The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-03
IUTUGL'S RESTAURANT BILLS.
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lrs ra'trrtrf. antl ihefr alan the bossd ~
,silia.i ilnel ~ ~ mrs'ina days The
airr.lfs ~ ihls RESTAURANT Nete buuaht
hf,1eh iho notorious Nfprly derattin"Hs
o.sr shiloh tN,irrw e. Yields had ohefas
f. aat tho MUTUAL mofc than W oOo "
%, uha restaurant In loot Tho cutrpany
. ANN me- the restaurant nov on n cohtfact
r,sIs which will make tho cUat Tor INA
i.u, tt uA what NJ Jcfume n trying
o.. e.i .Ii IL ehero tho differences ~ ees ,G0o
pr g. Hu 10 yr1t t"ht
.re tns,Hct Attorney has Ill hills and
,...ntI ,.rurr'rd With payments ~ the
v..... ru',hcr Iiia maine 10 McDvttnutt
,.I , 'ca iaina the Mutual'a butcher,
bid. ,,s 4I., Nrturiv'a butcher McDaf.
mott. I.Is alone amounted In sofne years
tone mH,h pa t2S nuo
fIap NIotc he tho matter ~ wlne The
Armstrong committees wasn't able 90 get
,ary HrnuIro information from the Mutual
.r cr. IN This subject. but u waa learned
Yesterday hat tho District Attorney has In
b4 ros-c.-pon a statement by one ~ the
ompIoycos II the supply department that
about t}gon a year was spent for wine.
Tho rmtIoyoe made this statement before
The Tru~.lalc investigating committed.
This kline is supposed Ia have been served
M tho board Of trustees luncheons. The
hoard meets ordinarily once n month.
rvclyo into g.. 200 makes about $50 q
luncheon for wine
Here is what President McCurdy said
about the wine question before the Arm
strong committee;
o l. thore any stock Of wines kept In the
building \. Not that I am aware Of.
y l. has boon. "a one ~ the rumors. cur
rAnrly report 81 that YOU have a stock Of wine
In tho Mutual Life Building That is not true'
A / believe 1t to be- untrue.
O Dou't YOU know one way or the other1
4 WHY. | know to the best OF my knowledge
that We haven't got auy. but | couldn't swear
to It don't believe 1t. never heard that
We had a wine cellar. and I am Informed
that We do not keep anything of that Kind on
hand,
The man who is running the Mutuars
restaurant now on a contract basis man
aged it under the old regime, He was a
waiter in an uptown hotel, and President
McCurdy, taking a fancy to him, brought
him DOWN to The Mutual building. Besides
getting a salary, he sold between .1s 600
and SIS 900 worth Of goods q year to the
company.
The Mutual Life has compiled definite
A.. II --l.-L
paid out in the last two years to concerns
which furnished stationery and printing
supplies to the company. The disclosures
which have come out before the special
Grand Jury about the padded bills Of the
Lysander Lawrence corporation have thor
GU ghly aroused the new management Of
the Mutual, and nothing will be left undone
to uncover every fraud perpetrated in the
supply department.
In 1904 he Lawrence company got, direct,
S21l $50 and In 1905 sl92 ,47s. The Globe
Printing Company, which is only an adjunct
to the Lawrence establishment, got $lS8 800
In 1904 and $169 ,791 in 1905. The bills for
previous years ran about as high. How
much Of this money went to Fields through
the padded and bog ID bill systems the
Mutual management Is unable to say now
The MutuaI's books show that in 1904
$40, l2e went to George McGibbin q Son and
in 1905 s1s, 400. MoGibbin Il Son is the COM
pahy whose nancy was used apparently with
out authority, on bills sent IN to the Mutual
for goods that had never been ordered or
delivered. The drop in the figures of 1905
Is significant. 1t was in that year that the
insurance scandals began.
Charles L. Parsons, a clerk in the
Lawrence store, got 81 ,S45 In 1902 for ser
,,zoz al --1-l.t,xAa " 60 Enn IN 900 fA~
supplies and 81, 300 in 1904, also for supplies.
The billheads Of a firm called c. E. Parsons
4 Co. were used in sending In charges to
the Mutual, but no such firm could be found
at IS John street, which was the address
given.
The firm of Holden Il Motley, in which
Horace Holden, a son OF Trustee James
c. Holden, a member Of the expenditures
committee, was interested, got $50 ,3l2 in
1904 and $50, 1874 in 1905. l.. W. Ahrens, who
did a good dea Of Tammany Halls printing
at one time got s54 $50 in 1904 and SIS ,584in
1905. The bills for printing and stationery
for five years were 1900, 1881 1888; 1901 $751;
$50; 1902, 1927 1884; 1903, $3.50, s49; 1904, $6o1 ,101.
A good line or the extravaganza OF the
old management of the MutualNcan be got
from a report that has recently been made
in the company. This report shows that
in the first four months OF 1905 the total
expenses Of the company exceeded the gross
amount of the loadings on the premiums
by sSi5 900. The loading is the estimated
amount added to eaoh premium to pay
the running expenses. For the first four
months Of l908 the total expenses are $50 900
less than the loadings.
The report shows also hat the net returns
in the Mutual for investments in the first
four months of 1905 were over $4,000 in
excess Of the returns In a corresponding
period Of 1905. This increase In the earn
ings is due chiefly to the withdrawal of the
comrany's funds from banks and trust
companies which were favored in the old
days and the investing of the money in
securities and mortgages. Most Of the
repositories under the old management
We're paying only 2 per cent. interest on the
Mutual Life money.
The real story Of how Andrew c. Fields
went to California after the Armstrong
committee had begun to strike things in
the Mutual's supply department came out
yesterday. Fields left New York State
on October 3, after the Armstrong COM
mittee had been in session about a month.
he left for Los Angeles, Cal, in o private
car engaged for him from the Pennsyl-
Vania Railroad Company by an employee
OF the Mutual's supply department.
The car was taken in the name OF butcher
OF Dobbs Ferry, Fields's brother-in-law,
who runs a livery stable. With Fields
went butcher and another man and three
women. It Is understood that Fields paid
Tor the car. The party travelled in it all