The evening world., 1893-10-20
GIFT OF MILLIONS.
Requests Made by the Late Charles
Bathgate Beck.
Five Beneficiaries After Specific
Legacies Are Paid.
T~hsse.Last Named Include 800, 600
for . Church at West Farms.

The will OF Charles Bathgate Beck,
the several-times millionaire, of West
Farms, who died last week, was filed
to-day for probate in the S~urrogate's
Office by Lawyer David Mcclure, rep
%resentlng the Farmers Loan and Trust
Company, which is the sole executor and
trustee of the will.
The instrument is dated Nov. G, 1891,
II was witnessed by George Baker, Of
2l East One Hundred and sixteenth
street. and s. II. McIlroy, OF $50 Ans
terdam avenue.
As has already been stated in THE
Evening World" the bulk OF the tesla
tors large property, the value OF which
Is estimated at between six and eight
millions OF dollars, will be divided equal
ly between Columbia College, the Board
OF Home Missions of the Presbyterian
church, the Presbyterian Hospital, the
the New York Hospital, after al the
specific legacies have been paid.
These specific legaCies. include $4,000 o
in trust to the First Presbyterian Church
of West Farms, to be devoted to the
erection of a new stone church on the
present site, which it is stipulated shall
have a suitable tablet commemorative
the fact that the church was erected to
her son, Charles b. Beck An ad-
diltional ,s20.0W is given to the trustees
OF this church for general purposes.
Other leSacies are as follows:
The Trustees OF Columbia College........ SO. 900
MIS- j. l." Jessip and Fred j. Jessup,
George +. tcngan, Passair, y. Jn...... ~. 900
George G. Castle, Cleveland, O........... 10. 900
Elizabeth +. Castle, Washington. II. C..... 10, Uoo
Home for ln"urablcs. ................. 10, 600
Society for the Prevention 0f Cruelty to
Animals ........................... 10, 900
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Peabody Home for Aged Women ...,........ 500
Margaret Il. Becker, Stanford. y. w.. 80, 600
William Johnston, New York City...... 10, 900
James ~Jonnstea. New York City.....,,, ~, 900
4. BALDWIN uathEate, Newark. y. J..... 10 600
Mary Meyers, New York Cty."""...,. 1000
Marion j. Kidd. Scotland. ........,.,... 20 900
Ann Ward. his hoa:cI.cper. in trast ..,. 90 90"
1t is provided that the i~egacies left in
trust shall revert to the residuary es-
tate at the death of the lesatees.
Or the specific legacy of $4,000 to Col
free Scholarship, and the income OF the
annual prize to the student who passes
the best examination in Real Estate
knewn as the &C. b. Beck Prize"
To Mrs. j. l.. Jessup the testator gives
all the furniture, jewelry, wearing APP
parel. silver plate, china and glassware
Farms, and to Fred J. Jessup, all the
books and pictures. The will also di-
reefs that all claims of the testator
against the latter shall be cancelled, and
that the executor shall give him Il re-
ceipt in full for all the Indebtedness of
Mr.. Jessup to the estate, of whatever
description they may be.
There Is also a prohibition that no
portion of the estate shall so to either
o the alleged children of the testator's
deceased uncle, Alexander B%athSate, re-
ferring to Matilda b. Carter and Charles
b. BathEate, or to n of their descend
ants, and ii is provided tia any OF the
beneficiarles who shall contest the will
shall be barred from receiving anything
under it.