Coler claims Metz lied during city hall inquiry
Borough President Coler testified at the Commissioners of Accounts probe, admitting lax oversight after giving orders and alleging Controller Metz sought to overdraw budgets. He defended public building cleaning costs as lower than private work and named Bruce Crane’s $100 Hurley painting as a used reference in the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coler
Commissioners of Accounts
City Hall
Bruce Crane
Hurley
William S. Hurley
Rapid Transit
Brooklyn
Metz
Accasion
Mitchel
Board of Aldermen
Mr. Lawrence
Mr. Coler
Lawrence
Celer
Actors’ Union
Coler Sald
Commissioner Mitchel
Mr. Mitchel
Controller Metz
Equitable Life Report Forwarded to Albany
The Equitable Life Assurance Society report was sent to Albany by Deputy Superintendent Charles R. Fowter after nearly a year of examination by the State Insurance Department. Due to staff limits only three of ten required examiners worked on Mutual Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Albany
Charles R. Fowter
State
Equitable Company
Fowler
Insurance Department
Mutual Life Insurance Company
State Superintendent of Insurance
Metropolitan Life
Equitable
Foundry
Duffy Decision Ready Exonerates Duffy Criticizes Police
Mayor McClellan sent the final report on the Duffy case to the printer and is expected to announce a harsh critique of Brooklyn police handling. He may exonerate Duffy and remove his image from the Rogues Gallery while reviewing related misconduct cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClellan
Duffy
Tribune
City Hall
Brooklyn
Russell
Kuhne
Dillon
Louis Probber
Bingham
Fifth Avenue Association Expands Membership Anticipating Growth
A noon meeting at the Hotel Lorraine approved broader eligibility for the Fifth Avenue Association. Changes allow any person interested in Fifth avenue development to join. Bylaws were amended. buses on Riverside Drive and street loiterers were discussed with committees appointed. New street lighting praised, merchants urged to keep shops lit until 11 PM. Notables present included Cooke, Brentano, Burton, Connick, Marceau, Bell, Liebrecht, Young and Orvis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth Avenue Association
Fifth Avenue
Lorraine
45Th Street
Riverside Drive
C. F. Lacombe
Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity
Robert G. Cooke
Simon Brentano
J. Howes Burton
Andrew J. Connick
Colonel Marceau
Curtis Bell
Henry A. Liebrecht
John A. Young
Paul W. Orvis
Youths Bomb Prank Lands 15 Year Old in Court
Edward Fox of No 34 Rivington Street faced the Children's Court arraigned on a serious charge after a boyish spree with large firecrackers. He was held for a suspended sentence following a stern warning from Justice Olmsted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Olmsted
Edward Fox
Rivington Street
Children’s Court
Eddie
Eldridge Street
Moriarity
Pleads Guilty Insists On Innocence In Grand Larceny Case
Michael J. Ryan pleaded guilty in the Court of General Sessions to grand larceny in the second degree claiming police persecution for prior testimony that convicted a Brooklyn burglar. Judge Rosalsky remanded him to July 9 for a minute investigation while a letter threatening testimony was presented. Ryan, 31, of Brooklyn, was charged on a Lenox Avenue victim’s complaint for stealing a pocketbook on a Chambers Street car June 6. He was arrested by Officer Judge of Elizabeth Street station. He declared I am as innocent as you are but I guess I will have to take my dose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ryan
No. Wirth Street
Brooklyn
William Bagier
Lenox Avenue
Chambers Street
Elizabeth Street
National Association for the Promotion of Kindergarten Education Forms
A group of prominent figures organized the National Association for the Promotion of Kindergarten Education and filed for a certificate of incorporation with the Supreme Court. Directors include Mrs. John D. Archbold Miss Mary Harriman Rev David D. Wyle Spencer Trask and others. donations and bequests are pledged. The effort follows the success of the New York Free Kindergarten Association supported by John D. Archbold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natonal Association For
Supreme Court
