New-York tribune., 1902-05-07
WILL OF CECIL RHODES.
EXECUTORS MEET IN LoNDoN-w. T.
STEAD'S STATEMENT.

London May e.-The first meeting OF the exec
uters OF the viii OF Cecil Rhodes was held in Lon
don to-day DR.. Jameson and L. L. Micell having
arrived from South Africa with Mr.. Rhodes's inal
instructions Besides reading the will and deciding
to prove it in South Africa business was trans
acted the meeting but the executors and trustees
of the property Were for the first time. informed
of the genesis Of the will which they will have to
administer w. T. Stead made the following state
ment as TO the evolution of the Rhodesian idea.
He said;
The present will is the sixth made by Cecil Rhodes
69eG%een s s ana fp @ The rsS VIII made by the
{nen & &eomparatXely % small TO the Colonial Secretary
pard. formerly admnstrator Of British Bechaana- ma
Land This will directed the legatees TO use his
Empire & the promotion Of emigration and to effect
staten rean0n between Great Britain and the United
Five years later Mr. Rhodes made his second will.
cd M ane says o W6sm his IS ss to h
MS MS idsas 5o Mr. Pickering died in 1855 whereupon
seond M By q wReS iae he eft his
ppy it 70 to he Tend with
embodied in the remarkable paper written in 1877
win was cecil Rhodes's denunciaton Of the pig
headed and ignorant English statesmen VINO, in
Englishh.speTS6ing race In this paper Mr.. Rhodes
o wen fwsr fef hn mar Of Ro y0% ever @
ne me- points na out that if the union had
could give peace to the whole world
CHANGE MADE IN DOCUMENT
In 1891 Mr.; Rhodes. came to me and said he was
convinced that his financial friend was incapable
horror to think of Coming back to the World after
his death and seeing his money misappied He
Ot %tS % and to He HE a a6 a he
would leave letter directing his financial friend
to eonfne himself soley to the financial administra-
ton OF the estate, leaving the distribution OF his
succeeded by more informal documen nS IN H Whc
Mr. Rhodes left his whole estate TO be administered
By NE with this friend as financial adviser and
=; a Hawksley as legal adviser Therefore. If Mr..
Rhodes had died between 1891 and 1899 the whole
se esmaed Rf a frdm fS 10 waS be s h bn
which is now believed to amount to f6 900 0O0 would
formal trust, and as if it had been my own Mr.
tSi ThoGes knew mat ne could rely upon me to use
reaching ideas we shared in common
FOUNDATION OF SCHOLARSHIPS.
To the will of 1893 he added a codiciI in which he
provided for scholarships at Oxford to be disrib-
in 1891 Mr. Rhodes Informed me s of the Contents Of
IN tnls c9dicIL Immediately asked him to extend II
the American states He said he " approved Of this
idea. but doubted whether was practicable
he would consider it. I was gratifed to find when
Mr. Rhodes drew up his last will, in 1899. that he
mad framed this document on the basis of regard
ing each self-governing community as an integral
which was the object he had had in view from his
In 1899 Mr. Rhodes took others into his confidence.
oeheyng It possible TO extend immensely the scope
OF his will: The will as 1t now stands was then
only change subsequently made in this last docu-
ment consisted in increasing the number Of ex-
In January of 1901. owing to my views about the
SS south african war M Rhodes removed my name
On his deathbed Cecil Rhodes said to DR. Jane
AN American board for the purpose of super
intending the administration of the scholarships
tuted Some time must elapse however, before ar
rangements can be completed for the irst competi-
States or in the British Empire