Clearing House Expels Five Banks After Panic
The Clearing House Association formally terminated the membership of the National Bank of North America New Amsterdam National Bank Oriental Mechanics and Traders Bank and First National Bank of Brooklyn. Only First National Bank of Brooklyn has resumed business. The five banks lose Clearing House numbers permanently. readmission would require new numbers. Plans emerge to reopen New Amsterdam National and Mechanics and Traders.
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Clearing House Association
National Bank of North America
New Amsterdam National Bank
Oriental the Mechanics and Traders’ Bank
First National Bank of Brooklyn
First National of Brooklyn
Clearing House
Association
the Oriental
The
National of North America
Court Upholds Merger of Equitable and Mercantile Trusts
Albany April 14 Court of Appeals upholds the proposed merger of Equitable Trust Company with Mercantile Trust Company of New York City. Minority holder Bainbridge Colby challenged the plan claiming improper asset transfer without adequate compensation. The decision affirms the appellate ruling and sends the matter to stockholders for final action.
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Albany
Court of Appeals
Equitable Trust Company
Mercantile Trust Company
New York City
Bainbridge Colby
Appellate Division
Colby
Geal
Defends Print Paper Makers in Open Reply
A. N. Burbank president of International Paper Company rebuts Attorney General Bonaparte on wood pulp price claims. He says prices reflect natural costs not gouging and cites lower production costs, reduced labor, and declining lumber demand. The company asserts its forests are conserved and woodlands will mature for future use.
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A. N. Burbank
International Paper Company
Bonaparte
Mining Notes Highlight Cerro Colorado Push and Mexican Belt Line
Mining notes report Cerro Colorado Mining and Milling Co plan to build a modern mill in Pima County Arizona with Daniel J. Sully as president amid bids for leases. A new four inch vein at North River Queen on the 150 foot level yields promising samples. May Day mine Utah shows substantial ore and concentrate shipments with strong cash flow. Mineral Belt Railway completion at Guanajuato Mexico promises renewed activity. La Luz district mines await heavy machinery including a thousand stamp mill. track readiness for motive power expected by January.
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Cerro- Colorado Mining and Milling Company
Pima County
Ariz
Daniel J. Sully
Guanajusto
Mexico
la Luz
1907 Financial Figures Fragment and Dates
Fragmented OCR data shows figures 11 014 083, 14 897 739 and 12 152 085 with dates January 1 and April 14. Additional large numbers 239,196,477 190,097,188 187,071,007 are present, but context is unclear.
Coffee and Cotton Markets Show Mixed Activity in New York
The April 14 1908 market report notes coffee trading was do less, with switching from near to late months and a steady undertone as liquidation continued. Cotton prices hit new lows on broad liquidation and weak spot markets with diverse regional prices and ample rainfall expectations affecting futures.
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New York
K. Apel
Barney
Bush
Havre
Hamburg
Santos
Rio No 7
Tate
Wall Street
Weather Bureau i S
Ita
Augsburg
Seaboard Railway Security Committee Forms Plan for Reorganization
A committee of bond and stockholders representing all classes of Seaboard Air Line Railway and Seaboard Company securities has formed to safeguard holders and prepare a reorganization plan. A deposit agreement will be drafted and presented to bondholders and shareholders in due course. Dated New York April 11, 1908.
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Seaboard Air Line Railway
Seaboard Company
Railroad earnings for early April and year totals
The Louisville and Nashville, Rio Grande Southern, and Wheeling and Lake Erie report first week April earnings and year-to-date totals. L&N shows 1908 799 495 and 1907 910 130 840 750 for the period ending April 7, with year totals 35 447 515 and 86 746 731 and 2 818 310. Rio Grande Southern posts first week April 9 222 and 8 472 with year totals 473 588 and 405 167. Wheeling and Lake Erie lists first week April 52 901 and 108 128 with year totals 4 206 953 and 4 272 661.
