The evening world., 1919-03-15
MANY CHARITABLE
GIFTS IN WILL
OF F. C. BOURNE
Codicil Dated Day Before
Commodore'S Death Aids
Cathedral Nave Fund.

RTvERHEAD. L. l.. March 1j.--Tn
codicil 10 his will. executed March
s, the day before he died at his coun-
try home at Oakdale, Commodore
Frederick @. Bourne, former head OF
( the Singer Sewing Machine Company,
I beuueathed SiO.6SO to the Cathedral
| OF st. John the Divine, in Manhattan.
to help build the Cathedral nave. Tho
! will dated March 4, and tho Codlcil
were fled for probate to-day
/ Commodore Bourne also bequeathed
to the church all the shares he owned
In the Providcnt Loan Society Of Man
haitian for the use OF the Cathedral
School TO keep up its high standard.
The gift for the nave is as an Easter
offering, and that for the school a
Lenten Offering.
The value Of the estate is given az
more than 100000 personal and $780,
900 real property.
The country estate at Oakddic,
known as Indian Neck Hail. fIrm
houses. boats, automobiles and other
personal effects. including the rcsi-
dcnce known as the Ludlow Home, are
bequeathed 10 the testntors childr5A,
who also receive the furnishings and
all property on the Dark and Corn
Islands OF the Thousand Islands group.
The children are: Arthur X.
Bourne OF oakdalc: Mrs. May Miller
Strassburger OF Gwyncdd Valley,
Pa; Marion c. Bourne and Margcry
Bourne OF oakdalc; Mrs, Florence
Hard OF West Sayville.. and George
G. Bourne OF Glen Cove.
Charitable bequosts of 10000 each
and 1000 shares OF the City and SUI
hurban Homes Company are as fol-
lows:
Childrcn's Aid Society Of New
York; Sheltering Arms. New York;
ST. Johns Guild, New York; Emanuel
Episcopa! Church, Great River; New
York Skin and Cancer Hospital. Nor
wegian Lutheran Deaconess Home
and Hospital, New York.
st. Annals Episcopal Church. say
vile, for the Kenneth Bourne Memor-
ial Fund, in memory of the Commo-
dore's deceased son; New York Ju-
venile Asylum, Dobb's Ferry; Hope
Farm. Millbrook. y. Y. Salvation
Army; Protestant Episcopal City Mis-
sion Society, Manhattan: New York
In
tion of the Poor; Pomfret School OF
Pomfrct, Conn; tuberculosis Proven
torium OF Farmingdale, y. j.; AMI
Church Charity Foundation OF Long
Island.
The testator requested that thos3
institutions retain the stock in the
Homes Company ana use the income
only.
Other bequests are: Clara Bourne
Whitman, sister, Groton, Conn. S25,-
900: Mary Bourne Miller Manhattan,
sister, $4,000; Clara VI. Frankard,
Manhattan. niece. $4,000; Catherine
c. Vail. Larchmont, niece, $4,000;
Harold b. Miller, Manhattan, nephew,
$4,000; Madeline Miller Flammcr,
Bronxville, y. Y, niece, $4,000; May
Miller Goss, Waterbury, Conn, niece,
5000: Grace Grueby. RoXbury, Mass.
cousin, $1,000; George +. Vail. Man
haitian. $4,000; Clayton Mayo, Man
haitian, $4,000; JJeffory Fillmore
Harrison, Manhattan. $4,000; the Rev.
John IL. Prescott, rector Of St. AIMS
Episcopal Church, Salville, $1,000
the rev. w, y, Webbc, Great River,
y. Y. $1,000.
To each Of the eight grandchildren
is left $4,000 cash. To each OF his
employees who had been in his SER
vice for ten years is left $500 casn
with an additional $50 for each year
they served him over the ten.
The testator places his entire in
terest in the Singer Company IN the
hands OF his executors in trust for the
following purposes: To div de the
principal in as many portions as
there are children surviving and the
issue OF children who had died and
pay them the income for life. and on
the death OF any legatee to pay the
prime pal to their issue. Commodore
Bourne suggested that the stock In
the Singer Company not be sold, but
held as an investment,
The executors are Arthur Kceler
Bourne, son, and George r. Vail,
my hope Is that my children will
continue the subscription to charity
which have been made by me through
my Office" said tho commodore i'm his
will. las shown by my books, but this
wish is not to he binding upon them"
DANCE HELPS A SCHOOL.