The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-13
BEHESTS OF COLONEL PAYNE
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ognized as one of the capitalists of New York
 The reasons were strong for surmising that Mir. Whitney's second marriage was not viewed with favor by Colonel Payne. There seemed to have arisen a division in the family entailing some sad es- arrangements and it was commonly be- lieved that whatever the cause of the division may have been If there really was any Harry Payne Whitney, who married one of the Vanderbilt girls, gave his cordial support to his father. whereas Payne Whitney was in full sympathy with the attitude which was taken by his uncle. Col. o. H. Payne. After Will liam c. Whitney's death it was discov- cred that by his will Payne Whitney was almost unrecognized, whereas his brother, Harry Payne Whitney. was the chief beneficiary. The surmise was in- evitable that this manner of writing the will may have reflected whatever unfor- tunate dispositions may have been ere ated in the family by reason of MT. Whitneys second marriage.
 A S20,o00,O00 GIFT
 Colonel Payne apparently was not will ing that a nephew who had been in full sympathy with him should be in this manner deprived of his due share of his fathers estate. Therefore, according to what should be reliable information, Colonel Payne called Payne Whitney aside one day and turned over to him $2o.000, ,00O thereby more than making good whatever he lost by reason of the terms of his fathers will. Now in addi- ton to that gift of s20,Oo00Oo, Colonel Payne has made Payne Whitney, with five others, two of them nleces. partici- pants in equal shares of the residue of the estate after something like s COG, 900 has been paid in beeuests.
 Presumably the bequest of s100000 to Lewis Cass Ledyard is in lieu of fees which MT. Ledyard might receive as one of the executors of the estate When Cornelius Vanderbilt, grandson of the Commodore wrote his will he named Chauncey M. Depew and E. V. W. Ros- sitter, treasurer of the New York Central company, as executors and bequeathed to each of them s50,000 This bequest was in lieu of the fees they might under the law receive for services as executors, but there was nothing but good faith to stand in the way of taking the be- quests and then charging executors fees That good faith was kept sacredly. DAUGHTER-IN-LAW'S LOYALTY
 Whatever differences. if any. may have developed in MT. Whitney's family they must have served to increase the loyalty and devotion which his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, felt for Mr. Whitney. That was strikingly re- yealed at a moment when MT. Whitney was perilously near a great crisis He was undertaking to secure the control or the larger public utilities of New York, but found that he could not borrow the money with which to perfect his plans. Russell Sage was the owner Of large block of stock in this public utility company and was willing to sell it, but his price was beyond the capacity or MT. Whitney to borrow the necessary money One morning of a day when it seemed as though before night he must face defeat, his daughter-ln-laW Ia ", Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, put In ms hands a check she had at that moment received for 100000, drawn on the Lin- coin Bank of New York. It was her proportionate part of a special bequest left by her father. With that million dollars that seemed almost to have come from the sky. Mir Whitney secured Ine Sage stock and at night was master of the situation.