The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-02
MR. GARRET1'S WILL.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES MADE
Ills Sons Virtually Fall Heir to tho Controli.
Ing ihtercs, In the Il. s o. l,niiroad-Iiis !
Legacies to Worthy Charitable OBJ. +,
Jects md Educational Matters,

EALriMoRr, Mn, October 1.-The wi
Of John W. Garrett was flied today, |
Is dated Deer Park, August $, 1881, and
witnessed by Andrew Anderson, S. Spen
Ger and W. S. Townsend. lie gives 10 hi
sons, Robert and Thomas Harrison Gar
rctt, and daughter, Mary Elizabeth Gar
rest, and survivors, or survivors OF Their
and their heirs, all his estate, real
personal and mixed, subject to certain
trusts. One trust is 10 provide 5000 an.
nually for the relief Of the poor OF Balti.
more. Another trust Is, that out OF the
net income of my estate devote fifty thou.
sand dollars annually to sucl, objects Of
benevolence and to educationalpurposes to
aid virtlous and struggling persons, and ia
WORKS of public utility as are calculated 10
promote the happiness, usefulness and
progress OF society. t5tT,lS }gJ IL
Inc will continues: GAS in this clause
oi mywlll, ! dispose otccttain shares of nv
stock OF the Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Company deem 1t proper to indicate tho
reasons Tor making the disposition OF that
stock rs herein provided. While the city
OF Baltimore holds its large interest in the
stock of thatcomplny and the Johns Hop
kins University, following the advice and
recommendations OF its founder continues
to be proprietor OF such large proportion
OF the company's shares, and while the
shares OF stock which I Lequeath to
my trustees remain in their. hands,
or their succi s;oEs, l feel confident
these the ethree large propiietors co-opcr
attn. with others alike interested in the
welfare and growth Of Baltimore will con-
troll the road in the interest OF that city,
am therefore desirous that said trustees
shall retain the ownership OF the shares OF
stock hereafter mentioned in order TO aid
in carrying out the line Of policy which |
believe las accomplished great results,
alike beneficial to the city Of baltimore
and to the State OF Maryland as
well us many other States and
which have been brought
by the Baltimore. 4 Ohio Railway COM
pany into cl sc business relations with the
city Of Baltimore. / believe the policy OF
this ROAD as brinen. the great.
est beucllt to that city has been 4 wise
one for the road and city, and also for the
statcs1snd communities reached by it and
its cooperating lines. My children who
act rs my trustees are well acquainted
with the lines OF policy l approve OF in
with the Baltimore ( Ohio rail.
way, whose improvement DEVELOPMENT
have constituted large part OF tue work
OF my life, AMI have confidence that in /
representing this stock they will as far
as 1t is in thei. power cooperate with
other proprietors OF the capital OF the COM
pany IN cirryin. out such policy. 1t Is
therefore my will, and I order and direct
that said trustees and their succe 'sors in
this trust shall out imy estate hold thirty
thousand shares vi common stock OF the
Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad COM
pany for twenty years after
date Of my death, at which
date'a distribution and division of such
stock at the option OF the parties interest
cd shall,be made in equal parts to the
children before named or their heirs.
During said period OF twenty years after
the date OF my death, while such stock is
SO held by the trustees, and their sue.
cessors, they shnll pay no income there
from to said children, "wl.o arc not only
made trustees but also executors OF the
will" a .Gt-.,5.y.-i ~ - i IL
4 1t is understood that $4,000 shares OF
common stock of the Baltimore 4 Ohio
Railway Company, in reference to which
directions aregiveut to constitute the indi-
vIdual holding OF that stock BY the late
John W. Garrett, and do not include the
large holdings Of that stock by the firm Of