St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-12
MIR. TlLDEN,S WILL.
The Specific Provisions Made for
Various Public Objects.

Ae SpeCsnac PROVISIONS Made for
Various Public Objects.
New YORK, Aug. 11.-Gov. TiIden's
will is published, but contains little not
already known. After naming the family
trustees it is stipulated that IN all cases i'll
which special trust shall be for the benefit
OF any female. the said income shall be kept
free from the control or interference Of any
husband which the said female now has or
may hereafter have, such income being i'll
tended to be sacredIy devoted to the separ-
ate personal use OF said female and is not
to be pledged, encountered or anticipated
by her. The will proceeds:
authorize my executors and trustees to
cause the establishment OF a library and free
readlng-room i'll my native town Of New
Lebanon. My executors and trustees are
authorized TO eXpend for the creation and
equipment, and to invest as permanent
fund to maintain the said library and reading
room, the sum OF $65U,O00, and any further
sum not exceeding $350,U00 which | may in
writing instruct my said executors and
trustees TO apply to these objects. | hereby
aut hCrize my SAID executors and trustees TO
appropriate out OF my estate in such man
ner as they may deem most eXpedent, the
sum OF 95U,UU0 toward the establishment of q
library and free reading-room in the city OF
YOnkerS, ana such further sum, not exceed
lug SOU,OOUs DIS uay hereafter instruct my
executors to apply to that object. l request
my executors and trustees to obtain as
speedily as possible, from the legislature an
act OF incorporation of an institution to be
known as the Tiiden Trust, with capacity to
establish and maintain free library and
reading room in the city Of New York and to
promote Such sclenIlfc and educational OBJ
jectS as my executors and trustees may more
particularly designate. Such corporation
shall have not less than five trustees, with
power to fill vacancies in their number, and
in case said institution shall be incorporated
in form and manner satisfactory to nv said
executors and trustees during the lifetime of
the survivor of tue two lives upon which the
trust OF my general estate herein created is
limited, to-Wlt: The lives of Ruby Tiden
and Susie Whittles, hereby authorize my
said executors and trustees to organize the
said corporation designated, and to convey
to or apply to the use of the same the rest,
residue and remainder of all nv real and
personal estate not specified, disposed of by
this instrument. or 50 much thereof as mag
be deemed expedient. L authorize my said
executors and trustees to apply the rest res
idue and remainder Of my property real and
personal, after making good the said
special trusts herein directed to be consti-
tuted, or such portions thereof as they NAV
not deem expedent to apply to its USE to
such charitable, educational and scientific
purposes as in the judgment of nv said
executors and trustees will render the said
rest, residue and remainder of my property
most widely and substantially beneficial to the
Interest of mankind. Ny said executors and
trustees are hereby invested with the follow
ing powers. l. To manage the funds herein
directed to be invested in the trusts for
specific purposes until such investments shall
have been made with like authorization in
case of other portions OF my estate. 2. To
sell and dispose from time to time in their
discretion of such parts and parcels of the
real estate and of the property hereby
divided, given and bequeathed to them as
they shall deem advisable Ten thousand
dollars is to be expended to keep in order the
cemetery at New Lebanon. Provision is made
to erect there a monument to his memory.
Any legatee attempting to contest the will is
to be excluded from its benefits.