The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-02
LEFT A FORTUNE TO CHARITY.
MRS. CAsSILEY'S WILL GIVES
AWAY MORE THAN $1,000 900.

or This some 5000, 900 Is Left In Direct
Requests OF GIT Edged Stocks Two
servants Each Get o shares OF
Railway stock Hospitals Beneft.
More than 5000 o goes directly to charity
by the will of Mrs. Mary L. Cassidy, who
died about two weeks ago. The will was
fled for probate in the S~urrogates' ofaoe
yesterday. 1t is a lengthy document, and
Ia unusual from the fact that the testatrix
made all her requests in stocks and securi-
ties. and not, as ia usual, in cash. Mrs.
Cassidy lived at II East Forty-seventh
street. She was the widow Of Charles p.
Cassidy and the daughter OF Rensselaer, W..
! Lee.
The will and the accompanying petition
we're fled by the executor. Lewis c asa
Ledyard. Mrs. Cassidy was a generous
giver in her lifetime, and supported many
charitable institutions connected with the
Protestant Episcopal Church. The be-
quests in the will are as follows:
To the Society Of the Lying-In Hospital,
$50 shares Of Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul preferred. worth aoqprding to Mr..
Ledyard's estimate $50, Os2; to the Home
Il " 1lCuLabiCEt Vi BNhbciN aShhOW Acok
OF the wise counsel and advice Of my friend
William II. Phillips $50 shares OF Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul preferred, worth
$50 ,O82; to st. James Protestant Episcopal
Church, 100 shares Of Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western, worth S5l ,225, the
income to be devoted to religious and chari-
table work; to the New York Society for the
! Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, 800
| Gha INC IF nola Uara IA CEa M nna anA Waaf-
ern, worth si5s, SIS; to the Auxiliary Society
! Of the Association of Wording Girls So
cieties, COO shares Of Southern and Atlantic
Telegraph Company stock, worth sl4.SOs;
to the Children's Home, Cincinnati, 5s4
shares of Cincinnati Street Railway Com
pany stock, worth SAL ga; to the trustees
Of the fund for the Relief of Widows and
Orphans of Deceased Clergymen and Aged
and Inirm and Disabled ~Clergymen of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, 600 shares OF
Pennsylvania Railroad stock, worth s4l 900;
to the Young Women's Christian Associa-
ton of New York city. $50 shares of Penn
~sylvania, worth s3l 900; to the Protestant
Home for the Friendless and Foundlings
Of Cincinnati, 200 shares Of stock of the
First National Bank of Cincinnati, worth
10000; 10 the Episcopal Society, Christ
Church, Cincinnati. 300 shares of the same
stock, worth SIS 900, the income to be used
in missionary wor :.
There are severa! requests to friends
and relatives, nearly Ill in stocks, and
several of Mrs. Cassilly's servants are
similarly remembered. One of the legatees
is Anna L. Kirk Of the Villa Rossi, Florence.
who is a sister Of the testatrix. Two Of
the servants, Mary and Margaret Brennan,
get 100 shares each Of Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, Chicago and st. Louis Railway Com
pany stock.
The house in Forty-seventh street where
Mrs. Cassidy lived, with it's contents, goes to
her niece and nephew Mary Longw orth Stet-
linus Perkins and Harry Stcttinus. After the
requests TO relatives and to charity the resid-
nary estate goes 10 he Society of the
L~ying-in Hospital. the Home for IncIrables
and the Society for the Relief Of Ruptured
and Crippled in equal shares. IT is said
that this residuary estate will probably
amount to several hundred thousands of
I dollars