The Hawaiian gazette., 1893-07-18


June 2lst, that he was resident of
San Francisco and that he left an
estate. From thepetition appears no
intimation of the value of the estate,
which had been estimated at
about S32,000,OOO. Mrs. Stanford
simply states that the value of the
estate is unknown. 1t consists of real
estate in San Francisco city and
county and elsewhere in the state,
bonds, shares of stocks in various cor
pOrations, and other personal property.
Throughout the entire will appears
the deep sorrow of Senator Stanford
over the death of his only son and his
interest and generous feeling toward
the great university at Palo Alto, I'M
der the shadow of which he died. To
the trustees of the Leland Stanford
university is bequeathed S2,500,000,
which sum the will increased to
S5,000,000 in the event that Senator
Stanford should survive his wife.
The management and control OF the
remainder of the vast estate is almost
exclusively invested in Mrs. Stanford.
Aside from generous requests to rela-
tives of the dead senator, his only per-
sonal bequest is the sum of $4,000 to
Herbert G. Nash, his private secre-
tary and former tutor of his deceased
son.
The entire residue of the estate is
bequeathed to Mrs. Stanford, from
which fact it is assumed that the en-
dowment of the great Stanford uni
verslty is still far from complete, not
withstanding the latest bequest of its
generous founder.
THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.
No better estimate of mans worth,
of the various attributes of his charac-
ter, can be gained than from the ex-
preston of the opinions of him made
by those who knew him best. 1t is
when one sees another through the
light afforded by intimate personal or
business relations that opportunity is
given to know that other for what he
really is.
Men who knew Stanford, who had |
known him for decades, are, concur !
rent in the expression of the opinion |
that in all the best sense of the word |
he was great man. AS great in his |
as he was in his cOncep-
lions. His mind was a broad one. In
All his works, not his individual pro-
fit alone was his aim, but the improve
ment by his hand of the condition of
his fellows. By the building of rail-
road he opened an empire to the
world; as governor, he saved a state
to the nation; as United States sena-
tor, he conceived plan for the assist
ance of farmers by the government;
as philanthropist, he devoted an inn
mense fortune to the cause of educa-
tion. Nothing that was small could
abide in him. The following appreci-
alton of his worth and sorrow for his
1ecease, by those who know him best,
will be read with interest:
+. Black Ryan: "Many a story is
old of the dead mans kindly DISPOSE
ion and his feeling for the men who
worked under him. The poorest man
N his employ could go to him sure of
treatment and courteous
reception. He could tell his story or
his grievance, and would be listened
% until he finished. One could RELY
lpon the assistance and good word OF !
lis employer, and whatever the men
night say of the railroad company of
which Stanford was president, for him
hey had only words of kindness and
aspect"
Judge McKenna: "Senator Stan !
ord was truly great man, great not ;
My in mind qualities. No one
ould talk to him without being the
letter for it. He achieved the high
st honors among men, and their
chievements and the qualities dis
'layed in their achievement would J
Justify an extended eulogy. But, {
evertheless. his. greatest claim to {
onsideration, maybe worshipful con- {
Iteration, was his unbounded SYM rs
athy for men, his BELIEF in them, {
nd his hopes for them, finding sym
athy, yes, finding fulillment, in hi
reat university"