The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-03
Yerkes viii Is an Unusually
Elaborate Document.
Bulk Of Estate Is Left to His
Family.
HIS PUBLIC REQUESTS
Include Chicago University and
an Art Gallery.
His Widow Is Made One of the
Executors.
lis PUBLIC REQUESTS

New York. Jan. 3.-In his will. read
by Clarence A. Knight. his attorney.
the late Charles Z. Yerkes makes many
public requests, including 100000 in
trust, the income to be paid to the
University of Chicago for the main
tenance of the Yerkes observatory at
Lake Geneva, Wis. Provisions are
made for the disposal of his New York
home, after the death of his wife, to
a corporation organized for the main
tenance of his art gallery, the sum of
S750,OO0 to be given this project upon
Mrs. Yerkes' death. Mr.. Yerkes also
provides for a hospital to be erected in
New York. His widow, son and others
are provided for. The will was read
to the members of his family and they
expressed entire satisfaction with it's
provisions. An epitome follows:
To Greenwood cemetery, $4,000: to
Mary Adelaide Yerkes, his wife, 100000
and the homestead at the corner OF
Sixty eighth street and Fifth avenue
together with all the paintings and
works of art, statuary, bronzes, tapes
tries and bric-a-brac there and else
where. Upon the death of his wife the
premises, works of art, etc, to go to a
corporation to be organized under the
laws of the state of New York for the
maintenance and preservation of an art
gallery on the premises, which is given
to said corporation. rive trustees are
to be appointed to control what shall
be known as the Yerkes galleries, one
to be the mayor of New York and the
other four to be designated by the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art Upon the
death OF his wife the trustees are to
pay over to the directors of the Yerkes
galleries out of the One-half of the es-
tate set aside for his wife, the sum of
$l5O,0O0 in cash for the maintenance of
such galleries. To Charles e Yerkes
his son. 100000; also provided that son,
Charles, can by will dispose of 100000
of the estate.
To Bessie L. RondineIla, daughter,
soc, 600, also provided that Bessie L.
ROndinella can dispose of by will $780,
600 of the estate. To Ethel Link Yerkes,
Yerkes, 100000 in trust.
To Louis S. Owsley, of Chicago, Ill.
$4,000.
To various relatives the income OF
sums from $4,000 to $4,000.
To the University of Chicago $780,
600 in trust, the income to be used for
care and maintenance of the Yerlxes
located at Lake Geneva,
Wis. frr. 81
The remainder of the estate to be
invested and divided into four equal
shares, the income from two of the
shares to be paid to Mrs. Yerkes dur
ing her Lifetime. His son, Charles E.
YeTkeS, and his daughter, Bessie L.
Rondinella, during their lifetime, re-
ceive the income of the other two
shares.
On the death of Mrs. Yerkes, the
will provides for a hospital in New
York city to be known as the Yerkes
hospital, the aggregate cost of the
ground and buildings not to exceed
$500, 600. He directs that the hospital
shall be open for the public without
regard to creed, race or color, and any
patient received or admitted whose
financial means are not such as to en~
able the patient to pay for the neceS-
sary treatment shall be treated free.
Provisions are made for the mainten-
ance of the Yerkes hospital from the
remainder of the portion of the estate
going to Mrs. Yerkes and from the
part going to his son, Charles E.
Y erkes, the latter's snare going TO the
hospital if he dies without issue, and
at any rate, after the children have
reached the age of q, less the $780,
600 which Charles E. Yerkes is au-
thorized to devise by will.
In case his wife should notify the
trustees that she desires to relinquish
her right to use the premises at Sixty
eighth street and Fifth avenue as
home, then the trustees are directed to
nav to the Yerkes galleries 100000 per
wife and children under the fifteenth
paragraph of his Will.
1t is provided that the provisions
hereinbefore made to his wife are in
lieu of dover.
Appoints as trustees under his will
Central Trust company of New York,
III case that it refused to accept then
the Illinois Trust and Savings bank of
Illinois is made trustee.
Appoints his wife, Mary Adelaide
YerEes. Louis s. OWsler and the Hill
nois Trust and Savings bank as execu-
tors. and declares that his home is in
the state of Illinois.
January u, 1905 in London and was
witnessed by. Walter Abbott, c. S.
Louch and Francis E. Vonillor of Lon
don. It was witnessed May %, 1905,
in New York by Frank K. Waller and
Clarence A. Knight.
The will is a document of about
s, 900 words.
REGISTRATION IS GOING ON.