Show I I. I COLLEGE GETS I JW I t REWARD AFTER I II CENTURY xiu I IT W a F Million From T Tele- Tele elein ele- ele mK i raPh Invented in Its School Li By Special News Service 4 IW rw YORK Oct 13 By B Bv the ret re- re of t third one-third of ot the residuary residuary- es- es 1 more than bequeathed I es-I Mss Kate Collins Brown New university becomes the beneti bene- bene I ti er Y nearly a century after Samuel JR R OrSe ae Invented the recording elec- elec telegraph In the old university I elec-I ling ing at Washington Va square Perry Hough nough h Collins the uncle n ns 11 i t Miss s Brown Bra Inherited her J. J conceived the fhe he idea of ot an over- over I European telegraph system In received the concessions bull tit r carried r carried out his plan because of at successful laying of the Atlantic TELLS STORY J tithe t the sale of his concessions to the tern ern Union Telegraph company 1 the Uhe making of the fortune part now goes to New kew York unity unity uni uni- ty Elmer Ellsworth Brown BrownI I sie 1 university told the story After tt t elving the Idea of wires to connect arhe the he commercial units of the n world Mr Collins studied the resources of ot I Ithe I the Pacific coast especially In connection con con- I with the coast of ot Asia opposite site I He planned to extend his wires along I the coast and to cross Siberia to western western western west west- westI I i ern France Trance thus making an land all i connection except across Bering strait and the English channel The Amur river was fixed by Mr Collins to be bethe bethe I Ithe the penetrating wedge by means of i I which American commerce was to t i open up northern Asia NUCLEUS OF FORTUNES I After conferring conferrIng- with President Pierce Secretary Marcy and the Russian Russian Rus Rus- Rus-I Rus sian ambassador in Washington Mr I i Collins was as commercial I agent of the United States for tie trie i Amur river on March 24 29 1856 1356 But Buthis Buthis his idea never materialized because of I Cyrus W Y Fields Field's s completion of the Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic cable However Mr Collins had I valuable concessions which were the I i nucleus of the fortune of Miss BrownIn Brown Drown i In leaving the residuary estate jointly jointly joint joint- ly lv to New York university Columbia university and the Presbyterian hospital hospital hospital hos hos- I pital Miss Brown Drown carried out the pro- pro of ot an earlier will made by her uncle In which he lie willed his residuary I estate in the same manner in caso case of his nieces niece's death prior to his own |