Ryan Examined in Metropolitan Suit Over Merger Details
Thomas M. Ryan testified in the Seventh District Municipal Court in the Weil and Weiler suit against Metropolitan Street Railway directors. He described his large personal loans and stock movements tied to the 1902 merger with the Interborough system, and disputed counsel’s attempts to pin him to specific balance sheet items while denying active involvement since 1893.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas IF. Ryan
Seventh District Municipal Court
William H. Young
Emanuel Weil
Minnie Weiler
Metropolitan Street Railway
New York City
Rilway Company
Well
Weller
William F. King
Ryan
DeLancey Nicoll
John B. Stanchfield
H. H. Vreeland
New York City Railway
Douglas Robinson
Ete Corbiere
Morton Trust Company
Charles A. Conant
Morton Trust
Warren
Edward Cuddihy
Grand Jury
Justice Young
Metropolitan
United States Circuit Court
Interborough Systems
Surface Systems
Mr. Ryan
Nico
Nicoll
Metropolitan Securities
Metropoltan Street Railway
Hoe
Otto H. Icahn
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Trust Cou Anies
Whitney
Vreeland
Philadelphia
Metropolitan Street
Wormser
Kuhn, Leeb & Co
Kuhn, Loeb Holdings
Schiff
Bryan
Chandler
Sean Wa
Right and Wrong in Welfare Work article in Saturday Evening Post
This note highlights The Saturday Evening Post issue featuring James H. Collins on welfare work and its unpredictable outcomes in big corporations. It also mentions Will Payne on New York finanical fixes and Arthur Train's Con Men Abroad. The issue is advertised for sale at newsstands and by mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saturday Evening Post
James H. Collins
THE
Post
New York
Will Payne
Arthur Train
Long Island Subway Jubilee Planned for Jamaica June
Long Islanders plan a three day jubilee at Jamaica to mark the subway opening linking Jamaica and Manhattan in 25 minutes. The event will showcase approval of future subway builds on an instalment plan with Jamaica Avenue as a proposed site. Activities include parades balloon ascensions open air opera and night pyrotechnics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Manhattan
Jamaica Avenue
Bernheimer Seeks Separation Over Alleged Cruelty
Mrs. Selma Kraus Bernheimer of 28 West Seventy-Sixth Street seeks a separation from Lorin S. Bernheimer of 31 White Street, charging cruel and inhuman treatment and threats. A March 2 court order required alimony of 250 dollars per month and 500 dollars counsel fee pending the trial. Bernheimer denies the charges and appeals the alimony ruling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Selma Bernheimer
Maurice J. Kraus
West Seventy-sixth Street
Lorin S. Bernheimer
Jacob S. Bernheimer & Brothers
White Street
Supreme Court
McCall
Plaga
Bernheimer
Kraus
Chicago
Colorado Springs
Antler Hotel
San Francisco
Watkins Glen
James Stern
Europe
Peyton Penn
Meyer Homberger
West Seventieth Street
Henry Herman
Hays & Hershfield
Broadway
Berheimer
Esren
Nicoll, Anable
Lindsay & Fuller
Nassau Street
Plaza
Orr Quits New York Life in Mid-Career Leadership Change
Alexander E. Orr retired after years as a New York Life director. William R. Innis was elected to succeed him with Royland G. Hazard filling the vacancy created by Clarence H. Mackay’s retirement. Ten old directors were reelected, with Innis and Hazard as the only new names. Orr’s departure follows ill health and prior presidency under McCall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander E. Orr
New York Life Insurance Company
William R. Innis
Clarence H. Mackay
Royland G. Hazard
Peacedale
R. I
Messrs. Innis
Hazard
Thomas F. Fowler
A. Barton Hepburn
Woodbury Langdon
Henry Co. Mortimer
Elbridge G. Snow
City
John E. Andrus
Yonkers
Julius Fleischmann
Cincinnati
Granger
A. Hollister
Rochester
Atlanta
William B. Plunkett
Adams
Mass
Orr
John A. McCall
Darwin P. Kingsley
New York Diocese Celebrates Centennial Jubilee Week
The New York Diocese marks 100 years with a series of April events led by Archbishop Farley. A mass of thanksgiving opens April 26, with cathedral services featuring Cardinal allies and Papal Delegate Mer Falconio. A May Day parade closes the week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Baltimore
Farley
Mer. Falconio
Carnegie Hall
Morgan J. O'Brien
Catholic Club
Marsh
Animals Pack the Hamburg American Liner Pretoria
Passengers aboard the Hamburg American liner Pretoria faced a wild voyage as a cargo of exotic animals and birds roared in the forward holds during a storm. The shipment, led by Louis Ruhe, included a six year old lion, leopards, hyenas, 3800 monkeys, 800 snakes, thousands of canaries and other birds. The ship, short on coal, limped into Halifax five days late after March 21 departure from Hamburg. On March 24 Dora Gillar, a young passenger, leaped overboard in a suspected love distress.
