Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-26

divorce I acted wholly under advice OF
counsel. as will more fully appear from
a certain letter from one of them,
Richard p White. which letter is dated
December %, 1889. and will be found
among my papers.
Advised II was Illegal
at the time of making said agree
ment I was not aware that Il was un-
lawful and would have faithfully per-
formed all the covenants contalne
therein had their mother in good faith
kept her part of the agreement but her
subsequent breaches thereof IN seeking
TO interfere with my custody OF my
son and otherwise compelled me to con-
suit other counsel relative TO said writ
ten agreement. by whom I was advised
that II was illegal and could not be
enforced against me, as will he seen by
the written opinion OF Messrs. Rufus
T.. Shapley and George Tucker Bisphan
of March g. 1891. In my opinion the
conditions OF said agreement have been
wiifully violated by their mother and
by nv daughters under her influence
Advances Repuised, He Says
"1 andeayored for many years TO be
a good father to my daughters. but my
advances we're continually repulsed
they abandoned me without expressed
reason on their part or opportunity OF
persuasion or explanation; they refused
all my requests for intercourse they
Informed me Gas they Will remember,
that they owed me nothing for the past
and that | owed them for the future
was only what the law compelled me 10
do so that to make them my benehclarles
would be in their view only compliance
with the dictates of the law: and as l
- stated reasons
that I am under no legal nor moral OBJ
legations to them, have made no pro-
visions for them other than that made
in my will covering my French estate
"All the rest, residue and remainder
OF my estate, except such as is situated
in France, | give. devise and bequeath
10 the Franklin Institute OF the state
Of Pennsylvania, TO oe applied 10 the
establishment and maintenance or a de-
partncnt Of practical electrical en-
cheering. TO be known as the Bartol
School of Applied Electricity. wherein
free tuition shall be given to white
male minors born In the United states,
they having preference and II the en-
dowment permits. TO other males, either
minors or adults, without regard TO
nationality.
MY purpose is that the instruction
the theory of electrical engineering, but
to its actual application to apparatus,
which so far as may be, l wish con-
structed by the pupils In a workshop
appurtenant to the school. and ] desire
that the school and its appliance shall
be available. under proper restrictions,
to all persons interested in the subject,
for the purposes of investigation" In
the event Of the bequest not being ac-
year, the estate is to go to the Cniver-
sity of Pennsylvania for the purposes
stated.
The executor is empowered to pur-
chase for the widow one-third interest
in the Chateau de Sainte Helene. sit
uated in Nice, for the sum of $4,000,
which sum Is to be invested and held
as trust for her benefit during her
life Upon her demise, the principal is
to be paid TO the Franklin Institute or
the University of Pennsylvania. Con-
tinuing the codicil reads:
Since making my will electrical sci
ence has progressed so that / fear that
there is not the same field for research
as thought. ] therefore desire TO modi-
fy my will in this respect. namely the
money coming into the hands of the
Franklin Institute or the University of
Pennsylvania shall be applied to the
tute on the lines of the Melen Institute
of Pittsburgh. the preference. however.
being given 20 workers or those making
researches in electrical science"