The Portland daily press., 1884-12-22
MRS. STONES WILL.
The Examinaiion of Rev. MIR. Wilcox
Continued.


BOSTON, Dec. 20 In the Superior Court at
East Cambridge yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Viii
cox's examiDstion was continued. He said /
After returned from my tour OF the South
| informed Mrs: Stone that, while considered
the Institutions worthy Of help, did not con-
slider it advisable to pat her money into the
hands of the local boards, by which they We're
controlled. / suggested that she place what
she intended to give in the hands of the
American Missionary Association of New
York, for the work in the South and Mrs
Stone gave tie society S150.00O aud subse-
quently added 81 200. / mentioned Drury Col
lege as worthy of aid, and $40, 600 was given TO
it. To the Chi5ago Theological Seminary $780,
Geo was given for founding the Stone profess
s0rship. Upon my recommendation, Oberlin
College received $4,000, Iowa College 800 600
and Carleton College $4,000. She intended
to give Wellesley College $4,000, to establish
ten free scholarships, but the college proposed
TO give 20 free scholarships for 20 years II she
would give 500 COG for building mush need
ed, and the proposition was accepted by her.
Audover Seminary benefitt ed in all to the ex-
tent of $3.50 600, OF which sum S66666 was to
go to Phillips Academy in AndoVer. Fhe or
der, which was sgnod By Mrs. Stone covering
all these sums, was produced, and Mr.. Wilcox
told substantially the same story as did Mr..
Cutler about finding the order Ia the box in
the Boston office. After the hard talk which
vas INDUCED in between the witness and the
other trustees, witness said ha went to see
Mrs. Stone, and told her what had taken
place, aud she repliedi "The money is mine,
aad / will do as please with it," Witness
continued: l took the paper back to the Office,
and pat it among the other papers, and the pa
per which bold is the original order To Be-
lott College $4,000 was given; BoWdoin re-
ceved in all $75, 900, while Ripon College, Wis
consin, received $4,000 The story of the
gifts OF Mrs. Stone was published in the papers
aud as result she was flooded with letters
from ell directions, asking for aid When the
letters began to pile in she asked me to take
charge of her mail and look over such as were
implorlng aid, and hand over to her any that
were OF interest 10 her. I did as she requested
and all personal letters from her relatives and
friends were handed TO her without opening,
while many begging letters were DESTROYED
without her seeing them. Others, which 1
considered OF deserving nature, wers handed
to her. In regard to Western colleges she
consulted with me, and acted on such advice
generally, but not always. The sum OF So 600
was given to the Massachusetts Hom9opathic
Hospital in Boston, at the request of Mrs
Stone, to establish free bed. Alphens Hardy
was giyeu SIS 600 for ths evangeliz alton OF
France. The America Missionary Associs-
tion Of New York was given $40 GOO Tor the
benefit of Berea College in KentnckS, at my
suggestion. Roberts College OF Const sntino-
pie was given $4,000, and 0livet College,
Michigan. $4,000 The Boston City Mission
received 81 800, for the reason that Mrs Stone
had always taken deep interest in the mis-
sion, aud had frequently sent $1G0. The
North Ead Mission received 50, 500 at the same
time. Marietta College. in Mich gan, received
$4,000 at the request of President Andre ss.
Gen. Armstrong, of Hampton Institute, said
they needed a new building, and $50 900 was
contributed for the erection of Stone Hall. IL
linois College, at Jacksonville, received S25,-
600, and the New West Association $26 000 1t
Inade no difference to me pscuniarily, to what
charity Mrs. Stones money went I am not
aware that had any official connection with
any OF tho institutions receiving money before
the bequests were made. The first time was
at Drary College was in 1878. Ali nv COM
muncations to Mrs. Stone in reference to any
Of these colleges wers done truthfully on my
part. After the general order had lain in the
box over two years, the trustees proceeded to
pay money on all orders of Mrs. Stone for char
tiles in September, 1880, and before Jan. had
paid cut 81 100000 without any trouble be-
tween the trustees The trustees lreceived
conversation in October, 1880, for distributing
$6,055.50, for services. and Jan. 13, 1881, the
trustees we're paid S10,137 SO, when the bus-
ness was closed up. The gums paid were for
taking charge OF the property and making the
payments. The first sum of Sc 055 so was for
commission of 3 per cent on $500 900 turned
over to me as trustee for Mrs. Stone, and the
other amount on the several sums. The cor
respondence in all cases was carried on by me,
except in the case of Fryeburg Academy,
which was done by Mr. Page.
at $50 o'clock the court adjourned until
Monday morning.