The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-18
A. V. GEAR FILES PETITION
IN VOLUNTARY BANKRUPTCY

A. V. Gear, of the Bulletin CO., yes
terday filed petition in bankruptcy in
the United States District Court. AID,
Indication was granted and the matter
was referred to Wade Warren Thayer
as Referee in Bankruptcy and the first
meeting of creditors will be held Octo-
Der 2.
The principal part of the liabilities
are those growing out of the financial
difficulties of Gear, Lansing & Co. SIX
years ago or more, at which time the
property of the firm was transferred
to trustees for the benefit of creditors.
Some of the unsecured liabilities,
which amount to $3S82.SO, appear to
have been contracted lately in eonnec-
ton with some of the show enterprises
in which Gear was interested.
In amount of liabilities this is one
of the largest bankruptcy schedules
ever filed in this jurisdiction.
The schedule of creditors and liabn
tiles are as follows:
Territory of Hawaii, taxes, $237.30.
Secured creditors: The First Amer
lean Savings & Trust Company, $164O;
J. Alfred Magoon, $2700; Trustees of
Gear, Lansing & Co, $3.50, 56665. The
creditors whom these trustees represent
are: Bishop & Co., $14,985.03; Wilder
& Co., $13,255.4O: Allen & Robinson,
$6SSS.76; Wilder Steamship Co., $6212.-
IA; H. Hackfeld & Co., $643703; Cat
ton, Neil & Co., $4430.23; NJ. Phillips
& Co., $4012.25; Hawaiian Hardware
Co., $3S20.79; Honolulu Iron Works,
$3705.77; Oahu Railway & Land Co.,
$2G92.50; Lewis & CO., $2297.14; Oahu
Lumber & Building Company, $l870.05;
T. H. Davies & Co., $1937.94; Union
Feed Co. $1430.57; Sing Chong Co.,
SIPS; California Feed Co., $1042.70;
w. G. Irwin & Co., 1904; S. Kimura,
$SO412; Benson, Smith & Co, $748.93;
f. o. Hall & Son, $S22.92; Pacific Hard
ware Co, $6S9.44; Inter-IsIand Steam
Company, $376.71; Pacific
Brass Foundry Co., $374.41; Hollster
Drug Co, $372.42; Hyman Bros, $3.50.
90; Manufacturers Shoe Company,
$33302; Lucas Bros, $177.37; Kwong
Wing Fat Co., $135.4S; Wing Wo Chan,
$l21.23; Fred Harrison, SO, 1917; Theo. |
F. Lansing, $4770; interest from Nov
ember 2, 1908, $26,941.50.
Unsecured creditors: Bulletin Pub.
Co, advertising and advance, $506.90;
Club Stables Co., carriage, $26; City
Mill Co, lumber, $1,000; California
Feed Co. feed. S95.12. eastman & Mel
son. tenting, 1888; Consolidated Soda
Works Co.. soda water, 1914; Farm
Cornn, assignment of Judgment of f. |
o. Hall & Son. $232.47; Fountain Min
eral Water & Soda Works, soda water, !
$77.99: Gunst- Eakin Cigar Co., cigars, |
$50; Hawaiian Soda Works, soda water. |
$l33S0; Hopp & Co, chairs, etc. $45; |
Hawaiian Electric Company, light, ice
and repairs. $305.S5; Kwai You, prov1- |
siOns, $40.62; Levers & Cooke, lumber, !
$685.; J. NJ. Levy & Co, provisions, !
1885; Mutual Telephone Co, telephone. |
$3.50; NJ. w. McChesney & Sons, feed, |
$l79.96; E. w. Quinn, plumbing. $1,000; |
Union Feed Co., feed, $101.3S: Wall, |
Nichols Co, music, $17455; Waterhouse |
Trust Company, advance and commits. |
sions, $l93.33; trustees of Bishop Els, |
tate, promissory note and interest, |
$4,000; Hawaiian Star, advertising. /
1867, 500; Hawaiian News Co, books |
and papers. $113.44; total unsecured |
$3S~2.s0; making a total Indebtedness |
of $l39,026.75.
The assets consist of a number of /
lots in Kapiolani Park addition valued |