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THE YERKES HOSPITAL THAT WILL BE
Endowed With More Money Than Any New York In
stitution of the Kind Ever Had Before.
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The greatest gift lo New York In
It* history for the i*hre of It* sick it
provided for In the will V>f f'hafle* I
Yerke*. the railway man nmt capital
l«t (Eventually the mini of M.s<k»,tKio
or ev«n more, If th- provlalonh of th"
will are nil carried out. wi. be used
for building equipping mill maintain
Inn h hoapltal In Tha* Bronx. Of »hl■»
aum sßoo,ono will !»■ used for I hi- land
■ml building. leaving $7,700,000 fur rn
endowment.
When the revenue from thin endow
inent In romp*rod with the Income- of
pome ol the irn-dt New York hoapltal*
of the piesent time, the vaatl.e- of
thin new charity may be at ill lietter
appreciated If, dd the trustees of 'he
Yerke* edtdte expert. the $7,000,000
will return hii average Income of live
per cent, the hoapltal will have a rev
enue or SAR&,OOO a veur Thld In inure
thin twice the aii'j.ia! recel;u* of St.
J m,e'ii or the v i.« bvteri.i i hospital
both of which rink mnunß the laraedt
Institutions of their kind In thld
country. indeed, the wealth of the
propoaed Ycrke* hoapltal Id equal to
half a dozen smaller New York hod
pltila. as may lie deep by n fiance
at the lower half of the following tn
hie. in which the Income of Ihe
Yerken endowment l» eontradted with
the Inromea of aeyeral New York In
atllHtlona of the preaent time
Annual
Inalltntlnn. reeel pts
Yerkea ssss,ooo
Mount Binal 292.158
I*re»liyterlai» 167,534
St. I.tlke'a tOft.Kil
Post-Graduate 127.154
Monteflore 120,741!
J.lnenln .* 29.501
Rapt and Crippled .. , 75.478
Belli larael 70,840
!<ebanmi 02.554
French oo.om
0t Mark’d 48.040
Flower 39.852
J Hood Wrlßhl 33.600
The three fated plat a vital part In
the eatahliahnieni of the Yerkea hoa
pltal. and on their whlraa depend It'
building and ltd growth. Not until
the death of Mia Yerkea. Hie widow,
of ltd founder, will the SBOO,OOO he
available, nor will one atone of the
Structure lie plied upou another, and
Dot until the death of hla aim and
daughter and the attainment of then
youngest children to the age of 21
will the real of the Yerkea’ million
complete the hoapltal endowment
fund So complicated are the provl
Slona of the will pertaining to the
hospital that It la neceasan to atud>
them with can* to nnderatand how
uncertain la the time when ltd found
Sr'* wtahea wl„ lie fully reallied
The wnole Yerke* eatate la eatlmat
Wil at $15,01*0,000. Of ihl* the auni of
ft.4Bs,tain ta willed away In various
money requeata. leaving a residuary
estate of $13,515,000 tis this It is
call mated that the Fifth avenue
borne»and Ita art collection, together
with the s7st'.taai endowmeat for the
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maintenance of thm atrncture, when,
oil the death of Mra Yerkea. It be
cornea the property of the city, are
worth $5,000,000. The remainder,
which will become available for the
hoapltal, will therefore amount to SB.
616.000. On the death of Mr*. Yerkea
one half of thla $8,515,000 hoapltal
fund may be need, but to prevent the
erection of too eoatly and large a
building, which might be Inadequate
ly equipped, the will provltlea that
only SBOO,OOO shall lie tiaeil at once
for the land and building The other
half of the troat fund la willed Si the
Yerkea ehlldren, Charlea K and his
slater lb-sale If they should ills
without Issue, their holdings will Im
mediately go to the hoapltal. If they
have children, the funds are to la
kept Intaet unill the youngeat child
of either rcHchea the age of 21. when
the principal goes to the hospital.
If Mra. Yerkea lives the threescore
years and ten usually allotted to man.
