New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-18
Transfer Tax Appraisers
Report Ready for Filing
with Surrogate.
RESIDUARY LEGATEES
GET $l7,509,901 EACH
Public Requests Amount to More
than S500,000-Many Bonds
and Stocks Held.

Ogden Mills, fnanc'er and philanthropist.
who died az his winter home at Mllbree.
San Mateo County. Cal, January s. 1910,
has been appraised at $50. s25Ssl by Perch
val f. Magic. transfer tax appraiser.
SGrroga;es' Court
The personal estate or Mr. Mills was
appraised AZ $sl.Ss7.S9i and his real estate
81 $4sSo.o>o. The net estate. after deduc-
tons for administration expenses, execu-
tors commissions and other expenses
amounts TO SSS.0ls. SOS
In his will MI Mills divided the residue
OF his estate equally between his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Reid, widow OF White
law Reid. and his son. Ogden Mills. The
share Of each residuary legatee Is ST.
SOC, em.
The public requests OF Mr.. Mills,
amounting TO $500. 900, are distributed as
follows: ST Luke's Hospital San Fran
cisco. 100000; Metropolitan Museum OF
Art 500, 900: American Museum OF Nstu-
raj History. 100000; Home for Incur
ables, 500. 900; New York Botanical Gar
dens. $4,000; American Geographical So
ciety, $4,000, and American National Red
Cross. $4,000.
Held Many Bonds.
The Deductions from the gross estate
we're: Commissions OF excel DTS. t7e4.927
administration. $4,000; debts. $4,000,
and funeral expenses, sS.o57. The real
estate owned in New York by Mr.. Mills
consisted OF Is Broad st. and 81 Exchange
Place, being one property. known as the
Mills Building. This property was APP
praised at s4,225.OOo. The garage 1T 1os
West SD ST was appraised at $4,000.
value Of $3.50 was placed on a lease
Of 6s4 5th ave. The personal effects and
,ewelry OF Mr.. Mills were put down at
$4,000. The bulk OF the estate Of Mr..
Mills consisted Of bonds and stocks in
many railroad corporations and industrial
enterprises
some OF his larger holdings in bonds,
as shown by the transfer tax appraisal,
were: SEQ Seaboard Air Line. S6l4soo; 5o5
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, Si2l, 0i5;
80 Coal & Coke Railway SZS7,Soo; 100
Southern Pacific. Sl05.625 l56 Pennsylvania
Railroad. Sl5l SO: 25S Guanajuato Power
& Electric, SIS. $50; 800 ogden Gas. SlSs,cOo;
50 Charleston & Savannah Railway. $685.
SIS: "A Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific,
I'll 4O2: So Cuba Railway. $3.50; 100 Erie,
$4,000: s. Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern. S.. 0sS: IL international Traction, $780,
80: 70 Susquehanna & Western. SS7.l5o; 81
Kings County Electric Light & Power.
$3.50: Y Cicero Gas Company. SsS,720;
g. American Steel Foundry, S5s.sSS; %
Niagara Falls * Power Company, $4,000;
100 Valleys City Power. SlOl, 600: 5s7 Cerro
de Pasco Mining Company $5lo.Soo; 800
International Paper Company, $4,000;
80 Union Iron Works and Dry Dock Com
pany. &l3s.35o
Owned Long List Of Stocks.
The following were among the stocks
held by Mr.. Mills: 300 Georgia & Florida
Railway. 10000; 1900 New York Cen
tral & Hudson River Railroad, N,ss5 900;
$50 Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe com
nom. s77.707: 800 Santa Fe Cpreferred).
81. So; 1880 Rock Island (preferred). g.
rs III: 700 Rock Island common, A1l.-
so: 81 IA % Virginia & Truckee Railway.
$50 so: s,1O5 Brooklyn Rapid Transit, $685.
45s: 71a Portland Railway, Light and
Power (preferred). s575 GA 1880 same
common. 81, 644 80: 2,454 Southern Pacific.
Ess. 4g7: 5000 Central London Railway,
ssg15O: 100 Northern Pacific S44S75;
5000 Seaboard Air Line (preferred), $685.
900: 1000 seaboard common, Sn,5o0; 1887
Bellingham Traction & Railway, slOSb3o;
100 Chicago & Northwestern, SlSl'S'o'
LOO Chicago. Milwaukee 81 St. Paul, Sl5''-
900; l.24s Cuba Railway, $3.50; l75 Bank
Of New York, 5000; 20 Farmers Loan
and Trust Company, $500; 100 Guaranty
Trust Company, So, 800; 163 Maritime Ma
tonai Bank. Of Buffalo, ssl,l&; 500 Mer-
camille Trust Company. Of San Fran
cisco. sl125oo; 800 Metropolitan Trust Com
panv. s2s7. 800, and 800 Morton Trust Com
paDy, $1,000.
Other Stock Holdings.
Other stock holdings were $500 Lack
awanna Steel Company. s313.5oO; 1'SVV
Buffalo General Electric. $l72,S5O; l'SVo
commonwealth Edison Company, 3216'-
600. 600 Duluth Edison Company $S5'-
200: 1900 Northwestern Gas. Light and
Coks. s212.5OO; 1000 Niagara Falls
power Company. $4,000; 1900 GUIANA
tuato Powor and Electric preferred
$4,000; 400 Guanajuato Power and
Electric (common), sS1 900; 1869 Peo-
nla's Gas. sl.227117; 37,675 Alaska Mex
lean Gold Mining Company, S6lS,oss;
81 A5O Alaska and T-eadwell Gold Min
ing Company, s65o,214; 2,155 American
Steel Foundry Company, s140,344; 1892
Rlack Diamond Coal Mining Company
S112O65; 273 Empire Coal and Coke Com
nanv sl1s,776; 1915 Alaska United
Cold Mining Company, $15O,67l; 49,2Z4
punker Hul and Sullivan Mining and
concentration Company, s1,230,6Oo; $500
cerro de Pasco Investment Company
s1sA 400: 1892 Bellingham Bay I'M
nrovement Company. s149,42O; 500 Amer
ican Smelling and Refining, $4,000;
s6T2 Oriental Consolidated Mining Com
ranv. s72.S62; 10000 Chicago Transfer 81
clearance Company, 100000 2,2S4 Crex
carpet Company. $4,000; 73o Erie Ele-
vator Company. s439,16O; 16,S7S Interna-
tional Paper Company. s979,4s7; Az
Mergenthaler Linotype Company. $685.
5sc. 900 Mesaba steel Company. $780,
900: 2.264 Pullman Company $6l13O4;
All shredded Wheat Company (pre-
ferred). 1921, ops: 1850 Shredded Wheat
COMPANY (commom, sLl4O,15O; 500
standard Oil Company. $394'SOO; 5000
ride Water oil Company, 100000; 1000
spring Valley Water Company, $4,000;
900 Pressed Steel Car Company, $lOe'-
500: 800 Metropolitan Realty and Opera
company. $4,000; $50 Lackawanna Steel
Cornanv (potes). S44S,S75; 100 Pennsyl-