A FRIEND'S BEQUEST.
PIPES AND POUCH. 8000 MILES SHOPPING JAUNT. (Special.—By Air Mall.) LONDON, February 11. They sell tobacco pipes in America; but once a year Wilbur Wright, a builder from Chicago, travels 8000 miles in order to buy two pipes svnd a pouch in a little shop in London. Why does he make the journey ? Wilbur Wright (no relation of the air pioneer) had a partner called George Empson. They built up a good business together, and each year one of them came over to see manufacturers in Britain. Wright's present to himself 1 before he Vent back was always two briar pipes and a" new pouch bought from a shop where craftsmen make them. Their business was ruined ten years ago. They began again. As they struggled the joke between them was always, "Wait until we can afford to go to London again to buy those pipes." The partners prospered. They were both wealthy when George Empson died nearly ten years ago. His will set up a trust fund providing an income of £200 a year "so that my friend and partner, Wilbur Wright, can go to London and buy himself two briar pipes and a pouch once a- year as long as he lives."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 53, 4 March 1939, Page 10
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