Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31
KOHLER ESTATE
APPRAISAL PUT
AT S4,175,111
Newark Boy, Who Became
Prominent Horseman, Held
Stock in Piano Firms.

NEW YORK, Aug. 31.-The estate
of Charles Kohler. who became an
enthusiast in the racing and breeding
of horses after he had made for
tune in the piano manufacturing
business. and who owned three train
ing stables and the Ramapo stock
farm at Hohokus, N j.. was ap-
praised Saturday at $4175.111. This
does not include the value of his
Ramapo farm nor the money received
from the sale of his horses in Eng
land and France Mr.. Kohler died in
France on June 4. 1918. He was born
in Newark, N J., and had manufac-
turing interests In shat city.
The appraisal shows that Samuel
G. Hildreth, the trainer, who had
charge of Mr. Kohler's racing stables,
made a claim for 100000 after Mr.
kohler's death, which, he alleged, was
due under an agreement by which
Mr.. Kohler was to reimburse him for
the sums spent in acquiring the prop
erty for his training stable at Mason
Lafitte. France. The executors re-
jected the claim and Hildreth then
engaged lawyers and threatened to
tie up the receipts OF the sale of Mr..
Kohler's horses in France. The ex-
ecutors agreed to settle for $4,000 and
Hildreth accepted that sum.
sss 600 for One Horse.
The sale of Mr.. Kohler's American
horses at Sheepshead bay brought
SCOTIA. This included $4,000 for his
stallion Uncle, and $4,000 for the stall
lion Zeus. which were offered for sale
in France and then brought here to
be disposed of because the foreign
offers were too small The sale of
Mr.. Kohler's Newmarket stable at
Tattersalls, in London, brought $21,-
925. and a sale at Deauville, France,
brought s62,675. Other horses sold as
follows: Novelty and Beau Clerc, I'd,
$3.50, and Konigsberg, $500.
Mr.. Kohler had a mortgage for
$4,000 on the Saratoga track property
and $3.50 was due him from the
French Jockey Club and $17,991 from
the Steeplechase Association. He had
1,523 shares of the Saratoga Racing
Association, worth $50, 920, and had the
following shares in other racing as
sociations: Eighty Queens County
Jockey Club. $4,000; seventy five
Juarez Jockey Club, 1880 and ten
Connaught Park Jockey Club. ottawa,
Canada, 81 900.
hC app diSc1l onOWS NAdl vi /.
Kohler started in business thirteen
years ago in the firm of Kohler &
Campbell, and that until he died he
received a pay envelope every week
containing $50. His interest in the
firm when he died was $1,177,972, Of
which $41S,064 was the profit for three
years prior to his death. He owned
the following stocks in piano COM
panies: -Four thousand and twenty
five Auto Pneumatic Action Company.
$420,50 1920 Auto-piano Company
s742,0 900; 10Os Milton Piano Company,
$100.So $40 Brambach Piano Com
pany. s42, 100; $500 Standard Pneu-
matte Action Company. s2S0,00o. and
500 shares Conway Company, $4,000.
Fl Head of Piano Men.
At the time of his death Mr..
Kohler was president of the National
Piano Manufacturers Association. He
was described in the transfer tax
testimony as perhaps the strongest
figure in the plano manufacturing
circles of the day
Mr.. Kohler left an annuity of $685.
600 to his wife. Veronica NJ Kohler.
and also gave her the Ramapo Stock
Farm, on which he had ordered $685.
900 in improvement at the time of his
death. The bulk of the estate went
to his three daughters, Olga, Vera
and Veronica. Each got an annuity
of $685. 900 and will receive 100000 on
their twenty fifth. thirty-fifth and
forty-fifth birthdays. Each received
an interest of s603.432 in the residuary
estate.
The will left requests of $500 to
1000 to a number of Mr.. Kohler's en-
ployes, and $4,000 each to the Asso-
citation for the Aid of Crippled Chill
dren and the Hospital Saturday and
Sunday Association. He gave 5000
to the Seaside Hospital of st. Johns
Guild. The executors have contracted
for a mausoleum to cost $32, 600
Mr. Kohler owned a number of
paintings, the most valuable being
Forest Scene" Diaz). $4,000. and
"Trysting Place" (CoroD, $1,000.
william Weargasther, the bowler,
Of this city, was cousin to Charles
Kohler.