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Left. By Col. William Boyce Thompson, Yonkers (N. Y.) philanthropist: $16,624,600 net. To the American Museum of Natural History, a famed jade & crystal collection; to Brother Joseph Edward Thompson, a $500,000 trust fund; to Mrs. Joseph E. Thompson, $100,000; to Relict Gertrude Hickman Thompson, $7,756,755 in trust and the $1,000,000 Yonkers house; to Daughter Margaret Hickman Schulz Biddle, a $5,756,555 trust fund. Birthdays. Dr. Henry Van Dyke, 80; Ida Minerva Tarbell, 75; Senator James Eli Watson of Indiana, 68; Leopold, Duke of Brabant, Belgium's heir, 31. Died. Frances...
Died, Margaret Tobin Brown ("Unsinkable Mrs. Brown"), 65, relict of Denver's famed Miner James Brown, heroine of the S. S. Titanic disaster; of apoplexy; in Manhattan. After meeting "Leadville John" Brown at the bottom of a mine shaft, marrying him in three weeks, she tried to spend his $10,000,000 fortune in philanthropy, bizarre clothes and crashing Newport and European society. In a Titanic lifeboat she took her turn at the oars before rescue by the S. S. Carpathia...
Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
Died. Sarah Edwards Nast, 91, relict of famed Cartoonist Thomas Nast (no kin of Publisher Condé Nast) who invented the political symbols of the Tammany Hall tiger, the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey; in New Rochelle...
Said Mrs. Juliette Leiter, relict of Tycoon Joseph Leiter, when questioned in an income tax recovery suit about expenses charged to upkeep of her Washington mansion: "Why, the expenses for that es- tablishment are enormous. I would say about $6,000 a month...