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Zimmerman as trustee for Clementina.
The accounting proceedings we're brought
in the Surrogate's Court against the sis
ters as trustees of the two funds before
the death of Sophia. in 1912. After
her death Warren Crulkshank, who was
substituted in her place as trustee for
Mrs Zlmmerman's fund was made also
defendant in her place.
The report OF the referee holds Mrs
zimmerman and the estate OF Sophia
Furnss responsible for any loss that
may result from the sale of the bulk OF
the securities of the two trust funds,
and because OF the condition of the
financial market at the present time Il
Is possible the estate OF Sophia Furniss
and the interest OF Mrs. Zimmerman
may he largely wiped out through the
payment OF the losses.
The amount charged against Mrs.
zimmerman as trustee for Clementina
is s257,S3S less the amount that may
be received for the securities she holds
in Clementina's fund. and the amount
charged against the estate Of Sophia
Furniss is s4os,7i7. less the amount
received for the improper investments.
securitie. Objected To.
The accounting OF Sophia Furniss OF
Clementina's trust fund shows that she
n"lh securities valued at tf92,7l1 and
among the items to which the referee
sustained objections as improper invest
ments were the following s12.4s5
Metropolitan Street Railway bonds
s25.625 st. Joseph Stock Yards bonds.
slS.700 Chicago Great Western Railroad
stock, 200 shares National Biscuit stock,
S2l,099 Frisco Railroad bonds, $4,000
Northern ohio Railroad bonds. S2S.S55
American Telephone and Telegraph
stock. SASS New York Central stock
S16,549 Atchison stock and tlS.312 Rail-
way steel Spring stock. The total in
come OF the fund was s522.294. OF which
s502,932 has been paid out
The securities rejected by the referee
in Clementina Furniss's trust fund held
by Mrs. Zimmerman. amounting to
S2J6.541 out OF a total OF s457,6O4. in
clude the following $4,000 Thirty
fourth Street Crosstown Railroad bonds,
s3l,s50 New York Gas and Electric
Light. Heat and Power bonds s2a25O
Lake Erie and Western bonds. $4,000
re-Pennsylvanla Railroad bonds, sea-
200 Milwaukee Gas Light bonds, s2j.156
Railway Steel Spring stock. s3l,575 Lee
high and New York Railroad bonds and
$4,000 Cleveland Terminal bonds. The
Income received from this fund was
sII9.470
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$4O,OOO,OOO ESTATE NOW
WORTH UNDER 100000
Report Reveals Secrets Concerning Fortune Left by
William Ponsonby Furniss-Many Securities
in Trust Funds Ordered to Be Sold.

The secrets in connection with the
estate Of William Ponsonby Furniss,
the West Indian merchant, who died
In 1871. which have been concealed by
his three daughters since the last &C.
counting was made in 1878. on the
ground that the hers-at-law OF their
three dead brothers had no further
interest. were revealed In the Surro-
gates Court yesterday and proved
surprising.
The facts came ont In the reports
filed by Stanley w. Dexter as referee in
petitions to compel two accountings
fled by Grace Livingston Furniss, the
authoress. aud her brother. william
ponsonby Furniss. who are the children
Of William Furniss Tho report only
dsCloses that the probable reason for
the refusal Of the three aged daughters
Of the merchant to give any information
concerning the estate is that the bulk of
the securities In two trust funds is
made up OF stocks and bonds which
are not legal investments for trust
FUNDS, but that the estate, which has
been estimated as high as $40, O00. 900. is
actually worth less than $1,000. 900.
II the findings OF Referee Dexter are
confirmed the trustees under two trust
fund must sell within a year securities
now held az $685.. a5S. because they are
improper investments, and any loss
resulting from the sale must be
made up by the trustees who bought the
securities.
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the public welfare. For these benehcent
acts manning "A number OF chartlesl he
Is entitled to and will doubtless receive
proper public appreciation.
The one danger in them, In the light
Of Colorados experience, Is that these
philauthropies may obscure the sordid
practices Of big business in Colorado and
elsewhere out Of which Mr.. Rockefeller
and others derive vast funds. part
only of which they oNpend i'm directions
tending at one and The same time to
their laudation and their further earning
power
The fundamental fault In Mr.. Rookie
fellers attitude toward the public and
the workers appears to lie in It's under
lying autoCracy.
MIR Rockefeller, who appears 20 the
world in the relief afforded Belgium a
liberal benefactor. stands convicted be.
fore the workers of Colorado as a mar
rowly BIASED and visionless money
maker.
The most generous estimate some
what disllus oued public will place on
Mr.. Ruckefelers activities is that his
fuun,ia tiun IL dealing with effects, while
through tire Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company and other Industrial agencl- 5
he is actually and visibly feeding the
flames and causes of Industrial unrest
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03
STATE BOARDS CUT
CITY CASH 100000
Polk Tells Mayor Of $4,000
900 Dropped From b. X.
T. Assessment.
HE ADVISES PROTEST

