The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-12-26

Edwin Forests Will.

The will of Edwin Forrest is dated
| April 9th, 1866, and contains provis.
ions fof his sisters, which have be.
come imperative by their death. II
appoints as trustees, James Oakes, ol
Boston James Samson,o New Y York
and Daniel Dougherty, of Philadel.
phia. 1t directs the sale of all his
property except Spring Brook, in
Philadelphia, which he fixed as the 10.
cation of the Edwin Forrest Home
which institution shall be for the sup.
port and maintenance of actors and
actresses decayed by age or disabled
by infirmities, who, If natives of the
United States, shall have served al
least five years in the theatrical pro-
fession, and if of foreign birth. shall
have served in that profession ten
| years, whereof ten years next preyi-
Gus to application for admission into
| the Home shall have been spent in the
United States; and who shall in all
things comply with the laws and reg
ulations of the Home, otherwise to be
discharged by the managers, whose
decision shall be final, The number
of inmates shall never exceed the an
nual net rent and revenue of the in
stitution, and after the number of in
mates shall exceed twelve, others to
be admitted shall be such only as shall
receive the approval of the majority
of the inmates, as well as the man.
ayers. Said corporation shall be man.
aged by a board of seven managers,
chosen by the trustees, and shall in
clude themselves as long as any OF
them are living, and also the Mayor
of Philadelphia for the time being,
and as vacancies occur the managers
shall fill them, SO that only one yacan-
cy shall ever exist at time. The
managers shall elect one of their num-
ber as President, and appoint secre-
tary, steward, matron, and, if needed,
a clerk. Except the treasurer, said
officers shall be chosen from among
the inmates. The treasurer aud sure
ties shall not be managers. Provision
is made to remedy any failure to fill
vacancies and correct any failure or
breach of trust by application to the
Orphans Court. The purposes of said
home are ssintended to be partly edu-
cationaf and self-sustaining, as we'll as
eleemosinary, and never to encourage
idleness or thriftlessness in any " ho
are capable of useful exertion. 1t
provides that his library shall be To-
Gated at the Home, which shall also
contain picture gallery for. the pres
ervation of his collection, and a neat
theater for private exhibitions and
histrionic culture,to which pupils shall
be adpitted. Lectures on science, lit
erature, and the arts are also provided
for, as well as celebrations of the
Fourth of July and Shakespeare's
birthday. 1t directs that charter for
the institution be procured from tie
State Legislature.
The codicils of the will give an an
nuity of S2,500 10 James Oakes, and
bequests OF $1,000 each TO James
Lawson and Daniel Dougherty, S1O,.
600 to Miss Elizabeth Welsh; daugh-
ter of John r. Welsh; 1000 to S. S.
smith, of Cincinnati and $4,000 to
the Actors Order of Friendship, of
Philadelphia.
Now that the sisters are dead all the
proceeds of the sale of the property
go to the Home with the exceptions
of the special bequests.
The high eulogies pronounced on
the character of Horace Greeley, dead
by the Administration journals, and
the abuse and villification of him by
the same, when living, are in striking
contrast and forces the conviction
upon Us that, when those journals
stopped to the most infamous abuse
of him, representing him to be any.
thing and everything that was un-
worthy, and as holdsng to the most
absurd doctrines, they knew they were
publishing despicable lies. They adj
NIT as much now that they have
bounded him to the grave, and have
no more to fear from the majesty of
his lofty character in contrast with the
baseness of their own, and no longer
dread the overwhelming power of his