New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-14
THEY MUST FIGHT FOR 1T.
CONDITIONAL MILLIONS FOR CHARITABLE
INSTITUTIONS.
THE WILL OF STEWART NEWELL GIVES THEM
HIS INTEREST IN LAWSUITS THAT MAY
OF MAY NOT BE VALUABLE

HIS INTEREST IN LAWSUITS THAT MAY
OF MAY NOT DE VALUABLE.
The will Of Stewart Newell which was filed for
probate in the Surrogaie's office yesterday morn
ing, is in many ways peculiar and interesting in
struncnt. 1t disposes Of property at present al
most valucess but which may be worth several
millions of dollars in the course of n few years.
In the courts decide in favor of Mr.. Newells
various claims he will rank high among the
benevolent men of this decade, the larger
part Of his estate has been bequeathed to chari-
table institutions of Ncw-Yorz and Philadelphia.
The estate includes large tract of land III
Texas, a part of a claim in the United States
Court of Claims, and portion of the stock of
the Robert Morris Land and Coal Company of
Pennsylvania.
The land in Texas is now in litigation. 1t
acquired by the testator before the Mexican
War, while he represented this country in Calves
ton. About two months before his death on April
IL, at No. 121 West Fifteenth-st., where he had
lived for a number of years, the lower courts of
Texas decided that his claim TO several hundred
acres Of valuable land in that State was valid.
Pert Of the land lies within the city limits of
the State capital.
The case, which argued by Ex-Governor
Ireland, of Texas, appealed, according to
friend Of the dead man, and will not be decided
definitely for some time. There is every reason
to believe however, that the decision of the lower
courts win be affirmed. The Texas lands have
been wied for the most part to the nephews and
nieces Of the dead man, who left neither wife nor
children.
The land claimed by the Robert Morris Land
and Coal Company, of which Mr.. Newell was at
one time president, lies in Columbia, Schuylkin
comprises about 10000 acres.
Many years prior to Mr.. Ncwelrs death, how
ever, the same land, it is said, was claimed by
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company.
Mr. Newell brought suit to obtain possession of
the estates, but a decision in the case las not
been reached up to the present time II is the
stock of this land company, however, which the
testator has left to the charitable institutions
mentioned below. II was said to be his hope
that the institutions would combine to prosecute
his claim to the land.
Mr. Newells will was executed on
August 81, 1899. It names DR.. Lewis
NJ Socum, Edmund S. Newell Clarence B. Smith
and Ebert Floyd Jones as executors. According
to the will. he gives small part of the stock of
the Robert Morris Land and Coal Company TO
relatives twenty shares to DR.. Victor Thompson,
for kind medical attendance" ten shares to the
same physician for "his attention to other pa
tients unable to pay him" three shares to the
Convent of Mercy, in Philadelphia, as
memorial to his niece, Catherine N
Knight five shares of the stock
to the New-Yorls Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Children: five shares to the Earle Guild
three shares each to the Ncw-York Home for Con.
valoscents, the New-YorlI Female Assistance So
ciety. the Ney-Yorl1 Association for the Improve
A. pnnr %1,a Cl,ori
Organization Society, ami the st. Johns Guild
two shares Of the stock each TO the ST. Mary's
Lodging House, the Children's Aid Society, the
Howard Mission. and the Home for Little Wan
derers. the New-York Magdalen Benevolent Society
and the St. Francis Hospital.
The testatOr makes also a number of bequests
to institutions in Philadelphia. lie beQueaths
five shares Of the Morris stock each to the Penn
syvania Society for Prevention of Cruelty to
Children, the ST. John Orphan Asylum and the
philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity;
three shares each to the Pennsylvania Retreat
for Blind Mutcs, the Pennsylvania Asylum,
the Old Ladies Home. the Old Woman's
Home of Philadelphia, the Wills Hospital, the
Society Of Our Country Home, the Magdalen
Society, the Hahnemam College Hospital and the
Home for Destitute Colored Children; two
shares each to the City and Final
Saving Society of the City and Liberties OF
Philadelphia, the Bethesda Children's Christian
Home the Childrens Christian Home, the Chill
drens Sea Shore House, at Atlantic City, the Phil
odelphia Home for Infants, the Northern Home
for Friendless Children, the Howard Hospital
and Infirmary for Incurables. the Chdren's Home
of Philadelphia and the Presbyterion Hospital
Mr.. Newell was born in Philadelphia almost
ninety years ago. After receiving common
school education in his native city, he became
clerk in a real estate office. His earnings were
invested in land in Pennsylvania and other States
Although hr became rich man comparatively
early in life much Of his wealth was lost i'll eN-
pensive law suits. Since his removal to this city
about ten or twelve Years ago he has been engaged
in no active business. lie left almost no personal
prOpertY.