The city has lost 100000 in
taxes in the past two years
because the state Board OF Tax
Commissioners and State Board OF
Equalization have voluntarily cut si6,-
100000 from the franchise assessment
Of the companies comprising the Brook
lyn Rapid Transit system. In a letter
to tho Mayor yesterday Corporation
Counsel Polk said that the city should
protest vigorously.
According to Mr.. Polk the state Com
missioners, whom the Republican Leg
islature are likely to retire from office,
have acted arbitrarily against the inter
csts or the cty and in defiance Of a
Court OF Appeals decision
For the yea iPi4 the equalization
board cut sl3.Oo0.oO0 from the Brook
Ign Rapid Transit assessment. which
had been s47,i3O.s35 for the year 1913,
When Mir Polk asked the board why
this large reduction was made he was
told thar II was due in part TO Court
" Appeals decision which held that the
paving between the tracks laid at the
expense Of the companies could not he
included iu special franchise assess
m,nts. In Metropolitan railway case
then pending the Court OF Appeals
reached ar opposite conclusion. but the
state board would not wait for H.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03
Lloyd George Arrives In Paris.

PARIS, Feb David Lloyd George,
British Chancellor OF the ENchequer
and the Russian Minister OF Finance, 4.
Bark, have arrived here
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Ba.i. of Foundation work.

Mr. Greene presented a chart showing
the 'interloCking' character OF the
duties of the men who are members or
trustees of the foundations and asserted
that there is nothing in their divided
responsibilities analogous to the inter-
locking directorates of industrial corpor-
ations.
These men," he said. have been as
sociated with Mr.. Rockefeller for years
in charitable work No amount OF crit-
clsm offered here can destroy the repu-
tation of these men I'm the eyes of the
public II you feel concerned as to the
future control OF these foundations you
can feel no more concern than we do as
trustees and we are giving much thought
to that problem"
He then read memorandum which
he had presented to the Rockefeller
Foundation on his own responsibility as
suggestion for tho guidance OF the
trustees While never formally adopted.
he said. IL was the taCit understanding
that these general principles should he
adhered to in directing the affairs of the
foundation These principles are in part
as follows:
individual charity and relief are eS-
cluded except az the indirect result Of
aid given to other Institutions well or
ganizcd for such purposes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03
ROCKEFELLER'S
HOPES TOLD BY
HIS CHIEF AID
Financicr Would Exclude
PaternaliSm From His
Great Foundation.
MINERS COUNSEL IS
CRITIC OF RESULTS

The phianthropies Of John II. Rookie
Teller, as they find expression in his
several foundations. were alternately at
tackled and defended yesterday before
tho United states Commission on Indus
trial Relations at it's hearing in the
Metropolitan Life building, where an
audience even larger than usual was as
sembled.
Edward r. Costigau. counsel for the
United Mine Workers of America dur
ing the latter period Of the Colorado
strike. was the hostile critic, while Js-
rome II. Greene. executive secretary OF
the Rockefeller Foundation and long
chief aid on the personal stan Of John
u. Rockefeller, was the witnesses for
the defence Both were equipped with
prepared statements and with store Of
information and ideas for the cross
questioning which followed
Mr.. Costigan, "A sometime candidate
for Governor of Colorado. wished IL
understood that nothing he said Of con-
ditlons in the mining camps was to be
taken as a reflection on the people Of
that state.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03
Miners wives to Testify.

