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VAST ESTATE IS LEFT BYKC. FRICK Steel Magnate Gives $117,000,- 000 to the Public. $25,000,000 LEFT TO FAMILY Harvard, Princeton and Many Other Institutions, Charitable and Other wise, Willed Large Amounts by Multimillionaire. New York. Dec. B.—Henry Clay Frick, multimillionaire ironmaster and collector of art, left all but $25, 000,000 of his vast estate to public, charitable, and educational institu tions, according to the terms of his will, made public here. The value of the public bequests, after the $25,000,000 is set aside for his widow, sou and daughter, is $117,- 000,000, exclusive of 151 acres of Pitts burgh real estate, left for a public park. Princeton and Harvard universities and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are bequeathed approxi mately $25,000,000, divided so that Princeton will receive about $15,000,- 000, and Harvard and Technology each about $5,000,000. Many Hospitals Remembered. About $5,000,000 is left to the edu cational fund commission at Pitts burgh. Pittsburgh institutions to re ceive bequests amounting to about $500,000 each, are: Children’s hospital, Allegheny General hospital; Home for the Friendless, Kingsley House asso ciation, Mercy hospital, Pittsburgh Free dispensary, Pittsburgh Newsboys’ home, Western Pennsylvania hospital, and the Central Young Women’s Chris tian association. Other $500,000 beuests are: Unlon io\vn hospital, Uniontown; Cottage State hospital, Conneisville; West Moreland hospital, Greensburg; Mount Pleasant Memorial hospital. Mount Pleasant; Braddock General hospital, Braddock, and the Homestead hospital. Homestead, all of Pennsylvania. Thd- Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the city of New’ York is left about $1,500,000. Approximately $6,500,000 in addition to her share in the $25,000,000 left the immediate family, is bequeathed to Miss Helen C. Frick, to dispose of along the general lines of public bene fit provided for in bequests to public and educational institutions. The New York mansion, in which the Frick art collection is housed, is left to Mrs. Adelaide H. C. Frick, his widow, as long as she continues to live there. The house and the art collec tion together are valued at $50,000,000. Upon her death or election to re linquish the house as a residence, the entire property is left to a corporation to be formed to maintain a “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 “Frck Collection.” The corporation is to maintain in the New York mansion a “public gallery of art.” Until the corporation is completed, the art collection is to be held in ti;ust by Mrs. Frick. Miss Helen Frick, Childs Frick, 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 a public park. Two mil lion dollars are left to the Union Trust company of Pittsburgh, as trustees, for maintenance and embellishment of the park." Executors of the will, under its di rection, are given as Mrs. Adelaide H. C. Frick. Miss Helen Frick, Childs Frick, and Henry C. McEldowney and William Watson Smith, both of Pitts burgh. McEldowney and Smith re ceive $250,000 each as their fees. BURNED TO DEATH IN WRECK Three Persons Lose Lives When Mo tor Bus Jumps Rails Near Muscatine; la. Muscatine, la.*. Dec. 6. —Three per sons were burned to death, eleven were injured and two are unaccounted for in the wreck of a motor bus, which jumped the rails of the Muscatine, Burlington & Southern railway at Hahn crossing, three miles south of Muscatine. The bus was fitted, for use on railway tracks. SHOOT AT GEN. OBREGON Carranza Troops Open Fire While Commander Makes Address in Inter est of Candidacy for President Washington, Dec. B.—Private ad vices received here from Mexico said Carranza troops at Pachuca, state of Hidalgo, fired on the followers of Gen. Obregon while the general was ing a public address in the interest of his candidacy for the presidency. No details were given. • ■ vv Great Mass of Proof. JJI Reports of 50,000 Cases of Kidney Trouble, Some of Them • Edgerton Cases. 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