The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1903, Page 7

~ his \ (cx GARTH MASTER SCHOOL OOS Cs MAY BE SOLVED Bank President's Sister-in-Law, Mrs, Herzog, Brings Proceed- ings in Surrogate’s Court for Accounting of Estate. DISCLOSURES MAY SHOW WHERE MONEY WENT. Attorneys Striving to Protect Name of Dead Financier—His Uncle, E. E. Jones, Offers Re- ward for Recovery of Body. Family differences, a law sult and the enmity vetween the Garth household and one of the most prominent sociat families in this city will tn all likell- hood uncloak y which sur- ville W, h the Mechanics > nig R. Herzog, a sister of . yesterday brought proceed- James leaving jarth was Mrs, Herzog the execu- testament, vent of her marriage to : an annuity of recelve no more than £15,000, ‘ Mrs. Ilerz s been opposed by her family, and 1 her affairs t brought tice of a o As her porti estute iso and parcel of the whole, the « in court will in all likelihood re much of the ths was placed, Mr. Garth and Mrs, ing on distinct Hnes, in protecting the resident, art in) and the bank of name of the strange insinuations, upon ti conditions that beset the Garth hou hold just prior to the “disappearance of the banker. Eugene E, Jones, of Memphis, Tenn., an uncle of Granville W. Garth, was in Galveston yeste He offered a re: ward for the recovery of the body. a from the tenor of an interview with World reporter, he is convinced that his nephew is dead, Mr. Jones said that Mrs. Garth's head was turned by lusury and that domestic troubles weighed upon the mind of Mr. th in hi According to the uncle, bought a handsome country. pluc under the influence of friends wh “horse mad,” stocked it w! breds and put it in the nam whom Mr. 5 y Jones also said that Mr. Garth ‘in ati Sttempt to mend imatters had a talk with Mi Garth just previous to his trip South. ie does not ellaye that thé banker was momentarily nberrated. One of the strange rumors that are afloat in (iis mysterious case is that in the will of the banker is a clause leay- § to Miss Annfe Hartigan, the rtigan, who figures hose name the New ng $00, alster of Hubert in the case and ip Jersey farm was recorded. a CITY HALL DECKED QUT FOR NEW MAYOR Beautifully Decorated with Plants, Wreaths and Flowers for the Ceremony, Which Is to Take Place To-Morrow. When Mayor-clect McClean walks nto the City Hall at noon to-morrow he will hanily recognize it, so great Is the transformation which a dozen flor- ists are working therein to-day. ‘The decorations on the exterior are the eame olf flaze and banners which have been used many times to decorate the bulld- But within the men who have seen @dministrations come and go doolare that nothing has ever approached the present decorations, The walls and cell- ings are be\ng covered wtih great fes- toons and!wreaths of myrtie, laurel, gmilax and evergreens. The main hall- way through which the Mayor-eleot will pass will be arched with living palms of great size and beauty, The two doors to the public office of the Mayor are arched over with myrtle, th Mirco? oben | The veo. says that the per capita heavier in Riciwmond and : tin Manhattan and the, 5 . | j : xceeded by ex-, : 0 Dee. S. Kor 18s, the} ly. } or wing | Bo. ot ' +3 fs) LAS, 7 re ; ‘ i ‘ ‘s1.219 : ance, $1,161,491. a cut per cent, MANY MILLIOKS Seventy Per Cent. of Money Expended for Supplies Goes’ for Text Books, Says Report of Edward Owen. OUTLAY INCREASES YEARLY. Booke In Apparently Good Condition Are Being Laid Aside for Others of Different Authorship—$107,490 Increase in Six Years. « | Tr his report made to-day to Mayor Low of the results of an Investigation Into the disbursements for school sup- piles during the Inst five years Edward Owen, Commissioner of Accounts, says that no adequate and uniform governing this {mportant matter has yet been established. and that “large quuutities