Mr. Costigan was asked whether he
approved Of the call to arms issued by
the miners leaders two days after the
Ludlow massacre. He said he had not
advised its issuance. but he thought 1t
would he good idea, If the commits
sion desired to understand the frame OF
mind in which these leaders were when
they issued il. to call as witnesses Mrs
Dom neski and Mrs. Petrucci. These
women, he said were in the audience
They went through the Ludlow mas
sacre with their husbands and children
and could tell what they suffered and
how the men felt. The two women
probably will be called to the stand to-
day.
one OF the strongest points made by
Mr.. Costigsn was that there never
would have been a strike II the coal
operators had made any attempt TO obey
the mining laws OF the State. These
laws, he said. are protective, but being
unobserved only served to goad the
workers to fury. They would have
compromised the question OF recogniz-
ing the union, in his opinion, II there
had been any assurance that the com
panies would obey the laws.
Tho hearing will be resumed at 10
o'clock this morning. Andrew Carnegie
is still TO be heard and he may go on
the stand tomorrow.
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When william Pom onby Furniss died
he left a will dividing his estate into
trust funds FOR the benefit OF his wife,
his SONS, Leon. Hartman and william.
and his daughters, Sophia, Clementina
and Margaret now Mrs. Zimmerman.
The funds set apart for the sons went
to their sisters upon their death. and
their issue had no share In them. The
funds provided for the daughters go
to the survivor of them. The three sons
and the widow died years ago. but the
first Of the three daughters to die was
Sophia. Her death occurred at the age
Of 90 on February -. 1912, at the
home occupied by tho three sisters at
ESQ Madison avenue.
The two accountings referred TO Mr.
Dexter are those of the late Sophia Fur
Miss as trustee OF the fund left to her
sister. Mrs. Zimmerman, and OF Mrs
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-02-03

Applications for the aid Of iustitu-
lions or enterprises that are purely
local are excluded. except as aid may
be given to their establishment as mod
els to other localities and as part Of
general plan for the encouragement or
Improvement OF similar institutions.
Such a general plan is that in accord
ance with which the General Education
Board had aided colleges and universi-
ties In all parts OF the country In order
IN promote higher education generally.
"It may be said that when an indi-
vidual or an institution goes into
community with the intention Of maxi
ing a contribution to its welfare. no gift
Of money, however large, and no out
side agency, however wise or good, can
render a service OF unqualified good and
permanent value except 40 far as the
gift or the agency offers the means or
the occasion for evokinG from the com
munity its own recognition of the need
to be met. its own will to meet that
need and its own resources, both ma
terial and spiritual, wherewith to meet
n
"In general II IL unwlse for an institu-
ton Hike the Rockefeller Foundation 10
assume permanently or Indefinitely
share OF the current expenses of an
endowed institution which it does not
avowedly control A continuing con-
tribution for current expenses and the
implied continuing approval OF response
hiity for management tend 10 make the
receiver subservent to the giver, thus
detractlng from the receivers indie
pendencs and self-respect and conse-
quently from his efficiency.
Gifts in Perpetuity Rare.
''on the other hand the Rockefeller
Foundation must carefully avoid the
dangers incident 10 gifts in perpetuity
Having the qualities OF permanence and
universally II Is better able than any
private individual to adapt its gifts
from generation TO generation TO the
most urgent needs OF the time. II
should therefore be careful not to ham
per It's own trustees or the trustees OF
other institutions by gifts in perpetuity
narrowly limited 10 particular uses.
Gifts for endowment will therefore
probably he rare and they will he
strictly limited 10 institutions which, like
Wen established colleges or universities.
arc destined to be permanently main
tanned by the endowment method as dis
tinguished from the method of support
by public taxation.
"As between objects which are OF an
ediately remedial or alleviatory ne
ture and those which go to the ro"t
NJ Individual or social i'll being and
misery, the latter objects are preferred,
not because the former are unworthy,
hut because the latter are more far
reaching in their effects,
AS a general rule It is not cNpedi-
ont % entertain applications for the aid
NJ projects. however meritoriOuH. that
have not been carefully thought out by
their promoters"
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Ignored. says Polk.