United States
John D. Archbold
Mary Harriman
David D. Wyle
Spencer Trask
Herbert F. Gunnison
George W. Perkins
Henry A. Wise
Bessie Locke
New York Free Kindergarten Association
Long Island Electric Railway seeks $1.5 million stock reduction
The Public Service Commission received its first application for a capital stock reduction from the Long Island Electric Railway Company. It asks approval to cut from 2 106 00 to 360 40 per share. The line runs 17 miles from Brooklyn through Jamaica to Far Rockaway with a Belmont Park branch. The old New York and North Shore Railway, 31 500400 capital, was consolidated and mortgaged to 1 231.66, with foreclosure sales. Stockholders have surrendered the 1 500 000 capital and directors favor the reduction to reflect property value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Vester-Day
Long Island Electric Railway Company
Brooklyn
Jamaica
Far Rockaway
Belmont Park
New York & North Shore Railway Company
Old North Shore Comany
Long Island Electricailway
Washington Decision Delays Sugar Inquiry Continuation
The American Sugar Refining Company investigation may resume after Oliver Pagan's visit to Attorney General Wickersham. The immunity and statute of limitations issues dominate the briefing, with potential indictments depending on new evidence. United States Attorney Henry A. Wise sails for Panama Canal investigations and plans to return in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Sugar Refining Company
Federal
Oliver Pagan
Department of Justice
Wickersham
Henry A. Wise
United States
Pagan
John E. Milburn
John M. Bowers
John E. Parsons
William D. Guthrie
Gustav E. Kissel
Mr. Guthrie
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
American
New Jersey
Supreme Court of the United States
E. C. Knight Company
Messrs. Parsons
Thomas
Kissel
American Company
Parsons
Samuel Untermyer
Adolph Segal
Pennsylvania Company
Knight
United States Supreme Court
Bonaparte
Segal
No S
George H. Earle, Jr
Knight Company
Pennsylvania
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
The
Franklin Sugar Company
Spreckels Sugar Refining Company
Delaware Sugar House
Knight, Spreckels, Delaware and
Franklin
Wise
Illinois
Supreme Court
Federal Grand Jury
Paris
Five Sleeper Trunks Seizure Raises Grand Jury Questions
Federal grand jury hears more on the five sleeper trunks worth 352000 seized in spring. Kilgannon and his wife pleaded guilty to sleeper trunk operations with George C White. Kilgannon sentenced to one year on Blackwell's Island. wife fined 1000. White to two years in Atlanta. White remains to aid prosecutors and Kilgannon may face sentence adjustments based on testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Grand Jury
William H Kilgannon
George C White
United States Attorney's Office
Kilgannon
Blackwell’s Island
White
Atlanta
Rockefellers Head to Cleveland for Summer
Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller left the city yesterday to spend the summer in their Cleveland home John D Rockefeller Jr accompanied them on the trip The elder Rockefeller came by automobile from Pocantico Hills estate to their West 48th Street town house where Mrs Rockefeller has been ill The party departed for Cleveland on the Lake Shore Limited Mrs Rockefeller walked to the train leaning on her son and husband for support
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Cleveland
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Rockefeller
Pocantico Hills
West Aith Street
Third Avenue Railroad Foreclosure Plan Considered
If the Public Service Commission disapproves plans, the reorganization committee of the Third Avenue Railroad Company would buy the property at foreclosure sale wiping out the 16 000 stock. The committee might call for bond deposits with a trust company and issue beneficial certificates against them to let bond holders gain from profits without changing bond status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Third Avenue Railroad Company
Imported Madras Shirts Offer at West Twenty third Street
The balance of imported woven Madras shirts with plaited and relain bosoms, coat models with attached or detached cuffs are priced from $2.25 to $3.00, with a sale at West Twenty third Street offering $1.45.
