Phenix Insurance Case Exposes One Man Rule at Brooklyn Firm
Insurance officials reveal long running pattern in the Phenix Insurance Company of Brooklyn where President George P. Sheldon allegedly controlled operations for years. Directors face scrutiny as loans to former New York supervisors are uncovered and the department urges reforms to oversight and examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Phonix
Sheldon
W. T. Gray
Continental Insurance Company
Henry Evans
Continental
Phenix
Hotchkiss
Fit
Phenix Company
Insurance Department
New York
Greenwich
Conn
Phenix Insurance Company of
Brooklyn
New York Insurance Department
Phenix Insurance Company
George P. Sheldon
George Ingraham
Charles F. Koster
John Cartledge
E. C. Converse
B. J. Greenhut
George M. Hard
Frank J. Logan
William J. Logan
Supt. Hotchkiss
Wourth
Noster
Koster
Department
Tis
D. F. Gordon
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Chamber of Commerce
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yale
Whist
Downtown
Golf
Indian Harbor Yacht
Newna Athletic
University
New York Ubs
George P. Sheldon, Jr
Ingraham
Sanford Avenue
Flushing
Evans
Gray
Converse
Jerome
Westmoreland Apartments
East Seventeenth Street
Moody's
Insurance Men Gather for National Convention Sessions
Insurance commissioners and superintendents from several states arrive in New York for a meeting at the Hotel Manhattan. Morning sessions begin at 10 with topics including uniform fraternal insurance bills, fire insurance rate regulation, and standard accident policy clauses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Convention of Insurance Commissioners
Manhattan
William H. Hotchkiss
Lemert
Ohio
Folk
Tennessee
Barry
Michigan
Crause
Maryland
Hotchkiss
Loans Paid Says Buckley
Albany December 6 William H Buckley former Third Deputy in the State Insurance Department says loans discussed by Supt Hotchkiss were not improper or illegal at the time They were well margined interest paid and loans paid in full when due He added no role in fire insurance exams and noted changes after the Armstrong laws clarified department duties
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pany
Hotchkiss
Insurance Department
Robert H. Hunter
New York
Sheldon
William H. Buckley
Albany
New York Times
State Insurance Department
James F. Pierce
Dalmares Sued For 20000 In Metropolitan Opera Breach
The Connied Metropolitan Opera Company sues French tenor Dalmares for 20000 claiming he sang at the Manhattan Opera House two seasons after a contract to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House. Key testimony centers on a letter from Dalmares's counsel stating he could not sing because of a contract with Manhattan. Dalmores disputed Hammerstein contract binding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metropolitan Opera Company
Charles
Dalmores
Supreme Court
Justice Bischoff
Dalmares
Manhattan Opera House
Metropolitan Opera House
Andreas Dippel
Louis Mathot
Heinrich Conried
Sugar Fraud Trials Highlighted by Inspector Warnings
In the trial of James F. Bendernagel and five others former Amer ican Sugar Refinery workers on Havemeyer & Elder docks in Williamsburg, witnesses described scale manipulation and vigilant spacing of inspectors. A “Roly Poly Gang” allegedly acted to alter weights while electric lights flashed as signals to colleagues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Parr
James F. Bendernagel
Oliver Spitzer
Thomas Kehoe
John R. Coyle
Patrick J. Hennessey
Edward A. Loyle
American Sugar Refinery Company
Havemeyer & Elder
Williamsburg
Sugar Trust
Sugar Company
Roly Poly Gang
Parr
Ephraim Japha
Strathyre
England
Whalley
Coyle
Hennessey
Charles S. Pettingill
Thomas M. Stensen
K Kehoe
Kehoe
Spitzer
Voelker
Robert Jones
American Sugar Refining Company
Mr. Coyle
Lexow
Two Lone Girl Voyagers Reach New World
Two 15 year old girls crossed the Atlantic alone aboard the White Star liner Adriatic, arriving late yesterday. They befriended each other on the voyage and plan to settle in Bath Beach and Sioux Falls with relatives. Rhoda left England to finish a scholarship, while Mary Richards will join her chemist father in Monmouthshire. The girls report a pleasant crossing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Evans
Bath Beach
Rhoda
Seccombe
England
New Brighton
America
Mary Richards
Monmouthshire
Nellie
Bernard
Sioux Falls
S. D
Bronx to Dine Its President-Elect
Cyrus C. Miller Borough President elect and Bronx officials will be entertained at a Fordham Club dinner tomorrow evening. Organized by a non-partisan neighbors committee, about 200 guests are expected. After-dinner speeches will be delivered by Miller, John Purroy Mitchel, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cyrus C. Miller
Bronx
Fordham Club
Miller
Mr. Miller
John Purroy Mitchel
Calhoun Named Minister to China
William J. Calhoun of Chicago is appointed Minister to China and has accepted the post with the Chinese government expressing pleasure. A lawyer, he studied with McKinley’s circle and served in multiple government roles from Cuba to Venezuela. he will remain in the U S until January and plan visits to Boston and Washington before meeting Taft and Knox.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
William James Calhoun
Chicago
China
Calhoun
Calhoun, Lyford & Sheehan
Pittsburg
Penn
Union Seminary
Poland
Ohio
William McKinley
Illinois
Danville
Cannon
McKinley
United States
