7. 1021 Her petition foi S20.000 n
yenr for support and maintenance for
her daughter. tculted in the surrogate
allowing SIO 0OO n Mar
D.iiicJiter Hurt at Silmol
Cnptnln Collins admitted thnt thfie
were three heirs. includliiK Kntc
Steen. tinmed in the will of the e
"entrlc's fntlu I Who ihe other two
heirs were, however neither he nor
.loltn M Hule agunt for the Calvin
Stevens estate, would a
The daughter hns bvn attending for
the last M'ar nnd a half Miss Saywurd m
sVhool, Oterbrook. riiilfldelphia Theie
vhe has hnd "special instruction" in
foreign languages, elocution, piano,
horseback riding etc As n result of a
er!ous injur n few months ago she
must have expert medical nttention, too.
An affidavit bv the mother revealed
the daughter s rmwintic elopement and
it arrtage to voimg Kagan son nf TV11
nm It Kagan of the Stock Exchange
firm of Kagan & McCormick
Captain Collins whn erv indignnnt
because Mr Stevens hud been described
it ft miser ninl nn eccentric. The cap
Mill admitted, however, thnt his friend
(ind nonclitic was n vegetarian, had
1 u wllh frugality duplicated by few
j.crsotm with fewer" thousands thnn Mr.
SteveiiH hail millions nnd thnt his vwijh
of life had cnused ninuscil coninicnt for
jenrs In the fliinncinl district
Cnptnin Collins said ,
"Mr, Stevens vvna far fioni being n
miser He had a great number of pri
vate charities. He qnred for many
friends and ncqiinlntnnccs who hnd seen
better days and were down on their
lurk
"He was an Intellectual mnn nnd a
most klndl one He hnd grent vision
and a fine stvlc- in writing He mlgnt
have been a famous novelist If ho had
not at the age oftwenty-one become the
ciistodinn of the large estate of his
fnthei.
1 "The stoiy that he picked up news
papers that had been enst nsicle is in
Invention He bought fifteen or twenty
newspapers a day f was his custom
to semi them not onlv to lonesome
miners, and lauchers in the lonesome
places of the Knr Wesi. but also to mis
sionaries in Chins. It was one of his
thoughtful pinctlces nnd deeply np,ue
c latod bv the recipients of the news
paptvs
"Of couise the bovs in the 'Street
brokers!, sewnj hi in alvvavs with a
bundle of newspnpers under him nru.,
cnlltd him ! newsbov
llnlr Protected Cnrbumle
Mi Stevens wore his white hall
long to protect a carbuncle ou the back
of lii neck
'H did not live for years in this
building here, which i owned by his
father's stnte He stnved heie short lr
before his death for three weeks brcmiMj
he slipped on n banana peel and
wrenched his knee He tlidn t want to
go home, as it would hnve been too
I ninful for hiiu to go to and from the
olUce
It is true that be did mil live with
his wife and daughter in Uensonhuist
during tbe latter dnjs of his life
"Mr Stevens was the largest stock
liolilei in the American Dredging and
Cotisti union Co , which was employed
in tin? unsuccessful-attempt of the
HAMMERING
M Your peh detect corrected IE
7 bv normal ubtantlv methods N
31 THE KIM1SI.EY FOUNDATION
3 "Jtp Than a School
H Houn 10 A It to 4 P M.
3 Httnlnir Hours by Appointment
InrTWl rtTEVIIKN OIKARD ULDO
French to nig tho Panama ranal. AL
one HUH' lie owncti mu ounu mm
South American Steam Navigation Co.,
which operated a line of steamships be
tween here 'ind southern ports."
I'ntenUl forgiveness Is n waiting
Illchnid Kagan, who doped a week ago
yesterday With MIm Stevens.
William It. Pagan, the father, said
he already has forgiven lilt son, but no
does nor know how tho boy's mother
feels about tt. ,
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