Brandenburg Acquitted in Grand Larceny Trial
Brandenburg was acquitted by a jury after seven days of testimony in the grand larceny case in the Criminal Branch before Justice Fitzgerald. He was later arrested on a kidnapping charge involving his stepson in St Louis and held on $50 bail. extradition was not contested. The Missouri kidnapping penalty is life imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broughton Brandenburg
Supreme Court
Fitzgerald
Times
Cleveland
Brandenburg
James Shepard Cabanne, Jr
St. Louis
California
Mr. Nott
Grover Cleveland
United States
Nott
SO Ball
Corneil
Missouri
Antinoise ordinance passed on West Side by alderman
Alderman Schioss led passage of an anti noise measure aimed at pedlars and hawkers. It bans blowing horns or creating disturbances to attract customers with a fine up to five dollars per offense. The policy preserves licensed vendors in Paddy's Market on Ninth Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schioss
Upper West Side
Ninth Avenue
58Th
Central Trust Stock Sale Prompts Independent Ownership
The Central Trust Company of New York sold nearly three thousand new shares at $1 each. Most stock came from Mutual Life Insurance Company, a longtime holder, but likely unable to keep a controlling stake under life-insurance laws. Officials say the block is now widely distributed among trustees and friends, keeping the firm independent with diverse holders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Trust Company of New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Central Trust Company
Mutual Life
Board of Trustees
Central Trust Company of
New York
Auerbach & Co in Trouble Over Contracts
Auerbach and Co dealers in cottonseed products could not meet their contracts. The firm with offices in the Produce Exchange Building faced embarrassment from a large drop in July cottonseed oil contracts. E F Auerbach said troubles were not only from cottonseed oil and a decision on assignment was not yet made.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auerbach & Co
Produce Exchange
E. F. Auerbach
Chicago Grain and Provisions Market News
Chicago traders saw wheat rise on liberal world stock declines and favorable Liverpool news with final quotes up about 1% to 1%26. Corn and provisions closed firmer while oats weakened. bears pressured July delivery as cash grain fell. Provisions then rallied with a late short-covering push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Liverpool
Ihc
Morgan & Co Buys Interborough Bond Issue for 10 Million
J P Morgan & Co purchased 10 million dollars of Interborough Rapid Transit first mortgage bonds at five percent. Proceeds will retire equal value of short term notes maturing March 1 1910. Commission had approved 55 million issue earlier and permit cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. P. Morgan & Co
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Morgan
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Interborough Metropolitan Company
Public Service Commission
Toledo Railways default on July 1 bond payments and plans
Bondholders committee for Toledo Railways and Light Company reports failure to pay July 1 principal and interest on 4 percent consolidated first mortgage bonds. The circular urges no drastic action as protective stockholders' committee weighs refunding with secured collateral trust notes. Debt totals and extensions for Toledo Consolidated Street Railway and Toledo Traction bonds are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo Railways and Light Company
Toledo Consolidated Street Railway Company
Toledo Traction Company
Maritime Notices and Wireless Reports From The Oceanic
Shipping news lists wireless reports from the Oceanic and arrivals due with distances east of Sandy Hook. Transpacific mails schedule shows departures from New York to Hawaii Guam the Philippines and Asia with multiple steamers and dates in July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandy Hook
Argentina
New York
Hawaii
Guam
Philippine Islands
San Francisco
Japan
Corea
China
Philippine Island
Seattle
Asia
Vancouver
Victoria
Bce
Orea
Tacoma
Antilochus
Australia
West
New Fiji Islands
New Caledonia
Aorangi
Hewaki
Alameda
Asivia
Bie
Smh Cptogre
Cores
Mon- Bonne
Cavangsiestanc
Hilonian
New Zealand
Samoan Islands
Gymeric
Tahiti
Marquesas Islands
Zealand
Mariposa
Shipping Arrivals Update From June Ports and Quarantine
The shipping list shows Steamer Ole Bull arriving June 22 with sugar for United Fruit Co. Kronprinz Wilhelm docked June 22 and 23 with cabin and steel cargo for Obelrichs & Co, plus 380 and 622 units and passengers. Rosario di Giorgio arrived June 24 with fruit for Atlantic Fruit Co. Apache, Alamo, and Ryndam entries note passengers, moise, and quarantine movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Bull
Nor
Wilhelmsen
Nipe
United Fruit Co
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Ger
Nilerich
Bremen
Southampton
Cherbourg
Obelrichs & Co
Rosario di Giorgio
Mathiesean
Port Antonio
Atlantic Fruit Co
Bar
Apache
Staples
Jacksonville
Charleston
Clyde Ss Co
Moise
Alamo
Davidson
Galveston
Mallory Ss Co
Romsdalen
Morgan
Limni
Kymasst
Algiers
Simpson, Spence & Young
The
Youths Suits Slashed In Broadway Stores Sale
Prices drop on youths suits sizes 32 to 35 with many 18 dollar and 15 dollar reductions. Deals cover work wear and leisure styles for youths young men old men and boys across three Broadway stores in Warren Street 13th Street and 34th Street.