of text books in apparent good condition have been and are being laid aside for others of different author- ship.” He says he finds that 70 per cent. of the millions of dollars expended for | | school supplies goes for the text books, | nd that the accredited fe of a text | Kk is two years, yet each year the y incre : What » discarded | books,”* omes of the the report concludes, “and why they are discarded are questions that| should enguge the attention of the Com- mittee on Supplies.” . During the period between Jan. 3, 1598, ber 31, 1902, the first five the consolidation ot \the $199,000.08, | 192 over 1893 of eo was all ex-| shattan and the in 142 than in 1958. 1902, Bronx getting le: —_—Se_ TRIED TO LEAP TO DEATH. | Jullan Sudick, thirty-five years old, of No, 75 Bowery, attempted suicide at) o-day by Jumping from a | third story window to a rear extension. He received a fractured ankle and was | taken to the Gouverneur Hospital, a privoner. that addr: STRANGE SHOOTING, YOUTH AVICTIM Charles Braun, Seventeen Years Old, Found in the Snow with Two Boys and a Girl Standing Over Him. The police are inyestigating the mys- terlous ghooting of Charles Braun, sev- enteen years old, son of Andrew Braun, of Eleventh avenue, Willtamsbridge. The youth is in the Portchester Hospital in a critical condition. Capt. Gilbert Gedney. of the Milton Point Ship-Yards, and Frank Slaney were driving home late yosterday after- noon, when at Newton and Rye Beach avenues they saw two boys and a girl standing over a boy who was lying In the snow on the bank of @ creek that runs through the Old Milton Cemetery. Mr. Slaney questioned the boys who said they were Irving and Elmer Ged- ney, living in a house @ short distance from the spot where the wounded boy lay. They said he wa8 Charles Braun, and that he had been visiting at their home for a week. on which and rathey incongruously are wired paper chrysaiithemums in white and pink, Similar incangruities appear fm paper roses—withal rather natural In appearance—growing out of the laure wnd holly wreaths, which are hung in _ Various glaces. The winding stairways are draped in | Gedi silk American flags and smaller ners in the national colors appear ‘throughout the building. The decorations in the public office of the Mayor will be in smtlax and natural roses with other flowers in moderation. The coat of the work Is covered by an appropriation of $600 made by the Board of Alde: \ ———__—__ MAJESTIC’S ROUGH TRIP. Christmas Celebrated ‘ Weather. The White Star steamship Malestic, from Ldverpool, arrived to-day after a tip during which rough weather was encountered. She brought 116 cabin pas- sengers. Christmas Day was celebrated with an claborate dinner, a free wine | Mst being added, and an entertainment | im which most of the passengers took pert. The saloon was appropriately decorated, ‘mong those who arrived on the Ma- Bore Senor Dory Billo, Alvve, ‘. end, De, “George ‘Carheart apt Baaterbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Bille, Senor Don ‘Bawardo ¥ in Stormy nm er~ Capt, Lionel James, ype cessed er ht SUNDAY WORLD WANTS WORK “MONDAY MORNING WONDERS. ‘They said they were looking out of a window when they saw young Braun crossing the i¢e in the creek. He shot himself accidentally they said. The girl who was with them was not questioned. She Is also suld to be a Gedney. The Gedney boys are not related to Capt. jedney. The Portchester police were notified and to-day Detectives Aeillo and tain were assigned to make an inves! ion. ‘They’ went to the Gedni house and Avitto Says that the two bo told contradictory stories. ‘The weapon with which the shooting had been done had not up to this time been found and the detectives began to search for it. ‘ghey finally found a rifle in the creek in ‘gx feet of water about twenty feet above the spot where the was