The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-28
MR. PULLMAN'S WILL.
ESTATE VALUED AT SEVEN AND 4
HALE MILLIONS.
HE Two Daughters Get the Bulk Of
It, but the Widow Ii Well
Provided For.

Chicago, October 27.--The will OF the
late George NJ Pullman. the palace car
fnagnnte was filed In the probate court
today. Norman B. Ream and Robert T.
Lincoln are named MS executors.
The total value Of the estate is snown
py the ietition FOR letters testamentary to
lie N,eoo,coo or this amount, sG,soo,Ooo is
personal property and ssoo.coo realty. At
toTney Runnels. who prepared the will.
said these figures are very conservative
estimate of the value of the estate.
The lufk of the estate goes to the two
daughters. Mrs. Frank o. Ioudon Of Chi.
cago and Mrs. Frank Carolan OF San
Francisco. who receive 100000 each and
also the resduary estate.
the homestead at the corner OF Prairie
avenue and Eighteenth street.-the con-
structfon of which cost $780, oo-the furni.
ture. etc. is devised TO his wife for life.
ana she is also TO receive $4,000 for the
first year and thereafter during her life
the income from s1,5ooO0o.
The sum OF 800 900 is left In trust for tina
maintenance of the summer residence on
the st. Lawrence river. which is wll,ed 10
Mrs. Loudon. The sum OF ZOO, 900 Is left
In trust FOR the daughters until they are
50 years old, when each is 10 receive $500 :
81 coc 20 oon become e, ne hers absolutely the other
70 be paid to them. II either daughter
leaves issue, the trust at the death of the
heirs.
An. income of but $4,000 yearly s pro.
Nlced for Mr.. Pullmans sons, George NJ.
Jr. and Sanger W. The reasons for this;
the testator explains in his win. is owing
10 the fact that neither son had developed
such sense of responsibility as in his
Judgment was requisite for the wise use
OF large properties and considerable sums
OF money Consequently, he says, he was
painfully compelled, as he had explicitly
stated. to limit his testamentary provis-
IONS for their benefit to trusts producing
only such incomes as he deemed reason
able FOR their support.
Two brothers. Royal Henry Pullman and
John NJ. Pullman, and two sisters. Helen
Fupifnan West and Bmma Pullman Fluhr-
er are beequeathed $4,000 apiece.
| The wife of his brother, Charles L. Pull.
man, ts given the income OF s25,0OO
Ninety Thousand dollars In sums of
socc $4,000 and $1,000, are bequeathed Il
| Steven relatives and personal friends, 80.
| TO 1900 apiece to household servants Thir.
| teen CTcago charitable institutions are
to receive $4,000 each.
| The testator states that II was his pur.
| pose to found, erect and endow, at Pull
man. ILL.,, during his life, free school OF
manual training for the benefit Of tn,
| or lldrsn of persons living and employed
at Pullman. and TO spend at least 500, on
| Tor lands. buildings and apparatus and tc
| provide fund of 81, 900 COO for the mainte.
nance, management and endowment OIL
| the school. His executors are asked tc
SCI aside 81 100000 for this purpose. II
| the estate shall be more than sufficient
| TO satisfy all the devises, trusts and lega.
| cies the executors are directed to divide
| the remainder into two equal shares and
! add the same respectively to the two por.
| lions set apart in trust for the two daugh
| ters. who are to receive all the propert,
| which becomes a part of the residuar,
estate. About s5.350.o0o is bequea thed by
| the will.