THE CUBA REVIEW 



17 



Michael J. Dady Sued. 



Walter Stanton, head of the banking- 

 firm of Walter Stanton & Co., has begun 

 a Supreme Court action against Alichael 

 J. Dady, the Brooklyn politician and con- 

 tractor, to recover $30,000. 



This sum is a part of the $250,000 that 

 he claims Dady received in 1898 for the 

 sale of an option on a Havana contract 

 to the government of intervention the 

 United States established at that time 

 in Cuba. The sale was made at the time 

 General Leonard Wood was Governor of 

 the island. 



The deposition of Stanton and others, 

 filed in the County Clerk's oiifice, 

 shows that Dady, prior to 1898, had "tanteo 

 rights," amounting to a permanent option 

 upon the construction of public work in 

 Havana. In 1898 he elected to construct 

 for the city a sewerage and paving system 

 that the authorities required. 



Stanton's firm, it is claimed, was en- 

 gaged to take the bonds Dady got from the 

 city in order to finance the construction 

 work. In return for this, Stanton testified 

 in his deposition, his banking firm was to 

 get ten per cent, of Dady's profits. An ad- 

 vance of $5,000 cash was made to Dady 

 under this agreement. 



The contract, however, was never exe- 

 cuted by Dady. When General Wood took 

 charge of the government, Dady, it is al- 

 leged, sold his option to the municipality 

 for $250,000. He refused to give Stanton 

 10 per cent, of this amount, claiming that 

 he was not entitled to any part of it. 



Stanton declares that when he asked 

 Dady for the return of the $5,000 advance, 

 Dady refused to pay back this sum, saying 

 that it had been "ofifset by political work" 

 he had done for the firm of Farson, Leach 

 & Co. 



Stanton is said to have been connected 

 with that firm before he established his own 

 business. — New York American, April 5. 



An Ohio Company in Cuba. 



The Cuba Polish Co., of Toledo, a 

 concern that is to own and operate a 

 fruit farm in Oriente Province, Cuba, 

 was incorporated April 6 with a capital 

 of $10,000 by Joseph Malikowski, Earl 

 E. Mohler. Rupert Holland, John B. 

 Crouch and George Demuth. 



The stockholders of the company will 

 for the most part be composed of Polish 

 citizens of Toledo and Detroit, the pres- 

 ident of the company being Anthony 

 Sikora, of Detroit, the secretary and 

 manager Joseph INIalikowski, of this city, 

 and the treasurer Andrew Kusz, also of 

 Toledo. 



The company has secured 1,000 acres 

 of land near Las Tunas on the Cuba 



Railroad in the eastern part of the 

 island. It is the intention to plant grape 

 fruit, pineapples, oranges and other trop- 

 ical fruits and ship them to the New 

 York markets. They will also raise 

 vegetables and expect in time to erect a 

 cannery on the property. — Toledo (O.j 

 Blade. 



U. S. Officers in Cuba. 



The charge that commissioned officers 

 of the United States Army have been 

 for months and are now serving as 

 officers in the army of Cuba and receiv- 

 ing salaries from the Cuban Govern- 

 ment, in violation of law, is contained 

 in a resolution introduced in the U. S. 

 House of Representatives, April 4, by a 

 member of the Committee on ^Military 

 Affairs. 



The officers alleged to be connected 

 w'ith the Cuban army are Captain Frank 

 Parker, Eleventh Cavalry; Captain G. G. 

 Gatley, Third Field Artillery, and Cap- 

 tain Philip S. Golderman of the Coast 

 Artillery Corps. It is asserted that they 

 are receiving from $150 to $200 a month 

 each from the Government of Cuba, in 

 addition to their regular pay drawn as 

 officers of the United States Army. 



The resolution calls upon the Secre- 

 tary of War to furnish information in 

 connection with these officers and under 

 what circumstances they were detailed 

 for service on the island. The resolu- 

 tion also inquires if any other American 

 officer is serving in the Cuban army. 



Receivership Made Permanent. 



Vice-Chancellor Howell, in Newark, 

 j\Iarch 26, made permanent the appoint- 

 ment of Chauncey G. Parker as receiver 

 of the Jucaro and Aloron Sugar and 

 Land Company, operating sugar plan- 

 tations in the Province of jNIoron, Cuba. 



The company was organized in New 

 Jersey, and it issued bonds for $2,000,- 

 000. It bought three plantations and a 

 railroad with the funds realized. 



In his opinion the Vice-Chancellor 

 said that the company has stripped itself 

 of all its property, has ceased to trans- 

 act the business for which it was organ- 

 ized, and is practically without funds. 

 He said that he had not entered sufficiently 

 into the merits of the case in the 

 present proceedings to make any finding 

 with respect to the charge against the of- 

 ficers and directors of malfeasance in of- 

 fice, but agrees that the standing of the 

 Pratt Engineering & jNIachine Co., of At- 

 lanta Ga., is sufficient to entitle it to 

 an adjudication of insolvency. 