con November 90, 1914" continues
Mr.. Polk, ~ wrote the state Board OF
Tax Commissioners calling their atten-
ton to the recent decision Of the Court
of Appeals H. the Metropolitan street
hallway litigation and suggesting that
TIE est of pavement be included In the
cos, Of reproducing tie tangible property
In ,hc streets belonging - the corpora
tons as part of the value Of such tangi-
Nc property.
I'm -pite Of this letter and in spite OF
the fact that lt conference held in Al
btny iu the latter part Of December be-
tween representatives. OF the state Board
uf Tax Commls Sionors. the Attorney
General and this Office. AT which ;he
state board was advised by the Attor-
uCy-Generais representative that they
should obey the las dec sion ~ tine
roult Of Appeals. the state board has
not included tho cost Of pavement m the
1915 u~se- smeut-.
Further than tni-. .uc assessments
for 1878 AGAINST the railroads have been
decreased. ion the s"-IeEitc. $4,000 600
hollow the 1914 asse. smeuts."
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
JERSEY CONGRESSMAN QUITS
Sheriff Of Hudson County Warned Vote
Would Re Challeuped

Jersey City, N. j., Feb. 5.-Eugene
F. Kinkead, Sheriff of Hudson county,
yesterday sent in his resignation as
member of the National House of Rep
resentatives from the Eighth district of
this State.
Representative Kinkead, who was
elected Sheriff last fall and retained his
seat in Congress after assuming the
shrievalty, said he was preparing We'd
nesday to start for Washington to vote
to uphold the Presidents veto of the
immigration bill, when he received a
telegram from Representative Burnett,
the introducer and champion of the
hill, informing. him that if he voted on
the bill his right to do so would be
challenged by Mr.. Burnett.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
Widow Sues For $4,000

Norristown, Feb. 5.-To recover
$50 900 damages for the death Of Ben
iamin Fl. Schwartz, lawyer, his wild
ow, Rose L. Schwartz, has sued the
Cheltenham and Willow Grove Turn
pike Company. While riding in an auto
mobile on dark night in May, last
year, Schwartz ran into hardened pile
of concrete and was thrown out and
received a fractured skull from which
he died five days afterward.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
81 Roll Calls Fruitless

Springfield, ILL.,, Feb. Again yes
ferday members of the lower house of
he Legislature failed to break the
Fpeakership deadlock, which has lasted
fearly five weeks. Two more roll calls
Pn Speaker were taken, running the
|otal up to 81, and then the House re-
|essed. The advertised break in Dem.
Rcratic "wets' failed to materialize.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
Arrest Man For Forgeriss

Lebanon, Feb. 5.-The police yester-
day arrested Milton Auchenbach, of this
|city, on half dozen charges of forg-
|ery. All of Auchenbach IS reputed vic
|tims are local merchants who cashed his
checks, Notwithstanding the fact that
|only recently he had been caught in
similar transactions and spent four
months in Jail.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
MONEY FOR HARRISBURG
$75,OOO for Local Postofice Carried in
Federal Appropriation Bill


Washington, D. c., Feb. 5.-The
sundry civil appropriation bill reported
in the House yesterday carries appro.
priations of $4,000 for Frankfort
arsenal, $4,000 Of which is to be
spent on improvements for the boiler
plant and $4,000 for an additional
shop. The bin includes provision of
&35,700 for the immigration station at
philadelphia and another of $4,000
for the maintenance and Improvement
of the Gettysburg battle-ground.
Appropriations are made for Penn
sylvania postoffices as follows: Bed
ford, $4,000; Harrisburg, $4,000;
Huntingdon, $4,000; Ridgway, S25,-
0O0; Reading, $4,000; South Beth
lehem, $1,000; jSunbury, $4,000; Ia,
maqua, $4,000; Tarentum, $1,000.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
WEIGH MoUNTAINEERs HELD
Two Men In Lancaster Jail Charged
With Rnhbary

Lancaster, Feb. Bully" Den
mis- and William Wells, Welch noun
taineers, were committed to the county
Jail yesterday on serious charge.
Several nights ago the premises of
Aaron Good, Joseph Weiser and David
Horning were robbed and they are ac-
cused Of being the thieves. They have
been identified as the men who were at
Scott Gehman 8 residence, in East Earl
township, and when discovered Wells
opened revolver fire on Gehman, who
fred in return. Neither was hit.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
Bows Kick $50 In Basket

