Inquiry frets Jerome insurance cases aired
Franklin Pierce for the King asserts District Attorney Jerome mishandled information in prosecuting insurance officials. The fifth charge, part of twenty three against Jerome, is before Commissioner Mandel at the Public Service Commission. Testimony covers grand jury duties, indictment decisions, and minutes from Armstrong committee proceedings. Jerome testifies on conversations with Judge Sullivan and explains why indicted insurance men were not tried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Pierce
The
King
Jerome
King Committee
Mand
Public Service Commission
Tribune
Met
Sullivan
Crand
Pierce
Regiicent
Armstrong
Grand Jury
National Campaign Committee
New York Life
George W. Perki
Ance
Cornelius X. Bliss
Republican National Committee
Armstrong Committee
Mr. Jerome
Mr. Hand
Hand
March Grand Jury
Grannis
Justice Dowling
Fairchild
Perkins
Hegemaen
Equitable
Mutual Life
Stanley Bage
Newport Begins Career as City Schoolship
The Newport, the city s new training ship, cast off from East 29th Street and steamed toward Glen Cove for a cruise lasting until May 5. Transferred by the Navy to the Board of Education via New York State, it replaces the St Marys as the municipal schoolship. It is the only steam propelled municipal schoolship, though navigation taught on sail. Lieutenant Commander L H Everhart (retired) commands the full rigged craft, with instruction in steam and electrical engineering for one hundred cadets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
East 29Th Street
Hell Gate
Sound
Glen Cove
Pompert
Navy Department
Board of Education
State of
St. Mary's
L. H. Everhart
Hotel Marie Antoinette Case Hears Payment Fraud Charge
The hearing in the Hotel Marie Antoinette vs William Kisselburgh Jr. Deputy Attorney General continued in West Side Court. Alfred M. Wooley testified Kisselburgh owed $725 for services and issued a check on First National Bank of Ballston Spa that bounced. another check on Carnegie Trust Company was found after cashier Captain Walter G. Smith disappeared and later bodies were found in the Susquehanna River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Antoinette
William Kisselburgh, Jr
West Side Court
Alfred M. Wooley
Kisselburgh
First National Bank of
Ballston Spa
N. Y
Supreme Court Justices Honor Justice Leventritt at Dinner
In an informal Manhattan Club dinner last night the Supreme Court justices gathered to honor Justice David Leventritt who retires Friday. All division justices attended with Justice Ingraham presiding and Justice Gildersleeve delivering the presentation speech as a loving cup was presented to the guest of honor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manhattan Club
The
Supreme Court
David Leventritt
Justice Ingraham
Appellate Division
Gildersleeve
Obituary of Dr Charles J Aldrich Neurology Specialist
Cleveland April 29 Dr Charles John Aldrich noted neurology specialist died suddenly at home after suffering a nervous disorder. Born October 13 1851 in Spencer Ohio he studied at Baldwin University and Western Reserve Medical College began practice in 1882. He lectured in London Berlin Paris 1895 1898 served at Cleveland General Hospital Wooster Cleveland City Hospital and St Luke's Hospital. He became professor at Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons 1900s. He led local medical societies and was editor contributor to medical journals. He married Jessie E Critchfield Hutchinson in 1883.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles John Aldrich
Spencer
Ohio
Baldwin University
Western Reserve Medical College
London
Berlin
Paris
Cleveland General Hospital
University of Wooster
Cleveland City Hospital
Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons
St. Luke's Hospital
Aldrich
Cuyahoga County Medical Society
Medico-Legal Society of Cleveland
Cleveland Academy of Medicine
American Medicalisation
Ohio State Medical Society
Jessie E. Critchfield Hutchinson
Archibald G Montgomery longtime New York insurance executive dies
Archibald Gilbert Montgomery died at his home in New York aged seventy seven. A Civil War regimental adjutant in the 37th New York Volunteers he later led in business as president of the Mercantile Mutual Marine Insurance Company founded on Wall Street. He also served as secretary of the Islip Company Broadway and belonged to Lafayette Post G A R Kane Lodge F and A M and Amity Hose Company 38.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Archibald Gilbert Montgomery
West 91St Street
New York Volunteers
Mercantile Mutual Marine Insurance Company
Wall Street
Islip Company
Broadway
Lafayette Post
Kane Lodge
A. M
Fivemen
Amity Hose Company 38
F W Huidekoper Dies After Stroke in Washington
Frederick Wolters Huidekoper a railroad executive who served as president and first vice president and acted as receiver for many lines, died in Washington today at age sixty seven from a stroke of apoplexy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Frederick Wolters Huide- Koper
John B Manning former Buffalo mayor dies after illness
