MILLION OUT OF SALTS

Evening Star, Issue 15909, 15 September 1915, Page 7

MILLION OUT OF SALTS

SOME HANDSOME BEQUESTS. D€ath: duties amounting to about. £350,000 . mil have to be paid on the estate' of . : £1,611,607 6s -7d left by the late Mr James CroFSlcy Eno, -of Wood Hall, Dulwich, S.E and of Pohieroy street.. New Cross road' S.E., manufacturing chemist, proprietor of "Eno's Fruit Salt*," who died ou May 11 last, at the age of 87. Mr Eno started life as a chemist ma small shop at NeWcasileThis is the largest -fortune left by- any patent medicine proprietor, as distinct .from those combining the manufacture of patent foods. Among Mr Eno's bequests were the following:— £50,000 to Guy's Hospital, London, as to £25,000 for general purposes, and as to £25,000 for the re-endowment fund. £40,000 to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. £20,000 to the London Lock Hospital - and Rescue Home, Harrow road W., and Dean street, &oho, W.O. £IO,OOO to Dr Barnardo's Homes £IO,OOO to the Centra] Committee of Dicharged Prisoners' Aid Societies. £1,500 to George Heslop, \iow or lately manager of J. C. Eno, Ltd. £I,OOO to James Willis Richardson, head clerk of the company. £I,OOO to his steward, R. B. Leech, to enable him to purchase an annuity' for himself. £1,500 to his friend and solicitor, FredeKek Wolfe, "as a slight and inadequate token of my appreciation of many years' careful thought and attention gire'n to mv affairs." " J Sums ranging from £3OO to £25 were left to clerks and employees, according to length of service, annuities ran»in» from £IOO to £SO, and, legacies of £IOO and £SO to servants. , OTHER FORTUNES FROM MEDICINES, i Senator tbe Hon. George Taylor Fulford • (proprietor of Dr Williams' l>ink Pills) \ Canadian, left £1,311,000; Mr Alfred' B Scott (Scott's"- Emulsion), £174,947; Mr Walter Tom Owbridgo (Owbridge's ' Lunalonic). £112,214; Mr Thomas Beeohani (Beecham's Pills), £86,680. WINDFALLS FOR EXCHEQUER. The death duties during the last week of July (says a, London exchange) realised £1,117,000, as against £489,000 for the corresponding, week of last year. The amount require* per week to atluere the' Budget _ estimate is somewhat under £600,000 per we*k, and as the amount due to date has already -been considerably exceeded, andi several other largre estates are " in sight," ifc ' -would appear that there will be considerable surplus from this aouroa of revenue. Mr Eno's is the fourth, millionaire estate of the current financial year (commencing \pril 1) and the fifth of the- calendar year.