Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1885-12-17
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ConclAnsen aud F0Otmen i'm MOurn-
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that Mr.. Eanderbilt's interests have bee
put in the hands of a board of trustee
composed of .Messrs. Depew, Corneliu
Vanderbilt aud Twombley. Members q
the deceaseds family maintain that Br
Vanlerbilt's speculative lines of stock di
not exceed 20, 900 shares, and the estat
will have no securities to sell.
Chauncey M. Depew tonight said, tina
at the funeral of William H. Vanderbilt
which will take place on Friday, the fol
lowing named gentlemen would act a
pail bearers: Samuel F. Barger, @. M
Depew, j. Pierrepont Morgan, Charles @
Clark Judge Charles Rapallo, Judge j. P
Brady, William Turnbull, William L
Scott, William Bliss, D. o. Mills, Georg
J. Magee and s. W. Caldwell.
Judge Rapallo, it is said, drew the viii
of Mr.. Vanderbilt, and its contents will
be made known on Friday after th'
funeral. William X. and George Wander
bilt are tonight keeping vigil beside the
remains of their father.
NEW YonK, Dec. 1.-THE last sud rites
over the remains of William II. Wander
bilt were begun this morning, when the
body of the deceased was removed from
the iee-box in which it had rested since
Tuesday to the coffin of cedar covered
with black broadcloth. The coffin was
then placed on a catafalque in the bed
room ON the east side of the house. The
sun had barely appeared upon the
pinnacle of st. Patrick's Cathe-
dral before small groups, of people
began to gather opposite the house,
and when the Rev. Samuel Cook,
the rector of 81. Bartholomew 5 Protestant
Episcopal Church, arrived there shortly
after s o'clock, the groups had increased
to small crowd. The crowd was orderly
and the services of the police were not
needed. As the hour appointed for the
beginning of the home religious services
approached, carriage after carriage drove
to the entrance and deposited the chill
dren, the friends most intimate and the
| pelLbearers of the deceased. Each car
riage bore coachman and footman and
all of these in mourning liveries.
Shortly before o'clock Mrs. Wander
bilt, accompanied by her sister, Mrs.
Bromley, William K, Cornelius, Fred
erick and George Vanderbilt, her SONS
and her daughters, with the exception of
Mrs Shepard, who is abroad, entered the
bedroom and looked for the last time
upon the face of her husband. Her grief
wos very great, and it was shared by all
i present. The service, conducted by the
/ Rey. DR.. Cook, was simple and
touching, consisting OF prayer, q
few words of remembrance and
others of consolation 20 the bcreaved
fninily. The coffin was then closed, and
slrs Vanderbilt then retired to the apart
nent which she has occupied since the
death of Mr.. Vanderbilt. The coffin was
raised upon the shoulders of the under
takers assistants and proceeded by the
clergyman and the pall-bearers borne
down the broad staircase through
the corridors and into the gor-
geous vestibule, now bathed in flood Of
bright, December sunshine, and then
borne out through the open door never
more to be re.entered. At that moment
there flooded in from some distant church
bells the soft, sweet notes of the San.
gelus."
At the church the respectful silence OF
the hundreds of business men who had
known the dead fnancier in his life time
1 rendered the scene an impressive one
There was no pomp of circumstance
in the burial service which followed. Nc
| public man has been buried with SO little
what may be termed 'tshow." Upor
the lid of the coffin rested
bed of violets, Mr.. VandeIbilt'i
favorite flower and two leaves of palm
When the music of the funeral march Al
length came to an end, the choir sang the
anthem beginning, Lord let Me Know
my End"
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-At 12 25 to-day ex-Judg,
Rapello followed by Chauncey M. Depew, Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, VIM X. Vanderbilt, ,Fredericl
w. aid George Vanderbilt, In the order named
ent, red the surrogate's office and immediatel,
appeared before Probate Clerk Cnarles Becket
for the purpose of filing the will of VIM. ii
Vanderbilt.
