Reform critique echoes at first annual life insurance meeting
Five hundred insurance men gathered at the Hotel Belmont for the inaugural meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents led by Grover Cleveland who defended current methods as safe and clean while addressing reforms spurred by the Armstrong committee. Leaders from Aetna Des Moines Fidelity Mutual Germania Home Metropolitan Mutual Equitable New York United States Life Prudential Security Mutual Travelers Union Central and Volunteer State Life attended along with officials like Paul Morton and Kingsley.
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Association of Life Insurance
Belmont
Grover Cleveland
Armstrong Legislative Committee
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Morton
Aetna
Hartford
Des Moines Cafe
Des Moines
Fidelity Mutual
Philadelphia
Germania
The
Home
Metropolitan
the Mutual
Equiquitable
New York
United States Life Insurance Companies
Prudential of
Newark
Security Mutual of
Binghamton
Travers of
Union Central of
Cincinnati
Volunteer State Life of
Chattanooga
Tenn
Cleveland
Darwin P. Kingsley
New York Life
Armstrong
A. E. Ide
Home Life
John Tattock
Washington Life
William B. Smith
Travelers’ of
Scudder
Beau E. Foss
Missouri
Swindled Notables in Charity Scam Exposed
Assistant District Attorney says Edward Fine posed as a book project solicitor to raise at least $5,000 from prominent New York figures including Grover Cleveland Mrs Astor Reginald Vanderbilt and others. Investigators say forged letters and dozens of portraits were used to attract donors and legitimize the scheme.
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Paul Krotel
Edward F. Fine
West Forty-Ninth Street
Flood
Fitzsimmons
Fine
Grover Cleveland
Admiral Goodrich
W. W.astor
Stuyvesant Fish
Countess Leary
Reginald Vanderbilt
Gov. Hughes
Charles E. Hughes
Albany
Cartoonist’s and Illustrators’ Association
Hotel Astor
Hughes
Willard Heintz
Ansonia
Artists’ Association
Astor
Krotel
Donald Persch
East Thirty-fourth Street
Walter L. Stimmel
Broadway
Persch
Stimmel
Court Raps Police at Tombs Over Arrest
Magistrate Butts criticized police from the bench in the Tombs Court. Jacob Schneider, 24, of Sterling Place Brooklyn, held on $1,000 bail for forging bills of lading for shipments from Parke Davis and Co Maiden Lane. Detectives say he confessed monthly embezzlement of 600 to 700 dollars for three years. He refused to allow moving him to Rogues Gallery. seven pickpockets were discharged.
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Butts
Finn
Tombs Court
Jacob Schneider
Sterling Place
Brooklyn
Parke, Davis & Co
Maiden Lane
Schneider
San Francisco man held on boat poker case at The Tombs
Bert Goldie of San Francisco was arrested at the Waldorf on a charge by Baron von Ittersum that he swindled him in a poker game aboard a liner bringing them from Germany to New York. Goldie posted 1000 bail for examination Tuesday as William B Meder, another passenger on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie, says Goldie swindled him out of 810 dollars. Magistrate Butts adjourned the case to clarify if the notes count as money in this stolen property matter.
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Bert Goldie
San Francisco
the Waldorf
Baron von Ittersum
Germany
New York
Tombs Court
Butts
Goldie
William 8. Meder
Kronprinzess
Cecilie
Man seeks father and birth records in Yorkville court
An elderly man in Yorkville asked Magistrate Finn for help tracing his real name and birth parents. He was raised as William G Love by an Ohio adopter and recalls a childhood judgment at a Park Avenue court, later sent to an asylum. Records were reportedly destroyed in a Civil War era fire. He resides in Port Chester with his wife.
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Finn
Yorkville
William G. Love
Ohio
Upper Park Avenue
William Love
Mount Vernon
Court House
Eighty-sixth Street
Park Avenue
Love
Portchester
Brooklyn medium Pepper-Van derbilt indicted for grand larceny
Grand Jury of Kings County denounces Ann Scannell Pepper-Van derbilt as an arrant faker and brands her spirit communication as false. Indictment for grand larceny follows a charge by stepdaughter Miss Minerva Vanderbilt that the medium obtained title to 587 St. Mark's Avenue by deception and fraud. Evidence includes a letter tied to Edward Ward Vanderbilt's prior insanity ruling.
