Job for J A Bensel Goes to Water Board
Major McClellan appoints John A Bensel as a member of the Board of Water Supply to fill the vacancy created by J Edward Simmons. The post carries 12000 dollars salary. Bensel leaves the Dock Commissioner post paying 7500 dollars. Simmons had proposed three Chamber of Commerce names Eben E Olcott John A Bensel and McDougall Hawkes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major McClellan
John A. Bensel
J. Edward Simmons
Board of Water Supply
Bensel
Mr. Bensel
Simmons
Chamber of Commercce
McClellan
Eben E. Olcott
McDougall Hawkes
Mr. Olcott
J. van Vechten Olcott
William M. K. Olcott
New York
Npid
George B. McClellan
Mayer
United States
Seid Board
Chamber of Commerce
Liberty Street
New York City
George
Mavror
Walter
Ashokan Gam
J Waldo Smith
Commission
Kissena Park Inquiry Nears End
The Queens County grand jury, probing the Kissena Park purchase, will report to Justice Garretson in King County Supreme Court tomorrow morning. Indictments were not yet issued, according to Justice Garretson, as witnesses Paris and Edward A. Macougal of Paris and Macougal, Flushing, were re-examined yesterday in the sale involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kissena Park
Queens County Grand Jury
Garretson
Supreme Court
King
Kiseena Park
FR. Paris
Edward A. Macougal
Paris & Marcdougal
Flushing
The
Big Hat Concern Closes Doors At Yonkers Mills
The Waring Hat Manufacturing Company, a major Yonkers employer, shut its four factories yesterday, laying off about two thousand workers as demand fell after last autumn’s financial trouble. Some may be recalled in two weeks as orders recover. The Ovie Elevator Company also laid off about half its workforce, with remaining staff restricted to seven hours a day five days weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waring Hat Manufacturing Company
Yonkers
United States
Ovie Elevator Company of
Connecticut Mutual Statement and Bank Vice Presidency
Connecticut Mutual Life reports steady growth with higher premium income earnings and dividends in 19% and 27 trends, maintaining policyholder interests and stable expenses. Joseph Huber elected vice-president of the reopened First National Bank of Brooklyn after resigning from the bank’s former directorate amid leadership changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
BANK
Joseph Huber
First National Bank of Brooklyn
Huber
John Gins
Hamburger
Adler Bank to Liquidate in New Orleans
New Orleans reports the State National Bank of New Orleans will liquidate after stockholders vote. The institution, nearly a century old, faced heavy withdrawals following President Adler's resignation and a receivership at a large grocery firm he led.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
State National Bank of
Adler
Display of Marbles Moved to Fifth Avenue Gallery
The exhibit featuring Roman and Pompeian marbles along with Rafaello Battelli statues was relocated from the Metropolitan Building to 94 Fifth Avenue. It includes medieval carvings, odd S20Gen seats, and pieces suited for hall or garden display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rafaello Battelli
Metropolitan Building
No. 94
Fifth Avenue
Rug dealer Topskyan retires after twenty years in business
Topskyan announces retirement from the rug trade after more than twenty years. He plans to return to Persia. A public auction will sell stock including Oriental wardrobes and carpets. The sale is at No 165 Fifth Avenue at the corner of 29th Street, with George Welgert in charge. Tomorrow is advertised as the last day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ho Topskyan
Persia
George Welgert
City Club claims snow removal system flawed and mislabeled
Street Department faced heavy icy piles with 5 trucks and 2000 workers. City Club denounces the contract, citing unlabeled wagons, unread capacity cards, mis-punched tickets, and inconsistent dumping. Sewer Department complaints follow as officials seek proper use of sewers. City Club dinner panel to discuss public service tonight with McAdoo and commissioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Club
Foster Crowell
18Th Street
41St Street
East River
Gouverneur
Market Street
48Th Street
North River
Dav
Wiliam G. McAdoo
Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company
Thomas M. Osborne
Public Service Commission
2D Instrict
1St Lnstrict
William BR. Wilox
Edward M. Bassett
John E. Eustis
William MecCarroll
Mav R. Maltbie
William M. Ivins
Edward M. Shepard
Calvin Tomkins
George McAseny
Final Knickerbocker Appeal Extends Deposit Assent Deadline