John Baker Manning former Buffalo mayor succeeding Grover Cleveland in 1858 died after a week long illness at his home in Brooklyn. Born Albany July 13, 1834 he moved to Buffalo became a merchant and president of the Buffalo Board of Trade. A 32nd degree Mason he had six children from his first wife Elizabeth House and survived by his wife Mary Schwauf, whom he married in 1895.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Paker Manning
Buffalo
Grover Cleveland
No. & St. Mark’s Avenue
Brooklyn
Daniel Manning
Mrr
Cleveland
Treasury
Mr. Manning
Albany
Buffalo Board of Trade
Washington Lodge
A. M
Elizabeth House
Mary Schwauf
Obituary of W L Ormsby Jr longtime stenographer and reporter
W L Ormsby Jr aged 73 died at his home 21 West 2th street. Born in New York City in 1849 he was a reporter for The New York Sun Herald Times and The World and served fourteen years at Continental Bank Note Company. In 1885 he became official stenographer in the City Magistrates Court, a post he held till death. He was the first to ride Overland Mail coach from St Louis to San Francisco for The New York Herald and long associated with the New York Liberal Club. He left a wife daughter two sons and three sons who were stenographers of the New York Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.L. Ormsby, Jr
West 2Th Street
New York City
W. L. Ormsby
New York Sun
The
Herald
Times
the World
Continental Bank Note Company
New York
City
California
St. Louis
San Francisco
New York Herald
New York Liberal Club
Horace Greeley
New York Supreme Court
Harvard Yale debate appoints judges for Friday
Professor Henry van Dyke of Princeton has accepted the invitation to judge the Harvard Yale debate in New Haven on Friday evening. Chief Solstice Baldwin will preside. Dean Emerson of Dartmouth is named as one of the judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Henry van Dyke
Princeton
N. J
Solstice Baldwin
Dean Emerson
Dartmouth
Description of Early Dutch Customs in Flatbush
Mrs Clarence De Lane Stone presented a feature on old Dutch customs in Flatbush during the tri centennial celebration of Dutch arrival in New York. The event was part of a fair carnival and exhibition at the Church of All Souls parish house in Flatbush.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flatbush
Clarence de Lane Stone
New York
Church of All Souls
Mayor Low Scented Fire Graft Too
Ex mayor Low testified before the Commissioners of Accounts on city relations with Manhattan Fire Alarm Co. He backed Fire Commissioner Sturgis that ties hinted at corruption though not proven. A two day hearing on the subject was held and then left pending legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Low
Commissioners of Accounts
Fire Department
Thomas Sturgis
Manhattan Fire Alarm Company
Mitchel
Find New York Woman's Jewels
Morrell Dorsey and Homer Skyes were arrested for trying to dispose of a purse lost by Mrs. Maud Woodworth of New York. The bag held fourteen diamonds and fourteen turquoises. Dorsey confessed Skyes gave him the purse to sell to a pawnbroker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tribune
Atlantic City
Morrell Dorsey
Homer Bikyes
Maud Woodworth
New York
Dorsey
Skyes
Husband and Wife Dispute Over Wanamaker Suit
Wanamaker's sues Howard Gould claiming an account run by his wife from September 19 to February 1 covered several months. The total amount is unclear due to damaged text but the suit centers on the contested charges and marital difficulties becoming public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Gould
Wanamaker's
Ebeul Pope
Westinghouse Plea Urges Stock Subscription Amid Receivership
Westinghouse Electric head George Westinghouse appeals to stockholders to subscribe pro rata to new stock under the merchandise creditors committee plan. A stockholders committee statement joins the appeal, noting receivers have reduced liabilities and converted surplus assets. Over 50 stockholders have subscribed for about one new share per four held, with additional subscriptions via the Security Investment Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Westinghouse
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Mr. Westinghouse
Trains Schedule Set for Brooklyn Subway Extension
The official train will not depart City Hall until 3 30 pm but the first passenger train will run from Bowling Green to Atlantic avenue at 1 02 am tomorrow. The Atlantic avenue to Manhattan service starts at 1 14 am with through tunneling for Lenox avenue and Dyckman street trains. Peak hours feature a two minute headway. longest wait 15 minutes. City officials and notable figures including Mayor McClellan and ex Mayor Boody attend the City Hall ceremony at Baptist Temple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Subway
City Hall
Bowling Green
Atlantic Avenue
Manhattan
Frank Hedley
Interborough
Long Island Railroad
Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues
Lenox Avenue
Borough Hall
Hoyt Street
Nevins Street
Dyckman Street
Broadway
South Ferry
Public Service Commission For
1St District
City Hall Station
Willcox
Baptist Temple
McClellan
Coler
St. Clair McKelway
David A. Boody
Officials say nickel fare for Island not guaranteed
Brooklyn Rapid Transit officials state they are not worried about a 5-cent fare bill from the Governor. They will submit proof to the Public Service Commission that the 5-cent fare would be confiscatory and doubt the commission would order it. They cite a large deficit from Coney Island traffic last year despite the 10-cent fare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Public Service Commission