It will he 20 yeara before the estab
lishment of the hospital, and. accord
ing lo the other provisions of the will,
It may lie half century before the in
atltotion will lie In posaesßlnn of the
entire endowment
As the borough of The Bronx Is
growing faster Iti population than any
other part of the city. It has been
aald that when the time come* on the
death of Mra. Yerkea to buy a atte for
the hoapltal land will lie so dear
there that a suitable plot will take
all of the ssoo,imiii set aalfb
for land and building iit 2o yeara.
aeeordlng to most real eatate brok
ers, Bronx property will have an av
erage value as high as that of liar
lent property today. At the presen'
time the site of St. Luke's hospital,
comprising thlrly lots. I* valued at
s7llllllllO. Accordingly. It la said that
a similar site In The Bronx 20 rears
front now would use up ail but SIOO,-
iiiiii of the SBOO,OOO land and b-illdltig
fund.
Trustees of the Yerkes estate, how
ever, say that the Increase In Bronx
real estate will be more than offset
to the ilse tn value of the Yerkes
holdings Although only SBOO,OOO
will In- available ai flrkt for land and
building, more real can be
purchased later amt more buildings
erected Most of the dead capitalist'*
money is Invested In London traction
securities, which are continually In
creasing In value
"It was the wish of Mr Yerkes,"
said a physician who was one of hi*
most Intimate friends, "that thla hos
pital should begin In a small way He
did not want a magnificent building,
rvllh spacious wards, erected all at
once, which would have only an or
dinary equipment Instead, he pro
ferred an Institution of moderate sire,
out containing the best appliances
known to the scientific world He
wanted the moat skilled physleHns
and Burgeon* of the ttfir; and. ac
cordingly, he made the endowment so
1 great that the hnplial might grow
Value of the Body After Death .
Some People Leave Minute Instructions as to What Shall Be Done When Their
Lives Are Over.
Men differ to a va*t degree In the
wav they regard the value of their
bodied after death. Home In their
wllla aak that their fleah he embalm
ed with the moat costly oaaenee*.
preaerved. »a far aa poaslble. from
the ravages of time, and made to at
traet the notice of future generation*
by being entombed under aome Im
posing monument Thomna K Hyan,
eo prominent at the preaent time In
the Insurance world, has provided In
his will that he be hurled In a cathe
dral at Richmond. Va.. which he Is
now building. t
When Tanmgno. the famous Italian
tenor, died not long ago. It was found
that he had directed In his will that
hla body he embalmed and placed In
a lend coffin, which should be deposit
ed In a chapel to which the public a!
wavs might have access. Tamagno
also showed his vanity, a characteris
tic conspicuous In him throughout hla
life, by asking that the coffin have a
cover of plate glass, so that future
generations might gave upon his face.
Moat of the provisions of the will,
however, will not be carried out, for
sanitary reasons.
Jeremy Bentham. who Is generally
regarded as the founder of the school
of utilitarianism, asked that hls body
be not only preserved, but also that
It Join In the festivities of hls friends.
He did not object to having his body
dissected, so long as the surgeons,
after cutting It up. put It together
again, embalmed i< and dressed It In
hls ordinary clothes. This done, he
wished that he should be seated in an
old armchair,'and placed at the ban
quet table of hls friends and disciples
whenever “ihey met on any great oc
casions of philosophy or phllan
thropy.” Hls directions were followed
out in detail. At the dinners of hls
friends he appeared locked up In a
mahogany case with a plate glass
without crippling ttself. He rvanted
the Institution to grow naturally, not,
as is the case with some great insti
tutions of thla sort at the present
time, under a forced draught. Some
New York hospitals are putting up
new annexes before they have mon
ey lo furnish them, or they are spend
ing legacies outright In order to meet
annual deficits. Some of them spqnil
In a year more than their total re
eelpta. hoping and praying that new
gifts In the near future will carry
them througn. Here are a few exam
pies." and the physician figured out
the following table, made up from the
recent reports of the various Institu
tions mentioned:
Total Yearly
years expenses, receipts
Presbyterian $241,428 $187,534
SI. Luke 191.848 188.151
Post Graduate .. 144,553 127.354
New York and Kar
Infirmary 77.599 5R.858
St. Mark’s 49.137 48.049
“Slxty-one hospitals of which statis
tics are given In a recent report made
by the New York Association for lm
proving the condition of the Poor,"
continued the friend of Mr. Yerkes
"fifteen showed deficits, which rangpd
all the way from $4,118 for the New
York Ophathalmlce Hospital to SB7.
357 for the Lying-In Hospital, In 2d
ave.
