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AIST PAY UP ON ASPHALT STOC Judge Bea eis ct of the United States Court, Confirms As-; _ sessment of 80 Per Cent. on _ Each Share. ie } in Hartford. — ; aan f ' Trading was quite at a standstill on] PHIVADELVHIA Charles D.| Tt wegamnounces by the Interborough WASHINGTON, Dec. 22,—Seoretary | the Stock hange to-day, At vari Wenstemacher, to irs old, | Rapid nsit. Company to-day that | Hay. SHouRH still coabnenes ble bed ‘ | aeatoda sé wy minutes | Who was ye ‘ ted in the | the shoppers’ specials on the 8 { h a very severe attack of bron- i - WILL PUT $24,000,000 SAYS MONEY WAS | SRE ATU aoRee HieCiioe | LRITRMIS SD Court of u Rae WE canaTk ai Hee Baas |chitis, continues to attend to offical t i be reed Ne \ tue “L" road had been increased from) pusiness. Mr, Hay is not of a robust | IN RECEIVER’S HANDS. LOANED ILLEGALLY. |«» tranauctlOre aie Wey: Keloee tre nut {siiielde by hanging limaelt with a towel] {Xe t0 elght, which, with twenty-four| constitution, but he has an indomitable H - | TAAL Ona Goae ler de oreeesanal| dicated i | trains on the old Franklin street ser-| will which stands him in good stead. { | eae |al. | Bislnens wan wholly. proteanionat hie was eme| ice give the retail district considera-| Yesterday while reclining in bed he a {Al All that the D’rectors and the range limited We i 7 | ble relief from the old rish-hour con-!had a conference with Prealdent Is the Greatest Sum Ever/Also Alleges that the cto! — joe MU eS Of action Roosevel : ; , Ordered to Be Paid in Like| Used Funds Borrowed from | screngit: on the report yi the excettent| saulal cond extends | pani meee nc 428 Ps Me Tolowed| ae it Seengary, Hay garg ti Tae : z " : y you L. boc ae eerey 4 ors ness, jurgeon eneral xey 7, if tion s for the year it is was to mail| by four others at intervals of six min-|is in attendance on Mr. Hay. Circumstances—To Pay Off the Institution for Specul a 4 semi-offictally, will be more than Hons) utes, ‘These trains make their first stop| tt {8 not expected chit Mr Hay oF \ = eiver Name: yin excess of that of Inst year F eth alte, 80 ag to reserve | Shy hig gte Yeave hie house inti after | the Debts Temporary Rec nd the surplus will be about 20.9 tok atog = a n the stock of the Compan ‘armers, Fra street ser- * >. ‘on dec. ” ree ‘a om oO se . Ohta a Ne York . ie sow CS Todge Kirkpatrick in the United) HARTFORD, Conn. Deo 2 larg 1d to show some sirength to| $ that mle AEN sep States Court at Newark to-day or-|ing that t Niebeazllt dull and uninteresting market } start-| No More Meetings Until Congress Idered that the stockholders of the As-|the directors of the Windlium Xilionll - | HUEMIAIT BIRe DRM EOR EC Lne| a it Company of America be assesse rane have ee eect Ie te Int The Btect issube were inaetive, but P. M., making @ frst stop at Four- t. of th o er|funds of the hea: i ‘did not act: badly, and ee teenth street ofthe company. ia Russell, widow of CR. Ruse] On On Ae re cinter STOCKS EASY ON THE CURB.) «« ener vane avant ears a Congressman, E np and is now operatir ‘The capitalization of the company 1s/S¢l!, f hac ide he elit Inted, ji the iron and steel trade helped the i j through lower Sixth a “3 ,000,000 and the assessment, therefore, |!!! anise thu Ne Seo ee ari tlames {iwnues. ‘The forecast of the December ‘ bo market ; ‘ Fe FMAM be $24,000,000—sald to be the largest In her applic ene te The men mo lauarter, whieh has very pesslimise | Ee Hag eXtht 4 ‘ forder, In amount of money, ever issued Many fraudulent dele le UN are {Ue has become more hopeful und there | wen @ court in this country |p yea aes (be hela sees Rrook- |! # feeling that the figures may be|Gariues were: —— PE Receiver Tatnalt, for the company, [Comfort Sturt Bu lant Tee [ever better 1h : FIRE IN A CLUB-HOUSE. f ‘ent before Judge Kirkpatrick and pre- |!Y athe veg hie Tea SeoB as Jrorecast. ‘The pret Re ea ere Fire In thi ment of the lab ted what facts he had. We sald that |F eee ee art D, Put- {early in the day and held around that|G of the Builders’ L at 7 © total justified claims against the {Payne and Albert Dy Puts joan i One! Hundred: aia iatteat mpany amounted to $24,000,000 and that Woof Kiithugly. . did about $1,000 -damage early