New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
BEGINS OVER
RICH COAL MANS WILL
Continued from frs. page.

view of his retainer from Jesse 8.
LAmoreaux. executor under the FIRST
viii However this suggestion was
overruled by the other trustees, who
adopted this resolution:
Whereas, We have been informed that
two Wills of John c. Martin have been
offered for probate. one of which gives
his residuary estate to Boards of the
PRESBYTERIAN Church, the other 10 the
John c. Martin Educational Fund.
Therefore. BE it resolved. That We at
the present time take no action In the
upholding or opposing OF either VIII
The attack on the second will of Mr..
Martin. the one by which it was his in
tention that the fund should come into
the residue Of his estate. which has
been estimated Mt S1,0O000o, was based
on the ground that about the date in
July, 1912, when the second will was
executed Mr.. Martin had been COM
mitted To a sanatOrium for the second
time as a mental incompetent He
died on September 3 in the Riverdale
Sanatorium. In this will Mr.. Martin
gave $4,000 each to seven sisters, and
10 his brother he gave his insignia Of
the Military Order Of the Loyal Legion.
Fund Benefits by First Will.
In the first will Mr.. Martin gave TO
each OF his sisters and to his brother
$1,000 He gave $4,000 each in the
second will to the Society for the Sup
preston Of Vice and the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union. Then no
left the residue in trust with the Fidel-
ity Trust Company. Of Philadelphia,
for the John e. Martin Educational
Fund. for which he had obtained a
charter in 1904. The purpose of the
fund was:
To promote Intellectual. ethical and
spiritual advancement OF Christian min
listers. church officers. Sunday school
teachers and others. and 10 establish and
conduct institutes, lectureships, courses
OF study and to distribute Bibles and
books and 10 do other things tending to
Bible study, morality and Christian living.
OF the two other wills that have not
been filed the first was executed in
1902. The bulk Of the estate was left
TO the Martin fund.
Educational Project Abandoned.
Mr.. COnyngton explained yesterday
that Mr.. Martin abandoned his educa-
tional project after an activity Of about
a year He had employed a superin-
.tendent. AZ salary Of $1,000 a year,
and several subordinatcs at salaries
aggregatlng s.. 400 more. After about
the first year Mr.. Martin became dis
satisfied with the way things were rum
ming and discharged his employees.
since then the Martin fund has been
imperative, and the meeting held last
Tuesday by the trustees was the first
since 1908.
Mr.. Conyngton said: "Of the original
trustees Mr.. Martin and another are
dead. third has moved 10 Atlanta
and another is too old to interest him
self In the work. All the trustees 7Ie
high class men, who do not want any
compensation for such work as they
would be required 10 do as trustees Of
the fund and have not the time from
their own affairs TO give TO Il.
Mr. Martin was Presbyterian, and
we think that his purposes as set forth
in the incorporation of the Martin fund
can be better carried out by the Pres
byterian institutions named in the leS
will. They have working organiza-
ton and we have not; and the 1872
will is somewhat suspicious, in view Of
the fact that Mr.. Martin had been a
sufferer from manic Oppressive insan-
ity.
AS 10 my being retained 10y Mr..