Justice Clarke extended the deadline for Knickerbocker Trust depositors to assent to the resumption plan to Saturday in February. The depositors committee urges non-assenting holders to file now. Resumption is court approved, with support from the Attorney General and leading bankers. Receivers report over 5 million collected, with about 1 million in preferred claims and 205 thousand in other preferred deposits awaiting court determination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Clarke
Supreme Court
Knickerbocker Trust Company
Jewelry and Rugs Sell Strongly at Fifth Avenue Galleries
Two sales at the Fifth Avenue Art Galleries drew large bidder turnout. Jewelry from 492 lots brought $6,900.45 while a special sale of 119 rugs realized $4,241.95. Jewelry sales continue today and tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue
Southern Iron Goes to Europe
Southern Iron for export to Germany, about five thousand tons, sold at prices nearly 40 percent below Alabama furnace quotations and under Pennsylvania furnace levels. A 440 ton small parcel to Southern Europe matched these figures. Trade circles say most export iron comes from Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company furnaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Europe
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Metz Plans Record Public City Bond Offering
Controller Metz prepares a $50,000,000 public sale of city bonds on February 14 or 15, with about $45,000,000 in fifty year bonds and the rest ten years. Morgan, Baker, Perkins back market readiness as officials meet at Morgan’s library to approve the issue. The sale aims to fund subways, aqueducts, bridges, a public library and piers, with advertising to start immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metz
Finance Department
McCovey
J. P. Morgan
Madison Avenue
36Th Street
Mr. Morgan
Baker
First National Bank
George W. Perkins
McClellan
Pendleton
Martin
McCooey
Dept. of Finance
Catskill Aqueduct
Abraham White
Cleveland
Guardian Trust Company
White
J. P. Morgan & Co
National City Bank
Harvey Fisk & Sons
Meta
Multiple bankruptcy filings flood U S District Court dockets
The clerk listed numerous voluntary and involuntary bankruptcies with debts totaling millions. Notable cases include J. C. Lyons Building and Operating Company with debts of 4 659 042 and assets 7 953 862, real estate 46 895 000 and secured creditors such as Equitable Life Insurance and Adams Express. Other filers include Adolph N Odes Angelo Sassano Henry Sandfort and Archibald Douglass with receivers appointed in several matters. The Ampere Manufacturing Company seeks voluntary dissolution with temporary receiver appointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolph N. Odes
Con Livek
Albert Lorsch & Co
Arnstein Brothers
David Mayer
Exchange Bank
Henry Sandfort
St. Mark's Place
J. C. Bogert & Co
Markus Wels
P8th Street
Abraham J. Diamond
No. && Adlen Street
Julius Nachimson
David Edelstein
Meistler Brothers
Herman P. Olicott
Thompson Pie Baking Company
Vandam Street
J H. Cox
L. L. Schepp Company
Stein, Hirsch & Co
Marshall S. Ha
Theodore M. Hill
American Palace Car Company
Archibald Douglass
Katz, Kaufman & Co
Charles [T] Thompson
Frank A. Berthold
Pilley’i Island Pyrites
Newfoundland
National Metallurgic Company
New Jersey
J. C. Lyons Building and Operating Company
Equitable Life Insurance Company
Adams Express Company
Washington Life Insurance Company
Georgia H. Merrill
New York Life Insurance Company
Louise Kinney
Irving Savings Institution
Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance Company
Trust Company of America
City Bank
Lawyers’ Title and Guarantee Company
Ampere Manufacturing Company
Leopold Pudjock
Nathan Friedman
Supreme Court
Justice Leventritt
Marcel Levy
Metropolitan Steamship to Resume New York Run Apr 1
Gloston reports the Metropolitan Steamship Company will restart its daily passenger service between Gloston and New York on April 1. The Harvard and Yale steamers will be placed in commission after a suspension that followed the initial fall restart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gloston
Metropolitan Steamship Company
New York
Harvard
Yale
Railroads Timetable And Bank Notice Fragments
A dense OCR of rail schedule data lists New Jersey Central and Baltimore & Ohio lines with multiple daily departures from W 280 Street and Liberty Street to Philadelphia Baltimore Atlantic City Lakewood Lakehurst and other endpoints. It includes timetables for Liberty Street and West 23rd Street stations, plus lists of offices and a bankbook loss notices from Dry Dock Savings and Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank.
