New-York tribune., 1911-11-14
Names Trustees for Newspapers,
but Puts Control Eventually
in Hands of Sons.
MUSEUM GETS S500,000
Document, Which Is To Be Filed
To- day, Ratifies Plans for
School Of Journalism-Pro-
vides for Scholarships.


be- filed in tho Surrogate's Office to-day.
were given ont last night. Several
codicis are attached 20 tho original IN
strument. which bears the date of April
rs 1904. and the testator's personal
counsel William b. Hornbower was en-
gagged ir drawing M NV Will when
Mr. Pulitzer died
BY the terms Of the dispositions MADE
by Mr.. Pulitzer public bequests amount
ing TO more than $2,OOO.000 are made.
which include S1.OOO.O00 to Columbia
University for the establishment OF
school OF journalism, S25OpO as the
Pulitzer Scholarship Fund and So"o'-
600 to the Metropolitan Museum OF Art.
Mr. Pulitzer also remembered lberaily
several of his newspaper and personal
employees. The capital stock OF the two
newspapers owned by him, THE WorldT
and Tho st. Louis Post-Dispatch, are
left in trust for his sons and their male
issue during the lives Of the two young
est sons. Mr.. Pulitzer set forth the pur-
pose of this trust, particularly as to The
World" In a codlcil dated in 190o In
which he said:
particularly enjoin upon my sons
and my descendants the duty OF preserV-
ing perfectng and perpetuatng Ihe
World" newspaper, 10 the maintenance
and publishing Of which nave sacrllceu
my health and strength, in the same spirit
in which | have striven 10 create ana con-
duct IL as a public institution. from mo-
tives higher than mere gain. II having
been my desire that IL should be AT ALI
times conducted in 4 spirit or lndepen-
dence and with a view to inculcating hlgh
standards and public spirit among inc
people and their official representatives.,
and il IS my earnest wish that said news
paper shall hereafter be conducted upon
the same principles.
Mr. Pulitzer failed to name as trustee
his eldest son, Ralph Pulitzer, recently
elected president OF the Press Publishing
Company c'The World') as one Of the
trustees Of his estate, naming his second
son. Joseph, when he shall reach the age
Of thirty. and his youngest son. Herbert
when ne shall reach the age Of twenty
one.
Names Trustees for Papers.
In the mean time trustees are desig-
mated of the stock of the TWO neWspa-
pers, subject 70 declination or death.
One of those named was Justice Charles
Y. Hughes, OF the United States Supreme
Court who had to decline on account OF
his judicial duties Justice Harrington
Putnam OF the Supreme Court, is named
i'm his place The others are George l..
Rives, ]. Angus shaw treasurer OF the
Press Publishing Company; Frederick y.
Judson. of 81. Louis, and Robert Weeks
de Forest as alternate trustee.
Ralph Pulitzer made a statement last
night in which he said the omission from
his fathers will Of his name as one or
the trustees was not due to any lack OF
confidence in him, but was due to an
inadvertence. His statement follows:
one of the terms OF my fathers viii
demands an explanation . ...t.
He left his estate, including the stock
York World" and The 81. Louis P0st-Dls1
patch" in trust, with the knowledge an"
approval Of his family ,..,..
| His Will designates my younger Drother,
Ioseph as one OF the trustees when ne
shall reach the age or tnlfty, anu NY
Youngest brother, Herbert, as one or tne
trustees when he shall have reached INC
Rut his viii. as IL stands. fails 10 name
me as executor or trustee, now or az any
future time. The only possloie lhiesehcs
20 Ice drawn from this omission or my
name II left unexplained would DE laSA
of confidence in me on his part
Therefore, IN justice 10 my tatneI -
well as 10 my own reputAIioHn' di.S 10 tbs
conviction that he had designated me IN hIs
will. not only as one Of the guardians OF
my brother Herbert but as one or the eA-
ecutors and trustees OF his estate.
having stood in his will and codicils Tor
many years az executor and trustee nap
pened inadvertently TO be omitted. -
/ prefer to quote q letter written me oy
William Il Hornblower, the eminent lawyer
who drafted the codicil in the copying OF
which my name slipped out, ana VINO was
working on new VIII win my isun't isa ~, n0s
NOT only what my father believed his VIII
to contain, but what he wished IL ~ Gaor
tain
Mr. Hornblowers letter follows:
Hornblower, Miller & Potter.
= D'o'0 - New York. Nov. s. 1911.
Ralph Pulitzer, Esq. - tus,,ca "a
vourself | wish to state 20 you that IN my
last conference with your father, ABOUT
ten days before his death he talked 10 me
of Won on the evident assumption that you
were named as one OF his executors ana
trustees under his existing viii ana COOL
ellis As you know, l was requested Dy Hlnl
last month To prepare an entirety new
Will 10 harmonize and embody the pro-
visions OF his will of 1904. which was IN
force at the time Of his death, ana the SUD
scquent codicils thereto, eliminating those
portions that had been revoked from tlne
Ia time by the codicils, and amending the
will i'm Various particulars. In lnslructlnS
me a. 10 the preparation OF TINS new VIII;
he named YOU az one of the executors ana
trustees, your brother Joseph, when ne
should arrive at the age OF thirty years,
ard your brother Herbert, when he should
arrive at the age OF twenty-one years. IN
preraring the draft VIII ! inserted your
NAM. in accordance with his instructione.
The draft will was never completed o.
submitted to him i'm shape for execution.
It was i'm his possession az the time OF
his sudden and unexpected death while
absent on mis- yacht. and was received back
by me after his death uneXecuted
Name in Will OF 1904.
You were named as an executor and
trustee In the Will OF 1894 In March, lse
he executed a cOdicil TO the will OF lS)i
which revoked several previous codcils TO