New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-10-06
R. A. M'CURDY HERE.
uryipes Without Informing Counsel
of His Homecoming.

,.hs-. n. McCurdy son Of ex-Presdent Rich
AscCurdy OF the Mutual Life. arrived here
s-..,.rsav from Europe on La Tourraine.
A. McCurdy's arrival was unknown to his
.,--ssl AT his home. No. 80 East 51st street.
:. -sf,,sed 10 make any statement
A, the home Of De Lencey Nicoll. his counsel. it
= ss,d that AIr. Nicoll had gone to the Van
ocrbilt cup contest
rsrlier in the day at Mr.. NicolPs law office
-,smber OF the firm said he did not know when
y, NcCurdys would return 10 America
:, was recalled last night that with the appear
80 Of Louis A Thebaud. Richard A. AIcCurdy's
.ou-in-Iaw. one afternoon recently at his Office.
,..r c wise. M Thebaud's counsel. received
b,s first intimation that Mr.. Thebaud had re-
.r-ned 10 this country, At the time Mr. The
hand said II his impression that the Nc
crravs would return in September. They de-
,s--ed for Europe early IN tia year.
Thomas P. Morgan. a ssIa31ed manager of the
Mutual Life. in charge OF fits Washington
srency. made tour of several weeks through
,bs Southern states 10 obtain policyholders' in
5orsenents Of the administration ticket, and is
now in Europe on a similar mission. according
- the unqualified assertion Of the representative
- me OF the opposition tickets. who made thu
statement in refutation OF the sincerity of the
agency committees statement that none OF the
oompany-s money could properly be used in cleo
tioneerins
Mr. Morgan" said this informant, whose
salary amounts 10 about $4,000 a year. visited
the Southern managers, asking the co-opera-
,iop IN Obtaining the Endorsement by ten promi-
-Ant policyholders in each state OF the company
administration, stating that the election OF the
imposition would cause great disaster 10 the
coupany he told the managers into whose ter
rttory he went that he was empowered to do
this work by the company and acting under
snecial instructions from the home Office. Incl
dentally IN Canvassing Tennessee. he skirted
Nashville, where Mr.. Folk is. but visited Mem
phis.
sent abroad a week or two ago 10 DO similar
work"
Insurance Commissioner Young. Of North
Carolina, has written TO Russell W. Fish, the
secretary Of the Mutual Life Policyholders' As
the present Mutual LIFE management TO coerce
the field managers and agents into supporting
the administration ticket"
John Dewitt Warner. the associations coun-
sel challenged George T. Dexter 10 deny that
managers and otner salaried employees Of the
company. acting under the direction Of their su-
rerOr officers, had been engaged in soliciting
Endorsements Of the administration ticket on the
cOnpauys time
A delegation from the New York Life and the
Mutual Life Policyholders' Association Of North
Carolina arrived here yesterday, with a list OF
sixteen questions 10 be submitted 10 the officers
O. these companies. One OF the questions asks
the method OF distribution OF surplus funds after
January l.
] Parker Cole the cashier Of the New York
Lies St James branch, declared that the fac
smile letter, etc, which he had been sending
out 10 p0licyhOlders came from headquarters.
Counsel Tor the McCurdys have received an
extension Of time until November Il, in the
compauy's suits against these men.