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...little poodle trotted to & fro one day last fortnight in the old Manhattan house where Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel lay dead (TIME, March 23). He went into the room where Rev. Drs. Nathan A. Seagle and Ezra Squier Tipple were getting ready to conduct the funeral. He jumped up & down before them, "as if," said Dr. Seagle, "he were pleading to serve as an acolyte...
...World's richest dog," last of a line of cherished poodles all called Tobey, the Wendel dog got many a press notice after his mistress's death. What was to become of him? Would he be supported in the style to which he had been accustomed? (It had been said that he had his own brass bed, his own special table, that huge sums had been refused for the Wendel property so as to insure Tobey a place to run in.) Was it true that he was to be shot, as were the Wendel horses (said legend) when...
...Ella Wendel's will, filed during the week, did not even mention fat Tobey Wendel. The family fortune, estimated at $100,000,000, gave bequests to family friends and retainers, to charities and religious bodies, following closely the will of Miss Ella's sister, Mrs. Rebecca A. D. Wendel Swope, who died last summer (TIME, Aug. 4). Flower Hospital received its expected share (but its officials scouted the leg-setting story); and the famed old Wendel house went to Drew Theological Seminary, whose onetime president, Dr. Tipple, was an old family friend...
...Mabel Hayward put in a claim last week for a share of the Wendel estate. Buxom, 46-year-old Mrs. Hayward keeps house for a 76-year-old retired detective, Capt. Theodore Lawton, on his ramshackle farm at Wickford, R. I. She roves about the country with her two children during the summer, playing her mandolin, banjo and guitar at fairs and carnivals. She has a paper purporting to be the marriage certificate of the late John Gottlieb Wendel II, and one Hannah S. Holt, of Chelsea, Vt., dated 1855 (Mr. Wendel II, supposed never to have married, died...
Left. By Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel (see p. 26), an estate estimated at more than $100,000,000, to be divided into 200 equal shares (of $500,000 upward) as follows: Flower Hospital, Manhattan, 35 shares; Drew Theological Seminary, 35 shares; St. Christopher's Home for Children, Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., 35 shares; New York Society for Relief of Ruptured & Crippled, 35 shares; Nanking (China) M. E. Theological Seminary, 35 shares; M. E. Church Home, Manhattan, 4 shares; National Society for Prevention of Blindness, 5 shares; S. P. C. A. of New York, 5 shares; Northfield Schools, Mass...