The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-09
Astor Heir May :. :.
 Live With Mother
Will Visit Parent in England This Summer. and She Will
 Return With Him ? .s-.
HIS HARD WORK BEGINS
Already Trying to. Learn Details o the Management of Vast
 Estate

New York, May 9.-Vincent Astor, heir of the millions of his ancestors, devoted himself yesterday to learning details of the management of the great estate which he is to control through the will of his father, Colonel John Jacob Astor
 That he expects to be very busy for the next few months became evil dent when the announcement was made that this summer he will have vacation of several weeks which he will spend in Europe travelling with his mother, Mrs. Ava. Willing Astor, or Mrs. John AstOr, as she is desig- mated by members of her family. She left London hurriedly on hearing of the sinking of the Titanic. Within a few days she will return to England, where she has been making her home, and when he is able to do so she will be joined there by her son.
 Young MT. Astor will return to this country with his mother. What the intentions of Mrs. Ava Willing Astor are could not be learned, but it is probable she will spend part of the year at least in New York. She is now at the Ritz-Carlton, where she is visited by her son. Rumor has it that she may be married to Mons. Maurice Rostand, the talented son of Sl, of age, but this is hardly credited by any of her friends here
 It is generally believed by those who know her we'll that if she mar ries again she would be more likely to accept Lord Curzon, as there have been frequent rumors of such an en- gagement.
 May Not Go Back to Harvard.
 Vincent Astor in all probability will m v~0fr ko IT where he is a freshman. It is diff cult, however, for him to decide now, and 1t will not be known for months possibly whether he can look after the duties which will devolve upon him and attend to academic studies.
 He will be twenty-one years old on November 15 next, and at that time will come into absolute control of the bulk of the fortune of his father. It was not possible for his father by will to direct how much of this prop erty should be disposed of by his son, as the law does not contemplate that such disposition can be carried be- yond two lives in being.
 Until the time when he enters up- on the direction of the estate, he will De represented by a guardian for the appointment of whom an application will probably be made today or by the end of the week. It is under SIOO0 tAdL. lIo S6TV1C6S or a. IruSI company will be called into requisi- tion to provide a legal guardian, both for him and his sister, Muriel, who is now ten years of age.
 Vincent Astor cannot make a will disposing of realty, until he has reached his majority, although the law gives to minors the authority to dispose of personal property at the age of eighteen.
 Henry Wollman, a we'll known law yer, and an authority on wills, when asked last evening concerning the present status of the estate, said that Tn the event of the death of the prin- cipal beneficiary before he was of age his mother and sister would share in such property as could be controlled by the chief beneficiary. Not, until Vincent Astor is of age has he the authority to make any disposition of any of the realty by will.