The evening world., 1893-10-20
GIFT OF MILLIONS.
Beques:s Made by the Late Charles
Bathgate Beck.
Five Beneficiaries Alter Specific
Legacies Are Paid.
T~hsse.Last Named lnc:u Ia 500, 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. 6. 1891.
and was witnessed by George Baker. Of
2il East One Hundred and Sixteenth
street, and S. H.. 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
Society for the Prevention of Crime and
the New York Hospital, after al the
specific legacies have been paid.
These specific legacies include 500, 900
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 1t is stipulated shall
have a suitable tablet concentrating
the fact that the church was erected to
tne memory OF MIS-. janet Is. Beck Dy
her son, Charles b. Beck" An adj
diltional $4,000 is given to the trustees
of this church for general purposes.
Other legacies are as follows:
The Trustees OF Columbia College,, SO. 900
Mrs. J. l.. Jessup and Fred J. Jessup.
George F, Gensan, Passaic, n. J........ 25, 600
George e. Castle. Cleveland, O.........., 10, geo
Elizabeth +. Castle. Washington, u. C..... 10. 600
Home for lnCurables. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1000
Society for the Prevention OF Cruelty to
Children 10. 900
Peabody Home for Aged Women. .......... 500
Margaret II. Becker. stanford, N. Y..... 20. 900
william Johnston. New York CITY,. 1000
James Johnston. New York City........ 10. 900
q. Baldwin Bathgate, Newark. n. J..... 10, 900
Mary Meyers. New York Cty.......... 5000
Marion j. Kidd. scotland ...":..""",,. 1000
Maria l. Bathsate and Mary Meyers I'm
Ann Ward. his housekeeper. in trust. 1900
1t is provided that the legacies left in
trust shall revert to the reslduary es-
OF the specific legacy of $1,000 to Col
umbia College 1000 Is set apart for a
free Scholarship. ard the income of he
annual prize to the student WHO passes
the best examination In Real Estate
Law at the law school. and Is to be
known as the &C. II. Beck Prize
all the furniture. jewelry. wearing APP
parel. silver plate, china and glassware
In the "Bathgate Homestead at West
Farms. and to Fred }. Jessup, all the
books and pictures. The will also d.
reefs that all claims of the testator
against the latter shall be cancelled, and
that the executor shall give him "A 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 go to either
q the alleged children of the testator's
deceased uncle, Alexander Bathgate, re-
ferring to Matilda b. Carter and Charls 8
Il. Bathgate, or to any of their descend
ants, n II is provided that any of the
heneticiaries who shall contest the will
shall be barred from receiving anything
under IL.