The following is copy of tho cocument:
81, William Ii. Vanderbilt, of the City of New
York, do make and publish my last Will anC
testament as follows, VIZ:
'First. devise unto my beloved wife, Mari'
iouisa, for and during her natutal life tn,
lot on which il It nds " After describing th,
property the will continues: also give
and devise to my said wife Tor ant
during her natural life, the three lots of lane
on the north-easterly orner of Madison avenue
and Fifty-second 81 eei, In the city of New Yorl
together with the stables and Implements
thereon erected. also give and bequeath te
her for and during her natural life all thu
paintinss, pictures, statuary and work.
Of art which | may own at the tint
of my decease except tho portrait and th'
| lItdTDlb DllbL OI IhLlNT WHICH 4 nhNb bb
| queathed to my son Cornelius. also give ant
bequeath to her for and during her natural life
all toe furniture of every de- criptton including
plate, silver, library, ornaments, musical IN
sIruments and other articles Of household u.s.
which may at the time of my decease be II
or appurtenant to my present residence corne
of Filth avenue and Fifty-first street, and ais
all the horses, carriages, vehicles, harness
rta le furniture and implements which
mny have on hand at the time o
my, dec .ase and usually kept in m,
! l afu Ina nm
| stree and cmnower my wife during her lif
to exch ,pge o. DISPOSE OF any of my said house
hold furniture and other chattels ex ept pic
lures, statuary and works OF art
also give aud bequeath TO my said wife a
, annuity of S2l0,0O0 per annum during he
natur life to be tomt uted from the date TO
! my deaease and paid to her In equal quartz
yearly payments thereafter. And ! direc
, | that n sum sufficient to produce such anuut
be set apart and mt all times safety In
, vested by my executors for that purpose dui
| ing the life of my wife. And empower her {
| dispose by will If S50OO00 of the principal ,
, | the same, so directed TO be set apart In an
manner she may desire and which shall b
| legal.
All taxes, assessments and charges whic
| may be imposed on the real estate devised 1
my wife for life, shall be payable by her durin
{ the same period. And / declare that the for,
( going devises aud bequests to her arc TO be
| lieu of dover.
Second. devise unto my daughter Ma ga,
G | Louisa. wife OF Elliott +. Shepard, ESQ, heii
r | aud assigns for ever, the house In which 81
= now resides AMI the lot on which il stand
which lot the will then describes at Eifty-secon
G | street and Fifth avenue, south-w. st corue
y together with all my rights in Fifth avenue an
I | Fifty-second STREET on front of said premises.
= rhirr. devise to my daughter Emily Thor
1 wife ot William Sloane, Tier heirs and assign
t the middle one of The three nou e5 erected |
j, me on the westerly side Of Fifth avenue betwee
Fifty-first and Fifty-second street and the lot 9
2, which IL stands.
s The will then goes on to bequeath SIC, ,OO0,N
n to each of his eight children. Nearly 81 900 O
Y Is given 10 charitable institute ms, and the r
o mainder of his flrtune Is divided equally b
IS tween Cornelius and William X. Vanderbilt I
Il directs that all Of the railway stocks b
!. queathe1 to his children shall be held In bul
C- and administered for the best interests of q
T. and that none OF them shall TO disposed
N without the consent OF all concerned. Chaunc'
NJ. nepew and Henry II. Anderson are cons
>, tut~d administrators of the will.
: The will is divided into "a section
u Those numbered from 16 to 90 inclusi'
" ! provide for annuities of from so 900
II $4,000 per year to number of dista,
u relatives. The twentieth section b
IL queaths to the board of trust of the Va
derbilt University of Nashville, Tenn
incorporated under the laws of the sta
of Tennessee, 100000 of the secol
m mortgage bonds of the Lake Shore
S, Michigan Southern Railroad Company,
e, be applied to the uses and purposes
ID said university. The twenty-fjrst secti
'g bequeaths to the following named soci
d, ties and incorporated bodies organic
IN under the laws of the state of New Yo
TX the sums hereinafter specified: To t
k, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Socie
fe of the P. e. Church of the Unit
IN States of America, 800, 900, for domest
ar purposes; to st. Luke's Hospital,
corporated in the year 1850, $4,000
to the Young Mems Christian ASSOCIATE