The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-03
MANY PUBLIC REQUESTS
 BY CHARLES I. YERKES
INCOME OF $1OO,O GOO FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF
 CHICAGO.

To be Used for the Maintenance of the
 Yerkes Observatory -- $75O,OOO to
 Maintain His Art Gallery After the
 Death of His Wife-The Latter Who
 Was Estranged From Him We'll Pro-
 vided For as Also Son and Daughter
 Hospital Provided For--Servants
 Also Remembered.
 New York, Jan. 2.--In his will, read to-day by Clarence A. Knight, his at torney, the late Charles T. Yerkes makes many public bequests including $1OO,O00 in trust, the income to be paid to the University of Chicago for the maintenance of the Yerkes observatory at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Provis- ions are made for the disposal of his New York home, after the death of his wife, to corporation organized for the maintenance of his art gallery, the sum of $750,000 to be given this project upon Mrs. Yerkes' death. MT. Yerkes also provides for 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 to-day, and they expressed entire satisfaction with its provisions. An epitome follows:
 Fifteen thousand dollars to Green wood cemetery.
 Two hundred thousand dollars to Mary Adelaide Yerkes, his wife, togeth- CT with the residence at the corner of Sixty-eighth street and Fifth avenue, with all the paintings and works of art, statuary, bronzes, tapestries and bric-a- hrac therein contained, and all other paintings, works of art, statuary, bronzes, tapestries and bric-a-brac that may be located elsewhere, which are to be placed in the house and galleries. Mrs. Yerkes was estranged from her husband.
 Upon the death of his wife the prem ises, works of art, etc., are 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. Five 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 oth- CT four to be designated by the Metro politan 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 estate set aside for his wife, the sum of $750,00O in cash for the maintenance Of such galleries.
 Two hundred thousand dollars to Charles E. Yerkes, son; and 1t is pro- vided that he is given the right to dis pose, by will, of $3oO, 900 of the estate.
 Two hundred thousand dollars to Bes- sic L. Rondinella, daughter; and it Is provided that she Is given the right to dispose, by will, of $3OO0Oo of the estate.
 One hundred thousand dollars in trust for Ethel Link Yerkes, daughter of his nephew, Clarence Yerkes, the in- come to be paid to Ethel Link Yerkes; upon her death said $1OOOOO to become part of the resduary estate, if she leaves no children.
 Louis S. owsley, of Chicago, $5,oOO.
 Arnold Held, $5,OO0; and to every household servant in. his employ for 8 period of four years preceding his death, the sum of $2000.
 The income of $5O,000 left in trust to be paid to Emma w. Weaver; upon her death the $50,000 to become a part of the residuary estate.