to-day the company was Hable for that amount. | When the Court onvened me ‘ ‘ f The Guggenheims and their friends ar Hin the lockers near the Stockholders Must Pay. noon a long ence nn Feld Ue at io ue piekli UB fe by. the bowling ls f a z ato {tween the Court and attorneys for the |2o 0 ie fone ee i Ree yee crcered. trie Staistocle tom and directors of the bank | nites hireo? f the company be assessed 8 per cent filent of the future of t + Ite par value, thus assessing each |latter wanted to name the temp 1g in a position to give Bitock he per cent. of the par value |recelver, but the plaintiff's lawye ge bear who car © sell the stock |) for the er x he held. lmurred, It was agreed that a temporary {short a run for his money 5 fe Asphalt mpany of America, ! receiver be appointed and « hearing be = — + eommoniy culled the Axphalt ‘Trust, was} jeld on Jan. U1 on the question of ap-| Brooklyn Rapid Transit was one of she OVERDUE OCEAN LINER IN. incorporated in New Jersey in June, | point A permanent recelver | cks in the list in the early | pHLLADHILPHIA, Dec. 22.—The over- “4809, with a capital of $30,000,000 in 600,000] City Attorney Joseph P. Tuttle, of 1d its gains well, Rotk | gue Americas steamship Merion tphares of a par val . Gen. | Hartford, was appointed temporary re- ; . ve fibeeibes was Pi Pat passed WFrances Vinton elver. “His bond was fixed at $20,000. | 3 Ab ACH hss “Commissibner of dL 1-4 Rock Island wus down to 2 Perea eissibner of New Charuen of Specatation, much Walked of bond iss EES ia alee | In her complaint Mrs. Russcll says Sore the prime movers In the organization. | at i ys ANd arden The trust was composed about | that she represents others as well t herself, she being the owner of t ae compusinie hich had | 5 hal epphialt peared wl betore ae nf the stock of the bank, 5! spnet Worked: Ss Poeen een we RdOP all that the defendants formed Gia x aye the purpose of specul Yel, the: trunt evwctea | ition In stoc borrowed money, and PS ENG Cute E ed and used for ‘thie | conde to get thelr Intereate Tits alwa Pe ee Jonn Ww -Preaident Baas of the bank to w consid. | bonds to gel thelr Inter eat re stoc -) Arthur W. Se: ‘| drable . market, © ourer. Director Jt is alleged further that Burlingame, = Belmont, P. Ma tobe | . A, B. Widener, | yo 1. Elkins, R. J | TAvery D. Andrews, August - John W. Mack, Jos | ert H. Foerder “George B, Wid ¥ Wortendyke, ¢ 3, Alexander and “Ellis Wainwright in this y.: ctorate were repre: oriecipal owners of m. ich BAMMbINCI to muke trust, Immed'acety ter ore jon the Asphalt Com of Am a issued 1 $20,009,000 of gold bonds and exchang them for the stock of the in . E Segmpanies which entered the r SIanued .000,000 of Bonds. Receiver Tatnall afd ether experts bave sali t taut was where the rub © “$eame in. The stock of several of the 5 Companies whch entered Trust was tet Sof no market value. it w sald. Yet the original holders of it obtained the bo hange for the valueless ih hese gold bo were Sold on the market a my The Uigperation thus gx he asphalt men a ance to place comparssly MGtock in the treasury. of the. T Mrecelve for tt gold bonds wht pone and did sel! at a hax jum. corr VONCE MORE. » SOARS SKYWARD = “Danie! a and Followers Take: -., an Active Hand in Boosting—' feat ‘More Fervid Action Expected) : | + To-Morrow. | Exchange experienced its Tmost exciting moments In the present {boosting after the sur to-day, | Danil Sully and his folle who are} F ne cotton noon [tightening their fingers on the cotton Weupply. took an active hand and the , ce of cotton soared skywaré with ery deal. When the day closed {t wes gener "nited States os Ng prices were: predicted that before Christma e Wadd 1 Siti ecteuite to be uly, 82 bid; Dece Jadtudeed vol ats | a2 May. 493-4 did; De 4 . price of cotton would be i cents. The noviaates hk, which | « 81, 83, 85, 87 Court St. éghorts, grew scared and they bought}has a canital of $9.00, showed that | closing, prices avere Wheat — . , 79), ’ right and left, toreing 1 ents asthe there wore outstanding” loans to the | May, July, | BROOKLYN. gelling, price “at the t of the last /amor ne of nnd “deposits ONE BLOCK FROM CITY HALL, erations. he Sur} i Moenuary, cotton went Tnalwiden Ronee Fast INGS UNTIL 10. from the opening, This of $2.15 ball M ree, Mand Ju Ae 781.80 a | bs # to 113.87 at > UP, Suh oh ow w cd Steady After a aaton, In the Holiday vequire Mf $7,500,000 of vifhow of o met ed, + leans, which wero fed dol! and relapsed, slosed’ stendy, the war scire. were particularly th a slightly bette ot of feasting for the You can do, they cake.’ Thi j large suma of money to meet the necco- pink ds likery to LONDON STOCKS DEPRESSED. | KILLED HIMSELF IN PRISON CELL Philade'phia Man Had Been Convicted of Swindling Farm-} os by Selling Their Produce and Not Making Full Returns.! WOMAN ASKS FOR |STOCKS FLAT WITH BANK RECEIVER! THE PRICES LOWER Misse:tri Pacific an anu Brook‘yn Mrs. Ella S. Russell in Her Ap-| Rapid Transit Are Saving) plication Makes Serious Features of a Market Re- Charges Against Financiers} markable for Dulness. Windham National was a dearth of news of all \the President of t and brokers stood about | » bank, spent a There kinds to-day, rhe Nan rare u the floor of the exchange With nothing vies to do. | | unsucce | phone or otherw oommunita ated witn The total sales of stoc! Backus at the bank of elsewhere Lie | Shares and of bonds #1 sessity of raising money tu answer 'a, of stockholders. for margins, and upon called in other) directors of the bank ‘who were mem- bers of the syndicate, and that the flve tha bart, she alleges, con-| to borrow of tae bank jay's highest, lowest net changer’ from Amal. Copper Am, Smelt, & 1 sitles of arranging notes with different makers, $5 Monthly Until Paid. Va, ‘149 Loaned Money on Notes, Vo avoid diffloalty with the bank ex- nailner iniquaie cases where! lt) was im: with Each of these vavtile unusy the law to borrow a Pianos Beautiful ‘ 2 Stool, Scari; also Three Months Free Piano Lesso and 15 sheets of the latest and most popular music. This is your oppor- tunity to own a piarto at less than it would cost to rent. Also 150 celebrated makers’ pianos, slightly used, at a great sacritice. ve U8 furthe: ve thm: 1 he Dy formed and | ending fs nthe plainuft is informed at 1 yiteuding cd xe amount of the eaple | Rock Island pie. Me ettegt Mat Re dec itclrg| Ae A UPRIGHT PIANOS. Negedt that the five dir owed large sums of mon woke in Windham County in we oellef of the plainuff, most if Not all of them, Insolyent, Jarge amount et sum borrowed, The complainant Fr alleges that the defemdants have | be n for some time paying interest a} no by new notes which the: not good and that ihey have these notes at thelr face valu the ae of the bank In order to m ar that the capital o} ani ur ths pital of, the bank $210 Bradbury .. $6,297, 150 Decker Bros - Sui a 125 Hardman -.. 90 Biddle .. . 75 Boss - SO Bijou ------ Suiits Square Pianos. $90 Steinway & Son$4 unre 75 Steinway &Son 3yniiiats 65 Steinway&Son Bunt yal 60 Decker Bros ~~ Suntit pala 35 Chickering --- 25Glenn .-.---- 2unttpara - |GOETZ & CO. an monthly. hintil pala. 2 monthly Suntil paid 4+ Advanes Decline a WHEAT MARKET. Shorts bought wheat moderatel the opening to-day, influenced by sia | Northwest receipts and the Japan-Russo Itcla chared ‘that. tho five dire |situation. ‘The buying was checked la- have voted ‘to pay dividends. to stock. | fF bY heavy Southwest rece holders when they knew that the cap- | being 542,000 bushels againat ital stock of the bunk was seriously | 9 impaired, and ‘that “by the owners | of stock’ and thelr personal. influence }OVver other stockholders, they have been Jand are able to control the stockhoid- ers’ meetings and continue indefinitely Dividends Were Votea, Corn sold off with wheat. York's. were Nia opening or cps 7s to 36; July, until pata the control of the directorate Tn conclusion the plilntift says she be- eves that one or more of the directors are ‘Doc to SBS to “ast ‘ity, CRF ROW MUPAnRINE tO fe A petition tn re AL to 41 1-8 That are generally betier appreciated and more lasting, such as Writing Desks, 9 Fancyy Tables, Parlor Cabinets, in gold and mahogany, Cur‘o Cabinets, Dressing Tables, Shaving Stands, Gold Chairs, Mission Furniture, Fancy Chairs and Rockers, Tea Tables, Oriental and Domestic Rugs, Side Tables, Old Colonial Hall Clocks, Buffets, Music Cabinets, Work Tables, Cozy Corner Necessaries, Draperies, Carrets, Turkish