The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-06
End Of the Wicked Litigation Over
Mr.. Grociey's VIII.

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| Mr.. Grociey's VIII.
Twice have we related how Miss Greeley &C
cepted the compromise suggested by the exec
utors of the will of 1871, and yesterday we
published Mr.. Whitelaw Reds letter to Mr.
Storrs, wherein Miss Greeley made her final
offer, only to have it rejected. These execu-
tors did not think the last will ought to stand
because it did not sufficiently assure to Mr..
Greeley's younger daughter one-haf OF the
property; because it did not properly provide
for the other heirs; because under it the set
Element of the estate would probably be left to
Miss Greeley, whom they considered unequal
to the management of the property; because
the guardianship of her sister might also be
left with her, or in other hands regarded by
Thorn as equally unsafe Enduring all things,
anxious to avoid further scandal Miss Gree
ley, through Mr.. Reid, volunteered to meet
every objection advanced by gentlemen so
| deeply interested in tho welfare of their old
friends children. She would execute to her
sister any absolute title to one-half the entire
property which any reputable lawyer might de-
wise. She offered the absolute release of all
claims by the other heirs under the will of
1871. She also offered the declaration of the
Secretary of the Children's Aid Society
that they had nothing to do with
the contest-a declaration which later
events prove to be false, and place Mr.. Brace
in an awkward position. Miss Greeley would
accept Mr.. Storrs as an associate in the execu-
ton of the will, or any business man chosen
INV fhQ aditnra IF tho HynYJd md
| Tribune; or she would leave it entirely to
| any two business men named by them. She
would accept Mr.. John E. Williams as the
| guardian Of her sister, or any guardian chosen
by these Same editors. Thus every objection
was met nevertheless Messrs. Manning and
| Storrs-the third executor, Mr. Sinclair, hav-
| ing withdrawn-rejected Miss Greeley's singu-
larly generous offer; nor can we see that these
| gentlemen, though it be assumed that they act
from the most exalted motives, justify them
selves to "the many longtime friends of Mr..
Greeley" in their letter written to the editor
Of the Tribune on the 18th of this month. They
deliberately state that ''no man with an ounce
of legal acumen doubts the invalidity of the
will of 1872" We as deliberately state that
many men with many ounces Of legal acumen
maintain that the validity of this will con be
proven. The executors assert that the evidence
conclusively shows this invalidity. We assert
that when evidence is advanced On one
side only case has no fair hearing. If the
contest terminates before the counsel for Mr..
Greeley's daughters bring forward witnesses
to counteract the statements made by those
marshalled in opposition, it is not because of
inability to produce them, but because Miss
Greeley, wh2ss health has been impaired by
the disgraceful conflict over her fathers grave,
can no longer bear the desecration, and also
because she divines her opponents intention
to indefinitely prolong litigation, the entire
expenses of which devolving upon the Greeley
estate, would absorb the little property still
remaining. In sustaining the claims of the
Childrens Aid Society, Messrs Manning
and Storrs state that "there is enough
| and more than enough left to pro-
vide amply for Mr.. Greeley's orphans -.
why, then, should not 'his memory be
| fragrant with the odor of this generous deed
to the poor waits of our city," This touch
ing reference to 'poor waifs'' is truly affect
ing; but will the executors be kind enough to
inform us what they call ''more than
enough?" A few hundred a year may be
enough for two women to live upon in o
back room of an odorous boarding house, but
this is not exactly the position in which the
public would like to see the daughters of
great man whose statue is to cost forty thou
sand dollars The executors affirm that Mr..
Greeley's orphans are ''amply provided for"
and their urbane counsel, Mr.. Williams, who,
to employ their own language "has conducted
the case with ability and with as much for
bearance and courtesy to the opposite counsel
as human nature could be expected to exhibit
under circumstances of 80 much provocatiop
as he has been subjected to-" believes that the
estate twill probably go over two hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars" Far be it from
us to tell Mr.. Williams that he does not believe
what he believes, but we know that the editor
of the Tribune is right in declaring that with
the exception of six shares of Tribune stock
there is scarcely dollar of available money or
an acre of productive real estate belonging"
to these orphans who are so amply provided
for as to warrant ten thousand dollars being
handed over to 'poor waits - Mr.. Will
liams mistakes what ought to be for
what is. Horace Greeleys estate ought to
be worth three hundred thousand dollars,
but as two hundred thousand dollars
has been loaned to friends whose promises
to pay will be made good about the time
that the millennium sets in, the most ardent
optimist, Mr.. Williams excepted, entertains
not the shadow of dream of seeing Mr.. Gree
| leys orphans in possession of two-thirds of
the amount rightfully theirs. Perhaps it may
interest our readers to know that eight thou