Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-13
THE MONEY KING.
The Will of the Railroad Magnate Con
sists OF Nineteen Pages OF Type
Written Matter.
The Property to Remain in the Joint Con
troll of tho Family-History of the
Irish Famine Fund.

NEW YORK, Dec. l2,-Chauncey M. De-
pew and Henry Anderson are the attorneys
representing the Vanderbilt estate, On
Friday Mr.. Anderson appeared before
Surrogate Rollins and spoke to hun pri-
vately with reference to the probate OF
the will and arrangements were made for
fling the will to-day. Mr. Ander-
son was given blank petition
for the probate of the Will
which he was to ill in. Mr.. Depew and
Mr.. Anderson, accompanied by the four
sous, accordingly appeared to-day before
the probate clerk at 1925 p. M, and the
petition for the probate, signed by the
four sons, was presented. 1t sets forth
that William II. Vanderbilt had died
on December 8, and that he
left Will duly signed, executed and wit
messed. The petition then gave the
names of the heirs and their residence.
Mr.. Anderson informed the probate court
that the sons had concluded not to file
the original will ut present and
that they wanted to verify the
petition they had presented. The oath
was administered to them, and, having
verified the petisAn, Mr.. Depew handed
to the probate clerk two typewriter
copies of the will which he
saws he had verified in per-
son. Each copy contained
nineteen pages of typewriter matter.
Mr.. Anderson stated that there were
no codlcils. Upon the petition the clerk
issued citations to the widow and
daughters--the sons being petitioners
were not cited-returnable on
the 30th inst. at IL a. IN.
The party then left the office. Suisse
quently Mr.. Depew said the family was
well pleased with the disposition of the
property, and there would be no con-
test of the will. Concerning the
stocks divided among the children
Mr.. Depew said there was an under
starding among them that none of the
stock should be disposed of by any one of
them without the consent of the others.
In this way the railroad prop
erty known as the Vanderbilt
system will be preserved in its entirety,
and the Vanderbilt roads will continue
under control of the family.
Interesting facts are herewith made
known In connection with the famine
fund for ireland raised by the New
York Herald, and the basis of
which was 100000 given by James Cor
don Bennett. William IL. Vanderbilt was
WllllnH 10 DlNc aUu6O 10 MT. BennetJ'S
$780, 600 an equal sum, upon the condi-
ton that the famine fund should
all be expended in the great
WesN Of the United States,
where provisions and cereals were cheap,
for food, which should be sent to Ireland
in feet of ships, which Vanderbilt of
fered TO cit ont He also offered to land
all this store Of sustcnance in New
York from the West free of all charges
for transportation. Mr., Vanderbilt's
expressed wish in the matter was two
folds first that the money raised should
be expended on American soil for Ameri-
can products, and second that the Irish
sufferers should be relieved and sustained
without being obliged to pay into
the hands of English land
lords the money raised in America.
Mr., Bennett, however, thought It best to
send the money to the other side, which
Mr.. Vanderbilt declined to do. He, how
ever, gave to the famine fund his check
for $4,000 upon the condition that the fact
of his gift should not in any way be-
come known.