The New York herald., 1875-11-25

former may crumbe and fall To the ground or Is col
umns and corridors become choked with weeds but tho
latter will continue In existence while the town OF Wal
dorf exists and there are any poor people IN H. :"
John Jacob Asor had left his secretary fitz 6reene
Halleck, the poet annuity OF $500, which William
Is. Astor Immediately increased TO IL 300 10 a sea
gave check for $25, ,O0O Two millions OF property
were gwen away by bequest
The life Of William 3. Astor was really uneventfuL
He spent his many years In managing his large
estate He passed his life in his office in Prince
street. just out Of Broadway largo man,
six feet tall with STOPPING shoulders care
lessy dressed seldom carrying an umbrella Ho
attended personally to the details OF his immense
business No clerk was more faithful than he. His
heavy, unnpressibe face at his desk early In the
morning. and he never left il until five In the after
noon. He owned many leaseholds which required
strict attention. He knew every dollar OF rent or in
como, and could answer all questions connected with
his vast estate He is said TO have saved 81 900 900
year He was short and busness-like in his answers
10 questions MAI were daily put 10 him, and he
never at fault concerning details Of facts In business
hours he never did anything in the way of charity
only at home was he generously hospitabe
Mr.. Astor rparred daughter Of General Armstrong
who was Secretary of War under President Madison
He had six clnldren-threc sons and three daughters
In summer the family lived near Tarrytown and in
winter in Lexington avenue. One OF his sons served
on Mccellans staff during the war and the others a.
tended to business connected with the estate
JOIN JACOB AsroRs
The will made by John Jacob Astor, the father OF the
deceased, was made in 1886, the 4th Of July, the
witnesses to 1t being Hannah Norman of He'll Gate,
New York; Daniel Lord, Jr No. 20 Beach street. tins
city; George B. smith, No. $40 Broadway Edwin
w.
4sl Houston street On January II, ls45, he de-
cared IL again to be his last will, the
witnesses witnesses subscribing to it being James G.
NO. Al Great Jones street, and Daniel d. Lord, Nine
teenth street This original Will drawn up twelve
years before his death The last codc to 10 dated
the 22d Of December 1S43 witnessed by Joseph
Cogswe, Lucy Sewa and William w. Bruce The
original executors we're his SON. William b. Astor,
James G. King, Washington Irving and James Gaatin
In a codcil dated the 10Th OF January, 1888 he APP
pointed Daniel Lord Ir, to be also executor There
were eight codcils 10 the will IN ALL The first bequest
made in the will TO his daughter Dorothea wife OF
Walter Langdon IL consisted Of all his household fur
niture and the use during her life Of all his silver
plate, his NEW service OF plate excepted He also
bequeathed 90 her the income Of the following stocks
and money 800, 900 New York city bonds, bear
ing five per cent interest; 500 shares Of the capital
stock OF the Bank OF America 900 shares of the cap
ital stock Of the Manhattan Company and $25 depos
tied with the New York Life Insurance and Trust Com
pany. He gave her also house and lot Lafayette
place, which she was then occupying He provided
that on her death all the bequests to her should
go TO her surviving ISSUE He devised all his lots
the easterly side Of Lafayette place. the lots in the
OF them, which extended TO and fronted on the
Bowery, all his lands between Charlton, Morton and
Greenwich streets and the Hudson River, being 100
lots, TO his grandchildren John Jacob Astor Langdon
Eliza Astor Langdon, Louisa Langdon Walter Lang
don, Jr. Woodbury. Langdon, Cecilia Iangdon and
Eugene Langdon. These grandchildren were the chill
dren Of his daughter Dorothea 70 John ]. A. Walter,
Jr, Woodbury. and Eugene he devised eight lots with
the improvements thereon, the eight lots fronting
the easterly side OF Broadway, between Broome and
Spring Streets they to be equal sharers the property
which he had been entitled should go to his issue, him
surviving, in equal shares, according to
THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN
In case OF the death Of any of them without issue
his share was to go 10 the three surviving brothers
Sarah Astor wife OF Robert Bonel Eliza Astor Louisa
and Cecilia his grandchildren were also given four
houses and lots fronting the westerly side Of Broad
way, between Prince and Houston Streets then known
as Nos 519 5Sl, 5s3 and $751; and which extended in
the rear TO Mercer street To John j. A. Walter, Jr,
Woodbury. and Eugene Langdon and to each of their
sisters, Eliza Louisa and Cecilia, he devised s25 900
provided that when they reached the age Of thirty
years they should each get $25, 600 more. The City
Hotel bounded by Broadway Thames street. Temple
and Cedar streets, he devised to Mrs Robert Barcel
his granddaughter Sarah He gave to his daughter .
