New-York tribune., 1906-05-20
MORE TIME FOR FIELDS
COMPLAINT NOT SERVED.
MoCurdys, Too. Need Not Hurru in
Filing 44nSzcers.

80 complaint in the suit Of the Mutual Life
insurance Company against Andrew c. Fields.
former head Of it's supply department and dis
1ribu;er Of the funds at Albany was served YES
ie-day. although it was due under the extension
a time granted several weeks ago. II vvrs said
that further extension Of few days had been
obtained and that the complaint would not be
served before Tuesday at the earliest.
The law department Of the Mutual has granted
On extension OF time to counsel for Richard A.
NcCurdy and Robert H. McCurdy his son. in
which to file answers TO the complaints in the
suits against them. The answer In one suit, in
which the two are made joint defendants. was to
have been made tomorrow. and the answer in
another suit against the former president OF the
Mutual individually was due on Tuesday. Both
suits are OF the greatest importance and it has
been decided TO let counsel have all the time
they desire in which to file their answers. It is
ssid that neither answer win be ready this week
Mr. Fields is still so ill at his summer home
n Ocean Grove that the chances OF his being
able 10 come TO New York and go before the IN
euranoe grand jury this week are not bright.
Lawyers yesterday were commenting on the
snsllness Of the fee of Charles E. Hughes for
his work with the Armstrong committee COM
pared with the fees that lawyers OF prominence
have charged the insurance companies for much
less work The work Of Mr.. Hughes extended
practically over period OF nearly ten months
During the four months that the committee was
taking testimony Mr.. Hughes not only worked
an day. but often far into the night For this
he Is 10 receive $4,000 As compared with this.
some OF the large retainers paid by insurance
companies 70 lawyers in the past were men
toned. The contrast in the compensation re-
ceyed by Ny. Hughes and the bills rendered by
fhe lawyers who were employed by President
Alexander on behalf Of the management of the
Equitable al the time OF the Alexander-ayde
controversy is particularly marked. William H.
Hornblower and ex-Justioe William N Cohen
put in bills for $4,000 each Under old condi-
fions they would probably have been paid with
our question but the arbitration COMMITTEES to
which they we're submitted allowed them $4,000
each and cut the bin OF Adrian H. Joiine for
services OF the same character from $4,000 TO
S220 The fees Of S17,50O and $4,000 allowed
10 James McKeen and Matthew Fleming. re-
spectively. for their work with the Armstrong
committee, are also much smaller, It was said
than they would have received from an insur-
ance company.
The uptown Offices OF the Equitable-the lux
uriously fitted third floor OF the FIatiron Build
ing-whch were leased three years ago under
the Alexander regime. are TO be given up. They
were used little except as uptown headquarters
for officers and trustees and for meetings which
II was more convenient to hold uptown. but they
cost the Equitable $4,000 year in rental alone
The fittings cost $4,000. It is said President
Morton. following UP his policy Of retrenchment
has decided 10 do away with this luxury. and is
going 10 suitcase the floor The Equitable has
4 ten years lease or the floor
Charles Z Hughes viii be the principal speak
Of al a dinner at the Hotel Savoy on Tuesday
night, 10 be given by the Life Underwriters AS
ISOLATION Of New York TO the forty-siX members
of the executive committee OF the National Life
Underwriters Association. He is expected to
talk on the probable results OF the Armstrong
laws from the point OF view Of the underwater.
7 r Fell. president Of the local association will
eponded 10 by Ernest J. Clark, secretary OF the
committee Other speakers are expected to be
Otto Kelsey. State Commissioner Of Insurance;
Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, one Of the three
trustees Of the Equitable; Haley Ffske, vice
president Of the Metropolitan, and the Rev. DR..
Donald Sage Mackay.
Charles A ScoveI. Of Pittsburg. is president Of
the National Association The occasion OF the
dinner is the midyear meeting OF the executive
committee, of which Charles Z. Cochran. of
EngiewOod. is chairman. The session will open
the Gotham on Tuesday al 10 a. m, and
continue for two or three days One Of the
things 10 be decided IS the programme for
the annual convention Of the National AssOcia-
ton which is TO be held in St. Louis in October
Matthew c. Fleming, formerly one Of the coun-
sc. Of the Armstrong committee, who has been
retained by District Attorney Jerome as an aid
in the prosecution Of the insurance cases. was
hours yesterday They went over the testimony
already taken before the insurance grand jury
regarding the Mutual Life, and also discussed, II
Is said. the way TO get at important Information
was brought by the legislative committee