Chairs, and hundreds of other Christmas things at prices specially marked down for the Holiday Season, and on libe-al Terms of Payment if you should desire it, are very good reasons why you should pay a visit to Our Big TE _ | Jonata 155,157and159 East 23dSt, jase =P a 2 Doors | wes ot 34-Av 0: 3d Av. ‘ Manufacturing Jeweller and Silversmith| 409 & 411 FULTON STREET, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Opposite Boerum Place, Near City Hall. NGS UNTIL 10.30 | [OPEN EVENT WATCHES FOR TIN Solid gold Gypsy three large brilliant dia- yeighing 1 actual vaiue Solid Gold Snake Ring, head set with genuine diamond and ruby: actual value $#.50; price, Sola Gold Pendant, in. shape heart, set with one gen- ‘ 3 ¥ Solid gold Brooch or Pendant, set with with 45 Oriental pearls uine’ diamond and “ats f Wi! largeand brillant $1 a wriniant diamonds, actual value, } A941 genuine dia- Oriental actual amon Sagal VAIUE ; : * .$ mond; actual value, value, $85 $50.00; price, $60.00; price, $25,00; price, Emeratd, Ru by or Turquotse actual % price, 2.50. centre value § $1 Solid gold Pansy Scarf Pin, set with genuine songs Brooch THE WORD: TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER. 22; 22; 1908. MORE “L TRAINS FOR THE SHOPPERS Management of ¢ Company Will Put on Addi- tional Service for Its Women Patrons. lterborough? et ty ent will be brougat SERETIR HAY ILL WITH BRONCHITIS Head of the State Department, While Holding Conferences with the President, Is Forced to Stay in Bed. tu Fi @ Reassemb) Dec eld during Both President his official advisers will tion $0 Tar as pudoie bus: fut nh Dusivess us the s may naye with the Presi- Yo his ate ruthorized ment that no mee! Would) be, held uatiPatter the! nbling of Roosevert t lay for a long Tide. He ut manied when he left the mansion, but’ later was joined by a tend Aldermen this afternoon granted the franchise to the Hudson and Manhat- tan Raflroad Company to construct a tunnel. place in Jersey in this city, purchased, and the station will be con-| nected | with the aubwny_statio throw the . One to Jersey City, By a unanimous vote the Board of Seven of Them Before Ju Aldermen-elect Frartc Gass. unnel under the North River. ‘This is knowr: as the Cortlandt street It will extend from Exchange ; to Church street A block of ground from ‘ulton to Cortlandt street has been ter and James W. chard in the Supre by’ a tunnel for foot passengers at Cortlandt minutes pte eat trom J in Manhattan. NEW ALDERMEN SWORN IN. Frederick Gillies, Arthur Murphy, Frederick Rich- reas Take Oa f Offiee tice Blanchard, Philip Hamichfegen Brenner, John Redmond to-day took the oath of office before Justice Blan- ame Court, About fifty friends accompanied them to court and a trial was suspended ten Store Open Nignts Until 10 o’Clock Prior to Xmas. GaPMansG Brooklyn Offered Wednesday. To ayoid the afternoon rush, we offer those. of do their shopping from 8.30 A. M. to Double Tradi Stamps -With Cash Purchases. After 1 P. M. the usual No Trading Stamps with C. O. D.’s. v Entire Block Fulton, from Bridge to Duffielp St. Special Inducement Early Shoppers Brooklyn, our patrons who 1PM. ng number. 44-karat gold fill as Enamell of a Brooch Solid gold case, set ine diamond (no chip), Elgin or STRAUS ‘move- ment; price, $16.75. for 25 years, Waltham movement, led casé, warranted ham or Elgin Price, 924 led Solid Gold or Pendant, set $14.75. Solid gold case (xtra heavy), » Set with fleur de lis of 4 large and brilliant diamonds. (no chips), first quality, full elled Waltham ~ movement price, with genu- ‘alt- $17.75. 14-karat solid gold, extra heavy case, a $26.50, WATCHES FOR WOMEN. MIEN. Solid Gold Case, Waltham Movement; price, $17.75. movement. -75. . Solid gold Broach, set * $10,75. Solid yold case, with a fine movement, space Solid gold case (extra heavy), set with 4 genuine diamonds, Waltham or STRAUS move- Solid Gold Ring, set with six diainon Masonic emblem price, Soi heavily carved, set with i large diamond; $25.00; price, Men's solid gold Gypsy Ring, set with large diamond and two rubies, actual valu $38.00; price, id Gold Coil Pin, value with genuine dia- mond in star set- ting; actual value $6.50; price, $1.75. Sold Gold Knot Scart Pin, set weed, enuine dia