Shamokin, Feb. 5.-A lunch basket,
which had been spilled from Albert
Malick's runaway milk rig, and which
contained intact $50, which Mrs. I. T.
Herb, of Weigh Scales, was sending to
her husband here to deposit.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
SUICIDE PAIR IDENTIFIED
Scranton Couple We're Daniel NJ Brit
ton and Mrs. Mildred Rupert

Scranton, Feb. ,5.-The identity OF
the couple who while despondent be-
cause of poverty committed suicide IN a
local rooming house, was disclosed yes
terday when authorities at Utica, n.
Y, said that the man was Daniel M.
Britton, of that city, and the woman,
Mildred Rupert, of Gloversville, n. Y.
Both were married and deserted fam
lilies to elope to this city.
The disclosure made clear a sentence
in Britton's letter. "two shipwrecked
beings stranded on the rocks of love. "
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
KENTUCKY GAMBLERS FINED
So, 1000 In Penalties In Louisville
Gases

Louisville, KY, FeD. 5.-Ten men
were fined total of $1,000 in criminal
court here yesterday on pleas of guilty
to operating handbooks in Louisville.
Samuel Dinkelspiel and Lawrence
Starr were fined $1,000 each. The other
fines ranged from $10O to $500.
The Kentucky Department of the
Worlds Purity Federation threw its
weight with that Of the State in prose
cutting the cases.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
Woman Ends Her Life

Meadville, Feb. 5.-Mrs. William
Fall, 40 years old, died at her home in
Lyona yesterday morning as result
of swallowing Paris green and cutting
arteries in one arm and under one knee.
She imagined she was to be arrested.
She leaves husband and two children.
The family had lived at Lyona twenty
years.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
HIGH SPEED IN DIVORCE
Jersey Vice Chancellor Completes Case
in 25 Minutes

Jersey City, Feb. 5.-Vice Chaneel-
lor Stevens let out the speed check in
chancery chambers yesterday and hung
up a record of twenty-five minutes in
divorce actions. The case was that Of
John w. Bolen, Atlantic street, this
city, against Mary F. Bolen. The hus-
band charged misconduct on the part of
Mrs. Bolen with Benjamin Wells, half
her age.
1t required twenty-five minutes for
the Vice Chancellor to hear the evil
denee and make his order approving a
decree.
The star-independent. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1904-1917, 1915-02-05
sLEIGHING WITH WINGS
Main Line Boy, Aided by Aeroplaue
Goes Swimming

Haverford, Pa, Feb. 5.-''Jaek"
HUM, son of William H. Tevis HUM,
the banker, and student at Haverford
School, appeared on Main Line roads
around Haverford and Ardmore in
motor sleigh.
An aeroplane engine, operating a
wooden propeller at terrific speed, pro-
PEELED the sleigh, which travelled fast,
and appeared to be easy to steer.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-02
Hatfield Opposes
Reputation of Debt
Declares Suggestion That He Is
Responsible for Report is
Without Foundation.

CHARLESTON, w. VA, October L.
Governor Hatfield issued Il statement
Tonight declaring that II suggestion
that he is responsible for the report
that the Virginia debt judgment would
be repudiatcd by him is without foun-
da ton.
THE welfare of the State i'm this
matter has not been neglected nor
permitted 10 lag. the statement saws
The point is being made that the
interests on the principle is piling up
daily 10 the amount of about Sl7OO
should he glad to know what differ
cncc would be made in the interest. if
the people. through their Representa-
ives IN the Legislature, acceded to
the decree rendered by tho court and
issued bonds.
The West Virginia Commission is
not ready to render a conclusion of
inns matter at the present time
~ Is hard to understand the reason
tor all this agitation over n matter
that has existed for more than nifty
years. when every effort has been put
i"rth by representative men of the
state TO secure an equitable adjust
inent
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-10-02

Columbia University, scientist aud per-
fecter of electrical appliances. Pro.
lessor Pupin said that his invention
eliminates entirely the difficulties con-
stantly interfering with wireless mes
saSes over long distance.
The application OF his device. Pro-
lessor Pupin said. also will make n
POSSIBLE to transmit tho human voice
an unlimited distance without tho
slightest interference from unfavorable
electrical conditions
There is nothing now" the professor
said. TO prevent the transmission of
messages by wireless telephone to
every part OF tho globe. We may send
message completely around the globe
IL we like"