New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-03
HOTEL SERVANTS HER HEIRS
c1-pANGE WILL OF A WEALTHY WOMAN
FILED FOR PROBATE.
Y1Av1rc ouARRE1LED WITH HER RELATIVES. SHE
LEAVES HER MONEY TO FRIENDS AND EN-
p1OYEs OF THE HosTEI.RY AT WHICH
SHE HAD LIvED-A CONTEST
LIKELY TO RESULT

LIKELY TO RESULT.
me Of the most extraordinary wills which has
-o..ea through the SurroCates office In recent
years was given into the possession Of the probate
,s-. Yesterday The Will is that of Mrs. Serena
n 1.uren and disposes Of ZOO worth o. real
s.ate and personal property This Is left entirely
90 friends and to servants with whom she had come
:, contact az hotels IN this city. The VIII bears
,,s date Of June %. 1891. and is written on two
sheets OF Park Avenue Hotel note paper. To all
o,,earances the document written by the tes
,atrx personally. The writing IN places is cramped
and almost nlegible. Several OF the names cannot
Be dec.phered
The frs, Request IS tina, Of the premises at Nos
~ and Is Jay-st.. this city. The testatrix gives
those absolutely 70 the Rev. A. r. Simpson She
then directs that all Of her money deposit in
n. United States and Metropolitan Trust
,onies be divided equally between the Society for
,he Prevention Of Cruelty Children and the Chill
dren's AID Society.
Nineteen certificates OF deposit in savings
hank are 10 be divided between 1mogene Lockwood
s,a Louisa Van SAINT (the last is not legible)
rrbsn comes the following
yo,.v IN the Frfta Avenue Bank
Blocker Street Railroad six shares Agnes vandslA
Thompson
Barnes
y.u-Yrk Central. twenty-eix Door OF Hope.
DIV Dock and East Broadway. six. Emma Rarnes
Second Avenue Road. elk. Peter Martin waiter.
ro-ty-secc-a Street Yves; and Grand. one, Mo
waiter
Rock Island Pacific. vandaia Thompson.
colored washe-wornan.
Long Island Railroad bonds. three $500 each Annie
Thee dressnaker
Government bonds three 900 each Wheeler Doty
Ronts and mortgages $1,000 Chn.topher-st property.
Clara c. Totem.
The testatrx directs that the residue Of her
property be divided between LOUISE Van SAINT
adj cuifh
the following
appoint William H. b Totten. president Of the
Irving Savings Institution and son-n-aw OF my
late esteemed friend. John Casree. as executor OF
my will
The will was fled by William H. Earle. propre-
Tor OF the Park Avenue Hotel. Tribune re-
porter Informed the hotel last night tina;
M Earle indsposed and could not be seen.
From F. A. Reed. the manager OF the hotel. IT
ascertained. however. that Mrs Tureli had for sew
years stayed at that hosiery during the winter
months. In manner she was extremely reserved
and rarely spoke 10 those with whom she came In
daily in the hotel. Beyond the fact that
che woman Of apparently plentiful resources
little known of her the hotel
According 10 Mr. Reed Mrs. Turell about
seventy-fve eighty years old. and regarded
as extremely eccentric Just prior 10 her death she
was filed with an Illusion that the Spanish fee,
was bound for his city and would lombard the
metropolis from point opposite Thirty-fourthst.
In order 10 the contingency which she feared
she packed her trunks and held herself in readiness
depart q moments notice for Saratoga Mrs.
Turen died May IS and buried in Wood
lawn Cemetery. The burial taken in charge
by her nephew, Edward =. Dickie. Of NewHav
Although Ny Reed knew little OF the family history
OF Mrs Turrell Il ascertained from him that
John Mclean, who is named In the Will had for
engaged the Arlington Hotel in Wash
.ng;on. Peter Martin. who is also a beneficiary, IS
stl engaged at the Park Avenue Hotel. is Agnes
Thomson. another beneficiary. who IS a chamber
maid.
Beyond these people Mr. Reed said ne had no
knowledge OF the identity OF the other names men
TONED IN the will
William H. B. Totten, president Of the Irving
Savings Bank who is named executor. was
also II ascertained from him that Mrs
Turen the daughter of Patrick Dickie.
wholesale druggist OF this CITY who died many
years ago leaving an estate Of over $4,000, which
was divided among his children.
This money" said NJ Totten, was left IN
trust 10 the children The requests which Mrs
Ture has made consist OF money which she has
saved from her income. The capital will
20 various branches Of the family. Although
she consulted frequently. and was great
friend OF my tather-in-law ] know very little 81
woman. and outside Of her own immediate rea-
tives there is probably nobody who can tell you
anything about her. 49,.
Mr Totten said that ne unacquainted with
q single person mentioned in the Will. II is APP
parent that Mrs. Turell not on friendly terms
city are Mrs. Adams. her sister. Of No. 1913 West
Eighty ninth-st.. and Louis p. Adams. nephew
az the same address. Neither could he seen last
night but Il IS understood that the will VIII un-
douDtedly be contested on the ground that " was
made while the testatrix was of unsound mind