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Show DAVISON ESTATE IS Surgeon Saw End Was Near As He Reopened the Brain NEW YORK. May 8 It has become known through one of New York's leading Insurance bureaus that the late Hanry P. Davison carried $2,000,000 In life insurance. inoBt of it written In 1917. in about thirty companies. The largest single policy was for $300,000 The broker estimated, that the pre- mlums on the Insurance amount to $80000 annually and said that the 68-J talo was decidedly the gainer on ac-count ac-count of the comparatively small, a mound paid. Mr. Davison's funeral takes place tomorrow. IWI RAID OF DE v TH Close friends of the at Henry P. Davison, who died Saturday from an operation for brain tumor, estimated that the financier left an estate ol about 110.000.000. Mr Davison's public pub-lic benefactions were large. When his doctors Informed Mr, Davison that another operation was necessary, ho had said: If It must be done, we'll have It right here." referring to tho Peacock Point home. "I love the place and when I die I want to be burled here So Tuesday morning, according to his request, tho body will be placed In the little cemetery after a simple funeral ceremony in St, John's cUUrch, Lattlngtown, Long Island More details of the. operation. Which preceded Mr. Davison s death, disclosed the fart that an Instant after af-ter Dr. Charles Elsb.-rg had reopened re-opened the brain last Saturday morn- Ing. he saw that the financier's end was at hand. The tumor's growth showed that even had the surgeons been success-; ful in their operation. Mr. Davison-could Davison-could have lived only a short time - $0 days at the most. Tiro growth In-' volved the auditory nerve, and had Mr Davison rallied after the operation, opera-tion, he would have suffered greatly.'. |