Coney Island
Planning for Broadway Lexington Subway Stations
The Public Service Commission has advanced to evaluating station locations on the Broadway Lexington avenue subway route. Real estate men and others along the line have submitted many suggestions as the commission holds meetings on local and express station placements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington Avenue
Public Service Commission
Commission
Corey to Europe as Steel President sails abroad
William Ellis Corey, re elected president of United States Steel Corporation, will sail for Europe today on the Hamburg American liner Deutschland with Mrs Corey. He declined to fixed stay length. Rumor of a two month hiatus is denied by contemporaries, Judge Gary usually vacations in Europe in summer. Steel officials report April new business at about 15,000 tons daily, with earnings near seven million dollars for the month, and current capacity around 45 percent. unfilled tonnage for the quarter expected to be higher than prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ellis Corey
United States Steel Corporation
Tuesay
Europe
Deutschland
Corey
Gary
Marea
Denver & Rio Grande President Denounces I C C Report
Howard T. Jeffery of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad denounces an Interstate Commerce Commission report. He argues the commission misread stock ownership of Utah Fuel Company and asserts the report is unfair and politically motivated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver & Rio Grande
Railroad
Howard T. Jeffery
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company
Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ashington
Utah Fuel Company
Rio Grande Western Railway Company
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Jeffery
Interborough notes oversubscribed in rapid market sale
The Interborough Rapid Transit Company oversubscribed a $25,000,000 three year convertible 6 percent gold note issue dated May 1 1908 payable May 1 1911. Morgan and Co opened and closed the sale within an hour. Notes offered at par, secured by $30,000,000 forty five year gold mortgage bonds. Exchange preference given to holders of $15,000,000 maturities maturing May 1 198 who traded at par. In curb market, over $500,000 changed hands with prices from par to 100 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
J. P. Morgan & Co
Million share issue planned by Cincinnati New Orleans Texas Pacific
The Cincinnati New Orleans Texas Pacific Railway asks stockholders to subscribe at par to up to 10,000 shares of 5 percent cumulative preferred stock. Proceeds totaling 1,000,000 will raise total outstanding to 3,000,000 for property improvements. W. W. Finley, tied to Southern Railway, leads the line, which runs Cincinnati to Chattanooga over 336 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway Company
W. W. Finley
The
Southern Railway Company
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway
Southern Railway
Cincinnati Southern Railway
City of
Cincinnati
Chattanooga
Tenn
Gold exports resume to Paris amid bank movements
Gold exports to Paris resumed with Nationality Bank Lazard Freres and National Bank of Commerce each supplying amounts to be shipped on La Savoie. Total export to Paris in two weeks reaches 14,00000, while 2,590,000 more heads to Montreal. Foreign exchange weakens as markets seek equilibrium with Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Pennsylvania
Paris
Nationality Bank
Lazard Freres
National Bank of Commerce
la Savoie
Montreal
Europe
Pennsylvania Loan
Suit Near End in Metropolitan Street Railway Case
Eugene Kremer, counsel for Weil and Weiller, finished direct examination as both sides seek to submit cases by Saturday. H H Vreeland testifies his salary was about four thousand dollars annually and notes prior work with a syndicate including Ryan, Elkins, Dolan, Widener, and Whitney. Stanchfield requests adjournment, case adjourned until today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Kremer
Weil and
Weiller
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
H. H. Vreeland
New York
Messrs. Ryan, Elkins
Reginald Brooks Hurt in Polo Practice
Reginald Brooks of Meadow Brook Hunt Club on Hempstead Long Island was hit on the forehead by a polo mallet swung by Harold Phipps during a practice game. He received a one inch gash but did not lose an eye and rode home after treatment at the clubhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reginald Brooks
Hempstead
Long Island
Meadow Brook
Morse and Curtis Must Face Trial in Bank Fraud Case
Judge Hough in the United States Circuit Court overruled most objections in the federal indictment of Charles W. Morse and Alfred H. Curtis. The trial will proceed on conspiracy to defraud and misapplication of funds at the National Bank of North America, with Counts 3 to 10 challenged but not dismissed. The judge declined to force an election between conspiracy and misapplication counts, noting the intimate relation of the facts across counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles W. Morse
