The evening world. Newspaper, August 28, 1919, Page 1

FIVAL lO, NATO ANI SVR PRICE TWO CENTS. Song EN ‘the iow York ane 576 ANDREW CARNESE'S Wi DISPOSES OF $30,000,000; $300,000,000 GIVEN AWAY Annuities to Lloyd George, Taft, Mrs. Roosevelt and Others—Wife and Daughter Provided For— Bequests to Employees. bd i. ‘nd will of Andrew Carnegie, who died on Aug, 11 at his country home at Lenox, Mass., was filed for probate in the office of the Sur- rogate of New York County at noon today by Elihu Root jr., one of the witnesses of the will. In a statement issued at the. tine a t will Mr. Root said that Mr. Carnegie died worth between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 and that his gifts to charity during his lifetime totalled in excess vof $350,000,000. In all its important fealures the will follows tie forecast “exch publishedby The Lvening Worldson Aug. 20, “fn that article ithe Everiing World announged that the Home Trust Company at had beetr selected by Mr. Carmegie as the executor and trustee’ of the! estate. Tle Home Trust Company was organized by Mr, Carnegie tor the purpose of providing an executor and trustee. Inasmachi as Mra. Curnegic and hor @——— waived tie matomary eitaiions vere BEQUESTS BY CARNEGIE prctts of Wie will an TAKE IN STATESMEN AS WELL AS SERVANTS Probate of the will and that de Fstimated Annuities Outside Own accomplishad within half Relatives Will Total More = hour, esides Mr. Root tho wit- néasox to the will were Silas W. How- | Than $250,000, N his will, probated today, An- land, a momber of the Root firm, and Clintaa Combes, a inwyer.” Two of the articles in the will—the fourth and fifth—were written by Mr. drew Carnegie remembered, every amployee on all hin es- tates by substantial bequesta and | left annuitios to w long list of Carnegie. in his own hand, and the relatives and friends. Among language follows his mothod of sim- plified spelling. ‘These articles pro- those remembered as friends are the -follawing, who will recelvo vide for lngucins to institutona and annuities to relatives, servants and personal friands, Among those remembered sg friends: are David Lloyd George, Vromunr of Great Britain; William Howard ‘Taft, | referred to as “President Taft;" John | annuities, " Burns, tho ex-laho? leader in the % bond Lioyd George, $10,000. British Parliament; Mrs. Grover B-Prenldent: Taft, $10,000, Cleveland and Mra, ‘Theodore Itinse- Mrs, Thoodore Roosevelt, $5,000, vale, Mrs, Thomas J. Preston (Mrs. REALTY AND ART TREASURES| Grover @levoland), $5,000, LEFT TO WIDOW. John Burns, English tobor lead- All the real estate, works of art,| ¢r, $5,000. househéld furniture and other prop- John Morloy, erties on or in the house of Mr. Car-| cist, $5,000, megie in this country and abroad are| George W. Calble, noveliat, $5,000, Walter Damrosch, musictan, $5,000. Robert A. Pranks (Mr. Carnogie’s financial secretary), $20,000. In all cases where the male an- nuitants are married the anhul- ations there | < immediate | ul English pubti- Dequeathed to tho widow. Financial provision for Mrs, Carnegie was made during Mr. Carneglo’s lifetime. ‘The will states that the widow Is to provide such additional financial sup- |, port as may be required by Mre. Miller, Mr. Carnegie’s daughter,| ties continue to the wives who for whom financial provision also was| survive them, made during the lifetime of the Exclusive of annuities be- Jegatee. queathed to nephews and niéves, number not stated in the will, the annual payments to an~ nultants named by Mr. Carnegie will amount to about $250,000 a year. NO BREAK WITH WILSON THAT COL. HOUSE KNOWS He Says if. Their Relations Are Qhanged It Is News to @ unique document because of the ir | ‘The residuary estato goes to the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The will, which was drawn, as the Bvening World told in the article of Aug. 20 in an office in the Hudson rust Co, building in Hoboken and eigned in Now York, bears the date Fob. 13, 1912. A codicil not affecting the main document was signed on March 31, 1919. Insofar ge it deals with bequests the will eas as {pllowe—and it ts | ferpellations expressing the feelings sae Him. i nda’ Cogsmeasntine GUS viglaukaue come’ of Mr, Ca je toward certain bere | LONDON, Aug? %8.