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NEW Jersey Central
Philadelphia
Lv. W
Liberty ST
Baltimore
Washington
Atlantic City
Lakewood
Lakehurst
West
Chelsea
Astor House
Broadway
Fifth
Union Square West
Third
West 125Th St
Columbus Av
New York
Court St
Fulton St
Nostrand
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
New York Transfer Co
W.G. Besler
Hope
Baltimore & Chio R. R
Royal Blue Line
New Union Station
St Lib
Sipera
Royal Ltd
Buffer
Chicago
Pittsburg
Columbus
Clevel'd
St.louis Louis V
St.louis
Aster & P. m
Bureau of Information
Zid St
Helsea
The
Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank
Bank
St Chambers Street
Merc'zd Linings and Fabrics in Black White and Colors
Catalog of Mercantile linings and textiles features merced linings, scarfs, napkins, blankets, gowns, and trims. Includes prices on white wool flannels, silk embroidered flannels, Canton flannels, cotton baby blankets, jacquard blankets, men's heavy underwear, vests, and silk neckwear. Also lists dresses, laces, ribbons, dress trimmings, leather bags, hats, and ready-to-wear items with varied sizes and colors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madras
Storm Serges & Cheviots
Gibson
Amd
Cameric
Miasonelli
Nainsook
Comet Barrows
Aries Alma
Wyomen
Tomen
AP Mink
Edna May
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. A Bensel
Water Board
BIG Hat Concern
Waring Manufactory of
Otis
Connecticut Mutual Statement
H. H. Topakyan
5Th Avenue
Corner
29Th Street
George H. Weiger
Crowell
Stow Contractors
East 79Th Street
East 1St Street
Knickerbocker
Fifth Avenue Galleries
United States District Court
Ocean Steamers
Bremen
Barbarossa
Buelow
Luetzow
Kurfverst
GIP’ Star
Naples
Genoa
Gibraltar
Algiers
K. Albert
K. Luise
Neckar
P. Irene
Friedrich
Hoboken
LLOYD
Oelrichs & CO
Louis H. Meyer
Walnut St
Phila
Flyers
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Eronprinz Wilhelm Erenprinzessin
Cecilie and
Kaiser Wilhelm
Lowing
American Line
Plymouth
Thampton St. Louis
Paul
RED Star Line
N. R
Dover
Antwerp
Kreonland
Vaderland
Finland
Zeeland - Ae
Qnstown
Baltic
Southampton
Teutonic
Azores
Madeira
Cedric i
Republi
Whitehall
Pier 11
Wall St Ferry
San Juan
Caracas
Boulton, Blisss & Dallett
General Managers
Wall St
Cane Amisses
Rotterdam
Boulogne
Noordam
Statendam
Ryndam
New Amsterdam
Potsdam
N.Y
la Guarra
Puerto Cabello
Curacao
Maracatho
P. BR
S.S. Philadelphia
Maracatbo
S.S. Zulia
Maracaibo
Fall River
Boston
Newport
Providence
Warren &T
New
Norwich
New London
Ft. Clarkson St
Hatfield Morton
Fourth Ave
Auction Rooms, Inc
4Th Ave
26Th ST
Thera
Sthave
Exec
Las Wea
Rean
McDonald-Wiggine
McDonald-Virgineo
Moet Rapidity
McDonald-Wiscins Co
46Th St
McDenaid-Wiggins
Wee Ee
McDonald-Wiggins
McDonald-Wiggins Co
C. E. Bailey
Brewster
W. M. Noffsinger
P. O. Box
Yourcgstown
Ohio
George H Eddy
Madison
Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co
N.Y. Balesrooms
Cor
Loddon
Paris
Hamburg
S. S. Kaiserin
Victoria
Plymouth-Cherbourg- Hamburg
P. Line
N Iimew
Kaiserin
Pretoria
Fes
Oveana
Moltke
Alexandria
Liverpool
Queenstown
London
Campania
Lusitania
Lucania
Amania
Etruria
Mauretania
Fiume
Trieste
Slavonia
Pannonia
Carpathia
Caronia
Vernon H. Brown
State St
Cadiz
Seville
Malta
Egypt
Holy Land
Constantinople
Athens
Rome
Riviera
F. C. Clark
Times
34Th St
Hartfield Solartay ‘Co
COOK
COOK @ SON
Sthare
Railroads
Hartford R
Grand Central Station
Waltmantic—t
Union
Col- Ave
Bkiyn
Ct Court St
Nostrand Ave
tExce
Lehich Valley
Footet W
Cortlandt and Desbrosses Sts
ALTNY
Buffalo Express
Naval Au
Buffalo
Bankboobs
Dry Deck Savings Institution
Dry Dock Savings Institution
Bank For Savings
Bank For York
T. G. Sellew
HEARN
Fourteenth Street
Lonsdale
Iwomen
Wellem
FABGA
Colaynial Axminster
Pewest
Nottingham
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