Alfred H. Curtis
Federal Grand Jury
National Bank of North America
Hough
United States Circuit Court
Heinze
Morse
Curtis
Supreme Court
Osborne Defends Self in Ice Trust Inquiry
James W. Osborne contends that grand jurors examining the Ice Trust had conflicts of interest including ties to the American Ice Company and its holding entities. He warns that inspecting the minutes could corrupt justice as the American Ice Company presses for access. Justice Davis reserved decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Osborne
Joseph S. Auerbach
American Ice Company
Ice Trust
Osborne
New York
Davis
New England Plans Boston Route Challenge to Metropolitan
The New England Navigation Company aims to challenge Metropolitan Line when its New York to Boston service resumes on May 11. It plans to convert its Old Colony and Massachusetts steamers into semi passenger boats to compete with Metropolitan’s Yale and Harvard turbine steamers. Rumor of Yale and Harvard sale was denied by Metropolitan. Harvard to depart New York and Yale from Boston on May 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England Navigation Company
Metropolitan
Boston
New York
New England Company
Old Colony
Massachusetts
Yale
Harvard
Mining firms announce switch to electric power for hoisting
Offiers of the North Butte Extension Company report a contract with Butte Electric and Power Company to power hoisting pumping and lighting. An electrically driven 700 foot level pump will handle water from 1000 feet, with plans to install a second pump at 1600 feet. Sinking continues as work on the 700 foot level proceeds and executives note potential 50 percent power savings and greater efficiency. The Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated Mining Company executive committee received an expert report showing large ore reserves but recent developments disappointing and ore below commercial grade. future value hinges on progress in the sulphide zone. Batepilas Mining Company directors elected new officers with H Stevens as president and N F Palmer as vice-president. Colonel Ducies Pwans as treasurer. A R Shepherd Jr as general manager. E W A Jorgensen re-elected secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Butte Extension Company
The
Butte Electric and Power Company
Montgomery Shoshone Consolidated Mining Company
Batepilas Mining Company
H. Stevens
George W Quintard
F. Palmer
Stevens
Ducies Pwans
H B Parsons
Shepherd, Jr
W. A Jorgensen
Judge Moore Dominates Brooklyn Horse Show Ribbons
Judge William A. Moore leads with multiple blues and the Frederick Loeser cup, lifting four horses in a strong night at Brooklyn, as Emily Bedford and Mrs. Davis push for more prizes in saddle and harness classes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Moore
Brooklyn
Frederick Loeser
Reliance
Elsinore Farm
Harvey Laden
John Gerken
Redwood
George Watson
Poppy
Otto H. Kahn
C. L. Bailey
Joseph Edward Davis
Jacobite
Brooklyn Life
Arthur
J. Smith
Moore
King of Kings
Emily Bedford
Huildred
Denner
Blitzen
Herbert Lee Pratt
Desoris Queen
Eocene
Mabel B. Hooley
Painfield
Dorothea
John Randolph
Miss Ann
Rufus J. Patterson
Durham
Emile Anthony
Mayo
Judge Moore
Mabel Hooley
Barbara
Jewel and
Prince
Charles F. Atchinson
Herbert L. Pratt
Duchess
Miss Hooley
Mansfield
Charles F. Hubbs
Harvey le Laden
Harry T. Peters
King of Spades
Gerken
McCarren Laid Low After Street Attack near Steinway
James McCarren cousin of Senator Merren is hospitalized after an assault at Steinway and Jamaica avenues. He says two special policemen and three men beat him and robbed him of money as residents cried for help. Police link the attack to discharged railway workers. McCarren works in the New York & Queens County Railway Company offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McCarren
Senator Merren
St. John’s Hospital
Long Islander
Steinway
Jamaica
McCarren
Senator McCarren
No. W Berry Street
Brooklyn
New York & Queens County Railway Company
Mec‘arren
Fanatic sect kills five year old in Nazareth inquest
Coroner in Nazareth opens inquest into the death of Rene May Smith, five, allegedly sacrificed by her parents Henry and Mrs. Smith and uncle Robert Bachman. Bachman claims divine command and awaits murder charges after a post mortem finds strangulation. Mrs. Smith, shocked and rational, says the sect’s teachings are a myth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Easton
Penn
Fetheroll
Nazareth
Rene ‘May Smith
Henry Smith
Alliance
Smiths
Bachman
Earth
Smith
Garden of Eden
Robert Bachman
Berth
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Dinner For
Justice Leventritt
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Elijsh
Poetereal Company
Limite Battle Creek, Mich
S. & Conners
Amite City
Purvis, Miss
Charles J. Aldrich
Archibald G. Montgomery
Frederick W. Huidekoper
John Baker Manning
W. L. Ormsby, JR
Wanamaker
Westinghouse Plea
Atlantic Ave
Island
W. E. Corey
Steel Trust
Curb
New Orleans
Texas Pacific
New England Navigation Co
Metropolitan Line
McArren
Long Pat
Adam
Eve
Lincoln Safe Deposit Co
Fourth Ave. Auction Rooms, Inc
20Th St
Tabriz
Kerman
Seraph Antraes
Hatfield Morton
Madison Auctioneer
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