New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-22
TROUBLES or BUSINESS MEN.
ABRAHAM BAcKER's sCHBDULEs-oTHER FIRMS
DIFFICULTIES.

ABRAHAM BACKER's sCHEDULEs-oTHER FIRMS
DIFFICULTIES.
BENJAMIN F. Elnstein the assignee Of Abraham
Backer dealer in commercial paper 40 No 2o5 Broad
Why filed his schedules yesterday. The total amount
OF the liabilities, including secured and unsecured
debts is now 81 1928 04o, against which there are
nominal assets 81 641 ,707 the unsecured Liabilities
amount to ss45,s against which there are actual
assets s414TG9. The contingent liabilities amount TO
Al O1O 1sO and are on notes which Mr.. Backer IN
dorSed for various firms throughout tho country ana
had discounted by banks and individuals. Inc foi-
lowing are the principal secured credltorS Nauoh"i
CITY Eank. 1888 600 secured by 200 Alabama State
bonds and $50 900 notes of Frank 81 Co.. OF savannah
Ca Central National Bank, 100000, secured by 135
first mortgage bonds Of the Georgia southern
and Florida Railroad Company, and notes OF
d. 5. Hess & Co., Muscogee Real Estate
COMPANY. Of Columbus, Ga, n. 6lolan ~ Co'
Of Macon. Ga: Leinkauf & Strauss and the BALDWIN
Fertilizer Company, and 100 shares OF Tie Ne"-loIh
Security and Trust Company; Merchants Nauohal
Bank S175 900, secured by $50 hrstmortga9e bonus
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Company, TWEEN
tyave frstmortgage bonds Georgia Midland ana Gulf
RaiItoad Company 100 shares southwestern Railroad
C,mpanv. 100 shares Thsl National Bank of Column
bus Ga 1853 shares National Bank OF Savannah, twenty
sbales Bank of New-Amsteriam, 100 shares COuihDus
Ga. Savings Bank, thlrty-one shares National BANK
n, savannah ninety shares Savannah Gasllght COHl-
many share Georgia Mulanu CohslTuCuoh NN"-
many 90 100 Central Railway Company Of Georgia GER
tidcate of Indebtedness and SO 900 stock Georgia MID
land and Gulf Railroad Company; NJ. Schneider d.
Brother Of Sherman Tex s420 02, partly secured by
S1Os 600 State OF Alabama bonds National Park BANK
300 900 secured by 125 frst-morgage bonds OF the
Georgia southern and Florida Railroad Company, and
notes of Baldwin g. Co., savannah, BALDWIN FER
tllzer Company Rice, Silk u Co., ST. Louis, Lem
kauf, Strauss d Co., Mobile; V. Henry Kotscmld
g. Co.. 500 023; Ladenburg, Thalman d Co.. S4o'5oo ;
Isidor Nowman ST.. $4s 6s4; New-York Life Insurance
and Trust Company S2S 900; and American Exchange
National Bank Sls, 423. several Of the above hrms
eav That their notes we're delivered 10 Mr.. Backer
u-ithout their receiving any consideration for them'
and part OF the various bank and railroad STOCKS
are also claimed by those other than the holders OF
them as collateral security.
The principal unsecured creditors are Rice, SILK
G. Co. st. Louis, sls1,119; s Waxelbaum q
SON. Macon. Ga S3o, sos Ecliman & Nestburg, sa-
vannah. $4,000; Hyman Llchtenstein Il Co., New
Orleans s27254: Henry Stlx Cincinnati, S2o,7oo /;
Pollock & Co., Mobile, $23 1874; NJ.
: recbbemer New-York 100000 The assets
melinda s71O.500 state Of Alabama bonds
nIedped as collateral the equity being estimated at
All 735 First mortgage bonds Georgia Southern and
Florida Railroad Company, 9660,000 pledged as col
lateral eouty so 1917 claim against the Macon Con-
stuctlon Company of Macon, Ga, 1878 the actual
value of which is placed at S2533OO secured by
Ceorpia Southern and Florida bonds, 0,sOO, and
Macon and Birmingham Railroad bonds, $lO25O0
real estate in NewYork $4,000; at South Glastonbury,