The age-herald., 1900-07-15
FORTUNES FOR 200 PEOPLE
Rich Woman's Will Remembers Some
 Names She Didn't Even Know

From the New York World.
 Two hundred fortunes, large and small, for as many persons, were left as legacies by the will of Mrs. Emma Schley.
 Relatives, friends, servants, even casual acquaintanceS whose full names she did not know, were left handsome sums. Legacies, some of them as large as $10,000, are left to persons who are designated no more definitely than as Edward" Mary or Bridget"
 The biggest single legacy s1,OOO. 0OO goes to Mrs. Schley's daughter, Mrs. Emma G. Halsey. Besides Mrs. .Halsey gets the house where Mrs. Schley lived Mrs. Schley's jewels and personal effects and many other bequests.
 Mrs. Halsey is the only child of the late Mrs. Schley, who was the widow of Will jam Schley. Roswell P Flower, her broth- er-in-law, was named one of. the execu- tors. The will bequeathed to Mir Flower $2OO,0O0. His wife, Mrs. Sarah A. Flower, also received $2O0,00O. To Allen c. Beach of Watertown, the other executor, Mrs. Schley left $100000.
 Apparently everybody Mrs. Schley knew from her two couriers, L. Bessecci and John Truilzee, who get s, 900 each to her washerwoman, Mrs. Schofield, who gets $1,000, is remembered. Rose, the waitress, gets $10,000. There are numerous large be- quests to churches and charity. The IL, gets $50 00O
 Mrs. Schley's fortune is said to nave been between $6,0OO0OO and $S,000,000.
 Among the bequests is one of $25 900 for Horace D. Woodruff, Mrs. Schley's brother James w. Schley of Savannah gets S16J 5OO Lois F. Cooper, sister of Mrs. Schley, gets $300,o0O Norris Mundy, her nephew, $50 OOO and Augusta Mundy, widow of Pearson Mundy, $50,000 Annie Smith and Nellie Taylor, neces get $100, GOO each. Miss Amy Beach, daughter of Trustee Allen c. Beach, gets $5O,O00. Lloyd o. Woodruff and his two sisters, Helen and Emma, receive $10O 900 between them. John B. and Emma C. Fay. Tor get $1OO 900.
 To the brothers and sisters of the late William Schley (Mrs. Schley's husband). SlOo,oo0 is bequea thed; to MT. and Mrs John ID. Flower, $1S,000 each.
 Mrs. Schley does not forget the relatives or her former husband, Henry Keep. to whom she was married before her marriage 10 MT Schley. She leaves to the children of his two sisters, Mrs. Martha Fuller and Mrs. Mary Kenyon, s5O, ,00O each. The chil- dren Of Hal Schley's father, who is, or was. resident or savannah, Ga., are left $50 OOO. One bequest reads:
 To the man named Edward, who took care of Henry Keep, my former husband. $oOO0; to Adelaide Reynolds, who took car of Maria Mundy, $5,O00'' sf
 Besides remembering each personally, Mrs. Schley leaves $l5,00O to be divided among the servants who have been in her employ more than two years" Her two cooks, Kate Duffy and Agnes get s5. .O0O each. The coachman, Thomas Martin, also gets $5,0OO Even her daughters servants are remembered. Grace, Bridget Marga- ret and Mary" being left 5000 each.
 There are numerous bequests to wealthy social friends of $1,00O each "as souven- 1rs' One of these is to General and Mrs. Daniel Butterfield. The children of ID. C. Benedict, the banker, and friend of ex- President Cleveland, are left S4,O00. The Rev. James Ludlow and Dr. Murray Adams are left 5000 each. Mrs. Flanagan, at Altman's; Mrs. Nagle, clerk in the white underwear department at Altmans, and Mrs. Thoenhill at Connollys" get s5 ,OOO each. There are scores of other bequests varying between $l0,000 and $1,0O0
 Among the charitable bequests are St. Thomas church, $10000; New York Pro- testant Episcopal City Mission Society for St. Barnabas, $1O000; New York Medical College for Women, $10000; Universalist Church and Society of Watertown, s6,0oO.