The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-17
GIVES ALL TO WIFE
HARRIMAN's WILL FILED AT
 GOSHEN.
RafI Hfagnate Also Names Wife As Exeeutrfx in Instrument Made Five Years Ago--Has No
 Restrfcff0ns.

New York, Sept. ls-A hundred brief words, weighed each with approximate ly Sl,oo0,0O0 and containing in their entirety the last testament of B. H. Hartman, make his widow, Mary Av- ereli Hartman, one of the wealth- fest women in the world.
 It fs perhaps the briefest-wfff on record for the dispositisa~ of an estate of such magnitude,< <<Ail his property Is left to Mrs. Hefriman.
 Wall Street estimates that Mrs Har- riman will Inherit in realty and per- sonai prop<fty between t75.o00.ooo and e100. .0o0, ,oG0. MT. Harriman's private fortunsis supposed to have been great CT than this by many millions. but there Is reason to believe that his uH- married daughter. and Carol. his mar ried daughter, Mrs. Robert Livingston Gerry, and his two sons, William Aver- oil and Roland, a boy of IA. togethNF with his surviving sister. Mrs Slnt- mons, and other relatives, have all Neen substantially provided for h gifts out of hand and trust funds set aside by Mir. Hartman during hls lifetime.
 The will fs dated June 6. 1903, and is witnessed by Charles A. Peabody. pres tient of the Mutual Life Insurance Company, who drew 1t. and c. c. Te- xetiso6. Wr. Peabody was Mir. Hsrfi- mans close personal friend sssA was sfe6aasfkly caller Ht AE9en heuse dti- ring hie last siinssss He fe1induished . law practice commonly estimated as worth s100,000 year. to assume. at Q smaller salary. the executive direction of a company.in which Mir. Hartman was heavily interested.
 Mrs. Hartman was Miss Mary Aver ell, daughter of W--J. Averell, veal thy banker of Rochester. N. r., who made his money in the Rome. Watsr- town and ogdensburg Railroad Com pAny. She brought her husband fnan- cial aid in his early struggles in the market when cid was most valuable to him. He never needed 1t again. for his administrative ability soon won the support of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, the National City Bank and the DOW erful Standard oil clique.
 After the first six years of married life--Mr. Hartman was married in 1s7a Lit has always been said, were years of ideal happiness.
 On Mrs. Harriman's shoulders will now rest the management of the 43,ooo acres of wood land. pasture land and fertile black bottoms in the Ramapo Valley and on the steep sides of Tower Hill: the completion of the great house on which it's master had already law isined S2,600.0 without living to see 1t finished; and those plans of public ben
 
 tions-which 1t is known that Mir. [. Hartman cherished, though he mak es no mention of them in his will. If the estate measures up to expectations, MrA Hartman. according to estimates here. is the wealthiest woman in the world.
 Mrs Hetty Green's holdings have been estimated at e4o,000. .0o0; those of Mrs. Frederick Courtland Penfield. who UAtmlaRFnan Af phfIn Aalnht0 at 2so.oo0,o00; and those of Mrs. Rus sell Sage at a like amount. The will was filed today. with the Surrogate Court of Orange County, N. Y, at Goshen. The estate win not be appraised until Mrs. Harriman, in due course of law. as sole executrix. peti- tions for an appraiser. Not until his appointment by the court will there be an offaciaI valuation of the estate. It was pointed out at Goshen today that by making no bequeSts to chill dren or relatives, Mir. Hartman avoid ed the large share of the enormous in heritance tax which. under the laws oi l the State of New York. would other wise be imposed.
 Mrs. Harrtman's dover rights are Aytbject to no tax whatever, and the remaining two-thirds of the estate to 6 | tax of only one per cent. as against . | graded classification under the inner. ! itance tax law which In some instauces runs to five per cent.
 Orange County is the home of mil. lionaires. and the county clerks flet hold many important wills. That oi | James H (Silent) Smith. for example which disposed of t25.Ooo, 900. represent. | ed an inheritance tax of e92S, .65 | the largest on record at Goshen. Following the filing of the will, Mrs | Hartman hled a memorandum. quail. | flying as executrix.