New-York tribune., 1891-05-14
LEVY BROTHERS. FAILURE
MANY wRIrs OF RERLEv1N OBTAINED.
HEAVY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE LEvYs
IN TROUBLE.

HEAVY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF THE LEvYs
IN TROUBLE.
The Sheriff was busy yesterday rcplevining goods In
the store Of Levy Brothers Co., at Nos go to GA
Broadway. Among the creditors who obtained wrfts OF
replevn yesterday were the Washington Mills Com
pany, Bramhall Bros. Co., Dieekerhoff, Ratioer
Coz Hugo Meyer Co., Rufus s. Frost & Co., Strauss,
Kupfer & Co., A. A. Caesar & Co., Victor a. Achelis,
Catlln & Co., Assabet Manufacturing Company, Deef-
tng. MlIlil1en Co. The attachments sesgreen6
51s6,754 those obtained yesterday being in favor OF
Jerome Bernhelmer g. Co., $500; Oelberman q
Dommerch Sf3507; H. Martin, 50, ,567 A. ID. Juilhard
& Co., S4,03l; stephen r. Leshcr, S,652; Morris
Arnold & Co., S2111; Leopold, Haas Co., S4,oo4;
J. NJ Valentine & Co., S477 The National PARK Bank,
whose claim is for SeO,615, Is said 10 be the largest
creditor. Book accounts and bills receivable of the
firm have been turned over to the bank, II is said,
as security for its claim. President Wright, Vice
President Parker and A. b. WetmQre, one OF the coun
sci fer the bank, said that the bank was secured
against any possible loss.
Carter, Hughes & Kellogg. attorneys for sew
eral creditors, yesterday obtained writs Of re-
plevin and attachments and garnished accounts
Of the failed firm In Chicago, Philadelphia, Bos-
ton and Baltimore. At Horw1tz & Hershfeld's
Office yesterday two clerks from other attorneys served
a lot Of summOnses on man whom they supposed was
slr. Levy, Of the firm. The protested that his
not Levy but the clerks left the summonses
with him. They summOnses In suits begun Dy the
following creditors: Hardt Won Bernuth Co.. James
T. Bill S Co., Assabet Manufacturing Company, Wen
dell Fay Co., S. stein & Co., Charles f. Rycroft
Robinson & Kaufman, FISHERMAN & Dyer, Case, Dudley
6 Battee, Sawyer, Manning Co., Goddard Brothers,
Patterson & Greenough, Converse, Stanton Cullen.
Mr.. IIersh6eld said yesterday the liabilities would be
about 100000; he thought the accounts would not
exceed 100000 and stock about $4,000. lie re
iterated the statement that Augustus H. Levy hope
lessly i'll and that Julius Levy had been away for
several days, and he did not know where he was.
A. Levy Brother wholesale dealers IN boys cloth
ing at Nos 61O to GA Broadway in the building
Levy Bros. Co., failed yesterday and were closed
up by Deputy Sheriff Hemberger on three executions
aggregatlng 524 in favor Of the following creditors:
National Park Bank, $33,368 on demand note |;
Rawiser Brother, Of Stafford, Springs d. Co., 81 1854
for goods sold, and H. Herman Sternbach & Co.. 80 792
for goods sold. The firm Is composed of Abraham and
Louis Levy, who relatives of Levy Bros. Co., and
In the trade their business looked upon as the
boys clothing department Of Levy Bros d Co. The
firms closely connected In business and A. Levy
& Brother said to have given Levy Bros. & Co.
accommodation paper to the amount Of FOO 900, which
Is said to be the Of a. Levy Brothers failure
Their liabilities are said to be about 1900 900 and
nominal assets 100000. When Levy Pros. q Co.
failed in 1853, A. Levy Brother were heavily in
vOved account Of Endorsements but they stood the
strain upon them, pulled through and paid everything
IN full, which gave them a good standing in trade.
They have been In business about eighteen years. and
claimed q capital Of S125,00 Abraham Levy, 1t Is
said, owned his home, No. 1880 MadsOn-ave.