The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-30
BUSCH WILL FILED
1t DispOseS of an Estate Valued
at $5O,OOO,OOO.
OF This Amount 100000 Goes
to Charity.

DhuS Busch, filed here, makes cnariId-
Bile requests agsregating $40. 600 TO
number of St. Louis institutions and
places the bulk of the estate in trust
naming Mrs. Lilly Busch, Charles Mage
and August A. Busch trustees.
In addition to the charitable bequests
set forth in the will, Mr. Busch LETT
private memorandum requesting mem
bers of his family to make certain
other donations, most of which are
private in their nature. The attorneys
made public the names of eight ST.
Louis institutions which are to receive
under this memorandum a total OF
$4,000, making the total bequeSts Tor
charitable purposes 100000.
The trust is to be disposed as fol-
lows:
One-eighth to the widow. Mrs. Lilly
Busch.
Seven-eighths to be divided into
seven equal shares These shares are
to be apportioned as follows:
Two shares to August A Busch, the
son, and for several years active head
OF the Busch interests.
One share to be retained by the trus-
tees for each of the daughters-Mrs.
Nellie Loeb of Chicago, Mrs. Edmee
Reisinger of New York, Mrs. Anna
Louise Faust of ST. Louis, Mrs. Clara
Won Gontard of Berlin. and Mrs. Will
helmina sScharer, wife of Lieutenant
Eduard Scharer of the German army
Before specifying the disposition OF
the part of the estate which is placed
in trust the will pr vided that all
household property and effects, includ-
ing paintings, statuary and Jewelry, as
we'll CARRIAGES. horses and "other
appurtenances, should go to Mrs. Lilly
Busch.
Mrs. Busch also received the estate
in Germany including a villa and 1,20O
acres of forest and agricultural land
Moreover. before the estate finally is
settled Mrs. Busch is to take whatever
she declares proper for the maintenance
of herself and family, not exceeding
$4,000 a year. The following st. Louis
institutions are given $4,000 each:
Charitable Requests.
German General Protestant Orphans
home. Home of the Friendless. Protest.
ant Orphans home, ST. Luke's hospi-
tai Provident Association of st. Louis,
Little Sisters of the Poor. Episcopal
Orphans home, Sisters of the Good
Shepherd. Teachers Benevolent Annu-
ity association, St. Louis Children's
hospital, st. Louis Protestant Orphan
asylum at Webster Grove, a suburb of
St Louis. and the Jewish hospital.
The Alteinheim. a local home for the
aged, is given $40, 000-
Those whom Mr.. Busch requested the
family to remember and the amounts
which he set forth follows:
Rev. Caesar Spigardi. of the Church
of Our Lady of Christian Help (Catho-
lic), $4,000 for work in his parish;
Rev. Timothy Dempsey, $4,000 for his
institutional work in St. Louis; Rev. P
J. Dunno. $4,000 for his newsboys'
home: the Provident hospital (coloredD.
S. 600: the Bartlett Agricultural and
Industrial home Ccolored) at Dalton.
Mo-. $1,000: the colored old folks home
of St. Louis. $1,000. and the ST. Fran
els Orphans home (colored) at Nor
mandy, Mo, $1,000.
The part of the estate placed in
trust includes all except the charit-
able requests named and the legacy
of Mrs Busch. August A. Busch, who,
according to the express provision of
the will, is to be president of the
Anheuser- Busch Brewing association,
receives two shares of the trust alb
solutely." If he dies before the dis
tribution is made, his shares are to be
divided as though he had died in
testate and the distribution already
had been made.
August A. Busch is made RESPONSE
bic for the care of his invalid broth
er, who is to be supplied with all the
necessities and wants up to $4,000 a
year.
Brewery Biggest Item.
The estate disposed of by the will
is estimated at $50,000,00O. The
brewery, which is the largest unit of
the estate, is rated by a leading COM
merciaI agency at s2s,OOo.o0o 1t
was capitalized in 1875 at $4,000
and that capitalization never has been
changed 1t is stated, however, that
each of the shares yields 100000 an
nually.
In St Louis banking institutions
Mr. Busch held shares estimated at
s2OOO,0OO. He was the largest stock
holder in the American Bottle com
pany. capitalized at $25, 000,O 600, and
owned two breweries in Texas, mil
lion dollar hotel in Dallas, Tex, and
a large interest in a downtown hotel
in Chicago and in a hotel in Paris,
France
The large brewery in st. Louis
OWL -oo1 estate in every city in
which 1t has a branch agency, includ-