The age-herald., 1901-11-10
Rumors of a Fight to Control the New
 York Life Insurance Company. = x
Tales from Gay Gotham
BY JOHN MARTHoL.

mote his own interests in event of his position with the company being attack ed, he has secured sufficient proxies for himself and his new associates to control the situation,
 The government or administration of the New York Life Insurance Company is one of election by polieyholders. If poll oyholders place their proxies with Mir. George w. Perkins and his associates in sunlotent numbers 1o control the elec- tions, 1t necessarily follows that he will dictate the policy of the company. On the other hand, if Mr. Mccall secures them, MT. Mccall dictates the course of the administration. The rumor h Wan street is that MT. Perkins controls,
 When 1t is borne fn mind that the City Bank is controlled by the Rockefeller syn dicate, and in its board Mir. Mccall hs ao- corded front seat. the situation be- comes more interesting, With Mir. Roolx- efeller behind Mr. Mccall and Mir. Nor gan behind Mfr. Perkins, it does not look as though either one of these gentlemen Is lacking in powerful allies But how do these connections interest policyhold- ers7
 In reply to communication to the company received the following letter.
 Yours of the 30th instant has been referred to me for reply. There is neith- CT truth nor semblance of truth in the tale you tell No such proxies exist. nor have they ever existed. Some Munchau- sen is trying to fool you Yours truly,
 ''I W. HUBBELL. General Solicitor"
 Looking backward over the period beginning with the entrance of William Travers Jerome, axe in hand, enforcing the execution of his own bench warrants and closing with his speech at the end of the most melodramatic political cam paign that ever agftated the people of this city, one thing is as plain as the sun at monday, and that one thing is that, in spite of all hostile criticism, no man stood out against the sky more val iantly fighting all that was wrong and ohampioning al lthat was good than Will liam Travers Jerome His appearance on the socia1-poitical stage Is of more than passing interest, When the clouds of dust and smoke have blown away. when the hurrahs and music of bands have become faint memories, when the insincere utterances. the words of soph- ists and politicians have ceased to in- fluence men, the words spoken by je. rome will be repeated in drawing-roorns, banking houses. poolrooms and brothets> He wore the arnor of crusader en- gagged in a righteous cause, and his words were as the words of the prophets of old. exposing evil and tearing the masks of hypocricy from faces Of men who fatten on vice.
 No man could challenge the sincerity of the youthful magistrate. He spoke from the fullness of knowledge. He knew well the things whereof he spoke His opportunities for knowing them vera great. He had served his time in the district attorneys office and he had pre- sided in the Court of General Sessions, which is but the gateway to the city prison. He had been born and reared in the ''brownstone dwellings," and was a member of the fashionable clubs He belonged to the mystic confraternity de- signated as the "best society,"" and so. when he scored the fashionable people for their apathy he spoke to them as one of them.
 The exhibits of social and political conditions as made by this fearless, dauntlese and inspired champion of Right against Wrong, whether 1t was hn-