New-York tribune., 1909-09-16
FORTUNE TO THE BLIND
Mss T.. Il. LORD PENSIONS
ENGLISH SUFFERERS.
.4mericdn U'Oman Who Died 4brOad
also Prouides for Mang
Charities.

BY the will of Edith Rebecca Lord. daughter
OF the late John Taylor Lord. who was at one
time member of the drygoods firm of Lord &
Taylor. filed yesterday not only are many blind
persons and institutions for the blind here ana
abroad provided for, but there is clause by
which the income from the residuary estate
shall be paid Ia blind English men and women
in pensions of 10 shillings a week each
These persons must have become blind after
their twenty eighth year and must be over
thirty-fve years of age. They must he of good
character, and never have begged in the streets
or other public places They may he married
or single and may come from any part of Eng
land. and the committee of the fund. which shall
be known as the Edith and Norman Lord Pen
sons,' shall allot the pensions t" the most de-
serving cases
Miss Lord died an July AZ Zehlendorf. GER
many. She lived in Cannes, France but had a
residence here, and by the will disposed of her
property in this country. She executed will
according IN French law disposing Of her prop
erty in France
The petition for probate made on behalf
of Rowland Edmund Prothero. barrister- at-law.
of London, and Jessie Giles Cammack. Of
Aberdeenshire, Scotland. the executor and ex-
ecutrix and trustees named in the will The
value of Miss Lords estate in France was not
stated but her personal property here is esti-
mated at 100000. After dispo-inG Of various
sums and mementos 10 relatives and friends.
Miss Lord makes these bequests:
To Miss Reatrice Taylor, $500 70 be used by
her i'm her discretion for the blind branch Of
the Sunbeam Mission. and 20 Mile des Varan-
mis- a like sum. 10 be used I'm her discretion in
helping 10 distribute the journal Iustre dos
Anmaux" among French schools The follow
ing persons, all blind. get requests:
500: Miss Daisy Hapgood s25o: Miss Gertie
Hicks. $3.50; James Ryan. s125; Harry Tread
gold s125; Mrs. Jane TregeHis Sl25. Miss
Mary Popplewell. sl25; Daniel Iitten, Sl25. and
Mrs. Bunce. s125
To Laura Reeves q nurse "for having nursed
my dear mother so devotedly in her last Illness -
she leaves $500. and 10 Bessie Clarke another
nurse. for her kindness to my dear mother in
her last Illness" $3.50 Her mothers maid.
Erminia Forni receives sjn0 and Miss Lord $
faithful Chinaman," Yon Kce. OF Santa Bar
bara, Cal, $500
Miss Lord leaves 5000 to the trustees Of the
Gardner Trust for the Blind No s3 Victoria
street, Westminster. London the income 10 be
used in providing a yearly dinner. concert and
tea and presents 20 two hundred blind people
on October Is. and 90 be called "the Norman
Lord dinner
Tho First Church of Christ. Scientist. FAlnden.
and The Christian Science Reading noon1 Santa
barbara Cat. which Miss Lord founded in
memory az her brother. each get $1,000 These
get $500 each: The British and FOREIGN Blind
Association, London; the School FOR the Indi-
gent Blind. Surrey. England and the Friends
OF Armenia, London. The Association Valen-
tine Hauy. Paris; the Mother Superior OF
Les seurs Aveugles de ST. Paul. Paris: the
Vegetarian Federal Union. London: the Incor-
porated National Lending Library FOR the Blind.
London each S1.oo; the Sunny Bank Hospital.
Cannes, $4,000; the Sailors Reading Room.
Cannes. si.ccc; the Gibraltar Mission, Cannes,
$1,000. and smaller sums 10 institutions in
Cannes.
Among the benefciaries under the will are the
Princess Cantacuzene, Mrs. Augusta Childo
Pemberton. Mrs. Mary Scrase Dickens and the
Countess Marguerite de Canclaux