The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1911-11-23
PULITzER'S Will
GIFT FOR JOURNALISTIC SCHOOL
is RATIFIED IN WILL FILED
FOR PROBATE TODAY.
NEWSPAPERS TO His SONS
Million Will Go to Harvard II Column
bia Fails to Fulfill Conditions
Many Institutions Are
Remembered.

New York, n. Y.-The terms OF
been filed for probate were made pub
lie. Its conspicuous features are the
Columbia university for the establish
ment of a school of journalism and
also the ratification Of an additional
81, 900, 900 for the same purpose, sub
ject to certain conditions, which, if not
complied with by Columbia before the
amount is paid over, will result in the
sum going to Harvard university, one
half OF it for a school of journalism
and one-half for many unusual prizes
and scholarships as set forth in the
will.
The document sets forth a large
number Of interesting requests not
previously known. Among these is
$250,000 for a scholarship fund at Co.
lumbia university; $500,C00 to the Met
ropolitan Museum of Art; $500, 900 to
the Philharmonic society of New York;
100000 to Mr.. Pulitzer's faithful va
let, Jabez Cunningham; 100000 to be
distributed by the executors among his
personal secretaries, readers and cOm-
panions and certain editorial writer's
on the New York World; $4,000 for
the erection of a fountain in Central
park and $4,000 for the erection of a
statue of Thomas Jefferson in New
York city.
The capital stock of his two news
papers, the New York World and the
st. Louis Post Dispatch, are left in
trust for his sons and their male issue
during the lives of the two younger
sons.
The trustees of the stock of the two
newspapers are recommended as
George L. Rives, president of the board
of trustees of Columbia university;
Charles f. Hughes, justice of the Unit
ed States supreme court, who has ex-
pressed his intention not to accept,
owing to his public duties; Harrington
Putnam, justice of the supreme court
of New York state, to take the place
Of Justice Hughes in case the latter
resigns; Frederick n. Judson of ST.
Louis, and ]. Angus Shaw of New
York.
The will was executed in April. 1904,
with several later terms in codicil. In
addition to the provisions for the sons,
Mrs. Pulitzer is given the income Of
a fund of $4,000, 900, and two daugh-
tiers are provided for by an income of
a fund of s1,50O,O0
The income of a million dollars is
set aside for the perpetuation of schol-
arships at Barnard college. which Mr..
memory of his daughter, Lucille.
If at any time within seven years
after the death of Mr.. Pulitzer the
executors shall be satisfied that the
school of journalism established at Co.
lumbia is a success, it is directed that
Mr.. Pulitzer's additional gift of a mil
lion dollars be paid over and in this
connection the will outlines a number
of novel annual prizes to be awarded
annually, including:
Some Novel Prizes.
$1,000 for the best paper on the fu-
ture development and improvement of
the school of journalism; gold medals
costing $500 for the most disinterest-
ed and meritorious service rendered
by any American newspaper; 81, 900
for the best history of the servIo
rendered to the public by the Ameri-
can press; five annual travelling schol-
arships of $1,000 each; $1,000 for the
best example of a reporters work dur,
ing the year; $1,000 for the Ameri,
can novel which shall best present the
wholesome atmosphere of American
life; $4,000 for the best book of the
year upon the history of the United
States; $1,000 for the original play
performed in New York which shall
best present the educational value and
power of the state in raising the stand
ard of good morals, taste, and man.
ners.