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Louisville & Nashville
RIO Grande Southern
Wheeling & Lake Erie
Long Island Railroad Shows Yearly Deficit Despite Higher Earnings
The Long Island Railroad Company reports for the year ended December 31, 1907 a gross earnings rise to 10.13 million from 9.60 million, but operating expenses climb more, yielding a deficit of 858,829. The report cites greater passenger service, wage increases, and maintenance costs, noting expected traffic gains from a forthcoming Rapid Transit line and an election of Frederick G. Bourne as director after the passing of Franklin B. Lord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island Railroad Company
The
Battery
Flatbush Avenue
Brooklyn
Jamaica
New York City
Long Island City
24Th Street
Frederick G. Bourne
Franklin B. Lord
Boston Wool Market Sees Marked Improvement in Prices
Boston on April 14 reports a stronger wool market with heavy movement across domestic lines as buyers seek dealers. Prices remain low with specific quotations for Ohio Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin Kentucky Indiana Missouri and California fleeces and various washed delaine and scoured lots, including pullings and fancy grades.
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Boston
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Wisconsin
Delaine
Kentucky
Indiana
Missouri
Texas
California
Middle County
Southern
Oregon
Valley
Company Surplus After Interest Deductions
From the surplus after interest charges 1110640 deduct 203241 charged off for depreciation extinguishment and special appropriation fund leaving a balance of 907399 applicable to pre ferred dividends. President Fisher reports a very satisfactory year with a panic period in the last quarter but normal conditions returning in January for bag line stocks. The paper line outlook is less encouraging while woodlands and water powers supported profits.
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Fisher
Union Bag and Paper Company
Wheat and grain slump grips Chicago cash market in April
Rain reports across Kansas dampened the wheat outlook as the May futures fell from earlier highs. Corn and oats dropped, while provisions slid 7 to 20 cents, with May wheat closing around 91 cents and local cash interest weak amid heavy seeding progress and abundant receipts.
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Chicago
Kansas
Shorts
May
Bradstreed
Minneapolis
Duluth
Berlitz Language Schools Advertise City and Park Branches
The notice lists Berlitz School locations in Manhattan Madison Square 1122 Broadway Harlem Lenox Ave near 127th St and Asbury Park NJ with service valid within about one hundred miles. It specifies instruction for all ages and both sexes.
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Berlitz School OF Languages
Madison Square
Broadway
Harlem
Lenox Ave
Teachers Agency Adverts for Schools and Families
American and Foreign Teachers Agency supplies professors teachers tutors governesses for colleges schools and private families. Apply to Mrs M J Young Fulton 23 Union Square Made Moisfle Amyot Teachers Agency 22 Be Hoth Street Tel 1657 Madison.
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American and Foreign Teachers Agency
M J Young-Fulton
Union Square
Moisflle Amyot
Behoth St
Madison
Bids Open For New York Water Board Annual Report Printing
The Board of Water Supply invites sealed bids at 299 Broadway New York Room 1010 ninth floor until 11 AM April 15 1908 for printing and delivering the First Annual Report of the Board of Water Supply of New York City. Bidders may obtain pamphlets at Room 1515 and further details from the City Record. Also notices of other government and military procurement bids appear, including the Areth Filling and Dredging Fort Slocum and Fort Slocum sea wall projects with deadlines in May and June 1908.
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Board of Water Supply
Broadway
New York
City of
ARETH
Q. M
Fort Slocum
N. Y
A. M
E. Wall
Q M
Slocum
Sale Notice for Two Properties in Washington Street Area
Legal notice states property to be sold at 227 So Washington and 87 Barclay St with a lien total around 500 dollars plus interest from March 1005. Costs and allowances total 382.74 dollars and sale expenses. Possible city assessments water rates to be charged to purchaser or paid by referee.