Eliza, wife of Vincent Rumpf the income for her life
OF 500 900 Ohio State bonds bearing six per cent
interest; $780, 900 New Haven city bonds bearing hve
and half per cent interest; $50 000 deposited in
the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company;
600 shares OF the capital stock OF the Manhattan Bank
To her and her husband he gave his lands the
OF Geneva Switzerland In case Of her death without
issue he provided the Switzerland property should be
divided as follows One third TO the children of Will
b. Astor onethrd TO the children of his daughter
Dorothea and onethrd to his grandson Charles Brsted
TO the latter he gave all his lots fronting on the west
ery side of Lafayette place. the lot and house then oc.
cupied by him on the westerly side of Broadway known
then as No $685. and which extended to Mercer street,
the lots between Spring and Prince streets side OF
Broadway; nine lots on Eighth avenue and Twenty
sixth street. forty-three lots fronting Seventh ave-
nue. Bloomingdae read Thirty seventh street and For
tieth street; eight lots on avenue A. between Sixth
and Seventh streets; his
COUNTRY SEAT HE'LL GATE
and his other lands there twenty lots in the
block formed by Hammersley street, varick, Bedford
and Downing Streets and the income and interest
$115, 900 during his life his attaining the age of
twenty-five years. To his grandsons John Jacob
William and Henry, son Of William b.. he devised all
his lands lying between Bloomingdale road, Hudson
River, Forty second street and Fifty fret street-wo
shares TO John and one each to William and Henry. In
the next part OF the will he made provision for his
unfortunate son, John Jacob, who was out of his
mind and who died few years ago, giving him $5 900
year and $40, 900 year If restored TO sanity He
made several other bequests in the original
WILL which were either modified by codicils
or revoked altogether After making the bequests
already mentioned to his grandchildren, he wuled all
the resresdence and remainder Of his real and per-
sona estate, with certain exceptions-to his son. Will
liam Astor, who died yesterday, taking pro-
vide that all the personal estate devised to him Wil-
the real estate devised to him. In the first codcil
the WILL dated January 10 1888, he gave Mrs Dorothea
Langdon, his daughter the house and lot the west
erly side of Lafayette place for life and prevent
any interference by her then husband any future
one, he provided that the executors should hold the
rents in trust for her This is the house and lot which
in his original will he had given to Charles Brsted In
the codici he confirms the property him after Mrs
Langdon's death. It will be borne in mind that in
ORIGINAL WILL
he gave his grandson John J. A. Langdon, two ega-
ces of SIS 600 each. bis grandson died shortly after
the will was made, and so Mr. Astor, in the January
codcil, added to what he had divised to young Lang
don and his brothers and sisters the bequest Of three
lots the westerly side Of Lafayette place In this
codcl he revoked bequests OF 500 600 TO each OF the
$40 000 to William H., So 900 TO George, Jr-al of
his brother George-and annuity Of 92OO sterling
Georges widow; also 900 to his neice, Sophia of
Meuroid Germany; $1,000 to his sister Catherine, wife
OF Michael Miller S. 600 TO the children OF her daugh-
ter Maria Moore In their stead he provided that Mrs
Sarah 0xenham, daughter Of his dead brother George
should receive 5000 This he modified in another
codci dated October a. 1889 to $50 000 In his orig
inal will he gave $4,000 to the German
Society Of the City OF New York, reduced
it to $25 600 in another codci and to $50 900 in
one, and reduced the legacy 70 Mrs Mary Reynel wife
OF George Roynell, to $4,000 In his original will he
bequeathed s25 600 TO Columbia College, provided the
trustees established a professorshp OF the German
language and literature in the college. Nine years
in a codic dated Januery IL, 1S45 he re-
voked this bequest In this same codicil he also
voked the $50 900 given to Joseph Asor and awarded
him life annuity of $500 The service Of sverpate
:, = - 60 '-''v and which he made snecal eXcep-
''4 - ~ ~ ne Js isea Of his WIN Id giving his daughter
Mrs Langdon, nsc of his silverplae uurlng ne, ne
wed to his son William b. the same on his death TO
go to his (Wlliam b. .sl eldest son, in case he
Should not leave any appointment Of II among
his children. In codicil made in 1889 he
made further provision for his demented son,
John changing the income allotted to him from