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Mner
Pretoria
Halifax
Animala
Calcutta
India
Africa
Hartz Mountains
Louis Ruhe
Hamburg
Hner
Dora Gillar
Vidaver Case Up Before Judge Over Indictment Details
Arthur C. Palmer for Nathan Vidaver argued before Judge Craig in the Court of General Sessions challenging the indictments on extortion charges. He contended the threats were not named and urged the threats be specified or the indictments dismissed. Judge Crain ordered briefs due by April 17 with Vidaver present for the argument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur C. Palmer
Nathan Vidaver
Craig
Court of General Sessions
Grand Jury
William R. Montgomery
Palmer
Kiesel
Wounded Heart Healing Remarkable Youth In Yonkers
Robert Ings, a young athlete, lies in St. Joseph's Hospital Yonkers since Sunday with a knife wound to his heart. Last evening doctors reported great improvement and little pain, suggesting rapid healing unseen in similar cases, surpassing a prior record of a woman who survived eighteen hours after a similar operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Ings
St. Joseph's Hospital
Yonkers
Bermel to Sail for Italy on April 30
Borough President of Queens Joseph Bermel plans a trip to Italy leaving April 30 after changing from April 17 amid Kis sena Park scandal rumors. Other party members depart as scheduled. Commissioner Lawrence Gresser will oversee borough administration during Bermel's absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Bermel
Queens
Italy
Grand Jury
Kissena Park
Rome
Lawrence Gresser
Mr. Bermel
Russian-born teen artist hangs in National Academy show
George Davidson of St. Mark's Place, born in Russia and nearly nineteen, toiled in a crayon shop by day and studied at the Art Students' League by night. His landscape Evening Shadows was hung in the National Academy of Design exhibition, beside John La Farge's The Wolf Tamer, signaling recognition for a self-made artist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vanderbilt
National Academy of Design
West Fifty-seventh Street
John la Farge
George Davidson
St. Mark's Place
Davidson
Russia
New York
Hartford
Art Students’ League
League
Academy of Design
Times
Third Avenue
Haffen Sues for Libel Against Mitchel and The Evening World
Borough President Haffen of the Bronx sues for 100000 damages for libel against Commissioner of Accounts John Purroy Mitchel and The Evening World publisher Press Publishing Co. He alleges the article falsely implied he connived at fraud while acting as Bronx president. Mitchel calls the matter not of special atomic concern as to his comment. Defendants have twenty days to answer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haffen
The
Bronx
Commissioner of Accounts
John ‘“Purroy Mitchel
Press Publishing Company
Evening World
Mitchel
Appoint Borchers as Private Secretary in Port Office
George W. Wanmaker announced William S. Borchers as his private secretary at a salary of 82,5107 a year, replacing Dell A. Beker who moved to the Collector's office. Borchers has lived in the Eleventh Assembly District for over thirty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Wanmaker
William S. Borchers
Dell A. Beker
Borchers
Eleventh Assembly
Split Among Customs Men Over Election Rules
Serious differences of opinion have arisen among members of the Mutual Benefit Association of Customs Employes of New York. The group supports families left destitute by deaths and has a fund of 25 444 with 1 500 members. An attempted election delay followed a constitutional amendment altering balloting methods, pushing the vote to June as factions clash over premium and salary policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mutual Benefit Association of Customs Employes of
New York
Secretary of the Treasury
Prisoner Attends Father’s Funeral Amid Court Request
The white haired mother of John Kelly, jailed in the Tombs for highway robbery, asked Judge Foster to let her son attend his father’s funeral. The judge agreed, and Kelly attended with his mother and two deputies, then returned to prison to await trial. On March 29, Kelly and an accomplice George Kelly stand charged with holding up a night watchman named Michael Kelly in East 129th Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kelly
Foster
Kelly
Wrs
Awair
George Kelly
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Vanced
Curtis PubLishing Company
W. C. Willets
World Building
Long Island
LS. Bernheimer
NEW York Life
Directorate
New York Diocese
Vidaver
Bermel
Academy
J. P. Mitchel
Wanmaker
Sontra
Lambert’s
Lyon's
Tokio
Idealia Sage
Pinaud
Simpson-Crawford Co
Stryker
Buchan's
Munyon
Ideal
West India Bay
Macdonald’s
Westphal’s
Houbigant
Danderine
Carbona
Pray
Belle
Jerre
Port Jefferson Harbor
L. I. Sound
Dean Alvord CO
California
Colorado
Portland
Northwest
Union Pacific
R. R
Carl H. Schultz
Madison Sq
Mase
Walter Uppit
Washington
United States
Jefferson Market Court
Commissioner of Commerce and Labor
Uppit
Union Square
Immissration
Tie
Topit
Ellis Island
Akman & CO
Fasso
B. Akman &, CO
34Th Street
25Th Street
St. Avenue
Stern
West Twenty-third Street
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