The Washington herald., 1914-01-14

man. Horace William Howard. a recluse
or Brockton. Mass, had accumulated
fortune sufficiently large to enable him to
leave 100000 to Brockton hospitals and
homes for the aged.
The employees Of the coffee firm Of
member. received by the will Of Mr.. Sizes
100000. The bequests vary from 500 to
5000. every employe who has been with
the company receiving the smaller sum.
Widows Of five former travelling sales
men received s2,5o0 each.
-Four hundred thousand dollars was set
aside for the erection and maintenance.
in the city Of York, Pa, Of a home for
aged unmarried women OF Pennsylvania
by the win Of Miss Anna l.. Gardner.
Miss Gardner was the last of three un-
married sisters to reside in York.
Pensions for the Biind.
Miss Edith Rebecca Lord. daughter Of
John Taylor Lord. founder Of the New
York business house OF Lord & Taylor.
left most of her estate to aid the blind
Men and women who became blind after
they were twenty years of age are en-
titled to pensions provided they have
never begged on the streets. The value
Of Miss Lords estate is $4,000.
The late Edward Coleman. Of San Fran
institutions. Mr.. Coleman made for
tune in the gold mines in the earlier days
Of California and decreed by his VIII
that $4,000 should go to the Pacihc the
illogical Seminary. The Northern Cali
fornia Home Missionary Society receives
ST. 900; the Ministerial Relief Fund. w.
600, and the Church Extension Society OF
San Francisco. $4,000.
BY the terms OF the will OF John Fritz,
tb IN RQthlehem.
Pa. IN February, S35O.00o Of his estate
was given to public institutions. Lehigh
University, al South Bethlehem. received
sl5o 900. the Free Library of the Bethle-
hens, $4,000: Temple University, Phila-
delphia, 81 900: Methodist Hospital. Phil
adelphia. $1,000; American University
Washington. ID. C., s2l.ooO; st. Luke's
Hospital. South bethlehem. s.l.Wo. ana
the remainder goes to other Pennsylva-
mia charities.
Catherine Allen. OF Worcester. Mass.
daughter Of the Hon. Charles Allen. chief
justice of the supreme court OF Massa-
chusetts. left s3g7, 600 to be distributed
between the Worcester Polytechnic 1nsti-
tute. the Memorial Hospital. Hampton In
stitute Tuskegee Industrial School, anc
local institutions.
Miss Harriet o. Cruft, of Boston. made
public bequests amounting to $525.OOo The
institutions benefited are the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts
General Hospital. and the Boston Chill
dren's Hospital. and the residue goes TO
women OF American birth and Protestant
religion OF good character. over nifty
years % age. and who are in need, pref
erence to be given to school-teachers'
| wifes of ministers. and to those who
have seen better days"
Friend of Poor Students.
Mrs. Ella J. Mcpherson. widow Of Sem
ator Mcpherson, of New Jersey. be-
aueathed Sis, 900, to Yale University, the
money to be used in aiding worthy and
INDECENT students. Francis Way Smith.
of Philadelphia willed s3ll.50o to local
churches and charitable institutions,
among the former being Grace Church.
which was founded by his father. X.
Jenka Smith. and the Crosswicks Church.
Edward Morris. the wealthy Chicago
pork packer. left ssl5.eoo to be distrib-
uted among institutions to be DESIGNATED
| by his wife, with the exception OF NW'-
600 which he wished to revert to the pen
sion fund Of Morris and Company, OF
| which the decedent was the head.
There were five givers Of 100000 each:
Miss Caroline G. Even. daughter OF Gen
John Even, who left her estate to animal
protective organizations: Miss Maria 4.
| Gregory, who befriended the University
of Missouri and needy students; Mrs. D.
Willis James and her son, Arthur Cur.
tis James, who erected a modern social
settlement school building in New York
City: w, n, Frederick w, and Alfred
Gyyn Vanderbilt. who gave the same
| amount for a railroad branch OF the
Young Mems Christian Association OF
New York, and La Verne W. Noyes, OF
Chicago, who presented $So."o 10 tne
University of Chicago for a social center
and gymnasium for women as memorial
| to his deceased wife.
| In the s250Oo0 class. seven men ana
women are represented: Earl Hutter.' oil
New York; Senator Thomas w. Palmer
OF Detroit; william b. Reed. OF Brew
ster, n. Y; Mrs. Mary Scott. OF Free
| MORT. l. l.; Max T. Bernheimer, Mrs
Charlotte Thompson Brown. and an an
onyuous donor to Columbia University
for a Fine Arts Endowment Fund
For Uard-workiBg Women.
| most unusual benefaction was that Oh
Mrs Scott, who contributed s-ooVo TOT d
Home for Old Women at Sherman
Point, Fla. This home is to be nonsecta-
rian and restricted to women VINO nave
worked hard all their lives and saved no
money Mrs. Scott was the widow OF An
drew ]. Scott of East Orange, N. J. MI.
scott had always cherished an ambition
to establish a home for aged men, but,
failing in business, was unable to carry
/ out his idea. Ten years ago his widow
went into business in East orange, op-
Grating steam laundries upon large
scale. She was SO successful in business
| and fortunate in real estate speculatons
\ that she is now able to make this Home
for Aged Women a reality.
| A unique legacy was received by the
| METROPOLITAN Museum of Art In New
York in the form of a collection OF post
age stamps valued at s2Jo.Vo and Tor
merly the property of the late MAX r..
Bernheimer. 1t contains oO.Vp varieties
| distributed in forty-nine voiumes, anu
will require 800 cases for its display.
| Princeton University is the chief bene-
ficiary under the will of DR.. Frank Hart
lev. a well-known surgeon Of New York.
DIR. Hartley, who was graduated from
Princeton in the class Of 1887, LETT an es-
| tate of sss5, 900 to be devoted to the fol-
lowing purposes: $4,000 TO Princeton to
create the Hartley Scholarship FUND Tor
needy students; Bowdoin College, $lo,eo:
New York Hospital, 5000. and the isa-
bella McCosh Infirmary, 5000.
| Mrs. Catherine Reilly. of New York
City. distributed by will $2eo.oo0 among
New Yorkeand Yonkers Roman Catholic
| churches. seminaries, hospitals. orphan
| ages. and charities Adolphus Busch, Of
81. Louis, multimillionaire brewer, d.
/ rected that $4,000 of his estate be dis
tributed among local charitable institu-
4 tons. NJ. -. a..
| Hotel Astor. New York, February .. left