New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-11
CARRIED DOWN HY DE FORESTS FAIL URE

prpv nan sr,pposFD MIN TO DE A MILLIONAIRE
MANY ATTACHMENTS ISSUED.
The Riverside Bank has obtained an attachment for
St 5Ol against william II. Dc Forest. Within t. H.
Mowbray and Anthony M0woray, balance duo on no'e
made by William Z. Mowbray to the order OF Mr..
De Forest and indorsed by the latter and also by
Anthony Nowhray Both 0f the M0wbrays are builders
engaged separately business, anu were said ~ nave
been aided by STR DE Forest IN building operations
William T. Mowhrsy has been building t"enty-si1
houses on the Hamilton Grange properly IN one
hund forty fourhs and secured Mr. De Forest
with mortgages argregatIng about $4,000 AT the
sheris Office sad yesterday that The attachment
had been levied at DE Forests store IN Broome ST.
but there stock there. only fixtures an iurnl
tnre The had not yet been levied on the
Mesrs Mowbray tue sheriff had not been able to see
them.
Mr. De Forest ia still AT his home nj Summit, " J.,
hut his friends TO the city In few
DAYS Nothing definite is yet as to the amount
Of his liabilities report is current In the trade that
they will amount 70 81 800 OOO which Includes his real
estate obligations W. j. Curtis hts attorney sad yes
terday that no thought the failure simply the result
OF natural causes and secuted the report current that
Wall street spoculatOns cause OF the assignment
He said stock speculation entirely foreign to Mr.
DE Forests nature He generous. charitable and
benevolent Mr. Carts expected that MI De Forest
would around few days and hello straishten ont
his Affairs Ills accounts had not hee1 made mp To date
his bOokkeeper Rad been SICK Tor some tRo past Ou
Monday Mr. De Forest transferred property in One
and forty frst-st Tenth and Convent ayes to
Charles F. Richards, the consideration being Sl25,O0o,
and az sixthavc aud Onehundre and thirty drsts to
Clara r. Chamberlain for Sl3,367.
Henry Chamberlain, Samuel J. Hall and John Lyon,
composing the or Chamberlain, Hal! & Lyon, I'M
porters and commission dealers in silks at No. 362
Broadway, made IN assignment yesterday TO Caspar C.
Barnette without preference. The assignment is due
solely, Is SAID, 70 Endorsing the pApdr OF r De Forest
the athern-law OF MI Lyon Tie business was started
no February 1889 with claimed capital OF $4,000
Mr.. Blumenstiel. OF Bumenstel 4 Hrsch. their
attorneys said yesterday thai they were on acconnoda
ton paper OF Mr. De Forests to the extent OF $4,000
for which thew had received no value But for this
accommodation u Mr. De Forest the drm would be per
fectly solvent They have nominal assets or VA ooo,
consisting stock about S2s OOO good accounts abont
Sl0OD0 doubtful accounts $500; store fixtures etc.
$1,000. The business Liabilities were only 92o,OOS OF
winch only aboHt 200 for merchandise and the
balance for borrowed money. When they made these
Endorsements they supposed that Mr. DE Forest was
An attachment against property of chauncey H.
Andrews at the sait Of Frank G. Holns Co.. bankers,
S3g.329 80 granted yesterday ny Justice
Andrews. The money is claimed 10 bs due on io'nt
account for bonds purchased, services rendered. and
money advanced. Mr.. Andrews lives IN Youngstown,
OHIO. Wallace G. Andrews is made defendant in the
The same Judge has granted attachment against
the property OF Charles D. Bailey from whom James +.
Hammil demands 1856 The plaintiff says thft Bailey
was In business at No. 53l West Twenty -seventh ST.
until December 3D. that he has left the state and that
his wife saws she does not know where he Is.
William ". Cornwall. dealer III sporting goods az NO.
Marransf.
r. smock giving preferences for $5.766 So Among the
creditors the Winchester Repeatlng Arms Company
and other manufacturers OF rifles The business was
established in 1919 by William H. Onion and Mr. Corn
wall became a partner about twenty years ago. Onion
q Cornwall compromised 40 cents on the dollar IN
October 1877 and the following year Mr.. Cornwall
snecee led Tie business. He claimed about $4,000
capital.
William II. Burr. Henry T. Burr and Emil Schwab,
composing the lrm OF Burr s0E Il Co, lager beer
brewers at No 225 West Eghteenih-st., made an
assignment yesterday 70 Abraham L. Jacobs giving
preferences for S2526l the largest being 70 Sebastian
nd lam for ant
Bank 81 $50 They closed by the Sheriff about ten
days agO on Judgment for S33,616 In favor or a. D.
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