Norwalk Gazette.
Tuesday,Fcbr-uary 20, 1883.
. --Edltorial Lester.
, , ., War-Jamar“, D. 0., Feb. 18, 1882.
Both Houses of Congress have been as
thoroughly soaked and saturated with tawfifl“
the past week as the western country has
been with inundations of water. Many
* in both branches have lost faith in the ulti-
mate passage of any bill at all this session,
while others seem more confident of its suc-
cess than ever. Senator Platt feels an un-
i abated degree of confidence that if the bill
can ever be gotten into the hands of a con-
ference committee, it will be ultimately
passed. Senator Merrill served notice on,_
the Senate yesterday that on Monday he
should ask the Senate to sit continuously till
the bill was disposed of finally. The inter-
minable volume of talk has been the bane of
this really momentous question. Many of
the would~be democratic leaders in Congress
have been so ambitions to prove to their
constituents and the country that they are as
idi« ntically for free trade as the wildest,whoop-
ing democratic statesman of the south and
southwest may be expected to be.
The bill has received such patient» and in'
telligent revision and is in the main, so great
an improvement upon our present revenue
laws, that it would prove almost a business
and commercial calamity not to‘ have it en-
acted into a law. ‘ . '
HONORS -'ro nsnsnsm. JEWELL. _
~ The Post Office Department is heavily.
draped in mourning in honor of the memory
_ 0f Connecticut’s err-Postmaster General. 0n
the day of 'Gov. Jewell’s funeral the depart-
ment was closed and Judge Howe, the pres-
ent Postmaster General, and his asaistants,‘
with other leading officials of the department
attended the funeral, as did Secretary of the
Navy Chandler and General Hawley. No
public man, with the exception of the mar-
tyred Garfield, has departed in recent years,
so widely and ardently beloved as Marshall
Jewell. The distinguishing characteristic of
Gov. Jewell as a public man was that while
.others were respected or admired, he was
always loved for his noble and generous and
affectionate nature. In victory or defeat, he
was the same; no disappointments or per-
sonal or partisan rivalries, ever soured his
nature or embittered his life or his friend-
ships. Friday evening Senator Platt
left his seat in the Senate long enough
to deliver a brief extempore eulogy
upon his life and character, in response to an
invitation of the “American Economists,” of
which association Mr. Jewell had been the
vice president for Connecticut. The Senator
briefly outlined the more prominent incidents
in Gov. Jewell’s life and then more briefly
reviewd his public career, giving the judg-
ment which he had formed from an intimate
acquaintance with him. He concluded with
an eloquent tribute to the private.worth, the
stainless character, the kind heart,and sunny
temper of Marshall Jewell.
Judge Lawrence, who had presided, said
that “during his ten years in Congress, he
had heard a good many euIOgies, but never
one that surpassed the one just delivered by
the distinguished Senator from Connecticut.
And the subject of this admirable eulogy
was in all respect worthy of so brilliant a
tribute as this so brilliantly paid him.
A short hand reporter was present taking
notes of the meeting and it is to be hoped
that from him Senator Platt's brief but ad-
mirable address may be obtained and given
at least to the Connecticut press.
IN run uprisn SATURDAY.
The abandonment of the House tariff bfil
is foreshadowed by the action of the ways
and means committee yesterday. The com—
mittee directed the chairman on Monday to
move to suspend the rules and. pass a bill to
reduce internal revenue taxation, to be fram-
ed to accord with the internal revenue fea-
ture of the tariff bill now being considered
in the Senate. This is construed to indicate
that a majority of the ways and means com-
mittee themselves have lost hope in the effort
to pass any tariff bill at all.
The consideration of the bill, which was
interrupted by the eulogies pronounced upon
Representative Shackelford, of North Caro-
lina, may be postponed until late in the mid-
die of next week, if not indefinitely. On
Monday, after the call of states, the day will
be devoted to the bills reported from the
committees, to be put upon their passage un-
der 9. suspension of the rules. On Tuesday
it is said Chairman Hiscock, of the appropri-
ations committee, will call up the sundry
civil appropriation bill. Its consideration
once entered upon it will run probably until
the end of next week. After the sundry
civil bill is out’ of the way Chairman Page
will call up the river and harbor appropria-
tion bill. It is not believed that the bill as
reported can be passed, and that if any bill
for rivers and harbors is passed it will be a
lump appropriation, to be expended at the
discretion of the Secretary of War.
Among the items in the river and harbor
bill, appropriations for Connecticut,as already
published are for Norwalk, $5,000; Bridge-
port, $10,000; Milford, $3,000; New Haven,
$50,000; New London, $3,000; and for the
improvement of the Housatonic river,
$15,000.
