The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-09
ESTATE OF HOE NOW IS VALUED
 AT SIO,OOO,OOO
Executors Sue to Regain Pos session of Property Near
 Hartford.

| Hartford, June 9-When Robert
 Hoe, the printing press manufacturer.
 died Sept. 22, 1909, he left an estate
 estimated in the neighborhood of
 $1O,OOO,OOO. A part of it was acres
 and acres of wild land on Avon noun tain, which were afterward sold. to i Gilbert F. Heublein of Hartford and
 others; and on Tuesday, June 27, 1 there will begin in the superior court | in this city trial of the suit of F. w. | H. Crane and other executors of the | will of MT. Hoe against Owen R. Rob
 erts to get possession of place on
 Avon Mountain which MT. Hoe is said to have given to Corrfeia Whitehead, | who later married MT. Roberts and has since died. The executors con
 tend Mrs. Roberts had only a, life | lease of the place.
 l The appraisal of MT. Hoes estate
 has been pending in the office of the | controller of New York state since was filed and fixed the gross value at 1 $9,832,296. Deductions for expenses | and debts leave a net value of $8,- l 374,619.
 ] The appraisal fixes no value on his interest in the good will of R. Hoe & Go. The omission of any taxation on 1 the good will due to a statement
 by the firm, and the report of John c.
 HertIe, an expert accountant. that i tn sales of the printing press concern amounted in 1909, the year of MT. l Hoes death, to $917,999 less than in
 1904. The London office of the firm was maintained at a loss of $31,000
 a year from 1904 at 1909.
 l A perplexing question arose re- Il garding the value of MT. Hoes extens- i've library, which was sold at public
 auction. One of the purchasers at
 the Hoe library sale was the late II Gen. Brayton Ives, who paid $43,034
 for the volumes he bought. After the 1 death of General Ives these same
 books were sold for $25,76S. The Hoe H executors sought to have the tax fixed
 on the smaller amount, but this claim was not allowed. The total value of
 the Hoe library was placed at $1,- 1 910,619.
 | The appraisal also reveals the set t1ement which MT. Hoes estate made
 with Mrs. Margaret Johnson Johns | to enforce deeds of trust which she l asserted MT. Hoe made to her in Lon i don when her father was the manager 1 for the company there. She asserted l that the 'pressmaker had set aside ! for her securities valued at $20O,000 l and a mortgage valued at $3O, 1000, a l claim which the executors refused to l honor. The matter was settled by paying Mrs. Johns about $15O,00o. l The testimony taken in that action, l which never came to trial, showed l that MT. Hoe and Mrs. Johns lived Fl in adjoining houses in a fashionable I part of London. Mrs. Johns was then I Mrs. Johnson, having later married Arthur Johns, a lawyer of New York.
 MT. Hoes largest single asset was his interest in R. Hoe & Co.,, which
 was appraised at $4,258,54 He had
 real estate valued at $1,S87,386; 1 stocks and bonds, $8O4,os1; paintings. | $152,5 $40; decorative and industrial
 art, $78,o72; Chinese, Japanese and other potteries, $167,93O; other ob= l jects of European art, not including paintings and statuary, $395,712, and | etchings, engravings and prints, $34,-
 524. MT. Hoe had jewelry valued at l $11,O53. He carried only $1OO.84 in
 surance on his life.
 The estate passes to the five chiI-
 dren, Robert Hoe, Jr., Arthur Inger-
 soil Hoe, Ruth Sterling Hoe, Olivia
 Slade, Laura Carter. and a grand
 daughter, Thyrza Benson F1agg, each
 of whom receive $1,195,445. Three
 other grandchildren, Ellen James
 Evans, Robert Trogwy Evans and
 Samuel Hoe Evans, receive $398,491
 each. Several small bequests were
 made to friends, and $5,O00 to Ella M Johns.
 Mr. Hoe did not mention his widow | Olivia P. Hoe, in his will, but her
 dover interest in his realty amounted l c