The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-06
WILL
THE SOLE TOPIC
EngIishmen Have Not Recovered
From Surprise at Requests.
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CANADA
THE WILL IS TO BE CONSTRUED
LITERALLY.
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7 ONDON. April 5.-The war in south
Africa. politics. and every topic
usually Of interest. were forgotten
today in the absorbing discussion Of
Cecil Rhodes win. Regarding that ex-
traordinary document the Associated
Press has ascertained some new facts.
The total Of Rr. Rhodes fortune is
likely to prove 10 be e5,OOO.0O0, or
slightly under that amount.
The executors are Lord Roseberv
Earl Grey, Lord Miner. Alfred Bert
Or. Jameson, L. L. MiceH and y. A
Hawksley, TO whom he bequeathed the
residue Of his estate. they viii divide
about GL00O,000 or e1,500,000 among
them.
According to the terms of this
legacy, the amount is to be divided
during their lifetime. but as each
legatee dies his share goes to a com
mon fund until the surviving legatee
become its sole owner.
Hence. one of the executors, the ma
JoTity Of whom are already enormously
wealthy, VIII one day inherit what viii
then have probably accumulated into
nearly $4,000, 600. The executors. the
Associated Press learns. have unusual
~ full powers. and can construe and
add to the will as seems fit. Hence, the
omission Of British Columbia, Nova
Scotia and other Canadian provinces
from the list Of scholarships is quite
likely to be corrected and each province
OF Canada may be put on the same
footing as the American states.
Mind For the Big Things.
One of Mr.. Rhodes most intimate
associates said to a representative Of
the Associated Press.
He drew up his will in the same
spirit in which he approached all great
Undertakings. In his most important
tasks he merely sketched the outlines
and left us to fiji in the details. His
trustees are given power. In the mat
ter of the scholarships Mr.. Rhodes
saw the scheme was 50 vast that any
attempt to too rigidly lay down the
lines might result in harm. SO. beyond
endeavOring TO meet the legal require
ments he tried to leave the ful6llment
of his plans TO those with whom, dur
ing his lifetime he had frequently dis
cUssed them"
Regarding the American requests.
the same authority said.
IN offering Americans and Germans
inducements to go to Oxford Mr..
Rhodes had dual aim. First, putting
the youth of England in intimate touch
with what he termed the two most
progressive nations of the world, SO
that they might be brOadened and
spurTed 10 more strenuous efforts; sec
ondly, bringing the best specimens Of
Americans and Germans on such terms
with the English people and customs
that they might become missionaries
of a better international understand
ing"
When the trustees can meet and all
the preliminary details are settled,
request will be made TO several prom
inent Americans to form a committee
to sit in conjunction with the Eng
lish body and assume certain respOn-
sibiIities. for which the executors are
palpably united both by absence
from the United States and ignorance
of its customs.
Call it Caesars VIII.
The afternoon papers all devote
lengthy editorials to the Caesar viii,
as it is termed. The Globe. referring
to Mr.. Rhodes hope Of friendship be-
tween Great Britain. the United States
and Germany. says:
I'VE only hope that these noble as
piratiOns may be realized in their en-
tirety England has done her part and
there 1. -ly remains the hope that fu-
ture German educators may be among
Mr.. Rhodes oxford students, and so
gain a knowledge Of England, now so
/ lacking"
The St. James Gazette, referring to
the limitations that the best young
Americans viii be drawn 20 Oxford,
says:
I'VE heartily hope so and, from no
other desire than that oxford should
equip them TO be profitable servants
Of their motherland. We welcome
them"
The Westminster Gazette says it be
Iieves the incursiOn Of Americans, Ger
mans and colonials ought TO bring new
life and new ideas to Oxford adding:
eve hope the university viii well
come ii and prepare to meet II IN
cordial spirit Whether it will nave a
uniforming effect on the empire and
promote the good relations with Amer
lea and Germany, which Mr. Rhodes
desired. viii depend largely on the
spirit in which the university rises 70
the occasion. and its abiity 10 meet
the wants of these students.
The Pail Mall Gazette. referring TO
the American bequtst as the great tea-
ture of the wilh says;
"A more remarkable provision Tor
bringing the two great Enslish-speah-
ing powers of the world into closer
touch was never before dreamed or.
The great American nation cannot fan
to be deeply touched by this splendid
bid for its friendship made Dy the