The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-07

Grand total. ..........s .s440,O ,O45I3
The Girard Estate and its Investments.
The following comprises the personal property Of
the estate as now invested
schuylkin Navigation Co per cent Loan 81 81 ,sssSi $685.
Loan to Franklin Institute. 100000
CITY OF Pmladelphia per cent Loan. 100000
City OF Philadelphia per cent Loan free
OF 1876 10000
TaXa0le 22,300O0
Ground Rent. 6,S00O0
Germantown and Perklomen Turnpike Co. 10000
Philadelphia Exchange Co. Stock. ........ 100000
1000 shares Danville and Pottsville Rail
road Co. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2OOOOOOO
22O0 shares Schuyklll Navigation Co... 100000
BOND Tor loan TO Ridge Road turnpike Co.. 100000
Bond for interest to Ridge Road Turnpike
4Os shares Of stock Chesapeake and Della.
ware Canal Co. .......:.....,.?....,... 9O4OOOo
1O2 shares or stock received as dividend. 5200O0
Company - 10000
Ceived for interest. st.................'.... 241.eO
United States $40 per cent. loan. ...... 255OOO
United States lO-4O per cent. loan ..... 100000
Total investments. nts...............s s5s9, ,52522
The yearly income is expended for maintaining
the Grard College for Orphans and for repairing the
real estate and the salaries of the officers OF the
estate, which about absOrbs the whole Of it.
Stephen Girard left a separate trust fund OF
$6OOOOO executors valuaton) "for the Improvement
OF the eastern front of the city and Delaware
yearly for the above purpose.
Stephen Girard also left separate trust fund of
luel poor WllUe n0uSekeepefS
and roomkeepers" in the city of Philadelphia, which
mas since decreased TO S9862O5, The income from
this fund is drawn yearly by the superintendent of
trusts and invested In wood or COAL and the orders
Tor Iuel are given to the Committee of Trusts and
Fire OF Councils, which they daily distribute to the
poor residing in the old city proper Qfrom Vine to
south streets and from the Delaware TO the Schuyl-
KID according to the trust enjoined.
The Girard Coal Lands and Real Estate Ont
side of the City.
These lands originally comprised 81 tracts, con-
taning % $40 acres 10 tracts sold on proceed
1ngs in partition; II tracts, containing 1854 acres
were recovered by the heirs Of Girard from the CITY
this leaves 43 tracts comprising s2T acres remain
ing In the possession of the city trustees of the
estate. They are situated in Butler, Mahanoy Rush.
and Union townships, Schuylk county, and in Co
nyngham township, Columbia county, Pennsylvania,
about 16 miles northwest from Pottsvile in the Ma
hanOy valley, extending in length to miles, and In
breadth about miles. % OF these tracts, containing
10000 acres, are coal lands, the remaining S tracts
being situated outside OF the coal basin. Several OF
these tracts are valuable for farming purposes
cash received from colleres in 1865 was s86 I1O'Ii
in 1866, $685. 7Os33; in 1867, Ss9,iSl1s and in 1858
311O, ,8O226
The Meeting of the Judges of the Courts.
Chief Justice Thompson, OF the Supreme Court
ex o@ciO President Of the Board OF Appointment
which consists OF the Judges OF the Supreme Court
the District Court and the Common Pleas, has issue
call for meeting OF the Board in the Suprem
Court room at O'Clock this afternoon.
A LAUHCH.-The launch of the new three-maste
schooner Bessie Morris, from 800 TO 600 tons burden
built for John II. Allen OF Philadelphia for coast
wise trade, took place this morning at IL O'Clock
from the yard OF Messrs. w. Cramp 4 Sons. A larg
crowd Of spectators was present.