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...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...
Last week it was learned that Tobey was in the care of family friends. He was snapped by an alert Hearst cameraman while being carried out for an unaccustomed run in Manhattan streets (see cut.) He was found to be rather an unattractive dog: six years old, fat, phlegmatic, sleepy. Once he was more charming, in fact his name originally was Charming Billy.* It was probable that he would be sent to the country. It was not true that he had had his own bed and table: just a cushion and blanket...
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...
Ella Wendel kept a succession of French poodles, each named Tobey, her companions in the old house that had (until lately) no telephone, no electricity. Twenty-five years ago John Gottlieb Wendel III, in refusing as always to sell the Wendel corner, explained it was because the contemporary Tobey had to have a place to run in. The present Tobey has his own brass bed, his own specially constructed table alongside Miss Wendel's. When this Tobey dies he will be buried with his predecessors in the Wendel dog-graveyard at Irvington-on-the-Hudson, N. Y. (the Wendel summer...
...jerk a grimed finger at the old house, and in condescending monotone comment on Noo Yawk's mystery house, home of Ella Wendel, richest unmarried dame the country's got. The public has laughed for the last time at the dying Wendels; for Ella's nearest of kin is Tobey, the poodle...