ITEMS OF INTEREST February 17, 1912 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Bequests aggregating one million five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars for philanthropic, charitable, and educational purposes, are made in the will of Mrs. Caroline W. Neustadter, just filed in the surrogate's office at New York. Of this amount one million dollars is to form a corporation to bear the family names of the testatrix and use the income to erect and maintain "model homes" within a radius of thirty miles from New York for the use of families of moderate means. The trustees of this fund are empowered to cooperate, in their discretion, with public-spirited persons who are interested in charitable and communal work to aid in carrying out the plan.

Thirty-two indictments have been returned at Indianapolis, Ind., by the federal grand jury against union labor officials and agents whom the government holds criminally responsible for the perpetration of more than one hundred dynamite explosions in cities from Massachusetts to California in the last six years.

The art treasures of J. Pierpont Morgan, which are scattered at various places in London and on the continent, are to be collected and brought to America and placed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The entire collection is valued at sixty million dollars, according to a conservative estimate.

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