—With regard to a ay at the hearing of the commis: xons and institutions: tletecs wie Pressenr Wikes. cae bicn in the Hall cfRecords. Charles |! "I, Andrew Carnegic, of the City Hi idl) House to-day” authorised the =H. Harris, Chairman, took the propo- ‘nited Preset te hi " Mpa, “ sh (Continued on Page Twelve.) Bhs tara fqAuets, him as follows: gal under consideration until one —— jin the report. If there has been any Week from to-day, He sald the re- change ip the relations between the |President aud myself, 1 am not aware Col. House pointed out that th President iad Appointed him ‘to serve 1B jon the | Altea *ktandate " Goutaission ) ‘Rich Will most here again pext year. 2s UT IN gre Portions-of the Carnegie Will ' In Steel Master’s- Own Writing joccseeegatessetnciecteoreictotteecrvcrsosroome e $ Mr, Gagnegle wrote the above at the offices of the Home Trust Company, op ae BP floor of the Hudsoo Trust Company building in Hoboken, where, he drew al ieaet & doxéy, wills. —- = 8 told exchusively by the Evening World op Au PHONE CO. OFFERS LOWER RATES 10 BLOCK INQUIRY (300 WEST POINTERS = Formal Prapaian Is Made at Hearing of Public Serv- ice Board. ‘The New York Telephone Company to-day made a formal offer to reduce its rates 5 per cent. or $4,800,000 a year, if the Public Service Commis- sion will discontinue its Investiga- tions started as a result of the cam- paign made by The World, With other public service corpora- tions in all parts of the country de- manding substantial incteases in rates, the reduction by the telephone company, “voluntarily made under duress,” as one expert smilingly | dereribed it, 1s considered ynique The offer was made by J, L. Swa- duction ought to be 10 per cent, 71-2 por cent. at loast Whatever action is taken as a re- (Continued «i a Fage.) Aug. 21.— West Point Leghorn West Crow the decorated in ROME, American here from of Capt cadets at was gayly also gathered to-day ds railroad station, wit THRILL ROME THRONGS Italians Plainly Impressed by Their Marching—-To Be Reviewed by the Pope. hundred ts arrived in charge cheered the which b flags, and ree numbers before the American Embassy, where the Weat Pointers marched in @ fashion that plainly Impressed the Italiana. ‘The cadew were reveived by sev- oMvers representing the of War and the supreme army Their viaiv will occupy two p ting an ands w be r of Explosives, | Aug 28.— Regulation or| of the use, transportation, storage, pur- j chase, Sale and possession of explosives, with a view to preventing bomb out: rages and accidents in the fominereial use of explosives, 1s pr Introduced to-day by Be: Minnewots in @ bill tar Nelaon of ‘ t » |.First Speech to Be Made in » Secretary Tumulty and a corps of sec. | Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Senate. Poll sit Woes tEnty Ratification After Defeat of All Amendments, WIFE WITH PRESIDENT. | Columbus and Three in Sen- ator Johnson's State. WABHINGTON, Aug. 28.—I’rox!- dent Wilson will leave Washington next Wednesday ou his spvech-mak- Ind toUr in the interest of’ the Peace ‘Treaty ang will dolver’ bin frat nd- Greai Ii Columbus, ©, next Thurs- ay, probably in” the evening, Cin- clandt Is not included inthe itinerary, but Secretary Tumiulty dnnoddord that President Wilsoh would speak at Indianapolis, Acéompanyjng the President “wit be) Mrs. Wilson, Admiral Cary T. Gray- son, the President's personal physivian, retaries and stenographers. Among other places at which the President will speak ure Denver and In California, the Home Btate of Senator Johnson, oné of the leading Republican opponents of the peac treaty, the President wil] make three speeches, at Los Angeles, Sin Fran- cisco and San. Diego. “His only ad- dress in Oregon will be at Portland, while be also wil! speak at Spokane, w and possibly’ Seattle, ‘enatér Phelan, Democrat, Califor- nia, galled at the White House to-day to urge that the President make speeches from his: train, at other | towns in California than those sched- juled.: It was understood he was in- __ | formed that the President was op- posed to platform speeches. Immediately following |‘ announce- ment of the beginning of the: tour, the President's Senatorial opponents began plans for speakers to’ follow