Show I L Vr + 1 + + + + + + H > + + + + + + + 4 HH + + + ± MILLIONS FOR CHARIT I Strattons Money to Build Home for Poor People RELATIVES NOT FORGOTTEN Fifty Thousand Dollars Bequeathed to Each Including His Son Harry One Million Is Left to Build Myron Stratton Home in Memory oft of-t His Father Residue After Paying Other Bequests to Be Converted Into Cash and Be Used to Maintain I tho Homo I to I r Colorado Springs Colo Sept 20The 1 of the late W S Stratton was filed I v x for probate this afternoon After leaving leav-ing relatives Including his eon I f Harry Stratton 50000 each the multimillionaire millionaire left 51000000 to build the t Myron Slrallon home for sick persons In this city and bequeaths thc residue 5 of hlu estate after being turned Into cash to the malnlenanco of the home t Carl S Chamberlain of Brooklyn N Y i D H Rice of thin city and Tyson S 1 Dines are the executors of the will Tho will bears the date of August 5 f 1D02BEQUESTS BEQUESTS TO RELATIVES L The will o Mr Stratton leaves the < family homestead No 115 North Weber 6 Direct to Carl S Chamberlain of i Brooklyn N Y Including all furnl 1ture r books heirlooms etc but cx cut all personal property E W Hamlln son of Mrs Harriet N Hamlln Kf of Jeff ersonvl lie Ind Is to receive 50 ir > 0 to a nephew Harry B Hamlln li 350000 to Mrs Jennie Cobb Stratton r of San Jose Cal 50000 to Mary Cobb rt 1 Smith n niece 50000 to Lillian S Cobb now Mrs Lillian Skcllon of St Louis 50000 to Mrs Elma P Chamberlain Cham-berlain Brooklyn N Y 350000 to Mrs Claire Malrc Balback 50000 to C S Chamberlain Brooklyn 50000 SON IS INCLUDED v To my son I Harry Stratton of Tulon 1 35000 In cane he docs not contest or cause to be contested this will This son his lived away from the father ever Hlnce he was born Concerning him there has been much speculation as Mr Stratton was divorced di-vorced from his wife Immediately after I the birth of the boy The son visited the father hut two or three times In life and arrived In thin city only after the death of the mulllmllllonalre He Ms Htlll In the city HELPS STATE INSTITUTION The will further provides that 100 000 be left to Byron C Logan of Indianapolis In-dianapolis Ind and to the trustees of the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind of this city 25000 to he expended ex-pended In bettering the condition of the present school bulldljigs CREATES A HOME The main provision of the will Is for the establishment and creation of the Myron S Stratton home In memory of my father To this home Mr Stratton leaves all his vast estate and the irustccn ore Instructed to dispose Immediately of all his holdings all properties moneys credits and other assets From the moneys so realized realzed 1000000 Is to ho expended In purchns InS suitable site In thin city for the home after which the balance Is l to be p utilized In erecting ail suitable build buld Jugo I Is believed that another Inv I In-v ntrument exists giving some plans for the home the specifications for build ing and the management of the institu insltu tion S OBJECTS OF HOME The objectn of the Myron I Stratton t home aro specllled lo be The erection i of I home for poor persons physically jj unable to earn their livelihood who Ivclhoo elthrr through advancrd age physical debility or otherwise are handicapped Tho will expressly I shuts out all those who by leanon of loathsome disease S gross Indecency or liiBanlty would Im peril the health and happiness of other Inmates The Imnnlen are to be ac lecled by the board of trualccs from residents of El Paso ciiunty In which this city IR located after which resi dents of the State < may bo received HOW MANAGED The will furlhor provides that the active management bo left to a bourd of trustees and thai proper Incorpora ton of the Institute be made under the laws The accounts of the home shall be aupcrvlRcd hy the District court or a board of Inspectors to be provided orS u or-S 1 the laws of the InstItution In order to Insure the maintenance of tho Myron Stratton home the multi millionaire Instructs thlt the balance of the estate not utilized In the estab lishment o the homo be reinvested In good Interestbearing pecurltles the PcurlcH income from which IH I to be turned over to the trustees to be used according to their discretion In keeping up the home NOT LIKE PAUPERS The will In concluding upon the sub Joel j of the Myron Stratton home says SD8 fl Is my express desire that the In inaUH bo clothed and fed not as pau S peru arc at the public expense but de I contly and comfortably and that wholesome food and necessary medicine nccCsrj be provided In order to protect the health nnd comfort of the Inmales 1 In furthir specllled that no Inmate be compelled to perform manual labor I gnlnet his will for any officer or ut i tache of tho home MAY GO TQ THE STATE I S In case any provision o this will Is l S dcdnrrd Illegal and thereby annulled onnuled Mr Stratton Strton specifies that all such por i tara of his ojuate so affected shall pr nrlCte Ihnl I to the State t of Colorado and < the funds shall bo utilised In maintaining and keeping up the present charitable Institutions In-stitutions under Stato control ontrol Mr Stratton drew n will undor dale of July 1 1901 and this In l a revision of the ramo Inalrunxnt S The Idea of the Myron Stratton homo was conceived by the lute millionaire three years ago whon ho waG taken pick abroad and confined In a hospital for three months Upon hIs return to this country he drafted n rough planS plan-S tho homo Idea which ho has since 5 boratcd The large number of con inimptlvca who coma to this place for health Is alro believed to have moved him to ortato the home |