The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-07
ASTOR'S WILL
 MADE PUBLIC
ESTATE VALUED AT St5o,oOO 900. OF WHICH WIFE GETS
 FIVE MILLION.
Vincent Astor Is the Principal Benefi clary Of Will and the Younu Widow Loses Share If She
 Dies or Remarries.

New York, May 6.-Counsel for the family made public tonight the will of John Jacob Astor as drawn in this city in September last. only .s,v days after his marriage to Miss Made line Talmadge Force and approximate ly seven months before he perishcd with the sinking of the Titanic.
 1 Vincent Astor, a son, who will come to age within the year, is made the principal beneficiary and residuary legatee.
 No hint as to the value of the great estate is given and by the creation of trust funds, the testator has follow cd as far as possible the custom of his forbears in keeping the vast Astor real estate holdings intact. Valua- tions of the estate run anywhere from $75,0O000O to $15O,OOOOOO A close friend of the family said tonight the smaller figure, in his opinion, is nearer the correct estimate.
 Aside from provisions for Vincent Astor, the will provides for uncondL tional bequests of only S276,50O Among these there is but one of charitable nature This is $30,000 to St. Paurs School at Concord, N. H. The remainder of the legacies are to relatives, friends and faithful ser wants Nearly all other provisions of the will as made public deal with $5,000,000 for the young widow, $5,. 000,00 for the colonel's young daugh, ter, Muriel, the child of his former wife, $3,000I000 for the expected post humous child of the present widow. This latter clause provides for leach child who shall survive the testator other than his son, William Vincent and his daughter, Ava Alice Muriel 2
 No provision is made for the wife who divorced him; and if the young widow dies or marries again the $5,- 000,000 trust fund, together with the town house and other property left to her, reverts to Vincent Astor She receives, however, $100,OOO outright, without further stipulation, and un- til the income from the trust fund shall become available, the trustees are directed to pay her an incomeoi S200,000 year There was an ante nuptial settlement which she accept ed in flew of dover rights The amount was never made public Ru- mors have placed it at S5,O00,000
 The colonel gives the trustees mi mute directions concerning making in- vestments, following almost word for word instructions of similar nature left by his father, William Astor. All bequests are made tax free, the taxes to be paid out of the residuary estats As to proper investments, he cites, among other things. real estate, rail road security and the public debt of the United States New York, New ter sey, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
 Nicholas Riddle of Philadelphia, who went to Halifax, with Vincent Astor to claim Colonel Astor's body receives a legacy of s2O,O00; Robert H. M Ferguson a close friend and trustee of his fathers estate and now living in Silver City, N. M, gets $10.000; Douglas Robinson, a brother in-law of Theodore Roosevelt, is be- queathed $20,000, and a similar sum goes to the testator's brother-n-law, James Roosevelt Roosevelt, of this city. James s. Armstrong of Rhine- beck, N. Y., a cousin, is bequeathed $30,000 sum which Colonel Astor's father also left him. Other bequests are $25,0OO to his secretary, William A. Dobbin, of this city. in recogni- ton of faithful services $t0,00O to his steward, Thomas Hedea, and s10,- GOO to Herbert A. Pinkham, superin- tendent of his country place al Rhiuo- beck.
 The executors are directed 10 pay the New York Yacht club $l,500 q year until Vincent Astor shall be- come of age, this sum to be used by the club for the purchase of two sou venir cups to be sailed for by she I yachts of the New Yorh Yacht club , at Newport during the annual cruise. a It is suggested further that Vincent r Astor having arrived at age, shall F continue to offer these prizes, thus :. perpetuating the famous Astor cup.