"Mr. Yerkes first became Interested
in hospitals from an experience wlflrh
he had himself when a young man.”
continued his friend. “He w-as at
that time living in Philadelphia, and
making trips to different parts of the
country on various business projects,
tin one of these journeys be was
taken 111 In this city and as his mind
was affected and he was unable to
! tell Ills name or furnish money for
treatment he was taken to the free
ward of the New York Hospital The
care that he received there saved hts
life, ami on hi* recovery he made up
his mind thai he would one day es
tahllsh a hospital himself, one that
would open its doors both to the rich
and the poor And so he has done,
for In his will are these words:
"’lt Is my dtreeteion that said hos
pital Is to he open for the public with
out regard to creed, rare or color:
and any patient received or admitted
to said hospital whose financial
means at command are such as (o
enable said patient to pay for the
necessary treatment and care shall
be treated and eared tor therein
without any expense or charge what
soever
As the Yerkes hospital will also
have pay patients. Its entire Income
from all sources when It is fully es
tablished will be even greater than
the $385. 000 which will c-me directly
from the Yorkers estate. It will als 1
THE AUGUSTA HERALD'
front, wearing hat, and grasping In
one hand hla har.e| walking stick
Dapple. Aa hls features shrunk they
were covered over b n wax mask
At Inst, when the ravages of time over
came every effort to resist them, th«
body was taken to I'nlveralty College,
where It rests at the present time.
On the other hand, there are men
who appear to have a contempt for all
that Is earthy In them after the spirit
has fled, They seem to reason that
the body Is so far Inferior to the soul
that, when the two are separated, the
body should not even have the chance
of asauming any of the credit of what
the soul had achieved. Such persons
want their bodlea cremated, for ex
ample, and the ashes scattered to the
winds or mixed with the great deep.
The Teutonic race has a special pro
neness toward this sort of self-anni
hilation. A German, of Plttahurg. in
1887. died and left a will In which
he asked that hls body be burned and
that the ashes be sent to the German
consul In New York City. The consul
should then turn over the “cinders”
lo the captsln of the German steam
ship Kibe, who. on reaching midocean,
should hand the funeral urn to a pas
senger. dressed In nautical costume,
and hid him go to the masthead and
scatter the ashes to the winds. The
details of this will were carried out
to the letter.
Many on the approach of dealh have
a special horror that they will be
buried before they have actually taken
their departure from this life. John
Blount I’rlre. of Islington. Kngland.
for example. stated In his will that
four days after he was said to be
dead two surgeons should operate on
hls body, and should do their tasks
so thorreighly that they would surely
kill him If he still'lived. Kach sur
geon was to receive $25 for thus in
suring death.
have beds for city paupers, for which
at the present time the municipality
contrlhuleea 80 cents a day for each
surgical case and 89 centß r uay for
each medical case. How important
these Hourcea of revenue are may be
seen in the budgets of such a hospi
tal as Mount Sinai, which last year
got $52,179 from pay patients and
$31,995 from the city. The entire re
ceipts amounted to $992,158. On a
basis such figures, the entire income
of the Yerkes hoapltal will be more
than $500,000. which will enable it
to do a greater work even than Bel
levue. which according to Its last re
port spent tn one year $120,802 87 of
the city’s money.
In providing that the hospital shall
be bulltln The Bronx Mr. Yerkes
not only showed his confidence In the
growth of this city, but he met a real
need of the norinem part of this city.
At the present time The Bronx, al
though it contains 300,000 persons
or about the population of the city of
Newark. N. .1.. has only four hospitals
of comparatively small size. These
are Lebanon. Lincoln. St. Joseph’s
and Fordhatn, the city hospital. The
expenditures of all four amount to
considerably less than $300,000. or
threeflfths of what the ultimate
revenue of the Yerkes hospital will
he. St. Joseph’s spends SIOO,OOO a
year: Lincoln, $84,930; Lebanon.
$83,773 and Fordham. S3O, 201.
The Bronx contains room for a pop
ulation nearly twice the size of Man
hattan. which would be about 4,000.-
000 people for It has an area of
40.65 square miles, whereas Manhat
tan has 21.93 square miles. The sub
way and the extensions of the ele
vated lines are helping to build it up
faster than ever before.
In one wav the use of the Yerkes
wealth for the benefit of tne public
Is a lust turn of destiny, for nearly all
of It was acquired througn public
utilities. Through the Yerkes hospl
tal the nickles of Chicago and Phila
delphia and the pence of London col
lected by the Yerkes companies in car
fares will utlmately pay for the care
of the sick of New York.