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Grand Jury
Kings County
Ann Scannell Pepper-Vanderbilt
Brooklyn
Minerva Vanderbilt
St. Mark's Avenue
Persecuted Officer Faces Court Martial Link at Governors Island
The case centers on two prominent East Coast Coast Artillery officers, Lieut. Col. Clarence Deems and Capt. Arthur W. Chase, as a court martial at Governors Island likely next week. Chase accuses Deems of belittling and aiming to bring him to trial for alleged neglect, while Deems denies the charges. An Inspector General inquiry at Fort Howard will shape future military action, with Capt. Chase noting ill treatment and demanding explanations.
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Coast Artillery
East
Governors Island
Clarence Deems
Baltimore
Arthur W.chase
Fort Howard
Chase
Heistand
Department of the East
Col
Deems
Army
Judge Advocate General's Department
Whitney
Cpl
Capt. Chase
Capt
Col. Deems
Chases
Adolph Langhorst
Langhurst
Walter Howe
William T. Johnson
Fifteenth Cavalry
Why Goodwin Was Removed From Water Department
The Mayor removed Deputy Water Commissioner Frank Goodwin after a budget scrutiny revealed his poor grasp of department needs. Officials say the move aimed to secure a deputy with a comprehensive view of water operations, denying political motive. Also cited are charges against plumbing board members Robert McCabe and John Todd following a formal hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Goodwin
Goodwin
John H. O’brien
McClellan
Water Department
Ai Goodwin
O’brien
Robert McCabe
John Todd
Woman Rampages at Sub-Treasury Arrested After Fight
Mrs. Carolina Gustavsen, 43, caused a disturbance at the Sub-Treasury. She fought officers and tore Detective Ryan's coat before being ejected. She demanded money claiming loss from Knickerbocker Trust and said she would write to Teddy Roosevelt. She lives at 675 Second Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolina Gustavsen
Bellevue
Butts
Sub-Treasury
Ryan
Teddy’’ Roosevelt
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Second Avenue
Broker Sues Mercantile National for 10000 Commission
Jeremiah J. Sullivan a real estate broker at 457 West 164th Street sues Mercantile National Bank claiming $10,000 in commissions from the sale of the bank’s Dey Street and Broadway property to the City Investment Company through a dummy named Guner for $1,000,000 last January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah J. Sullivan
West 164Th Street
Mercantile National Bank
Bank
Dey Street
Broadway
City Investment Comyee
Guner
City Wins $15,206 Suit on Appeal
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court reversed a judgment yesterday in favor of the City of New York, in a case brought by Wilpon Ellie Papoticturing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Appellate Division
Supreme Court
City of
New York
Wilpon 2Ellie Papoticturing
Gloves for Men and Women Feature Bargain Prices
Catalog note lists gloves and outerwear with discounts from twenty to forty percent. Full-length Persian lamb coats priced at 45.00, muskrat and pony-skin options at 29.50, heavy kersey overcoats, and mousquetaire French grace kid gloves in various colors. Men's I-clasp gloves priced at 1.25 with 98 cent value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Oxford
Kersey and Melton
Oxford Melton
Kersey
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Mr. Cleveland
Life Insurance
Emmy
Charity
Mrs. Fish
OCEAN
Liner
Foundling Asylum
Aneeda
Es” National Biscuit Company
Chage
Maniac
Sues Mercantile National
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer Institute
West 34Th St
Parker, Smith & CO
Ean
Lusitania
Yesterdy
Watt
Cunard Line
Sandy Hook
Sunoes
Teather
Mersey
Queenstown
Andy Hook
Daunt’s Rock
Fifth Avenue
Sixth Avenue
Eighteenth
Nineteenth Street
B. Altman & Co
Brill
America
Melton
Ame
Union Square
14Th
N. B’way
N. Chambers
B’way
Cortlandt St
Sto
Noway Weresay Re Vis
Harlem
Cortlandt
N. Greenwich
125Th Street
Cor
3D Avenue
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