lying when Slaney and Capt. Gedney arrived, On making a further investigation the detectives say they found blood stains jn the snow near the Gedney home, which ts about 600 feet from where the wounded boy was lying. In another direction, ongthe Rye Beac! Toad, also about 600 feck {rom the spot the ‘detectives say they found blood D Griffen and Lewin, who are at- tending. young Braun in the hospital, gay that he could not po ly bave rown the weapon to the spot whare It was found after he ‘been shot. The boy was unconscious when taken to the hox'tal. He began to show signs of regaining®™*onsclousness this after- noon, ed ALL EXCHANGES TO CLOSE, All the exchanges throughout the ‘United States and Europe will be closed to-morrow, and all except the New York Stock Exchange exchanges in closed on, teturday. The Ye hi wrday. eh bank will be issued a Pere Oe ea cere nn RO oneal al ae te oe Go Se Soon Gan hak Sa “4 tiNING, DECEMBER 41, -tvvs. _THE WORLD: ‘THURSDAY £V THE MUTUAL LIFE Insurance Company of New York has the gratification of announcing to its policy-holders that with the close of the sixty-first year of its cor- porate existence its assets exceed the sum of FOUR HUNDRED AND ONE MILLION. DOLLARS. The magnitude and the importance, of this great fiduciary fund, held exclusively for the protec- tion of its beneficiaries, mainly the future widows and orphais of its members, call for the employment of every safeguard possible under human contingencies. The Company bases its claims to the confidence and support of the community with no greater reliance upon any one feature of its administration than upon the personality and the attributes of the gentlemen who constitute its Board of Trustees, and control its affairs, and whose names, with the dates of their election, are appended hereto. . BOARD OF TRUSTEES. ‘ = HAMILTON M’K. TWOMBL7,1900, RICHARD A. M'CURDY, 1865, DUDLEY OLCOTT, 1880, Ae ROBERT A. GRANN 1885, AUGUSTUS D. JUILLIARD, 1838, | HON. WM. C. WHITNEY, 1895, A = ti - Vice-President of the Ca > - = 4 2809. President of the Company. Prost ident, of, the Mechanics and Ferm: ice-President of tl of the A.D. Juilliard & Com- Wiininn Roce a LER, 1895, WILLIAM H. TRUBSDALE, 1200, JAMES C. HOLDEN, 1867, Preaident of the Delaware, Lackawant. President of the National Safe Deposit Company, a HERMANN C. Von Post, ise, | JULIEN T. DAVIES, 1882, Senjor Partner of the firm of Ocirichs | CHARLES R. HENDERSON, 1883, a Cee ee, Maniker, Sanlor, Partner of the firm of & Wentern Rail ag DUMONT CLARKE, 1902, President of the American Exchange National Bank. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT, 1902. EFFINGHAM B. MORRIS, 1902, FREDERIC CROMWELL, 1880, ‘Treasurer of the Company: CHARLES #. MILLER, 1888, Counsellor at Law, , - WALTER R, GILLETTE, 1890, ORFORD, 1886, Vice-President of the Company. je Sussex National Bank. | GEORGE G. HAVEN, 1892, of the Standar 1 Cor ‘7. IXMiis N°SRRVIE, 1806, of the firm of Arbuckle Brothers, CHARLES D, DICKEY, 1896, Ranker, and Senlor Partner of Brown Brothers & Compan: HON. BLBRIDGW T. GERRY, 1896, President of & Company, fran Eiovd Steamship Company” Newton, N. uy Mendernon & Company. 7 a I Girard Trust Company, KOBERT OLYPHANT, 1878, HON, RUFUS W, PECKHAM, 18¢4,| WILLIAM BABCOCK: 1886, | ADRIAN ISELIN, JR., 1898, JAMES SPEYER, 1808. Fititeihis. wer Shoers andenlonera‘ot cian" | date ele ymutiemonc Bet MT AY, SP PSH isss, | GEORGES BOWDOIN, 1893, | CARIES CANTER) en a eens anor ame Company, ant 7 “id rey fn y 4¢ »/ ST i AS “ISH, 88, UE 3E § y N, 15968, A 7 . General Manager o! GEORGE F. BAKER, 1879, WILLIAM P, DIXON, 1884, “president of the Hlinols Central Rail- | formerly of ‘the firm of J. P. Morgan | Senior Partner of the firm of Winslow,| Vice-President’ of the Windsor ‘Trust President of the First National Bank. Counsellor at Law. road Company. & Company. Lanier & Company. Company. The above-named gentlemen serve, so far as their other engagements and occupations permit, upon the standing Committees of the Company, which are changed from time to time in order to bring as many as possible into practical participation in its regular work. At the present time these Committees are made up as follows; COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. GRORGE F. BAKER, GEORGE G, HAVEN. CHARLES R. HENDERSON. ADRIAN ISELIN, JR. AUGUSTUS D. JUILLIARD. JAMEL N, JARVIE. AGENCY COMMITTEE. HENRY H. ROGERS. ‘ADRIAN ISELIN, JR. ‘JULIEN T. DAVIES. WILLIAM C. WHITNEY, en DUMONT CLARKE. The particular duties of each of the above Committees are indicated with sufficient clearness by their titles, and need not be more specifically defined;"but in theiregeneral scope they make up the periphery of the Company’s corporate activity, In addition to the foregoing, an annual Committee makes a full and pare ticular examinatton of the Company's assets, and certifies to their correctness, This Committee for the year 1904 will be as follows: COMMITTEE FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE ANNUAL STATEMENT. : ELBRIDGH T, GERRY. DUMONT CLARKB. WILLIAM P. DIXON. s EFFINGHAM B. MORRIS. CORNELIUS VANDDERBILT. THE OFFICIAL STAFF IS AS FOLLOWS: EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, C. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, WILLIAM A. HUTCHBSON, SHAF L ‘ SS RELLER Assistant Auditor. Associate Actuary, CHARUES por ROEDER, WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, EDWARD P, HOLDEN, JAMES TIMPSON, Comptroller. ‘Assistant Cashter. INSURANCE COMMITTEE. | COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES ROBERT OLYPHAN?T GEORGE G 2 LYPHANT. JAMBS C. HOLDEN. : HERMANN C. VON POST. JAMES N. JARVIE, ROBB ROUTE: CHARLES H. MILLER. . THEODORE MORFORD. GEORGE 8. BOWDOIN. COMMITTEE ON MORTUARY, CLAIMS, AUDITING COMMITTEE. THEODORE MORFORD. WILLIAM P, DIXON, HERMANN C. VON POST. ROBERT OLYPHANT. WILLIAM P. DIXON, CHARLES E, MILLER *OHARLES D. DICKEY, CHARLES R. HENDERSON. ROBERT OLYPHANT. \ ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D., ‘Medleal Director. BRANDRETH SYMONDS, M. D., ‘Medical Director. GEORGE T. DEXTER, President. Actuary. ROBERT A. GRANNISS, | JOHN A. FONDA, Vige-President. 8d Vice-President. FREDDRIC CROMWBLL, ROBERT H. M'CURDY, RICHARD A. M’CURDY, \eeey m'cLINTOCK, He rer. General Manager, _ Aadistant Treasur | WILLIAM P. SANDS, HENRY 8, BROWN, Puperintendent of the Domestic Agency WALTER R. GILLETTE, WILLIAM J. EASTON, ALBERT KLAM aie Pee fingihs UM periateae LOYD. ap ‘DUPOS | JOHN Ta’ STEPHEN M. SMITH HENRY 5. DUNCAN, ISAAC F. LLOYD, GRANVILLH M. WHITE DUER DUPO? | JOHN TATLOGK, i ; Pais cciven tpn perhien | DaaidE 2d Vice-President. Secretary. Corresponding Secretary. Associate Actuary. ‘2d Assistant Treasurer. ment Under the oversight of these trustees and the administration of these officials and their predecessors, the name of this Company has become a synonym for probity and strength, its assets have grown to be many millions greater than the assets of any other life insurance company in existence, and it has returned to its policy-holders over six hundred and twenty million dollars, accumulated for their benefit; being over one hundred and ninety millions of dollars more than any other Company of its kind has ever similarly disbursed, It is believed that these unparalleled results afford ample guarantee of the future. : Moreover, it should not be forgotten that the honor and the credit of being the first corporation of its kind in the whole world and in any age to acccumulate for purely benevolent purposes so great a sum as upwards of 400: MILLION DOLLARS BELONG TO The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, | Nassau, Cedar, Liberty and William Streets, New York City. ; ;