TRIED OFFICERS WHOSE DUTY IT IS TO SAVE
RUSSIAN SOVEREIGN FROM ASSASSINATION
Actuated by the same fears, the
Vlseount fie t'arrer Lima directed that
hls laidy should he watched by hls
heirs until decomposition set In.
Again, there are men who seem to
think that In the next world they will
enjoy a joke as much as in this, and
can look down and have ninny a laugh
at beholding their poor hones made
sport of, Old graduates of Harvirrd
still tell of a Mr. Hanborn, of Med
ford, Mass., who, on dying In 1871, be
queathed hla body to the university,
and "especially to the manipulations
of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Loula
Agassi/.." In hls will he asked that hls
skin he made Into two drumheads,
which should become the property of
Warren Simpson, leader of the drum
corps, of Cohasset, tm the condition
that on Bunker Hill at sunrise on
June 17th of every year he should
play an accompaniment to "Yankee
Iksidle" on the drum.
On one drumhead should be in
serlbed “Pope's Universal Prayer."
and on the other the "Declaration of
Independence."
“The remainder of my body," said
Mr. Sanborn In hls will, "unless used
for anatomical purposes, I desire to
be composted for a fertilizer, to con
tribute to the growth of an American
elm. to he planted in some rural thor
oughfare, that the wayfarer may rest
and Innocent children play beneath Its
unhrugeous branches rendered lux
unions by my remains.”
Only that part of the will relating
to "anatomical purposes" was com
plied with.
It often happens that Liodles. or
parts of bodies, are willed to the dis
serting room, their owners preferring
rather that they may be used in the
aid of science and for the edification
of future generations than relegated
to an absolute uselessness. Cornell
Cniverslty possesses a conslderatde
collection of brains which have been
bequeathed to that institution. The
Wls tar Institute of Anatomy and
Biology, of the Cnlversity of Penn
sylvania. received only a few months
ago the brain of its founder. General
Isaac Wistar, the railroad man,
and also his right arm. which, the gen
eral said in his will, was “said to he
a desirable specimen of gunshot an
chylosis.”
A mysterious disease is frequently
the cause for this sort of bequests.
Before his death George William Call
directed that hls body should be dis
sected by surgeons of the Cornell and
Bellevue Hospital schools, to learn the
true character of the malady front
which he suffered. The autopsy not
only answered this purpose, but It re
vealed a truth which will be helpful
to medical men for all lime to come.
The surgeons discovered that the pan
creas in Mr. Catt's body was withered
away to almost nothing, a condition
which must hnve prevailed for several
months prior to dealh. and which, they,
said, was unparalleled in the annala
of pathology.
It sometimes happens that persons
will remember animals In their wills,
showing as much solicitation for them
as if they were human beings. By the
terms of the will of Miss Cecelia A.
Woolsey. lietter known by her stage
name, Lillie Western, who died recent
ly at her home in Brooklyn, an inheri
tance of $15,000 was set aside for the
care of her dogs, cats and canaries.
When Mrs. T. P. Roe. of Montreal,
died some years ago. her will was
found to divide her fortune between
her husband and her pet dog Frolic.
The husband received twelve shares
of bank stock, and Frolic, four, the
Income of which was to he spent in
each ease for the necessities of life.
On the death of Mr. Roe or of Frolic,
the shares were to go to a church.
Mustaches played an Important part
in the will of Henry Budd. of London,
who died in 1862. “If, my son. Edward,
shall wear mustaches." it read, "then
the devise contained in favor of him
shall he void.”
Bequests of money to be put out to
interest until a large sum has been
‘Pe.PSO'wxl, &UNPD or tut:. O'
POWER LIFE SAVIN6 BOATS FOR U.S.
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Several boats equipped with power
have been built by the Electric Launch
company of Bayonne City, N. J.. for
the United States life saving service.
One of these, the Rescue, has been
delivered to Sandy Hook and already
has proved that she is capable of do
ing excellent work. The boats are
thirty-four feet, long and fitted with
gasoline engines.