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van Shaick & C
Wall Street
Unit R R Inc
Fan Trust
Paso Do Air L
Nat Bank
Fidelity & Dep
Conso
Maryland Trust
Nor Cent R R
York
Jackson Gas
Kan City
Balt Con
Latay Gas
Log & W
Bingh Nam G
Alo Gas
Mutual
Y&er Ss
P&g C
Ohio & Ind G
Paterson & Pasg
Con Gas
Standard
Denver Gas
St J
ING & O
St Paul Gas
Syra
Byra
Indianapolis
Washington S
Barclay St
Barclay S
Costa
Executors of Tiffany and Cook estates cited for 1908 Surrogates Court hearing
The notice cites Annie Mitchell and others as executors of Charles E. Miller and Charles T. Cook estates. All heirs creditors and kin in New York County are summoned to appear at the Surrogate's Court Hall of Records on May 12 1908 for a judicial settlement of accounts. Minor defendants must be represented by a guardian. The Surrogate Abner C Thomas affirms the seal.
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Abner C. Thomas
County of
New York
Joseph P. Smith
Daly, Hoyt & Mason
William Street
City of
Mary E Smith
Manhattan
New York City
Charles H. Beckett
William Bartels
Greenwich Street
Ferdinand Bartell
Greenen Street
Borough of Manhattan
City of News
T. E. Beardsley
Nassau Street
James M Quigsey
Alfred S. Brown
Borough of
City of New York
Anne D. Quigley
Executiiz
Ndee
Edward Willis
Abnert Thomas
Edward Willis Candee
Shiland, Shoemaker & Hedges
Pine Street
Edith Co. Mathews
Upreme Court
County OF New York
Ss Maximilian Freischmann Company
Gertrude R. Waldo
Gale
Exchange
Vesey Street
Ne York
Joseph P. Day
Wa Zton Street
Barclay Street
Was Street
Washington Street
Mary E. Newbold
Laura ¥. Rhinelander
Mary R. Swan
Mary Gallatin
Mary L. Gallatin
Terence J. McManus
Frederick 8. Jackson
Plaintiff
Madison Avenue
State OF
Weon
Mary Greer
Nancie Leighton
Hessie Graham
Louisa Grant
Catherine Gilliland
Robert L la Salle
Annie Creassey
Amy Forman
Lawson
Esther Eastwood
Grace Lawson
Bernard F. B. Lawson
Robert Richard Lawson
Elsie Heatly
Hetra
Eliza J. Torney
Samuel Lawson
David Lawson
Our of
Salt County of
New Yorks
Salt County
Daniel JI. Dowdney
Putney, Twombly & Putney
Rector St. N
City
New Tore
Johanna Hirschhorn
Anton Hirschhorn
Leopold Gusther
Babette Cohen
Betty Gusthal
Leopold Gusthal
County
Daniel J. Dowdney
Surrogates Court
Gago
Niles
Mary Graham
Rebecca E. Haskell
Richard A. Clarke
Anna Frazier
Mary Ward
W. E Ward
Mary
Susan Rebecca Ard
William P. Ward
Oly Weeres
Susan Rebecca Ward
State OF New York
God
Annie
Mitchell
Burnett
Tiffany
Louise H. Tiffany
Tes Broeck Morse
Gertrude Shaw
Eliza Tiffany Waimsasey
Alfreda Mitchell Bingham
Woodbridge Bingham
Hiram Bingham IV
Alfred Mitchell Bingham
Tiffany Bingham
Charly Tiffany
Mitchell-Jeans
Mary Tiffany Lusk
William Thompson Lusk
Louise Lusk
Louis Tiffany Lusk
Charles Lewis Tiffany
Hilda Goddard Tiffany
Louise Comfort Tiffany
Julia de Forest Tiffany
Hall of Records
Louis
Alfred Mitchell
New
York
Abner C Thomas
Anna Julie Gessner-Ernst
Friedrich Ernst
Karoline Ernst
Heinrich Ernst
Katharina Elisabetha Sulzer Ernst
Emilie Berta Kohl-Ernst
Jacob Theodor Ernst
Susanna Sparmann-Ernst
Robert Ernst
Julius Ernst
