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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1906
Page
36
Miss Emilie Grigsby, heiress to a Kentucky source, travels with chaperon Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins in London in 1901 amid rumors of a vast fortune from Charles T. Yerkes. She contemplates retirement to a convent while Yerkes’s influence and gifts shape her life and arrangements.
Lexington dispatch reports Emilie Igsby did not inherit from Kentucky relatives as New York dispatches claimed. Her wealth came from a Winchester aunt, Mrs Ananda Grigsby Cooke, who left $49 000 to her husband and $500 to Emilie and Braxton Grigsby, with the rest to Pauline Grigsby of Gallatin Tennessee.
Special to The Washington Post reports that Charles Tyson Yerkes estate will remain intact until death, with funds set to satisfy Hearst and other bequests. Mrs. Yerkes may, in time, turn houses and art to public view under Metropolitan Museum of Art, while Great Bronx hospital endowment is deferred. Philanthropy guided modest bequests to son and sister, reflecting Yerkes' public trust ethic.
Special to The Washington rose from Cincinnati Ohio recounts Sue Grigsby a noted local figure having portraits of her son and daughter made into a painting for 150 dollars. After paying half the price she left town and the work lay stored until a visitor asked to view Emilie Grigsbys likeness. The photographer believed the patron was Charles Yerkes and would accept the balance to ship to New York. He warned the children not to be told. Also mentions Dr Kings New Life Pills as a cure all.
Mrs. Dunlay Hopkins of St Paul recounts a London and New York life of Emilie Grigsby. She describes Grigsby’s beauty and elegant Park Avenue home as lavish, guarded by financier guardian Mr J Yerkes. Hopkins notes a London dinner accident that left Grigsby lame, and details the rare art objects and set pieces in her Paris and Berkeley Square connections.
Mrs. Hook and Mrs. Hopkins discuss Emilie Grigsby in a social world tale, praising her convent education and mother’s redemption story. They recount a luxurious Florentine home with priceless gems, tapestry panels, and a vast art collection, noting Yerkes’s infatuation and public belief in her virtue.
The annual report of Gifford Pinchot shows the Forest Service sold over 45 000 cords of timber from government reserves earning more than 8 000 and assisted private holders in managing 7 000 000 acres. It praises revised regulations, quick business methods and local authority, notes ongoing cooperative studies on timber seasoning and treatment, and reports experiments to reduce wound injury in turpentinizing trees. It predicts large scale, cheap planting will yield major savings by next year.
Mrs. Merrill joins her husband on the Pulitzer Building flagstaff to reach a 345 foot high perch testing a bo suns chair tied to a rope. The stunt to win a $1000 bet and a diamond ring draws hundreds outside and inside the lantern as the steeple jack guides the effort.
Railroad officials and lawmakers reached an agreement to install an early-morning fast mail train from St. Louis to Seass and connecting points likely by January 4. The schedule will be shortened to reach St. Louis by 7 a.m. from Monett, with mail separated for first-carrier delivery to expedite service to Southwest Missouri Oklahoma and tributary territory. Baltimore and Return $1.25 Via Pennsylvania Railroad every weekend. all trains except Congressional Limited.
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