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1913-06-26
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ares w ILLIONS ZIEGLER Tooorricht, 1018, by the New York Herald Co, Alt righta'reserved.) ITE hoodoo fs still on Ziegler millions, A few weeks. ago it seemed that the perverse imp. which bad alwaye bobbed up to foterrupt the triumphant operations of thie great fortune,had at last been com- pletdly exorcined. t William Ziegler, the adopted son and belr Of the Inte William Ziegler, had come of age end bad marri d a beautiful young , woman, hf warringe took place at the St. Regix Hotel, in Nese York city. The eeremonp sras-performed beneath bower of paims and white chrysanthemums, - A in honor f the young couple. Six mouths age of twenty-one, which meant that be hhad'come into the entire, income of a six teen million dollar estate. Then saddenly the perverse Imp /awoke and remarked to himself in confidence seater tert rete slorig smoothly far too smoothly from my polnt of view. I'll have to do mething) about it, Soe put Into the mind of young Mr. William Ziegler, bappy and wealthy and wise; -06 he-had alwaye bedh considers The idea of asking for an accounting of bis esinte, He stirred up a perfectly plac gentleman, Mr, George W. Brandt, vice president of a baking powder company, resident of Chicago and young William jegler s real father, and, going little forther west, he aroused Milas Florence TaMRAINTEty there followed-ne-eppeet-to1o her petition, asking that the abrogation 5E law for the settlement of certain diff tien which uo-coe had ut i te a legal embrollment tn which the Tater ce-es-s-ste-calls has taken action against bis son, tho sister against her brother and the son against the trustees of his adopted father's estate. The sister, Florence Brandt, who was once the adopted daughter of the eldet Ziegler, niaatra- bound Lim flexi- mack ible pa- nd cor- strong, aehors ubjecta, Mesects ages of cotora in cloth star O10 had amo. Expens is asking that the abrogation of her adop tion be set aside and that she be again considered an adopted daughter of the So determined is the father of William Ziegler that his aon shall wot benefit une uly from the Ziegler miliions at the pense.of other members of the family that he bas continu d his Direction of the legal campaign even from his bed in a Chieago) hovpital. * Incidentally the Mayor of New York chiy Is invojyed in the cise an one of the trustees of the elder Ziegler s estate whom the younger Ztegler is proceeding against. Plorenice Ziegler, now tolling at her datty task in the kindergarten i; Davenport, Towa, had an equal chance with ber brother to inherit the Ziegler millionn If it-bad not been for the hoodvo abe might whirl of charming auved and generally-eawipped-with- ail the sumptuoumness and the beauty that Witttans Zregter the-elder-bad-no Gren of his own, and in 1896 be adapted two of the children of his half-brother, Brandt, aged ter rad Brandt, ehildren went to live with Mr, and Mra, Ziegler In thelr New York mansion nod im the handsofae suburban home at Norotos, Conn. The boy fitted Iu the household beautifully, and 00 did) foater i we ber of being respons which he says she came to'be held in the: Ziegler household. of her adoption + set be restored to her position as accuses her foster mother, Mra. for the ill favor Here is her description of how the fates or some whimeical, insuffieient, un- house of her natural father, left the boy. the night with him, were indulging in double its trie yalug.: The widow, there- recountable. enon my foster, mother Wiliam Ziegler, Je, to abaotb the groater som Ianoceat skylarking whet in a ore, brougtit suit for langer abate to the arly Tormed feeling of lm toward part of hie adopted Zather's attentioneatile, the Ziegler:boy suffered an injury pooperty, and thus the pain persintont and coftinued campaign of ig the mind of m foster father adoption, and to wilfally and eauselem aisrupt may anid status as a daughter tol then ie was feared -that- Wil tiem. 3 i yethurt by what WR. WILLIAM ZIEGLER. Phote by Alme Dupont. his estate was frustrated-at the very De- grew wider until, when Mr. Mlagler ap- xinning by the person whom be had sup