New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-14
Oil Mans Widow Be
queathed More than That
Amount to Institutions
ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S
WILL GET 100000
Five Hospitals Receive
100000 Each-Many Rel
ativeS Remembered

Requests TO public institutions
amounting to more than 100000 were
made by the late Mrs. Mary Warden
Hardness in her will, filed yesterday.
Mrs. Hardness died last Friday at the
Presbyterian Hospital The same day
the appraisal Of the estate Of her hus-
band, Charles W. Hardness, was made
public, showing that he had left 70
Mrs. Hardness s12,151, 629.
Mr. Hardness, who was a former
director and a large stakeholder OF the
Standard Oil Company, died on May l
last. His estate was appraised at S49,-
566,s95.
The public requests by Mrs. Hark-
ness are:
Two hundred thousand dollars to st.
Bartholomew Church for endowment
purposes and as an addition to the
Charles W. Hardness fund. Mrs. Hark-
ness. it is understood, recently gave
100000 TO the church.
St. Bartholomew Church Clinic,
$4,000.
Yale University, 100000 as an en-
dowment fund, income to be used only
as salary for instructors. Mr.. Hark-
ness left 100000 to the university.
Large Requests TO Hospitals
Morristown Memorial Hospital, Nor
ristown, n. j., 100000; Flagler Hos
pital st. Augustine, Fla, 100000; Ger
mantown Dispensary and Hospital,
Philadelphia, 100000; Babies Hos
pital 100000; st. Mary's Free Hos
pital for Children, 100000.
Art Museum of Cleveland, $1,000 to
create a Charles W. Hardness endow-
ment fund; st. Johns Guild, $4,000
for fresh air fund; Morristown County
Chidren's Home, Morristown, y. j,
S50,O00 Goodwill Home Association,
Hinckley, Me, $4,000; Bryson Day
Nursery, $4,000.
Mrs. Hardness left to Edward S.
Hardness. her brother-in-law, a small
collection of paintings for life. At his
death they are 10 go 70 the Art Museum
Of Cleveland, which also receives col
lection of china.
for her employees. The superintendent
and housekeepers in her New York and
Madison, y. j., residences receive $4,000
each, and those in the service Of Mrs.
Hardness or her husband for ten years
prior TO her death are to receive an
nuities for life equal to one-half of
their annual wages.
Brothers Made Executors
Clarence A. Warden and William G..
Warden, of Philadelphia, brothers of
Mrs. Hardness, each receive one-thir-
teenth of the residuary estate and are
named as executors. The other eleven
thirteenths of the residue are
distributed as follows: Mrs. Eliz-
abeth L. Ketterlinus, sister, one
part in trust for life; Nelson r.
Warden. brother, one part; Mrs. Sarah
B. Mclean. sister, one part; Mrs. Edith
Warden Strawbridge, sister, two parts;
Herbert w. Warden, brother, one part;
two thirteenths are distributed in equal
shares among Mrs. Eleanore G. Bodine,
sister. and Louise Warden How, Flea
nor G. Perry. william Warden Bodine
and Elizabeth Donnelly Kay, nieces
and nephews; William G. Warden, one
mart in trust for life, besides the part
which is left to him outright. =.
Mrs. Hardness received one-half OF
her husbands residuary estate, amount
ing to sl1.537 ,O62; residence at 2 East
Fiftv-fourth Street, appraised at $3.50
900; garage and stable at l35 west
Fifty-second Street, appraised at $751;
900; household and personal effects.
s44, 567, and the Madison. n. j., resi-
dence: NJ
Although the transfer tax on Mr.;
Harkness's estate was recently hxed
bv the State Controller, that part OF
his estate that passed 10 Mrs. Hardness
will now have TO pay another tax, with
the exception of the institutional be-
ouests which are exempt.