Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-12-17
VAST ESTATE IS
LEFT BY H. c. FR|CK
Steel Magnate Gives S117,000,-
600 to the Public.
S25, 0OO,O0o LEFT TO FAMILY
Harvard. Princeton and Many other
institutions, Charitable and Other
wise, Willed Large Amounts
by MuItimiIionaire.

New York, Dec. S-Henry Clay
Prick, multimillionaire ironmaster
and collector of art, left all but S25,
100000 of his vast estate to public
charitable, and educational institu-
lions. according to the terms OF his
will, made public here.
The value of the public requests,
after the $256OO,0O0 is set aside for
his widow son and daughter, is SILL
100000, exclusive of 151 acres of Pitts
burgh real estate, left for public
park.
Princeton and Harvard universities
and the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology are bequeathed approx
mately S25,OOO,O0O, divided so that
Princeton will receive about $15,000,-
600, and Harvard and Technology
each about $5.OOOO0O
Many Hospitals Remembered.
About 100000 is left to the edu-
cational fund commission at Pitts
burgh. Pittsburgh institutions to re-
ceive requests amounting to about
100000 EACH are: Children's hospital,
Allegheny General hospital; Home for
the Friendless Kingsley House asso-
citation, Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh
Free dispensary, Pittsburgh Newsboys'
home, Western Pennsylvania hospital,
and the Central Young Women's Chris
tan association.
Other 100000 beuests are: Union
town hospital UniontOwn; Cottage
State hospital, Connelsville; West
Moreland hospital, Greensburg; Mount
Pleasant Memorial hospital, Mount
Pleasant; Braddock General hospital,
Braddock, and the Homestead hospital,
Homestead, all of Pennsylvania.
The Society of the Lying-in Hospital
of the city of New York is left about
$1,500.000
Approximately S6,5OO,O00 in addition
to her share in the $25,000000 left the
immediate family, is bequeathed to
Miss Helen G.. Prick, to dispose of
along the general lines of public bene-
fit provided for in requests TO public
and educational institutions.
The New York mansion, in which
the Prick art collection is housed, is
left to Mrs. Adelaide II. c. Prick, his
widow, as long as she continues to live
there. The house and the art collec-
ton together are valued at S50,OO0,OOO.
Upon her death or election to re-
linquish the house as a residence, the
entire property is left to corporation
to be formed to maintain gallery of
art" on the property for encouraging
and developing the study of fine arts,
and of advancing the general knowl-
edge of kindred subjects"
Care for Art Wealth.
The trustees are directed immedi-
ately to form the corporation under
the laws of New York state to be
known as the "Frick Collection" The
corporation is to maintain in the New
York mansion public gallery of art"
Until the corporation is completed,
the art collection is to be held in trust
by Mrs. Frick, Miss Helen Prick,
Childs Prick, the son, and George f.
Baker, Jr., J. Horace Harding, Walker
D. Hines. Lewis Cass Ledyard, John
D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Horace Have
meyer.
Fifteen million dollars are left in
trust to the same persons for the
maintenance and improvement of the
Frick Art Collection, house and
grounds.
A tract of land in Pittsburgh, about
151 acres, in the Fourteenth ward and
bordering on the HOmewood cemetery,
is left to the city of Pittsburgh, to be
maintained as public park. Two mil
lion dollars are left to the Union Trust
company of Pittsburgh, as trustees,
for maintenance and establishment of
the park
Executors of the will, under its di-
rection, are given as Mrs. Adelaide III.
C. Prick. Miss Helen Frick, Childs
Frfck. and Henry c. McEldowney and
William Watson Smith, both of Pitts
burgh. McEldowney and Smith re-
ceive $3.50 900 each as their fees.