St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-12-04
GOULD'S FUNERAL.
Services VIII Be Held at His
Late Residence Monday
Afternoon.
There VIII Be No PaIlbearers and
No "A ddresses of ANY
Hind.

NEW DIRK, Dec. o.-EX-Juug6 Dll-
ion and DR.. Mum held a consultation
with members of the Gould family this
morning concerning the funeral az
engagements. Undertaken John Main
called at 1870, and was followed few
minutes later by Rev. DR.. Paxton. Then
the programme was given out. 1t
was determined that the funeral
should take place at 4 O'Clock Mon
day afternoon. The officiating clergy
man will be Rev. DR.. Paxton, assisted
by Chancellor McCrackeE, of the New
York university, and probably by Rev.
DR.. Terry. Mr.. Terry is the pastor of
the Dutch Reformed church, which Mr..
Gould attended, and on that account has
been invited to participate in the Serv-
ices. The service will be the simple
Episcopal service, with the addition of
eXtemporaneOus prayer by the O1ficiat-
ing clergyman. The body will be
placed in the parlor on the ground floor
of the Forty-Seventh street side of the
house. There will be no pall-bearerS
and 10 addresses of any kind.
The music will be supplied by the
choir of Dr. PaXton's church. This
will be the programme rendered: First,
an opening anthem; second, Cardinal
Newman's hymn, LEAD, Kindly Light, "
and, third, "Nearer, My God, to Thee. "
After the rendering of the music friends
of the family will be given ain oppor-
tunity to look at the remains
The casket will be of plain
solid oak. covered with fine black
broadcloth. The handles will be of oxi-
died silver plate with the simple in
scliption: jay Gould. Born May 81,
1886. Died Dec. 2; 1892" The inter
ment will be in the mausoleum atwood
lawn, where Mrs. Gould is buried. The
architect of the tomb. Ii. q. French,
visited Woodlawn today to examine the
mauSoleum and make the necessary ar
rangements for the reception of the
body.
The flags on all the hotels in the
neighborhood of Mr.. Gould's house,
from Fitty-ninth to Thirtieth street, are
at half-mast. All the engines Oh the
Manhattan Elevated railroad were
draped in black, while the massive front
of the Western Union build
ing was similarly attired. A
special meeting of the exec
utive committee of the Western Union
company was held today. at which reso-
lutiOns of regret were passed and me-
morials adopted on the death of Jay
Gould. The directors of the Missouri
Pacific also passed appropriate resolu-
tionS.
Much interest attaches to the liability
of the Gould estate to the payment of an
inheritance tax. Under the laws of
1892, the property beQueathed to Mr..
Gould,s children will be liable to tax
of per cent. Section 2, OF chapter 500
says: "a
'When the property or any beneficial
interest therein passes by any such
transfer to or for the use of any father,
mother, husband, wife, child, brother,
sister, wife or widow of a son or the hus-
band of a daughter or any child or
children adopted by such, in conformity
with the laws of this state or to any
person to whom any such decendent,
grantOr. donor or vendor for not less
than ten years prior to such transfer,
stand in the mutually acknowledged re-
any lineal descendent thereof,
such descendent grantor. donor
or vendor, born IN lawful wedlock, such
transfer shall not be taxable under this
act unless it is personal property TO the
value of $4,000 or more, IN which case
it shall be table under this act at the
rate of 1 per cent upon the clear
market value of such property"
The next section makes the tax lien
upon the property until it is paid.
Payment within six months gives dis
count of per cent; if it is not paid in
eighteen months, penalty of 10 per
cent is provided, The controller who
collects the tax deducts a fee and the
balance goes into the state treasury. A
tax of per cent on the estate, it is es-
timated, would be from S650,0O0 to
S1,O00,O0O on which the controllers
fee would be from $4,000 to $4,000. At
the office of the corporation counsel
it was said that if Mr.. Gould had
left his property in the hands of trus-
tees, the interest to go to his children,
this would not operate to prevent the
Ievying and collecting of the tax. All
property left out of the llneal descent
is taxable at 3 per cent on its market
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