Evening journal., 1901-07-06
ROGERS MILLIONS
FOR A MUSEUM
Patterson millionaire Left
Only $25O,OOO to Relatives
WILL MAY Be Contested
Estate Is Estimated As Being Worth
From S5,OOO.OOO 10 Sl5,-
100000

E.
the eccentric millionaire. who wnsI
found dead in his loom in the Union
League in New York last Tuesday
morning, heard his will read yesterday
afternoon, after they had returned from
ms grave in Cedar Lawn Cemetery
Paterson.
Outside of sa5oOoo winch is tc-
qneathed TO number of the relatives
IN legacies, and two annuiiies amount
ing 10 $1,000, the whole OF the o3tnte
Is given the Metropolitan Museum oil
Ait. In New York. The estate has been
estimated 10 be wclth anywhere from
S5,OOO,O00 20 Slb,00O.00O. out ;he best
informed people are now placing the
fgurea arcund sSOOO.OOO.
The Will was executed on June %
1892. II was supplemented by cadicil
on December n, 1894. by second
.on December g. 1898; by third c0dieil
on May "a 1899, and by a fourth codioil
on October ?, 1900. The follcwlnq
iesacies are given in the original ri
C-lumbus 3. Rogers. a brother, now
dead 100000
Ella A. Rogers, daughter of Column
bus B. Rogers, S25 900
Julia Edith Gelatly. daughter Of
Columbus b. Rogers. $4,000.
Mary j. Westerfeld, daughter of Ja-
son Rogers. brother. $4,000
Flcia y. Rogers, daughter Of Jason
Rogers $4,000.
Annie Il. DUPONT. daughttr of rhcl-
dore Rogers a brother, S25 OO0.
Theodore B. Rogers. sln cf Theodo. o.
Rogers, $250OO
Helen r. Bradford. daugh G. OF Thca-
dore Rogers S25.O00
Asahel S. Levy a. Now York. now
dead $4,000.
Ellen Allen, housckocpcr. now dead.
$1,000.
Household goods aud chattels to Co
lumbus b. Rogers.
All the rest of his estate be bequoaih.
ed TO Columbus b. J. c.s and Asahel
s. Levy as executors In trust to sell
hlio 20 pay the proceeds to ,hs Metro
politan Museum Of Art in New Yorl,
The first cudicil recitos that. Column
bus B. Rogers having died the legacy
to him lapsed and reverted 10 tho
rcsiduary estate OF the testafor Bv
this codicil the testator takes out or
his rCsiduary estate all his land A. New
York and New Jersey and an his steel.
iu pa.uson and Hudson River ran,nad
and ttc Paterson and Ran apo railway
and devises this part OF his erlate ID
AsaEol Levy and Jenkins Van Scnli, ,lx.
.ot New York. in trust during the lives
Of Thomas y. Bradford and Theodore
b. Rogers. Jr.. both grandnerhews.
BY this cOdicil Jenkins Van SchaickI
was added as an executor. The seeondI
cndlcil adds William Ponnlngt m ms anI
executor and gives all the household
goods. cattle. eQulpages. wines. etc. toI
Theodore B. Rogers, nerhow of the te
tatOr
The third ocdicil names Theclore
y. Rogers and Judge John s. Barka-
low, of Paterson. as executors and trus
tees The fourth codicil rccites that
Thomas b. Bradford having died the
testator substituted in his place in theI
will William DUPONT another grand
nephew. This codicil also gives toll
Theodore B. Rogers an additional sum
of $4,000 This leaves Theodore b.
Rogers John s. Barkalow and William
Pennington as the executors and trns-
tees under the will.
Asahel S. Levy. one cf the re.sonsl
named as executor in the Will. was AL
lawyer in New York. a friend OF Mr.
Rogers. and frequently did legal bust
ness for him. Ele and Mr. Van schaick
are new dead The only relative oil
Mr. Rogers whom he left entirely ont
Of his will Is his half sister. Mrs. Helm |
itsch, who now lives In lryingtan. |
n. j.
Mr. Pennington was asked II thorel
would be a cCntest. and replled
Naturally there viii be a contest:
] fully expect H. AS an executor | will
try TO establish the will, Of course. butt
under the peculiar circumstances there
will und0ul tedly be n fight. There IS
no provision In the will To take away
the legacy from any legatee who con-
tests los provisions so none of them
can lose anything by contest ting it"
During the lives of the two grand
nephews, the Metropolitan Museum OF
Arts gets The income OF the vast es-
tate, with the exception Of the two
$500 annu'ties, and az their deaths the
whole estate goes 10 that institution.
The estate may be worth $40 600 900 or
Sl5 100000 by that time Mr.. Rogers
was a trustee Of the museum.
Telephone connection with tlN resi-
dence Of William DuPCnt this mornlngl
Brought the information that nobody
there had heard the will read. nor seen
the newspaper reports Of e. AS TO a
probable contest in their own Interests.
the DuPor.s would not talk
Rodv Inferred