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MILLIONAIRES LINING UP FOR AN ENDURANCE RACE.
If the plans of several of America's most prominent millionaire automobile enthusiast are carried to a successful conclusion. America will possess a
. magnificent national auto racing track, the finest auto race course In the world. Here big national and international speed and endurance contests will
be held and America will probably become the home of big automoblllng. The plans are a result of the national movement now under way to put a stop
to the speeding of the death-dealing flyers on the public highways of America. The American Automobile association has endorsed this popular move
ment and the checkmated millionaires will now have to erect their own speedway or see the demise of automobile racing In this country.
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This story came out at the time of
the Martinique disaster, in which 40.
000 lives were lost to France. But the
Parisian newspapers put the Marti
nique news on an Inside page and
printed this story on their most con
spicuous columns. Nor were the Paris
ians necessarily heartless in showing
less concern In Ithe volcanic eruptioln
3,000 miles away than in the social
eruption in their own town. A toy tor
pedo beneath your own feet may cause
a greater perturbation of nerve ganglia
than the explosion of a Krakatoa half
around the earth.
The story, first of all, will be told as
It was believed for 20 years by the
leading lawyers and bankers of
France; and, finally, the real truth of
the case will appear. Sometime in the
70s an American millionaire named
Robert Henry Crawford was traveling
In the south of France. At a certain
railroad station he was the victim of
a stroke of apoplexy. A Toulouse peas
ant girl, Therese Daurlgnac, who was
about to enter a third class carriage,
noticed Crawford's collapse and, at
some personal risk, jumped into his
compartment where she succeeded in
restoring him to consciousness, perhaps
saving his life. After that she re
mained "with him and nursed the man
during his convalescence. Sometime
between 1878 and 1883 the American
millionaire died and according to a will
dated at Nice, September 6, 1877, he be
queathed his fortune of $20,000,000 to
Therese Daurignac This immense for
tune at once raised the status of the
Daurignac family, which changed its
name to d'Aurignac, while the shnp'e
Therese soon was married to the son of
M. Humbert, a native of Toulous, one
of the greatest Jurists of his genera
tion. He was for some time the French
minister of Justice. The younger Hum
bert, husband of Thereze, has been for
many years the representative of the
department of Seine-et-OIse in the
French chamber of deputies. After the
marriage took place the couple estab
lished themselves in a splendid Paris
lesidence, and also bought a magnia
cent country place near Narbonne.
But the Humberts were not left in
undisturbed possession of the Ameri
can millionaire's money. One day mad
ame received a call from two strangers,
named Robert Crawford and Henry
Crawford, who said they were nephew3
of the lamented Robert Henry Craw
ford. As might be expected, they
promptly produced a second will, dated
the same day in the same year as the
other will, which provided that each
nephew should receive a third of the:
estate, while the other third should go,
not to Therese, who had become the
beautiful Mme. Humbert, but to her
sister, Marie. It was stipulated, how
ever, that the two nephews should In
vest in France enough money to prc
rlde Therese a monthly allowance ol
$G,000 during her lifetime. Of course
the beautiful Mme. Humbert was in de
spair. There she was, threatened with
an allowance cut down to $6,0C0 a
month oi facing expensive litigation in
the courts in behalf of her rights. Why
won't American millionaires be satis
fied with one will at least one will a
day? The Crawford nephews, however,
proved very accommodating. They
were already millionaires in their own
right, and did not want more money
which Is so like Americans. But they
did want to fulfill their uncle's wish.
That was for a Crawford to marry a
d'Aurignac. "Just give your consent,
and we will not contest the will," they
said. So it was arranged that both
nephews should be suitors for the hand
of the fair Marie, the sister of Mme.
Humbert, who In good time should
choose between them and link forever
the house of Crawford and d'Aurignac.
Meanwhile, it was agreed thaf the
Crawford fortune, consisting of gilt
edged bonds, should be placed in a safe
deposit vault, and that Mme. Humbert,
pending Marie's choice of a husband,
should draw an Income of $60,000 a
year. If Mme. Humbert, who was to
have the custody of the key to the safe,
should take more than her stipulated
allowance she would forfeit all her
rights.
The sister Marie now became the
strategic point in the affair. She could
not decide which nephew to marry.
The nephews began a series of law
suits to compel her to make choice,
but Marie Is now over forty and still
unwed. As the 20,000.000 was tied up.
pending the execution of the agreement.
Mme. Humbert soon began a series of
loans from bankers and her debts to
tradesmen assumed enormous propor
tions. Her promises to pay were ac
cepted generally, for they were en
dorsed by Marie, and heir under the
second will, and the security of $20,000,
000 contained in the safe deposit box
was considered good. In the space of
twenty-two years she has borrowed
$10,000,000, including one loan from the
bank of France. No one, however,
ever saw the contents of the safe, be
cause it was a condition of the agree
ment that the box should not be
opened except In the presence of the
Crawford nephews, who always were In
America when wanted. In 1884, the
creditors, noting that Marie did not
marry, began dunning. Then Mme.
Humbert produced a letter from the
Crawfords In which they renounced
their share of the fortune for a nomi
nal consideration of $60,000. This
seemed to open the way for a complete
settlement, but when Mme. Humbert
was about to open the safe and take
out the bonds the, Crawfords, through
their lawyer, raised legal obstacles and
there began one of the most complica
ted chancery suits on record, which
lasted until the present month. Decis
ion after decision was rendered and ap
peal after appeal was entered In the
highest courts In the famous suit over
GREEN GABLES.
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and is reached by the cars of the Lincoln street railway, being only 28 minutes' ride from the
business center of the city. It Is thoroughly equipped and beautifully furnLshed. ETery
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