The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-12
VINCENT ASTOR GETS
 FORTUNE ON FRIDAY
Comes of Age and Enters Into Possession of Estate Valued
 at $67,OOO,O0O

William Vincent AStor will have a birthday anniversary next Friday. He was born on November Is. 1891, and so this week he will attain his ma- jority, and will inherit the largest part of the estate which was left by his father, John Jacob Astor, who was drowned on the Titanic last April.
 Just how much money young Astor will come into is not known, but it is estimated that his share of the property will amount to 2 a sum be tween $62, GOO, 900 and $67, ,O00, 600. This estimate is based upon the fact that a month ago the executors of the As tor estate paid $3.150,OOo on the inheri- tance tax due. It was payment sim liar to those made upon the estates of Edward M. Shepard and John s. Kennedy prior to appraisal.
 According to calculations the pay ment was on basis of an estimated valuation of between $75,O00.0 GOO and $sO, GOO, 900 for the entire estate. The property left by Colonel AStor in New York is all upon the tax books, and so the appraisers can make a more accurate estimate than has been pos
 The value of the estate left by Col onel Astor has been variously estimat- ed at between $75, 900 o00 and $15o. 0oO,- 00O It is now said that the tentative appraisal of the Astor, real estate ah agreed on by Lewis Class Ledyard, counsel for the estate, and John Quinn. Uho is the special counsel for the state $e2, ,00o. 900, not including the country property at Rhinebeck
 All of the estate. with the exception Jacob Astor to William Vincent As- tor.
 The final appraisal of the estate will be many millions less than 1t was pop ulariy supposed to be worth. aacd it is said that the appraisal is even higher than the assessed valuation of the property on the tax books of the city. Detailed figures will not be forthcom- ing until John V. Cosgey, State Con- troIler, begins his hearings in the mat ter
 tax was paid within six months of the death of Colonel Astor, and so. ac- cord4ng to law, the estate gets 5 per cent. reduction. Should, the final appraisal show a higher valuation than the tentative one, the estate will pay tke difference and still get a reduc- tton of 5 per cent.
 estate are 35,O0O,00O left in trust for Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor, the in- come of which she is to have as long trust for Muriel Astor. daughter of Mrs. Ava Willing Astor, who obtain ed @ divorce from John Jacob AStor, and $3, O00 900 left to John Jacob As- tor, the poSthumOus son Of Colonel As tor.
 William Vincent Astor appears to be terest in the management of his af- fairs, and although he was @ freshman at Harvard, and would have been com pelled to do extra work in order to make the sophomore class. owing to the fact that he lost time last April when his father was drowned. he is not at Harvard this year.
 Just before the opening of the term 1t was announced that his quarters .'on the Gold Coast were to be va cant. Vincent Astor said that so many duties would fall upon him at his com ing of age that he had decided to cut the rest of his university work and get to the business of the management of his estate as soon as possible
 Young Astor, like all rioh men n sons, is much annoyed by continual reports of his engagement to this or that young woman of his \acQuaint- ance The names of several young women have been connected with his from time to time, but he has been careful to explain that he is not en- gagged and does not intend to marry for some time to come
 Recently Vincent Astor leased for the winter the house of Floyd s. Bryce on Fifth avenue, and he is now there with his mother and sister, who ar rived from England a fortnight ago. New fork Tribune.