Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-16

Thomas F. Ryan. r. A. h. widener and
Thomas Dolan and the estates Nof William
c. Whitney and William l.. Elkins jointly
forked over a check for $500. 92.S2 to the
Metropolitan Securities company a FEW
days ago. The check was the answer and
confession of judgment to a suit instituted
by the company for return of a pot of
n oney squeezed ont Of dead franchises
hypothecated by y combine Of Philadelphia
end New York traction promoters when the
n-Intcrurban whale swallowed
minor Jonahs some ten years ago. When
the traction whale was getting its appetite
in shape for business in 1898, Anthony N.
Brady picked up the remains of the bank
rupt Wall Street and Cortlandt Ferries
railway company, intending to blow some
life into It. The combine told Brady he
would burn his fingers in the deal. Brady
soon realized that he was up against It"
and agreed to turn the remains over TO
Ryan. whitney and associates for $25o,0Oo
In due time, as Brady testified two years
ago. he received a check from the Metro
politan Securities comp5 ny, but to his sur
prise it was for $685., eO7 10. instead of for
$4,000. with the check was a memoran-
dun from Mr.. whitney instructing Mr..
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money and then to draw his personal
checks to the order Of William G. whitney.
Thomas f. Ryan, Thomas Dolan. William
L. Elkins and P. A. b. Widener for $1ii,-
6527s each and to pay to Moore & schley,
bankers and brokers, 1884, O2s.92. The total
Of these six checks was s6s2. 2g2.s2, and the
amount remaining for Mr.. Brady was $273.-
S14.37. Mr.. Brady testified that he fol-
lowed the instructions. This is the loot
now returned by the promoters. (
Evelyn Cook. II years old, who lives at
631 West Fifty-first street. was ascending
the New York Central tracks in Park
avenue, at Ninety seventh street, when she
was set upon by two boys, who thrust her
against the wall, took two 81 bills from
the pocket of her jacket and fled.
1t was done so quickly that the girl was
taken by surprise. but she wasted no time
in screaming. Instead she gave chase and
pursued the two to One Hundredth street.
There they turned in their tracks and ran
back. but Miss Cook was after them again,
and at Ninety-seventh street she caught
one of the boys.
This time it was his turn to be surprised
for she got a kind of half-Nelson on him,
bore him to the ground and sat on him.
She screamed then in order to bring help
and Policeman Hartmeyer came along and
the boy. In the East One Hundred
and Fourth street station the bills were
found in his pocket. The other boy es-
capped.
Figures by the New York Board Of Health
established that since January l, 1905, seven
lives a month, most of them children's, on
and average, have been sacrificed to the
craze for automobile speed in that city.
The number of fatalities resulting from
improper manipulation of motor cars be-
tween January /, 1908. and April l. ] 1909, was
1o1. This includes persons run down and
killed while riding in cars in accidents.
There rave been seventeen automobile
in the three months ended March
81, 1909.
There appears to be an impression among
car owners and drivers that the
streets between the curb lines are for the
use of vehicles, except at cross
ings. They want a law passed which will
relieve from responsibility any motor car
driver running down a person anywhere
but on a crossing.
A fair conception of the millions of dol
lars which annually are poured into the
treasures of the traction companies OF
Greater New York is shown in a summary
of the reports OF the companies for the
last quarter of 1908, issued by the public
service commission. The gross earnings
of twenty-seven lines from operation were
81. 80, 99s, and operating expenses SlO'-
n2. 1885,, leaving net earnings OF ShOSo,9ol
Other income amounted to $1.O0 ,SCS, making
the total net income IS, Oe6, $50. The South
field Beach railroad had a total gross in
come OF only $3.50, against which are
charged operating expenses of Sl5S ana
taxes Of s225, leaving a deficit for the quar-
ter nearly 300 times the roads income. Inc
total assets of all twenty-seven companies
are 1854, S25.S 1873, and their liabilities $780,
O4l. 43.
Some time in 1911, probably early in the
snrine. New York's great public library
now building in Bryant park Will be opened
"a the public. Those who have fretted
oyar the DELAY NAV find consolation in the
fact that the building is being constructed
Of marble as perfect as 1t is possible TO
quarry, About 5000 tons of marble have
heen used To illustrate how close was the
selection IL will only be necessary to say
that fully rO.O 900. COO tons were rejected be-
fore the selection of the $1,000 tons was
made.
The three great public Libraries OF this
Astor. the Lenox, and the I1ldeh
we're consolidated under the name or the
New York Public Library on May g 1880
The award in the competition for the cree
tion of the new building was in November,
1897. The removal of the old reservoir ana
the actual work Of laying the foundation
we're begun in the following May. The
cornerstone was laid November 10 lSU
The roofing was finished in 1906
The total cost of the building Will be
about 100000.
In the outer room of a Wall street oItce
this sign was posted a few days ago;
please do not whistle; we do all that our
selves" The messenger boys on service In
tho building evidently saw a funny side
TO the notice, for within an hour more than
twenty of them asked: when do you
whistler when does the concert begin?'
How much for a ticket?' and similar
queries. The sign came down after two
days, and the manager of the office has
had It replaced by one bearing in agrees
sively bold letters simply the words, Don't
whistle"
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