SURRENDERED ’PHONE.
TO SPARE BIRD’S NEST. David Grey’s wealth was measured in millions, but friends in Santa Barbara who abandoned their usual pursuits to pay their last tribute to him gauge his kindness and the fullness of his heart by his gift to a family of birds, says an American paper. It was a gift paid for, not at the expense of any of the fortune gained from early day partial financing of Henry Ford’s automobile, but at the cost of daily inconvenience. For two years the house telephone system of his mansion has been out of order because two wrens built their nest in a grilled door of the front entrance telephone box. To have opened the door to make repairs would have destroyed the nest, and Mr Gray gave orders that it was not to be touched.
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Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17447, 6 July 1928, Page 10
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139SURRENDERED ’PHONE. Waikato Times, Volume 104, Issue 17447, 6 July 1928, Page 10
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