The New York herald., 1922-04-20
MISS BOURNE LEFT
$S0O,OOO TOPlJBLIC
A. T. G. p. to Get 100000
for Nurses Retreat in
| Country.
TOTAL ABOVE 5000, 900
Relatives and Friends Re-
membered, $3.50, 900 Co.
ing to Sister.
SYMPATHY FOR CHARITY
Brother, Former Senator. to
BE Honorcd With Memorial
in Portland, Ore.
SYMPATHY FOR CHARITY


The will OF Miss Emily Rowland
Bourne. sister of former Senator Jona-
than Bourne, Jr.. of oregon. who died
In her home, III West Fifty-eighth
street, on March 23, was filcd for pro-
bate yesterday.
The bulk OF Miss Bourne's personal
fortune, estimated at more than $780,
900, will go to humanitarian institu-
tions, rather than to immediate MEM
bers OF her family, in her expressed
desire to be of assistance to those Of
slender means and to the needy and
suffering poor. Her will said:
'As the property of my father was
sufficient to provide amply for his
children it has accordingly seemed
right to me not to add to the large
fortunes of those most nearly related
to me; but rather to do what think
they will most appreciate. and after
making them gifts as token of my
affection to devote the bulk OF my for
tune to trying to make comfortable
the lives of those who havo slender
means and to the relief of the needy
and suffering poor and the general
benefit of humanity"
a. I. G. r. to Get 100000.
To her brother Miss Bourne be-
dueathed a trust fund OF $4,000. the
principal OF which on his death is to be
used to erect memorial in his honor
In Portland, Ore.
The largest benefaction to philan-
thropic institutions was 100000 to the
New York Association for Improving
the Condition of the Poor, to be used
'in establishing and maintaining
country place where nurses from New
York city can obtain needed rest and
stay while convalescent-"
Other bequests were: The New York
Association for the Blind. to maintain
a Bourne workshop erected by the de-
ceased, $4,000: Scamen's Church In
stitute, $4,000; Yale University. for
Jonathan Bourne schoiarship" In men,
ory OF her father. $4,000; Legal Aid
Society. 10000 Henry Street Settle
ment. $4,000; New York Eye and Ear
Infrnary, $4,000; fund for the relief
OF widows and orphans OF deceased
Episcopal clergymen. $4,000; st. Mary's
on the Mountain. Sewanee. Tenn,
$4,000; care OF Hunt memorial build
ing. $4,000: New York City Mission
and Tract Society, $4,000; GrenfeIl AS
sociation, $4,000. and the Church Peri
odical Fund, $1,000.
Legacies to institutions in Nfassachu-
setts included st. Lukcs Hospital. New
Bedford, $4,000; Old Dartmouth His
torical Society. New Bedford, $4,000:
Grace Church. New Bedford. $4,000
Massachusetts General Hospital. $4,000,
and the town of Bourne, for the care OF
the Jonathan Bourne Library Building,
$4,000. There were other gifts aggre-
eating nearly $4,000 to societies in New
Bedford and Boston. These requests to
public institutions total to nearly
$500, 900.
To Mrs. Amelia M. Gummcre, widow of
Prof. Gummere of Harvard University,
she bequeathed $4,000. and to her son
Francis. living with his mother In
Ifaverford. Pa. $4,000, with the request
that he use same for motor drives"
To Prof. Henry T.. Bourne Of Western
Reserve University at Cleveland, and to
Mrs. Emily J. Putnam OF 335 West
Eighty-slxth street. will so $1,000 each.
George Haven Putnam, husband OF tho
latter, receives $1,000.
Gordon Hunt Michler and Joanna r.
Michler. grandnephew and niece, who
live with Mrs. Emily Bourne Michler
at '.The Naples Greenwich. Conn,
receive bcquests of $4,000 each. The
residuary estate, the personal effects
and chattels of the decedent with
specific bequest OF sc5o,coo go to Mrs.
Mchler.
Helen Merriman OF Providence, r. l..
n niece, 10 to receive $4,000; Henry
Pierce. Jr, of the Hope Club. Provi-
dence, II. l.. $4,000: Mrs. Frank Il.
Nye. Cambridge. Mass, 5000; Wini-
fred Holt. a East Seventy-eighth street.
New York city. $4,000: Dr. and Mrs.
Joseph G. Bloodgood. Baltimore. each
5000: Mrs Mary Borglum. wife OF
Gutzon BorgIum. $1,000: Or. Frank
Dengler. Baden Baden. Germany my
valued friend and medical man." 81 900,
and $500 and an annuity of $500 to
Jane Storms OF Buzzards Bay. Mass.
with request that she continue her
interest In tho Jonathan Bourne IL