National Surety Company
Switzerland
Cty
Adolph Rusch
Emile Ernst
Surrogate’s Court
Chas. H. Beckett
Max Meyer
Felix Meyer
Hugo Meyer
Meyer
Abraham Meyer
Sophie Boag
Woodlawn Cemetery
Theodore Meyer
Julius Meyer
Christina Goebel
Adele Smuthy
Frana Boas
Hedwig Lehmann
Herman Meyer
Tent Wohlauver
Johann ® Cleffmann
Ernst Richard
Will
Julia Richard
Children’s Aid Society of the
Anna Urbach
Helene Boas
Gertrude Franzeska Boas
Frieda Urbach
Hedwig Urbach
A Cleffmann
Ida Cleffmann
Margarete Cleffmann
Margarete Meyer
Marie Boas
Ernst Philip Boas
Henry H. D. Boas
Theodore Smutny
Edgar Smuthy
Rudol Smutny
Walter Urbach
Franz Urbach
Rudol Urbach
Otto Cleffmann
Otto Meyer
Rudolph Lehmann
Anna Meyer
Ludwig Wohlauer
Cleffmann
Abraham Jacobi
Georg McAneny
Jacob Ver
Mount Sinai Hospital
German Hospital
Academy of Medicine of the
City of New York and Civil Service Reform Association
Jacob Meyer
Mcaneny
Eald
Thompson & Fuller
Wall Street
Borough of Mannhattan
Fulton An and Rest Company
Supreme Court of
County Court House
Seld Corporation
H. D. Beat Company
Fulton and Best Company
Ty Herman D. Best
NEW York Supreme Court
East Side Hospital
Supreme Court
Petihon
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Equitable and Mercantile Trust Cos
Union
International Company
Utah
Philadelphia
Charlies T. Ra & Co
South 4Th Street
Penn
Penn Steel Co
Phila Elec Co
Phila Rap
Ink Co
Slia
Union Traction Ba Byle Buy Corp
T'n Gas Imp Co
Latigis Nahobod
Welsbach Co
Phila Elec
Phila Co
RL. Day & Co
Wail Street
Boston Consol
Cai & Hecla
North Butte
Parrot
Quincy
Tamarack M
Wolverine
United Fruit
General Market Report
Gulf
Ifeannah Gulf
North Dull
Baltimore
Augusta
Louis ¢ T
Little Rock
Galveston
New Orleans
Memphis
Houston
Charleston
Wilmington
Nam L
Liverpool
Manchester
New York Produce Exchange
Western
City Steady
Red Dog
City Tran
Drouth
Headstreet
Nebraska
Northwest
Red River Valley
Minneap
Eevator
Commission House
Yester
Pete Ber
FSB
Jan
S. S
AEW
C. Sidney Shepard
James A. Blair
Hugo Blumenthal
Russell G. Fessenden
Thomas J. Hayward
Hennen Jennings
Henry Cleveland Perkins
John B. Ramsay
Norman B. Ream
William A. Read
Thomas F. Ryan
Ernst Thalmann
George W. Watts
John Skelton Williams
D. C
London
Cleveland
Northern
Produce Exchange
Orleans
Opem
Calcutta
Nadia
Middle Western
South America
Continent
Brazil
Keys
Talmage
Louisiana
Carolina
Parna
Rangoon
Bassein
Eagle
Cuba
United Kingdom
Long Island Railroad
Oper
Inc
IL. I. ER
Boston Wool Market
Union Bag and Paper
Chicago Grain and Provisions
Ferry Companies
Brooklyn Ferry
Union Ferry
Nyg
City Hotels
HOTEL
Grenoble
56Th ST
7Th AV
William P. Chase
Wellington
7Th Ave
J. F. Champlin
Mgr
Starin’s
Long Island Sound
Hudson River
Glen
Richmond
Mall
Cortlandt
Asbury Park
Atlantic City
Europe
Thos. Cook & Son
Fifth Ave
John A Bensel
Charles N. Chadwick
Charles A Shaw
Thomas Hassett
Snrankford
Toffice Department
Washington, D.C
Post Office Department
Washington, D. C. C
P. Grandfield
Alexander & Green
Surrogates’ Court
Bayard I. Peck
Executors
Liberty Street
Meyer Greenberg
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