[1] Report of the New York Legislative Insurance Committee, 1906, Vol. X, p. 16.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid., p. 50.
[4] Ibid., pp. 62 and 398.
[5] Ibid., p. 10.
[6] Mr. Croker, in 1900, had admitted his liability to an English tax on a yearly income of $100,000.
[7] The company had filed articles of incorporation in 1872, but was charged with being an abortive corporation in that it had never completed the necessary formalities required by law.
[8] As we shall see later, the political composition of the Board of Estimate was at this time considerably mixed; during his second term Mayor McClellan was fighting Mr. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, and had the backing of Senator McCarren and of McCarren’s lieutenant, Controller Metz. Mr. McGowan, president of the Board of Aldermen, was supposed to be a Tammany man, but was not on good terms with the “Organization” and was credited with being aligned with McClellan and Metz.
[9] Interstate Commerce Commission Report No. 6569, In re Financial Transactions of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co., July 11, 1914, pp. 35, 38, etc. The above are but a few extracts from this comprehensive report.
[10] The Truth About Metropolitan, by W. N. Amory, pp. 60-64.