Large Bequests for Jewish and General Charities in Sir Mortimer Davis’ Will

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

Four specific bequests of one hundred thousand dollars each to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, the Young Men’s Hebrew Association, the Montreal General Hospital and the Notre Dame Hospital, are the outstanding donations in the will of the late Sir Mortimer B. Davis. Lady Davis and Mortimer Davis, Jr., are to share on an equal basis in the net annual revenues from the estate.

The $100,000 donation to the Young Men’s Hebrew Association is an extra endowment outside of the $350,000. promised by Sir Mortimer to the “Y” for the erection of a new building. According to M. H. Weinstein, director of the “Y” the new building will be erected as planned by Sir Mortimer and will be paid for by the Sir Mortimer B. Davis, Incorporated. Ground will be broken for the new building in May and it is expected that the building will be completed by January first of next year.

The executors of the estate are Lady Davis, the Rt. Hon. Lord Shaughnessy, K.C., and A. M. Reaper, secretary-treasurer of the Sir Mortimer Davis Incorporated. The executors are given wide powers, notably in winding up the estate, which is to be concluded in fifty years. If in that time Mortimer Davis, Jr. dies, and Lady Davis dies, without issue of her marriage to Sir Mortimer, specific provision is made for the disposal of the residue under a plan whereby seventy-five per cent will be used to build a general hospital in Montreal, the majority of whose management shall be of Jewish faith. The hospital, however, will be open to all sects and creeds. Of the remaining twenty-five per cent, half is to go to the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies, and half will go to non-sectarian charitable institutions in the Province of Quebec, as selected by his executors.

The will of Sir Mortimer was drawn up in London, England.