Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-07-25
WOMAN IN BLACK
LORlllARD MAKES RICH PRovt.
SION FOR HER
WILL MAY PROVOKE FIGHT
Disposition of Valuable Farm the sona
CT Contention by FamiIy-lt Goes
to Woman Who Was Not of Kin.
Merely a Friend, to the Tesla
tor.

Inc woman in black who was notice
aple at the funeral of the late Pierre
Lorluard at Grace church. New York.
promises to become the center figure
OF a Lawsuit. This Woman is known
as Mrs. Lillian Allen, for years the
female companion of Pierre LorilIard
She was known to two continents snd
wherever the famous sportsman and
merchant was to be found the woman
was certain to be near. In his viii
Pierre Lorillard decided that the
famous Rancocas stud farm, buildings.
ETC., should become the property of
this woman. Not the live stock, how
ever, which was willed to his lawful
wife. The family now rises up and de-
clares as with one voice: Mrs. Allen
shall not have Rancocas. We will
keep her out of it,
This would signify that a second
will contest of magnitude and public
notoriety is to follow the battle for the
Rogers millions.
In a nutshell the Lorillard will pro-
vfdes as follows:
LOl1 IuG WluOW, is 10
ceive an annuity of $4,000 for life,
part of the estate sufficient to provide
that annual amount being set aside as
a trust fund.
Pierre Lorillard, Sd, and Griswold
Lorillard, sons of Pierre Lorillard, Jr.,
are to receive one-ffth of the estate in
trust.
Pierre Lorillard, Jr., Mrs. T. Suffern
Taller and Mrs. William Kent, children
of Pierre Lorillard, are to receive the
income of the remainder of the estate,
one-third of the income going to each.
The grandchildren of Pierre Lori
lard are to inherit the entire estate
after the deaths of their parents, one
third of the estate going to the family
of each child of Pierre Lorillard.
The Rancocas stock farm in New
Jersey is left absolutely to Mrs.
Lillian B. Allen, of No II East Thirty
first street, New York.
The estate of Mr.. Lorillard is esti-
mated at about $4000,OOO and consists
mainly of his holdings in Tuxedo park
and the Continental Tobacco company
Pierre Lorillard received $1,000,000 in
trust from his father, Peter Loriilard,
and he bought out the interest of his
sisters in the tobacco business. In
| his life time Mr.. Lorillard devoted the
income of the trust fund to his daugh-
ters, while Pierre Lorillard, Jr., took
| his share in the tobacco business.
Of course the eyes of the country
are upon the woman in black to whom
the Rancocas farm has been devised.
A person we'll posted on the affairs Of
the Lorillards said:
Every provision in Nh. Lorillard's
will outside of the disposition of Ran
cocas is perfectly satisfactory to all
members Of the family. No one had an
idea that Mr.. Lorilllard's estate would
at his death amount to more than
| $4,000, 900. During his life he was ex-
| tremely generous to his family and
provided for several of its members
openhandedly. In regard to Mrs.
| Allen, she gets Rancocas-if she gets
it. All that l care to say Of her is
that she is a plain, everyday, money
making person. | don't say that there
will be a contest, but this is sub
stantial property, real estate, not
money, and all the world knows that
when it comes to a will it is very
difficult thing for man to will away
real estate from his wife and family.
1t is hardly dignifed to speak Of Mrs.
Allen in association with the affairs
of the family of Mr.. Lorillard. There
is no mystery about her, and has not
been for the past twelve years. All
the world knew that she was a Miss
Barnes, and for convenience sake was
married to Lewis Allen, who was a
sort of farm hand at Rancocas, and
who dropped out of sight years ago"
Mrs. Aliens father John G. Barnes,
was a brother of the late A. S. Barnes.
It is said by friends of the Lorillards
that it was owing to Mr. Lorillard's
friendship for Mrs. Allen that Mrs.
Lorillard separated from her
husband many years ago and
refused ever afterward to live with
him. Mrs Allen says that she did not
meet Mr.. Lorillard until five years
after he separated from bis wife, but
that after she met him, she became
his friend and adviser and that Mr..
Lorillard never undertook ANYTHING OF
Importance without consulting her.
Mrs. Allen was born in Brooklyn
forty-fve years ago. When Mr.. Lor-
lizard fell i'll while abroad last spring,
he telegraphed for Mrs. Allen to come
to him. She was then at Rancocas
and she sailed by the first steamer.
She was with Mr.. Lorillard practically
all the time from the hour she reached
him in Paris until he died at the Fifth
Avenue hotel, New York.
Mrs. Aliens friends say that she
will resist, and gladly, any contest OF
the will to which she is made a party,
but she has no thought of originating
any contest She wants Rancocas for
the associations which connect ner
with it. She has an ample income. IL
is said, in fact, that Mrs. Alien ls.a
woman of large wealth.