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| Inquirer 27 July 1939 |
I heard two things in my childhood.
One was that the wall was 14 feet above ground and 14 feet below ground because Stephen Girard's will said that the wall had to be 28 feet high and the designers and trustee lawyers thought it too ugly a thing to build. etc.
That and the bankers were like under some schedule to spend money from the Estate Trust Fund or not build up too much interest on that Trust Fund and the extra time, labor and bricks was a make work job to comply with the terms of that will. A kind of moral waste of the rich tale?
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