posed to.cbe as much a friend of the adopted boy The sult I her claims upon the estate. For a while after fortume the hoodoo. relaxed its vigilance. William Ziegler, Jr, was -only fourteen years old when hie foster father died and jas prought,-and-he-felt-no-ani- settlement of the toward his foster mother because Tof-the wait she had brought agatast him. potited another man to head the next ex- pedition, it culminated in en absolute rent The second polar expedition seat out by Mr. Ziegler was ino more suocessftl wrexpedition headed by Anthony ViaIe yeaa Tost Tor some Hine, aind-Me-ZivgIer great expense went out two relief par occurred before William S. Champ, who swan in charge of the second party, bad Jeome on the tracks of the last explorers, but the executors of Mr, Ziegler directed that the search be continued. Me. Zies Jaisappointment in regard to his wish that The two remained the best of friends after his name might be linked with sticcens- ETE eter tire Lect explorations inthe north, Not only. as mother and son as had teen provided) Were his-expeditions failures. but his son, is health nd grew upto be a man with an ingerest in many interesting-sides of 1 by'the will, Phe hoy recovered who he had hoped would fall hele lt; gt; his onthusiasm for polar achievements, had Jaquite other tastes when he arrived at He is a man's estate, and hadi indeed fost the in- musiciaa anda poet, nnd altogether If terest which he hind tad a8 a boy in polae Williams Ziegler Dad Tived ie would pro MR, WILLIAM, ZIEGLER I sxnal equation of his adopted son he bad Veen able to-trininph over the hoodoo. But it was not alone in matters reiat- telumphe, ably have felt that In regard to the per Linked closely with his polar ambitions. was another of the demonstrations of the hoodoo which seemed to preside over tht adored by both his foster parents and de- imew that the beloved adopted son-might jt the family that the hoodoo mani Zc er salllions, That was the effort of serving their devotion, for. he was not never recover and must fn any event sacri tested itself. beyond the average ax wel Ziegter hoped great things of the boy, He)than he could stand. The physicians sai had been balked in his-intention of pro- that it hastened hie death. Perhaps it aes ce but the son proved so companionable iat left, devising afl of his fortune, after) Evelyn Baldwin Willies hood to the livalld'e couch, It wax more Attic expeditions the hoodoo of-ehe mil that money could do was-dove two make those expeditions a success. It was said he so6n filled the place in the affections of his adopted parents whieh had once *dopted son. heen Jarge enatigh fat two. Phen William Ziegler, Sr, suffered a/ great find the North Pote Sctence audi txperl jenda. Mrs. Ziegier had been left father of the present William Ziegler, was lous bernn to-be-recornixed: Everything the paying of a few ansuities, to tls Arctic expedition that hwd-ever started to ' t B Jence were alike consulted ns to the laying The boy and his foster mother were in of stores, Mr Ziegler, the adopted 0D the ground that he had not been. pioxy to-plate the Amerioan fleg on Of e farw the North Pole. When the expeditio, fot. evemies of Mr Ziesler wi Uke Missouri court to ha e Me Ziegler stradited to that State and tried for of the baking powder laws. Am Indict- nent against Mr. Ziegler was returned by the Missouri Grand Jury seting inthe rab ons of tas anon for ho in ealek eoe es eone Seasons TE Was S84, and the battle toc Mc Elec ext ve ich vas bended U7 ein waa Jone a faroes-obe but Benjamin B, Odell, Jr., then Governor of York State, refused to give. the New York man up to the Missouri courts proved Tote present t-Mi x in New York and SCHastaenr TeasttTor his-pet ambition was Sme-the alleged bribers.toak place-Mnch lof the evidenige furnixhed to the Missouri sald to Hina Guat bp the platiite of the world, started come from Evelyn Baldwin, the late lend on lis way north; its-wealthy-patron s irst appeared tobe the mor rou want, he prowl form several severe operations, and, even accepted, this proslsion. Hut the. hoodoo .2uetition ai was busily at work about this time grossly it otherwise achie aight never mevin his health. exaggerating