The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-07
AST0R TIES UP
 GREAT ESTATE
trust of s, ,OOO, 1000 For Widow Which Reverts in Case of
 Death or Remarriage
s3,OOO,OOO FOR HER CHILD
Nothing For Woman Who Divorced
 Him and Nothing For Charity Son Vincent the Chief Beneficiary.

Nothing For Woman Who Divorced
 Him and Nothing For Charity
 Son Vincent the Chief Beneficiary.
 New York, May An abstract of the will of the late John Jacob Astor, who perished when the Titanic sank, is made public by the law firm of Carter, Ledyard & Milburn It con tained no indication of the value of the estate, which is estimated from SIS, ,O00. .0O0 to $15O. GOO, 900. .
 William Vincent Astor, John Jacob Astor's twenty-year- old son, Is the principal benificiary under the will. Most of Col. Astor's great realty hold ings are left to him in the trustee ship of James Roosevelt, Nicholas Riddle, and Douglas Robinson. The .ne6ahead o1 the house .Of Astor will become one of his own trustees when he attains his majority.4 In addition ito the property thus left to him. he sreceives also great deal of realty outright Much of this is property which was left in trust to his father, and as to which a continuing trust would not have been valid under the law against entails.
 Mrs. Madeline T. Force Astor is made the beneficiary of a $5,000,000 trust fund, the income of which she will receive for life or until remar- riage, as well as the Colonel's town house and stable and their contents. In the event of her death or remar- riage the principal of the trust fund, and the town house and stable will revert to Vincent Astor. Pending the establishment, of the trust fund, the rected to pay her an income of $200,- coo a year The will also provided for a payment of $10O,O0O to- her immed- iiately upon his death.
 The abstract of the will given out last night did not mention Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, the Coloners first wife, who divorced him. It provided, how ever, that his daughter, Ava Alice Muriel Astor, a child of his first mar s1iage, who Is in her mothers custody, fshould receive $5.O00, 900 in trust until tller majority. with the power to dis 1pose of the principal in her will When she reaches the age of M years, the ,riH provides that she shall receive the $5.000.0OO and its accommodations outright a..-~ -f.~>
 A. beduest of $s,ooopoo under similar conditions is made for any child who liam Vincent and Muriel. This pro- vision will operate for the benefit of the. posthumous child expected in the Astor family. fss e.s.cs 1s-f.sss ss.a
 Tie will was made in this city on Sept IS last. nine days after Col was witnessed by Lewis Gass Led- yard, Philip c. Browne and John F. Kane James Roosevelt. Douglas Rob- fnson and Nicholas Riddle are named as executors. MT. Riddle was one of the trustees under the will of William to receive $2o0o0 outright as a special be0ueSt.
 d6l Astor's will contained but one pubk1c bequest. that of $30, 900 to St. left t25,ooO to his secretary, William A Dobbyn of this city for faithful services: $lo.o0o to his steward, Thorn as Hade of this city, fos faithful ser- vices; $10.0OO to Herbert A. Pinkham. superintendent of his country home 900 to his cousin, James s. Armstrong of Rhinebeck. and $1O,O0o to his friend Robert H. M. Ferguson of Silver City, New Mexico.
 The will reveals the system under which the Astor estate is kept intact eration. Each generation has fam fly head. This family head holds property of two classes, property held in trust and property which is held outright because the law forbids en- tailments. The family head makes a
 
 outright to his son and the property held outright in trust. Each alter nate block of property is held in trust. the rest held outright, as the property changes hands. In the abstract of the-Wul given out last night Col. As- tor >1ef to his son outright these prop
 |. Ali the lands and personal prop- erty at Rhinebeck, N- Y., over which he was given the power of appoint riaent in his fathers will.
 2- All the lands and property at Rhinebeck which belonged to him out right at the time of his death. (An exception to the rule not explained )
 8 The house and property at New port, R. l., with all the. personal prop erty therein over which he had a pow CT of appointment under his fathers will
 4 All the pictures and statuary ler: to him for life by his fathers will with the power of appointment.
 k5 All of his jewelry. wearing ap- parel, personal effects, yachts and boats.
 The trusteeship under which Vincent Astor will receive the income of his eather's great realty holding extends fo nearly all the remainder of the As- tor real estate.