New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-19
'CANFIELD LEAVES
$l,5OO,OOO TO KIN
Wife, Son and Daughter
Get Practically All
the Estate.
WILL DISPOSES OF
FOUR ART WORKS
Several Employees Remembered
by Ex-Gambler-Wall Street
Drained Big Fortune.

Richard A. Canfeld's will, fled in the
Surrogates' Office yesterday, leaves sub
stantially all his estate, unoihcially
estimated to be worth approximately
$1,000. 900, in trust for his wife, son
and daughter. In the event of the
death OF the children without issue
the estate goes TO Thomas W. Sprague
and his wife. Frances, the latter under
stood to be the sister Of the testator.
OF Canfeld's art collection, the will
disposes of but four objects. one,
a copy of MacMonnies's Bacchante, the
original of which, made famous by us
rejection by the city of Boston as an
ornament for the courtyard of the PUB
lie Library, is in the Metropolitan Art
Museum, goes TO his daughter, Mrs.
Grace NJ Harmon. Others are his por-
trait by Whistler, which goes TO ms
son, Howard Dartmouth Canfeid;
D'Etaille's painting, I'm Chasseur
d'Afrique," left to David Bucklin, long
Canfeld's manager, and de Neuvllles
"The Trumpeter, which becomes the
property of his lifelong friend and con-
temporary, William S. Coe.
The balance of the art collection
Luke Vincent Lockwood. his counsel IN
late years and executor of the will, Is
given power 10 dispose Of as he may
see fit.
To the Spring Stopper Company, OF
which Garfield owned all the stock, is
beuueathed ali his American and Ca
madam patents, and all debts the com
pany may owe him are cancelled. In
payment for the patents the executor
is instructed to cause the company to
issue to himself sufficient stock to
bring its capitalization up 10 $1,000
600. In this company stock to the
value Of $4,000 is given to Harry NJ.
Brown. associated with him in it's man.
agement; 500 900 to his secretary, Clay
ton F. MCKINLEY, and $4,000 to
Thomas W. Sprague. with the condition
that they do not dispose of i without
offering IL 10 the executor at fair APP
praisal.
OF the trust created by the will the
widow, Genevieve W. Garfield, is to re-
ceive the income of one-third in lieu
CT dover, the income from this third
10 pass upon her death in equal parts
to his son and daughter, and in the
event Of their death without issue to
MI. ana MIS-. CpEdHues VI tlt ON'S'
two-thirds the income Is TO be equally
divided between son and daughter, with
the Spragues as contingent heirs.
The only cash bequest in the Will IL
of $4,000 to Mrs. Virginia Kelly, long
Canfeld's housekeeper. Another en-
ploye. Percy J. Beaumont, manager OF
the Union Stopper Company, a west
Virginia concern, is to have his life in
eured for $4,000.
The will was dated July 2, 1913.
The explanation of the comparative
Is small value CT the estate (less than
two years earnings of his Saratoga
place alone) made by friends OF Can
field is that in recent years Wall Street
had been very ulkind 10 him.
"He never had chance in the Wall
Street game" was the remark OF man
who was we'll acquainted with the ex-
gambler.
In the will Garfield describes tho
bronze given mis- daughter as "the Bnc-
chante by MacMonnies," as though 1t
we're the original of that work. The
Garfield bronze, however, is one OF
many copies, and is worth about ST.