Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — PULLMAN'S WILL. [ARTICLE]

PULLMAN'S WILL.

Palace Car Magnate Left Many Be* quests to Charitable Institutions. The will of the late George M. Pullman was tiled in tire probate court at Chicago the other day. Norman B. Ream and Robert T. Lincoln are named as executors, his wife not being appointed because of his wish to relieve her of thy responsibilities of the position. The total value is shown by the petition for a letter of testamentary to be over $7,000,000. Of this amount, $6,800,000 is in personal property and SBOO,OOO in realty. The bulk of the estate goes to the two daughters, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden of Chicago and Mrs. Frank Carolon of San Franciseor wh» received $1,000,000 each, and also a residuary estate. To his widow he left the homestead on Prairie avenue. She is also to receive $50,00Q for the first year and thereafter during her life the income of $1,250,000. “Castle Rest,” on one of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence river, is given to his daughter Florence (Mrs. Lowden), with the furniture, for life. The eighth provision is as follows: “Inns much as neither of my sons has dcvelbped such a .sense of responsibility as in my judgment is requisite to the wise use of large properties and considerable sums of money, I am painfully compelled, as I have explicitly stated to them, to limit my testamentary provisions for their benefit to trusts producing only such income as I have deemed reasonable for their support.” Accordingly the bonds and other securities set aside yield each an annual income of $3,000.” To Royal Henry Pullman, John M. Pullman, Helen Pullman West and Emma Pullman Fluhrcr, brothers and sisters of the deceased, is bequeathed the sum of $50,000 a p'eee. Thirteen Chicago charitable institutions receive SIO,OOO. The sum of $200,000 is given- for the erection of a manual jrjj.tiring school in which is also endowed with $1,200,000. Five of the old employes are given $5,000 each. The household servants get from $250 to SSOO apiece. There are numerous other bequests to relatives ranging from SSOO to $25,000.