STEAMERS AT FOREIGN PORTS ARRIVED AND SAILED
Shipping news lists arrivals at New York from Queenstown to Santos with vessels such as Campania Bry Balakant Furnessia and Kaiser Wilhelm der plus many routes via Plymouth Naples Suez and Havre. It records departures from Sunderland Inverclyde and Victoria ports and notes sailings to Natal Aden Singapore and Saigon among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queenstown
Campinia Bry
New York
Liverpool
London
Balakant
Glasgow
Furnessia
Mortl
Kaiser Wilhelm der
Plymouth
Bremen
Amsterdame
Prina
Willem I
Newport
West Indies
Venezuela
Havre
Marseilles
Germania
New Yors
Naples
Genoa
Principe
Piemonte
Ital
Montevideo
Hilarius
Bry
New
Suez
Indramayo
Yokohama
Etc
Bostem
Athinal Greeks
Italy
Port Natal
Brett Huel
Vincent, V
Saigon
Hatphone
Brisbane
Altona
Ger
Viage Cent
Fremantle, Etc
Vis
Fremantle
Jane 2A Baron Cawdor
Steeces To
Vennachar
Vis Peet
Tne
Aragonia
Vis Maile
Aden
Singapore
Also Mentioned on This Page
Metz Lied
James 4. Reener
Rooney
Bureau of
Equitable Report
Brooklyn Police
Eldridge Street Station
Form Kindergarten Association
Atlantic City
R. A
Atlantic
Long Island Electric
Attorney General
Mr. and
Mrs. Kilgannon
Rockefellers
Third Avenue Line
Stern Brothers
West Twenty-third Street
Acquits
Central Trust
Mutual Life Holdings
Chicago Grain and Provisions
Toledo Railways
Marine Intelligence
Gov. Island
Hell Gate
Turks Island
Ates -Clyde
Havana
Ward
Harry Luckenbach
Porto Rico
Oceanic
White Star Maracaibo
Caracag
Lloyd Citta di Messin
Gibraltar
Kénigin Luise Genoa
Lloyd Duca di Genova
el Monte
So Pac Carpathia
Fiume
Cunard
Horatius Para
Guiana
St Thomas
Quebec
Huron
Monterey
Sone Avana
Do8s -Ward
E Friedrich Ita Marta
Hamb-Am
Santiags Fenfuegos
Camoens Santos
Holt Welturne Hamburg
N & Cent
Salis
Lusitania
Rio Grande
Tampa
Mallory
Olorado
George Washington
la Provence
Mexico
Hamburg
HambAm
Pannentia
City of Macon
Savannah
Byron
South
Brazil
Prins Willem II Lamp & Holt
Shipping News
Port of
Ryndam
Roreen
Rotterdam
Boulogne
Hi -America Line
Racers Peer & CostPany
Broadway
34Th St
Lyric
Blanche King
Lew Fields
Jefferson de Angelis Herald SQ
Casino
JAS. T
Aerial Gardens
Wississippi
Thos. A. Wise
Douglas Fairbanks
de Paris
Coney Island
Dreamland
Pier O'er Sea
Palisades
Joe Weber
Rector's
Ammersteien
Annette Kellermann
Thea
Eden Mlussee
Ifotofone
Sheepshead Bay
T. Rk
Brooklyn Rapids Bridge
Boerum Street Ferry
Crown of Granada
Cruchy
Perth
Trinidad Shipping & Trading Co
Hamilton
Boaz
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Dominions Co
Mdse
Navance
Hale
Georgetoen
Wilmington
Clyde S. Co
Matanzas
Johnson
New York and
Cuba
Fagerton
Jacobsen
Port Antesie
Cuneo Importing Co
Dreyer
Ocean Ss Co
Pring Joachim
von Leitner
Savanilla
Port Limon
Colon
Kingston
Fortune Island
Malls
Caronla
Dow
White Star Line
Mall
Fire Island
Seneca
Lambert
Or Dominion Ss Co
Highlands
Wilhelm H Ger
el Valle
Itab
Aras
Hull
Arapahoe
City of Everett
O Co
Brow Head
Campania
St Michaels
Tune
Prins Maurits
New Tee
Amer
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