Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-11
CHARITY GETS MOST OF
HARRY D. SCHELl ESTATE
sequests to institutions Total $2ts,.
ooo-Chureh Home Provided

ooo-Chureh Home Provided
Virtually the whole estate Of the late
Harry u. Schell. Of 6U37 Overbrook
avenue. goes to charities under the
terms Of his will admitted today to pro-
bate. Mr.. Schell died January 81.
Although the will states that Mr..
SchclfS property amounts to more
than $2O5 .OOO." the beQucsts t" char
liable institutions and organizations
total S2lS.0OO. II is believed. hCwcver.
that each of the bequests can be COM
fortably covered by the property.
a codicil attached to the will pro.
vides that the property left Mr.. Schell
by his mother-i law, Mrs. CathArine
a. Wentz. which includes the Over.
brook avenue house. shall be sold and
the money raised from the sale be used
in the erection of new buildings by the
buildings are to be known as the Gath
arine 4. Wentz memorial. 1t is re-
quested but not mace mandatory that
these buildings be erected within the
limits of Philadelphia.
Should the Baptist Home authorities
see fit to decline this bequest the codicil
provides that the proceeds of the Wentz
property be equally divided between the
Northwestern General Hospital and the
Roosevelt Hospital.
What residue there may be to Mr..
Schell's estate goes to Il sister, a ncphc"
and a niece.
Bequests to charities, mentioned III
the will. are as follows:
Couples and Aged Men; $4,000; Presby.sr az a.
RSs RSsne for ana SSSe
for Consumptives. $1,000: Churchmans Mis-
$780, sS souSern
for Destit1te, Children $1,000 Starr Center
Ass1fh,,'" sST.iay Breakfast s Association. $4,000;
Temporary shelter Tor Women. $1,000; Union
PSr $500 HG%y "s
$1,000; WSmen,s southern H..Hms.SSpa'hic Hos,
pital. $1,000; Hom. of Of Industry for Dis: D,is
,5co sapst Home of
sdelphia. $4,000 AmeriesD Baptist Home and
Northern Dspcnsary, $500.
and Asylum for the Aged end Infrm OF the
chn1sn $500
Prson rha s"S,y Hs % ss%s Y;
Friend Society, $1,000: Pt nnsylvania Society
"f q HSsps c.pe n
ss$Ssii SsssSs Hers TS$s'Hs: !sS5 $780, rhaSsDha
| Home Missionary Society, $1,000; Mag
dalene Society, $500: Methodist Home for the
Aged. $1,000; Midnight Mission. $500: Amer
| Jean Oncoloslc Hospital. $4,000: Children s
/ HOMEOPATHIC Hospital. $4,000 ts6oO0 to-
ward the endowment Of free bed in memory
| of the testator's wife Kate q. Schell.)
! Fred Douglass Hospital. $4,000: German
town Disprnsary and Hospital. $1,000 Gyno.
| cean Hospital, $1,000; Hahnomann Medical
| College and Hospital. $4,000: Howard Hospi-
! tai. O,OOO: Jewish IIospital Associat ton OF
| Philadelphia 5000. kensington Hospital Tor
Women. $4,000: Methodist Hospital. I0.oo0:
Northwest General Hospital. $4,000; "rcnth
Baptist Church, $4,000 Ito be used in payins
| off mortgase)
American Baptist Missionary society.
s5O00 Baptist Union OF Philadelphta., $500
|OverbrUCk Presbyterian Church lfor tn" ben
eft OF Chreng Raj Mission, Laos, Asia D.
S25OO: Bedford Street Mission. $500: ialiiee
Mission Of the Protestant Epis"opal Church;
"'n' Home for Aged and lnhrm Colorcd
| Persons. S25O0: Home for Aged Couples.
$4,000; Philadelphia Home for lncurables,
| $4,000; Home for the Homeless $500.
| women's Medical College. $500: Mater
| nifty Hospital, $1,000; PENNSYLVANIA Asylum
| for INDECENT Widows and Single Women,
| $1,000: Pennsylvant Hospital, $1,000. West
| Philadelphia Hospital for Women. $500:
| Womens Hospital Of Philadelphia. $500:
Womens Homeopathic Association of Penn
sylvania, S25O0. Bucknell University, Lewis
burg $4,000: kensington Day Nursery. $4,000:
Kensington Hospital for Women, $1,000;
| Murphy College. Sevierville. Tenn. $500:
Downingtown Industrial and Agricultural
School for Colorcd Youth $1,000.