Shelby M. Cullou
Springfield
Cuba
Spain
Fitzhugh Lee
Weyler
Roosevelt
Bermudez Asphalt Company
Mr. Calhoun
Venezuela
Inter-State Commerce Commission
Alice D. Harmon
William J. Calhoun
Orient
America
Boston
Calvin
Massachusetts
Taft
Knox
Saint Nicholas Society Dinner Salutes Ancestral Lineage at Delmonico's
The Saint Nicholas Society held its 74th anniversary dinner at Delmonico's with about 300 guests. Speakers included Finley of the College of the City of New York and Justice Almer F Jenks, with toastmaster Charles A. Schermerhorn. The event featured yellow and black costumes and a weather vane rooster from the old Dutch Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saint Nicholas Society
Delmonico
Finley
The
College of the City of New York
Supreme Court
Almer F. Jenks
Brooklyn
William M. Sloane
Princeton College
Charles E. Littlefield
Maine
Charles C. Maas
Charles A. Schermerhorn
New York
Peter Stuyvesant
Jenks
Billingsgate
Our Country
Littlefield
William Watson
Alexander Pope
John R. Proctor
William W. Ladd
Society of Colonial Wars
Seth Low
Walter Scott
Saint Andrew’s Society
Leonard Wood
Robbed of altar pieces in several churches
A thief or thieves removed church valuables from St. Mary the Virgin, Christ Church, and Trinity Chapel in New York City. Missing items include a censer, a purple embroidered pulpit hanging, and a pulpit fall. Clergy warn other churches and police have been alerted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
West Forty-sixth Street
Christ Church
Broadway
Seventy-first Street
Trinity Chapel
West Twenty-fifth Street
Trinity
Christ Church Altar Guild
Railroads Consider New Wage Demands Amid Strike Tensions
Northwestern rail managers report Eastern lines may seek a 25 percent wage rise for workers, with waiting-time and other conditions raising the total. Unions aim for a unified demand across trainmen conductors and firemen, engineers to follow. Officials expect no quick concession, but hope for an acceptable adjustment. Meanwhile the General Managers Association says there will be no gloomy Christmas due to the switchmen strike and continues talks with the Switchmen’s Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
General Managers’ Association of
Northwestern Railroads
General Managers
No General Strike Claimed By Railway Union
William G. Lee of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen telegrams President Taft denying reports of a looming general railroad strike. He says demands for higher pay east of Chicago are not forming into action before early 1910 and calls the strike talk absurd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
William G. Lee
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Taft
Brotherhood of
Arbitrate Plan Backed by Shirtwaist Makers Leaders
National Association of Clothiers President Marcus M Marks urged arbitration to end the waistmakers strike at a meeting of Associated Waist and Dress Manufacturers. John Mitchell was to attend but was sent to Washington. Officials sent a letter to Marks and Mitchell confirming the plan while union leaders may follow. A factory forewoman Mary Gachine was assaulted by pickets near 4th Ave and 23rd St as jostling and hatpin attacks erupted. Sadie Cohen, a Brooklyn shirtwaist leader, was found dead in a gas-filled room amid ongoing strike tensions and Christmas hardship. Jennie Kroskowsky and Gussie Romanoff faced bail for assault in Jefferson Market Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marcus M. Marks
National Association of Clothiers
John Mitchell
Associated
Hoffman House
Washington
Mr. Marks
Marks
Mtchell
Waistmakers’ Union
Clinton Hall
Mary Gachine
East Twenty-third Street
Fourth Avenue
Twenty-third Street
Rooney
Becky Silverman
Brook Avenue
The
Bronx
Metropolitan Life
Brownsville
Brooklyn
Sadie Cohen
Fiverdale Avenue
Jennie Kroskowsky
Ludlow Street
Gussie Romanoff
Rivington Street
Jefferson Market Court
Jacob Rosenberg
New Anti-Suffrage Officers Elected in New York
Mrs Francis M Scott was chosen president of the New York State Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage at its fifteenth annual meeting held at Mrs Fritz Achelis residence. Elected officers include two honorary vice presidents Mrs Richard Watson Gilder and Mrs Elihu Root and four active vice presidents Mrs Robert McVickar Mrs William P Northrup Mrs William A Putnam and Mrs George Douglas Miller.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Scott
Park Avenue
New York State Association
Fritz Achelis
East Pittyseventh Street
Richard Watson Gilder
Elihu Root
Robert McVickar
William P Northrup
William A. Putnam
George Douglas Miller
Kancis S. Bangs
Thessociation
George Phillips
Elizabeth Y. Cockroft
Arthur M. Dodge
Eleanor J. Hiewitt
Countess of
Jersey
Ermine Taylor
Humphry Ward
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William Street
Mr. Hotchkiss
Pierce
Counse
Isaac Vanderpoel
Tilghman, Rowland & Co
Gordon
the Times
Son Shields Sheldon
Buckley
Metropolitan Co
Hammerstein
M. Leichter
West 12Th St
Lone Girl Voyagers
Adriatic
China Post
Watson
St. Mary the Virgin, Christ Church
Harris
WS. Kons
Opticians
East
23Rd Street
Fourth Ave
West 34Th St
Bet
5Th &6Th Ave
125Th Street
Lenox Ave
Columbus Ave
Nassau Street
John Street
Fulton St
Op.a.&s
Northwestern
Lee
Brotherhood
OUSA
Fifth Ave
Tiffany's
McCreery
Marks and Mitchell
MADEN
France
Nalch
Dusab Chemical Co
East 29Th St
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