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Show USELESS TRUST FUND. A trust fund of $1,500,000, tho income of which Mrs. Hetty Green enjoyed as long as she lived, has reverted to the heirs of ore Gideon Howland, who has been dead for three-quarters of a century. cen-tury. Colonel Edward H. Green and his sister, who inherit the vast fortune of their mother, have no interest in the $1,500,000 trust fund, but there are IT, 000 descendants of Gideon Howlaud on earth at the present time and a bitter lojal contest over the disposition of the faiid is promised. In the end the heirs will probably receive very little of the $1,500,000. Kvcn if divided pro rata each one's share would not amount to so very much. Of course, when there is sich a great cloud of claimants an agreement is out of the question and the $1,500,000 will be sifted through the courts until the last pnny has disappeared, disap-peared, many of the heirs having gono to their graves in the meantime. Other than benefiting Mrs. Hetty Green, who" didn't need it, the trust fund, whatever may hav been the purpose and intention inten-tion of the man who ti?d it up, will triug nothing but worry aod vexation of spirit to thoso who have waited all their lives for their share. |