Conditional bequests totalling $942,475 were left to seven Jewish organizations by the late Henry Sterne, who died Oct. 3. 1927. If the conditions stipulated in the will are not complied with, the total sum is to go to the Salvation Army, to which Mr. Sterne bequeathed $100,000 outright. The will disposes of an estate of $1,201,564.
The Montefiore Home, the Home for Hebrew Infants, the Educational Alliance, the Hebrew Technical Institute, the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children, the United Hebrew Charities and the Hospital for Deformities and Joint Diseases are named beneficiaries. Mr. Sterne directed that in each institution named in which a physician practices, that physician shall contribute 10 per cent of his fees from such practice for the support of such institution, and unless this is done the bequest is canceled.
Mr. Sterne’s sister, Ida Sterne, gets the life income from $742,475, while the income from $200,000 is left to Lottic Karolina Ziller of Muenchen, Germany, at one time housekeeper for Mr. Sterne. The principal of this trust also goes upon her death to the institutions named.
The sum of $30,000 was left to the United Charities of Jerusalem, $5,000 outright and $50,000 payable at $2,500 a year to the Uptown Talmud Torah, and $21,500 to other religious organizations by the late Morris Weinstein, who left an estate appraised at $1,211.645.
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