him to present the opposition side of the treaty, POLL SHOWS TREATY CAN'T BE AMENDED. With the President's dépatture det- inittly fixed, the’ prediction le ven- tured to-day that the Peace Treaty, possibly with some reservations, will be ratified contémpifanéoudly with lis return fod bis “swing wround the circle." ‘The Shantung amendment, once re- garded as likely to wreck the League of Natloriy pian, ta dead. © If the 'Ite- publicans ‘cannot ‘carry the Shantung ainendment they cannot carry any, and'if the Senate voted oi it to-day it would be defeated. | A canvass shows @ maximum of forty-five Republicans, with Reed and Gore, Democrats, In its favor. Aguinst It are certain Sterling, Nelson, Mo- Cumber and McNary, Republicans, ang forty-five Democrats It is prob- able other Republicans thun the four named will vote against (t The Shantung amendment was voted om first by the Foreign Rela- tions Comin because the anti- |Leawuers regarded it as the one on} |which the Republicans were nearly united Subsequent develc im 4 including the bitter Republi- can Bash on the floor of the Senate | yesterday, exposed the Republica: weakness, Democratic jeadery are confident, «c continued ¢ on Second Page.) ‘1919. BOR FOR TREATY, ~ ASSURED CHANGES WILL Al 20 PAGES ¢ *Cirealation Books Open to All.!’|__ = UNION HEADS WARN | CALIFORNIA STRIKE NUSTEND AT ONCE en “Return to Work by Saturday or Brotherhoods Will Aid Administration.” WASHINGTON, Aus. Phe—tu tity Hinit. by which ali striking ratigoad employeos bn tie Mucific Coust imuxt retin to Work “or the brotherhoods) will support the Federal Administear tion in its endeavor (o operate train wherever they have contracts.” This ultimatum waa sent to-day from the Cleveland beadquarcere of the Four Brotherhoods to the strik- ers and was communicated also to the! Ratitoad Administration which ts un- derstood to have completed plans for resuming train service if the unau- thorized strike, d¢nounced a illegal by the. International officers of the Brother! is not terminated, Ivis Hy peta that union men will de omployed th’ moving trains if the strikers do not return to Work. Improvement Inpthe strixe situation om the coast was reported to-day to the Railroad Administration, Trains have begun moving out of Oakland, Cal, but so far traffic ut Los Angeles sul) is tied up. ed LEADERS GETTING STRIKE IN CALIFORNIA (N HAND Train Service Resumed at’ Oakland and San Francisco Men in Session. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Aug. 28.— Indications were to-day that the railroad strike that burst over the San Francisco bay region yesterday was wearing itself out and that unton leaders will regain contro! of the situation before nightfall, ‘Trafic in southern Callfornta 4nd around Los Angelos—is stil! tied up, ‘Train service was re- sumod acroas the bay in and out of Oakland terminal of the Transconti- hental lines, last night, following a meeting at which trainmen voted to return to work, At a almnilar meet- ing in San Fro co ho decision was The weeting was resumed in however. et reached. to-day. Director-General Hines sent word here that the Government will operate the trains If the strike does Aot come to an end at once. Hines wired District Director Sproule that “the Government is taking the neces. wary steps to deal with the matter without the lapse of further time unless this last effort of the chief executives of the organizations speedily prover successful.” bas OLE HANSON 1 TO RESIGN. | Seattle's Mayor Announces He Wil Quit Te-Day Wash. Avg. 28.-—-Mayor id shortly before noon to- would resign at 140 PM City Council meets, carried aut SRATTLE Eee cries, do he was resignin pepause he nee ee, & complete =r jende way he will deliver lectures ai be hes taken ® rest day morning has been wot iad Lid build SEND APPEAL Remind Shopmen Ninety Days. