Show Y J Pennsylvania a Cat Which ch tas Succeeded Rio 00 a an e of 0 x 40 40 VI l Pu Pa Sept Thu 22 rich rich- I est eat Gilt clil in alt all the world lives In this I city a u cut cat worth i In his hla own right with u a large building 10 to live Jive Inand In Ln i and with un an attendant at 75 n a month to devote herself exclusively to the thc I c Cl cp o of him Ho lIo Is Blackie one of oC tho two cats to lo tile tae lute BenJamin P. P Dilley of or this city business man mind and philanthropist philan philan- philanthropist loft left when he died A provision In his hie will appointed Miss lIss Addle Addie luck Puch to take cure care of ot them at 75 a month If IC she died led before they did tin the executors were to exorcise cure care in choosing sonic some other person who would b ho good to Lo them Pinkie who waR vas lifelong companion died on ruts Tuesday ay Sept 4 t- tA A tumor grew In her throat mind lull after a R consultation with the lh executors of oC the estate Judge e F P. W W. Wheaton heaton and und I Walter S. S Biddle of oC this city It was decided to end her suffering with chloroform Blackie Inherits the lie J share sharo of or orthe the C estate left leet to lo PInkie an and Is now the sole Hole possessor and owner of or time the building and und with tho Limo exception o or al Miss l Ruch his hits attendant Is the sole sale occupant of or the two floors comprising twelve rooms which are arc the Limo living apartments Benjamin Dilley who bequeathed tills fortune to 10 the cats cuts was ono one of tho known best-known men In this ell city He Ile was well to do save gave freely reel to charity luy- luy his hla affections on his hiM cats anti ami hl his hiM ambitions upon the growth glOwth and anti development development deI de de- of or the lodge lods-e of ot ott I I t Elks of oC which he was exalted ruler He lie was accounted eccentric But there wits was no man mun with a bigger heart or more generous nerous hand han 1 In the city The lime romance of the cats hail had Its beginning beginning be be- bei i ginning al at Atlantic City Cily fifteen years ears i lago i ago UJO had taken his hits Invalid 1 wife wire I I to their cottage there One tiny day daya tinya a l starved forlorn looking cat enl walked In Into into In- In i to the cottage mood and looked at Dilley In Irs such an un appealing manner that thul he gave It u a home In a i short time lime the cat grew rew sleek and plump and became a Jr great at favorite with Mrs The Tho next year yeal Pinkie and Baby Buby Dan Dandy y were born and these kittens kittens kittens kit kit- tens proved a U source of much diversion diver diver- diversion sion sinn and und delight to the Invalid They hu hind had every Cry cure care and comfort and when a u short time afterward Mrs died her sorrowing husband lavished upon them nil all his affection They were looked after acter far more mort carefully than thun man many children ren Every summer r he took look them to his cottage t at nt Atlantic City where they were his constant companions They had special I food each NICh a n particularly downy bed bedI bedIn bedis I In is a specially built wicker basket wide mid and shallow They had Individual dishes 1 and wore were fed an and washed com combed ed and taught taug-ht to behave until they grew rew to be model cuts cats 11 hen lure he lu re turned returned home alwa always eagerly invited his Ills friends lo to see the Improvement improvement Improve improve- ment In the cats cals At hits his home in this city he had small swinging doors cut cutIn cutin cutin in the bottom of oC each door except those leading leading- outside tho the house so 80 that the cats could pass from Crom room oom to room as they desired They Thoy had sleeping baskets bask hask- ets In different lerent rooms an and these were shifted to lo sunny sots during the day so that If they desired thc they ml might hl lie In the sunlight Ho Insisted that thai the furniture in every room should be placed along ulong time the walls so that the center cen- cen cpr ter r of the time room loom was free Co for I the cats cais to romp us as they pleased Ile lie studied their tastes and und fed Ced them the dainties they liked Discovering ace that they y lilted liked boiled chestnuts ie me e fed fd them Diem Loose as us treats trouts as us Ion long as chestnuts could coul he be obtained Learning their fondness for 01 shrimps he ordered that thul they have shrimps each Irl Friday uy ii n mesh h li when In seat season nd canned waco ou out t o of season Every night they walled waited for Cor on him him u at athe athe he hc head of or th the steps us ho went home hOlne Mo Hr always played with vilh them before going to bed often oUen sitting silting for or an hour I or 1 more talking lo to them them Ulem an and petting 1 thorn them If f they got s-ot on his Jils bed before no got gol In It ll anti and snuggled nus down for or A nl nights night's sleep he would sleep on n H I couch or with his legs sticking out nut ol of lie Jae Hl side e of or the thc bed bcd rather than disturb I them Its u a pity to awaken them he would shay say when for or not giving more attention to his own ov comfort I Any Anyone one who too look an nn Int Interest rest In hl hits his cats ats was sute of the friendship hl and aid of or Dilley an and this fact met was played upon by a n large luJe number Men selling pictures of or cuts cats found him u a rendS rend pUI purchaser hoNer and und his homo home was filled with scores of them A newspaper man who wrote some verses verseR about the cats could coul have hU had anything he be wanted from Dille and in his hits will avid willIS wits IS remembered remembered re re- lo to the extent of or 21 al although although al- al though the verses were wert written written- many years ears before boCon Mr Dilleys Dilley's death A few Cew years yenn ago Baby Dandy died and und his master grieved for rol him for Cor weeks k but he still sun had and Pinkie to lo console him an and his sorrow Horrow a wised Some yours years ago 1 he lie decided to lo have a 1 t photograph taken luken of or himself lr and ind the cats cuts It was necessary to lo lake take a flashlight The fhe photographer was n a friend of or un and of ot the vats cats and hey Jiey posed with Wilh little tittle effort fur for him Jut But when the flashlight exploded they were verc re terror They lIe lied led under ouches H and under beds and it was her o thov recovered ere from the fright When hen the photographer next IKU u upon upun the lne cats ran lan away or 11 they ever er bo ho In- In lo to go near Imam him Dilley then de de- de Glared that limit never ne again should houll u tl graph f r f them be bf the taken early carly part or of r 1 Dille died In III It wag rent rend wIll was his find when his hlas home at 10 Nest e t left h he found that thal worth street city during their lives They incy to lo th the cats the second and third were to live JI on being occupied h bj by a the first di directed directed dl- dl executors were and time HIP cigar store Iton Miss Ruch fi 73 Tu n a month reeled to pay r She Sho had hall been tho r 1 a lne cn-lne runt for far or them and a B Dilley companion of or Mr 1 Mrs and her affection for foi t tit th w g grats and rats rrtH was w 9 s only to lo his After mho tho he dl- dl hackle and PInkIe of or deaths i t td d that lint the building shall 1111 be he told sold Of or the amount realized Is s to bo ho for foi the erection of a Public h he expressed It Cor forthe for forthe lu 11 g fountain us as the use ue of oC human beings animals and amounts arc given to bUds Oth Other r various charitable Institutions and to hospitals timid and relatives C In is still r t tji hie IO loss R or of Pinkie and goes from room to room lt Itly It searching seal for Ini tI her ami ona me I IE ly y in hl his hla disappointment disappointment- Miss Ruch Buell who was deeply affected whets wh when n her pet pct died deed tempts him him hm with dainties but ho lie heart hurt for Cor tn th eats little and has hIlS s no playing play timid and romping which lie he an and Pinkie enjoyed so o much lie He Is content to He lie still In Miss lIss Ruch's Richs lap nn timid and look loot qu ly at her hoping that lint she can enn explain to him the time mys mystery mystery I tery of oC Pinkies Pinkie's disappearance r |