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A. ID. Juilliard of New York
Left Sum of S5,O00,000
In His Will
TO ESTABLISH
MUSICAL FOUNDATION
Will Aid Worthy Students to Get AIDE
uuate Musical Education-Will Also
Give Musical Entertainments anG
Operas Without Profit.


Give Musical Entertainments and
Operas Without Profit.
NEW YORK, June 28.-An unusual
bequest, which will mean much to New
York city as a centre of musical educa-
ton and production, was revealed yes
terday when the will of the late Angus
tus d. Juilliard, who died on April %,
was filed for probate in the Office of the
surrogate of Orange county in Goshen
After providing for the immediate rela-
tives and making requests of 100000
each to various institutions, the will
sets aside the entire residuary estate,
conservatively estimated to be consid-
erably more than S. 100000 for the es-
adjustment of the Juilliard Musical
Foundation.
According to the terms of the will the
general scope of the foundation is to
aid all worthy students of music in ac-
| curing complete and adequate musical
education either at appropriate institu-
| tons now in existence or hereafter to
be created, or from appropriate instruc-
| tors in this country or abroad; to ar
range for and to give without profit to
it musical entertainments, concerts, and
recitals of a character appropriate for
| the education of the general public in
/ the musical arts, and to aid the Metro
] pOlitan Opera company in the city of
\ New York, for the purpose of assist
1 ing it in the production of operas. This
is said to be the largest single bequest
ever made for the encouragement of
musical education. The next largest
amount for this purpose was 100000,
which created the Loeb Foundation.
This in turn supports the Musical Art
Society, the aims and purposes of which
are to a large degree similar to those of
the new Juilliard Foundation.
For many years Mr.. Juilliard was in
, terested in the encouragement of art
science and music. He was patron of
the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, but his chief interest was in the
Metropolitan Opera House. In 1892 he
took steps towards the formation of the
Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate
Company, of which he was president al
the time of his death. This organiza
tion was holding company which con,
trolled the affairs of the opera company
! itself. Despite Mr.. Juilliard' s close
: association with the officers of the com
{ pany, it was said yesterday that no on,
knew of the contents of the will excep
one or two members of the family.
I 1t is provided in the will that The
Juilliard Musical Foundation must b,
established during the lives of Frederi,
A. Juilliard and Robert Westawav. anC
If for any reason the foundation is no
y formed, one-half of the residue of tn,
: estate is to be given to the American
Museum of Natural History and TIN
:, other half to st. Johns Guild of tn
ID City of New York. The trustees are t,
be the president of the Central Uniol
n. Trust company, who is at presen
ID James n. Wallace; the president of tn
: Guaranty Trust company. who is a
% present Charles II. Sabin; Frederic A
l. Juilliard, Mr.. Juilliard s nephew an,
partner; and such other persons a
Q, these three shall select to assist them il