The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-10
THE MRS. FITCH ESTATE.

important Donations Ia the New Haven
 Hospital and to faie-An Estate or TWO Hundred Thousand Dollars.
 The will of the late Mrs. Emily M. Fitch was offered for probate yesterday morning in the probate court and was proved and admitted. The property left Sy the deceased is estimated at over ,200, 900, and aside from several public md various liberal private bequcsts to her sister, Mrs. Wilson, and to nephews md nieces, the residue of the property is given 10 John D. Fitch, n nephew Of the testatrix. The public bequests are as follows:
 To the Hampton Normal institute of Hampton, Va., 5000; to the New Hn- ven orphan asylum, 5000; to the Con nccticut Training School for Nurses, 10 be added 10 the missionary fund, ,OOO; to the Home Missionary society of Cen ter church of New Haven, S2.0OO; to the Old Ladies' home of Center church of New Haven, $500; 10 Yale univer- sity, 10 found n Fitch professorship fin the theological department, s3O, ,OOo 10 the General Hospital society, S5O,OOO.
 Regarding this latter bequest to the hospital society, the testatrix stipulated certain provisions. She provided that the use of her late residence on Church street should be given her sister, Mrs. Wilson, for the term of one year. and at the end of that time the house and land upon which 1t stands Is to be sold at such figure as her executor may determine and out of the proceeds de- rived from the sale of this property the beouest to the General Hospital society is to be taken. She provided that this sum should be used in erecting ward for children to be known as the Fitch home. If this sum is more than suili- cient to accomplish the erection of such a building as she desires, the balance Is to be used in establishing free beds to the hospital proper as many beds to be established as the balance of the fund will provide for.
 The total amount of public bequests is s93,5OO, which upon the estimate which was made yesterday morning of the total amount of the estate nearly s200, ,000, disposes of nearly half of the entire estate, but inasmuch as the in yentory has not yet been made the es- tate may go to a much higher tigura John B. Fitch, a nephew of the de- ceased, was made the sole executor of the property.
 The public bequests made by the tes- tatrix are in conformity with the previ- ously expressed wishes of her hus- band, William Fitch, who died about fifteen years ago. The latter made a will in which he gave to his wife all of his property absolutely, but he took occasion to provide for the contingency in case his wife did not survive him. In his will under the condition men, tioned he provided that Yale college should receive s50,0O0 for the establish ment of Fitch professorship, the New Haven Orphan asylum $5,000 and the General hospital $5,0O0 and number of other personal bequests. He also pro- vided that in case certain provisions failed, Yale college was to have the whole of his estate, under the provi- sion that the college should provide for certain relatives during their natural lives and the college to have the abso- lulc ol liiC PioPSi y SheSA SAA~ life estates were determined.
 Mrs. Fitch, while following the wishes of her husband, in a measure made some changes in the amounts the beneficiaries were to receive and also made other bequests which her hus- band had not previously indicated in his will. For instance, by the will of Mrs. Fitch, Yale college only gets ESQ., 900 to found a Fitch professorship in- stead of O,0OO, which her husband had mentioned and does not come in for the residue of the property in any con- tingency. Furthermore the general hos pital is much more munificently remem- bered and indicates the deep interest the deceased took in the care which just such an institution affords. The provision for the general hospital which William Fitch made was for the es. Establishment of a free bed to be known as the Mrs. William Fitch free bed. By the provision which Mrs. Fitch's will makes, the gift will commemorate both her and her husbands memories by the name which the gift will bear, namely that of the Fitch home.