Heretofore II has not been possible
for life saving men to go out in boats
of this size unless there was a favora
ble wind to use their canvas, as the
craft were ioo heavy to row any dis-
amassed are occasionally made. In the
will of Benjamin Franklin $5,000 was
left to the town of Boston, which was
to be "let out upon interest at 5 per.
cent per annum to such unmarried ar-'
tlficers” as had served an apprentice
ship in the town. The money was in
tended to help them start in business.
If this plan is executed,” said the
will, "and succeeds as projected for
ion vears. the sum will then be $655.-
000, "of which $500,000 is to be laid out
in bridges, public buildings, etc., for
the benefit of the people of Boston.
The remaining $155,000 will, at the
end of the second 100 years, if no
unfortunate accident has prevented
the operation, become $20,205,000, to
be dldived between the city of Bos
ton and the Stae of Massachusetts.”
Whether the doctor miscalculated
or Fortune did not smile on the plan
as much as she might have done, it
was found not long ago, when the first
100 years had passed, that the fund
given Boston amounted to only $26,-
000.
Wills are much shorter nowadays
than in former times. The shortest
will on record in the Surrogate's of
fice in this city was that of Mrs.
Potter, the first wife of Bishop Pot
ter. It contained fifty-one words. The
wills of olden times were not only
as verbose as possible, but they gen
erally contained a long preamble, ad
dressed to (Tod. Shakespeare’s win
Began as follows:
"In the name of God. Anien. I, Wil
liam Shakespeare, of Stratford-on-
Avon. in the county of Warwick, gent.,
in perfect health and memory (God be
(liaised!) do make and ordain this my
last will and testament in manner and
form following, that Is to say:
"First. I commend my soul Into the
hands of God, my . Creator, hop
ing and assuredly believing through
the merits of Jesus Christ, my Sav
ious, to be made partaker of life ever
lasting, and my body to the earth,
whereof it Is made.”
Some of the oldtime wills were writ
ten in poetry, and, despite many a
lame line, they were admitted to pro
bate. The will of William Hiokingtnn.
who died in 1776. was admitted to pro
bate at the Deanery Court, in the City
of New York, and it read as follows:
This is my last will,
Insist on it still;
To sneer on and 'welcome,
And e'en laugh your fill.
I, William Hickington,
tance. The substitution of the gaso
line engine, therefore, has been an
important step, as the new craft are
available at all times.
The builders assert that these boat*
are self-righting, self-baling and non
sinkable. All kinds of tests have
been made to insure their safety un
der every condition of weather and
sea. Government officers have super
intended their construction and the
builders have turned them out In the
most satisfactory manner. It is prob
able that the entire life saving ser
vice of the country will In good time
be supplied with these power craft.
Poet of Pocklington, • • _ •
Do give and bequeath,
As free as I breathe,
To thee, Mary Jaruiu,
The Queen of ray Harum, *
My cash and my cattle, 1
With every chattel, « ' .
To have and to hold,
Come heat or come cold,
As witness my hand.
Just here as I stand, • . |
The twelfth of July.
In the year seventy. |
It Sounded Familiar.
George Y. Wallace, president of the
Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone com
pany, and one of the best known resi
dents of Sait Lake, tells this as the
latest telephone story:
In a certain Western central office
one ‘'hello” girl was always late in ar
riving in the morning. Time and
again the manager had pleaded with
her to he more prompt. Her tardi
ness continued until he was moved to
desperate methods.
“Now, Miss Jones,” he said one
morning, as he came to her exchange
with a package in his hand, "I have
a little scheme which I hope will en
able you to arrive at the office on
time. Here is a fine alarm clock for
you. Promise me that you will use
It ”
The young woman promised and ar* /
cordinglv set the alarm for the proper
hour when she retired that night.
At seven o’clock there was a tre
mendous whirring from the alarm
clock.
The sleepy "hello” girl rolled over
ir bed and said sweetly and still as
leep:
“Line busy; call again!”
Breaking It Gently.
Paserby—ls that-your pork down
there on the road, guv'nor?
Farmer —Pork! What’s d’ye mean?
There's a pig o' mine out there.
Passerby—Ah, but there's a jnotor
car just been by.
Japan a Heavy Buyer.
Marvelous little Japan seems to he
in a regular frenzy of growth and de
velopment. says Four Track News.
Since April 1 the island nation has or
dered $26,060,006 worth of railway
equipment from the United States.
When the heart runs away with the
head there is sure to follow a resent
ment. toward the world in general.