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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1909
Page
3
The Fifth Avenue Branch at 475 Fifth Avenue near 41st Street offers interest on deposit accounts and acts as custodian for personal and real property. It issues letters of credit foreign money travelers checks and vault boxes for customers.
A stormy Atlantic voyage disrupted a concert aboard the Kronprinzessin Cecilie as a piano ripped free from its moorings during Frederic Hoffmann’s performance. Barons Rosen and Lagercrantz steadied the instrument delaying the program by five minutes. Two passengers were lightly injured in a prior gale.
In United States Circuit Court six former American Sugar Refining Company workers face fraud charges for falsifying sugar weights at the Williamsburg piers. Bendernagel and Spitzer claim higher officials directed the scheme. Testimony details payroll schemes, illicit payments, and methods used to misreport weights and evade duties.
The Schérick Drug Company faces bankruptcy after claims of declining trade due to shifts in stenographers and sales staff. The Broadway and Broome Street business, now in receivership, owes about 25 thousand dollars with assets not listed. Mary Scherick is a $3000 creditor, Carola N. Scherick $800, and Robert Cohn $100. Judge Hon appointed H Linsley Johnson receiver to run the business for thirty days.
The Aldermen approved raising Police Lieutenants salaries from 2090 to 2250 but did not appropriate funds. The missing budget could leave about 130000 for the coming year unused. Profs Sait Beard of Columbia visited with 50 political science students. discussion included district issues. A badge regulation for City Marshals was approved after concerns over imitation insignia.
W S Botanic Cough and Balsam offered for coughs colds or grippe. A small bottle priced at 10 cents promising relief with a simple home remedy.
Policeman Best of the West Fourth Precinct on 125th Street near Morningside Avenue chased a runaway horse pulling a butcher’s wagon. He pushed several women to safety on a car platform before the horse crashed the car and dragged Best across streets to a fence. Four officers helped halt the animal. Best was taken to J Hood Wright Hospital and then home.
A daylight blaze gutted the Gedney Farm mansion in White Plains owned by Howard Willets, despite a neighbor bucket brigade. The fire destroyed a 100 room Colonial four story estate and its priceless library and art collection while Willets learned a $277,989 verdict in his favor against H W Poor & Co in a separate suit.
Stock Exchange memberships, hit by panic and slower recovery, hover near the 1906 peak. Recent trades show seats at 92 500 to 94 000 after a 1908 panic low of 52 000, with 95 009 cited as a Dec 1906 high.
The People against Mae C. Wood was scheduled for trial on December 15 after delays and telegrams to Colorado. Wood, who sued ex-Senator Platt for divorce, faces perjury and forgery charges from an earlier attempted settlement. Platt’s illness was cited as a reason he cannot appear as a witness this year.
The Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company reportedly weighs a 50 million dollar program to extend and equip the Fourth Avenue subway in Brooklyn linking to a Manhattan Bridge and Canal Street tunnel. Other ideas include third tracking and elevated extensions across Fulton, West End, Sea Beach, Culver, Brighton Beach lines and a Flatbush Avenue subway to connect with Fourth Avenue. Plans remain tentative and unofficial with no submission to the Public Service Commission.
The Public Service Commission authorized the Interborough Rapid Transit Company to lengthen platforms, using 1.5 million dollars from the city’s bond issue. Completion is hoped before next winter to handle increased traffic by about 23 percent. The commission also approved a permanent station building at Zoo logical Park in the Bronx and set a rehearing on car posting rules for heating notices.
Charles Myers a 22 year old shoemaker in Cincinnati Ohio is shown to have a rare disease called leontiasis ossea causing his skull to enlarge and reshape into a lion like head. Inmate at City Hospital he was displayed before a medical association noting the condition may lead to insanity or death.
The Kerr estate of Thomas B. Kerr who died Oct 4 is valued at 1 547 591 with gross personalty 1 462 391 real estate 85 000. After 63 452 in expenses and debts, net total is 1 484 428. His will leaves the estate to his widow, sons Thomas H. and Lewis, and grandchildren.
A physician advertises a new method to treat deafness and head noises without nostril or ear-tube instruments. He cites Mr. T. E. Lamb who improved after treatment, notes his credentials from Bellevue Hospital, and offers free examinations and a trial of the Baker Microphone.
Advertising note lists hours nine A M to nine P M Sundays nine A M to twelve noon and invites out of town residents to write for advice and booklet describing the Baker Micro phone.
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