MR.PULLMAN'S WILL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 763, 11 March 1910, Page 8

MR.PULLMAN'S WILL.

NEARLY .£300,000 FOR CHARITIES. The will has now been proved in England of George Mortimer Pulman, of Chicago, one of the heads of the company having the monopoly of the manufacture of Pullman cars, who left estate valued at ,£3 600,000. The executors have been required by the'authorities in Illinois to give (bonds for the due performance of their duties of the: total value of 36000,000 dollars.. The chief bequests under the will are:— - (l),.£2«),000(as to for land, buildings, and equipment, and .£200,000 as an endowment) for. a Pullman free school of manual training at Pullman, Illinois. The testator, stated that'it was his intention to found such an institution in his lifetime, bnt if he had not done so, or the institution was incomplete, it was to.be completed to that value. .-, (2) ,£2OOO eaoh to three .charitable and other, societies in Chicago and- elsewhere (3) Bequests from .£IOOO 'to- £50 to employees and servants. (3) Mr.-, Pullman left i200,'000 upon trust for each of his daughters, Florence Lowden and Harriet Cardlaw, and their respective issue; .£250,000 upon trust- for his wife, Mrs. Hattio Sanger Pullman, for life, with remainder to his residuary estate; .£IO,OOO each to his wife, his brothers, Royal Henry Pullman, James M. Pullman, and his sisters, Helen. PnlLman West and Emma Pullman Fluher; his residence and his household effects to his wife for life, with remainder to ■. his daughters. Concerning his sons ho stated that:— "Inasmuch as neither of my sons has developed 6uch a sense of responsibility as, in my judgment, is requisite for the wise use of largo, sums, of money, I am painfully compelled, as I \ have explicitly stated to :thom, to limit, my testamentary provisions for their bonefit to trusts producing only such income as I.deem reasonable for their support." He, therefore, left on trust for each of his sons, George Mortimer Pullman, and Walter Sanger Pullman, only such a sum as shall produce an alnual income of .£6OO, with the reversion of the capital to their children. Subject to several other bequests, he left the residue of his property ,to his. two daughters.