the Ziegl r forts hum of his who bad come to spend current to please Me. jegler miltiourrntmonition was, to find the North Pole ior on the part of my foster parents to have triflal accident, hut whith proved to be bad Geen Enown to ber, siace she wag 60 S 7 abrogated and set at naught my said so serious that it was necessary to per-/ fond of the boy, she might willingly have. inat/ tof his first polar expedition, his friend cwith whom had been so detisively And yet despite: the machinations of Hut, to hin great dimppointment, the the hoodoo imp fof masy years this ac not reach the Pole, not aid tive spirit any great distinction remained quiescent if-young Mr. Ziegler It was in-Arctic exploration. The result of the tii not chosen to call upon the'execetors qusiF Se, much more thanjeffort was not at all satisfactory; wnd of Is father s willand the trustees of a Toe ET PO jer and without having Ziegler received during his minority such made the record that hiexpected, it ocea- moneys from the estate as were Necessary, king carelsloned rift between Mr. Ziexler and the for hix proper education and care, and oo iN will probably would hare ally. grew. to. intense The bay was a fine, sturdy little chap, When William Ziegler heard about- and with which Wiliam Ziegler had devised leader of the expedition, which continually his twenty-firat birthday. che entire pet DOGS THAT AIDE OGS8 played promin nt part ja the polar tragedy whieh cost the lives of Captain Robert Faleon Scott and Bis fa SOPOT - overlooked. Captain Scott bad about fifty dogs in his expedition at the start, out Bike of the highest, Just bow may of Ubeai periehed Journey la not definitely knows, Pictres pf the Siberia dogs Yate: Oh cok pkiied Coptnta Boytt'and bia Fotrepld toon ponies, sev Hittle band are printed here and go lowg two cat way toward explaining why abimats of dogs as the favorite pets of the expedition. for the ponies and doss. face Pa genial eld a a rae yh pons uniderestiaa te ing for bia dash to the South Pole. The ali Scott took along alne-/for them. Despite their proverbial stab- rules, two rabbits and bornness the mulew did ood work,on the Dut it ia easy to imagine the Journey, haullug loads that were too heavy transport the loads over the glacier sur the baie Uf the glacier. ng stories of the ex- At the time he was equipping the ex- will make the final dash across the inland He fore, if the party reaches t ey from King will ascend it and thus simplify the ditt Q wan experienced in getting them to, . gat Reward VII. Land income of the estate became until his twenty-fifth birthday, however, does he-obtain actual control. of any fart of the body of the estate. The will provides that he eball come Into posses sion of one-quarter of the estate when he in twenty-five, one-quarter when be ig thirty, one-quarter when he Ix thirty: five, and the remaining quarter when he forty years old. There is difference of opinion as to what disposition should be made of the acerved income which was not expended on hia living expenses while he was minor- The point to be deci factioti whieh Mr. Ziegler in now bringiug axainst his trustees is whether this ac- crued interest, amounting to between four id five million dollars, is to be added to the estate or made over t him as ince he has reached, the age of twenty- one. e Tt waa the petition of young ste. Zieg- ler, foF the possession of the accrued. in- come that brought hie father, Mr. tieorze W. Brandt, into the ease. In the event of the death of Willian Ziegler before he in forty one oF more quarters of the estate ided ainong the relatives of the brother, would come In for a portion. Jf the accrued toterest in added to the prinei- fed at ouce to Mr. Ziegler the portion of the legntees will be just so much Inxger. Aa tor, Mig Florence Louise Brandt dog team with a relay of men will Ziegler, Wer contention in an entirely dit- ferent one. All. that sbe Ie asking just id picked party of men snd dogs now in to be restored to her position a the daughter of the dead William Ziegler. ties to bring back the men, His death Secided by the elder Ziegler, and Mr, Brandt, air the step-
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