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Ac of a small wage increase’ pending the outcome of the forts to reduce the cost of living, was advised by fhe Exbcutive ¢ of the Railway Shop Unions in a letler sent to-day to all junio. Officials of the \unigns conferred’ ‘to-day with’ Samuel” ‘Prosident, and other members of the Executive Committee of reir Federation, of Labor.” Their let jevery lass oF ty ment HOUSE VOTES PERSHING A FULL GENERAL FOR LIFE jAlso Adopts Resolution for Joint Session to Honor A. E. F, Commander. WASHINGTON, Aus. In reco» nition df Gen. John J. Pershing’s ser- vices in the war, the House to-day passed & bill authorizing tht President to confer on hint the periianent *raok of General. the Senate The House passed a joint resolusion Fa Joint session to welcome return and to The measure now goes to | providing * Gen. “Persning on his bestow on him pation for bie MINNBAPOLIS, scale of prices for wheat for the 1919 to-day by Julius 8, Barnes, head of the Aug. 28.—A new the lower grades of crop was announced United States’ Grain Corporation, They were posted to-day on the | trading floor of the local Chambor of Commerce to become effective Sept 2. The price for nunibers 1 and 2 North- ern remains the same as last year, $2.21 1-2 for this terminal, Other prices follow: No. 3 Northern, $2.16 @2; No. 4 Northern, $211 1-2, and No. @ Northe ern, $2.10 193 WASHINGTON, Aug. B—New petvcn fixed for the lower grades of wheat wilt |result in Northweatern wheat growers | receiving many millions of dollars more for thelt crops this year, Itepresentative Young of North Dakota sald to-day. The light weight wheat was produevd entirely in that section thin year, Mr, Young addi TO NOMINATE HINDENBURG FOR PRESIDENT OF GERMAN BERLIN, Aur. %7.—The National People's Party has decided to nominate’ Marsha! von Hindenburg as ita candi. date in the next Presidential election, lit was reported authoritatively to-day, No date has been announced for etion in Germany! The ording to the constity. tionm server seven years, but the ont nal play as thai Prealdent should hold office onl proviatonally, The People's Party | conservative make-up and policies Six KIM CANTON ives were the of 81x |G. We at, er party here rding te Dr, J. SDAY (GOMPERS AND UNION H WORKERS. NOT 10. a ay ctuployeas shouts beywilling to Join in hao oes TO RALWAY 4 Bi That Latter ‘Rebs resent Only 22 Per Cent. of All Employees — Expect Situatiog Will Be Brought to a Head i celance 0 Pedenk Wiese Government's ter said if there was to “if the Federated, Shop habe strike now,” the jotter daid, “they - catry ‘the full butden of securing the sume general } tor the 7 per cent, of the raliroad™ prety os iy, eke have not yet they propose to take. W6 du not he~ @ that we should falluw ‘ourselves tebe placed in’ tut publtion, “in our opiilik Vie teat duyg Witt bring the” wittire ott to a bead and, 1 strike is to piace, every cliise” of? railroad ploytes ‘shonid be willing ty. the-movement, siire their fit: ure of responsibility vand not the Twwuc to be decided by the 23 5 cent, of the railrozd employees sented by the Pederuted Trades “It te our honest jgdgment . & fatal mistake would be miude by our members to assume the re sponsibility of tying {up the ralt- roads at this timo’ whew the’ President is evidently doing aif’ / sume that the President will have the loyal support of « majority of the American public in his effort to procure this much needed re lief, We would, no doubt, be charged with obstructing his af forts, “It shoud be wditeroua) however, that if the Government fulls to ate foot substantial’ reduction tm ‘the cost of living within a Urine, we resorve the right te pat strtke vote into effept” GOMPERS PROMATLY CONFERS WITH UNION CHIEFS, The Mosident of the Ameria Pederation of Lubor arrived in Waah~ ington early this morning from New York, and « little later met 19 eum ference the leaders of the shopmen’s Internationw) untons,y) and By Me Jowell, Acting Preaidewt of the Rui. way Kimployeew Department of Mie cation, The grént labor chidftsla harried to Washington at the request of ident Wilson, who was sprely by the belligerent attitude pf the = men. By telegraph and long ‘tae lelephone Mt Gompers, had the sbopmen's leaders | to Be. thely unlons aguinet precipitate eds thon. Hie arguments epurred the ratl leaders to special efforts +6 prevent 4» affirmative trike vote They have been in telegraphic munication with, the offigers @f° 5,000 shopmens’ locals 4 Br Indicative of the anxiety of tbh Jabor leaders to preventia vote favor of @ strike ls the unisually nificant wording of the dal ef the fourth paragraph of thete.