Gov. Waller has been here the past few
days in the interest of the Shore Line's
Thames. river bridge atNew London, but
fortunately the Consolidated Railroad and
not the general government will. be called»
upon to pay that great expense.
. TOBACCO.
Messrs. James Gallagher, Sr. and J r., have
been here the past week looking after the to-
bacco interests as embodied in the tariff bill.
As a substitute for the paragraph struck out
in committee of the whole and the succeed-
ing paragraph, Mr. Plait offered the follow-
ing, which, he said. was satisfactory to the
cigarmakers, and would be,he thought, sat-
isfactory to the tobaceo growers also:
Leaf tobacco, of which 85 per cent. is of
the requisite size and of the necessary fine-
ness of texture to be suitable for wrappers,
and of which more than 100 leaves are re-
quired to weigh a pound, if not
stemmed, 75 cents per pound; if stemmed,
$1 per pound.
After a discussion, in which Messrs. Will-
liams, Jones, of Florida, Hawley and Call
took part, the amendment was agreed to, aye
85,‘no 18.
The Senate resumed the‘ consideration of
the wool schedule.
The value of wools of the first class at the
st port or place whence exported to the
*nited States, on which a dot of 10 cents
a pound is laid, having been fixed in the com.
mittee of the whole at 32 cents or less per
pound, was restored to 30 cents or less, as
in the original bill.
In one of Gen. Hawley's short and electri-
cal speeches, he stated to the Senate last
evening that it was already in the air that the
tariff bill was to be either abandoned or de-
feated, and he implored honest and positive
action thereon.
rosrsusrnns.
The President has sent in the renomina—
tions of the following Connecticut postmas
ters: Philo Hill at Bradford; William
Cheney at South Manchester; Howard E.
Gates at Litchfield. Yesterday the nomina-
tion of George E. Scofield was made as post.
master at Stamford to succeed Theodore J.
Diiskam, who died on Thursday. Mr.
Daaknm Was appointed postmaster at Stam.
fm'il, A.;MI| 17m, 1861, ill! the recommenda—
ti~n ol' the lair O. S. Ferry (then the retiring
Culflgl’v'rhlllllll from our district) which was
it :[llf' tn lllr Push Office Department by YOUI‘
i; in Sp-dllloul, and nisfirsl and second com—
missxous were signed by President Lincoln,
and «forum all the intervening years Mr. D.
pmVen ““1138” at home a most efficient and
“.tplllul‘. pusiiii Mel‘, and in all his relations
with the Punt Office Department here, a most
prompt and satisfactory oflicial. We are
glad to know that he is to be succeded by so
m...,.m.~m and wor'hv a man as Mr. Scolicld.
ARLINGTON. l
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The Senate judiciary committee have ,
agreed to report for passage 0 bill providing
for the purchase from George Washington
Parke Curtis of the entire Arlington estate,
comprising 1.100 acres including the national
cemetery. at a total cost of $150,000. The,
accrued taxes, some $15,000, are to be paid
by Gen. Lee, who has agreed to the terms
proposed by the committee, and thus the
graves of our more than twenty thousand
Union dead are to remain undisturbed.
DEATHS.
The two Houses indulged in funeral eulo-
gies late yesterday afternoon, in memory of
Representative Shackelford, of North Caro-
lina. This makes the ninth member who
has been 'thus eulogized and makes this Con-
gress memorable on account of its unprece-
dented mortality. -
The decease of‘ Wm. E. Dodge, Gov. Jew-
ell, Gov. Morgan, the three Connecticut men
and of such unusual prominence, and all de-
voted pcrsonal friends and dying within so
few days of each other is remarked as a sad
and singular coincidence. Last night the
news was telegraphed here that the genial
and 'able George Dawson, the old partner of
Thurlow Weed and editor of the Albany
Journal, had just expired, from sudden fatal
pneumonia. He was the author of that
most delightful and sunny summer book,
“Pleasures of Angling." He was for many
years a favorite fishing companion of Presi-
dent Arthur during the latter’s ofiicial resi-
dence in Albany. ‘Mr. Dawson and Chief
Justice Ca‘rtter of this city in their youth, set
type side by side, as journeymen in a Roch-
ester printing ofiicc.
. ' ' SENATORIAL.
The Michigan contest has at last become a
go-asyou-pleaserace, Senator Ferry having
dwindled almost out of sight. It is believed
sOme new man will be elected this week.
» - PATENTS. .
Dr. R. G. Dyrenforth of the appeal board
has been nominated for the vacant'Assistant
Commissioner of Patents.
anunoniinn.
A most ludicrous blunder made—not by
the type setter this time—but.the telegraph
operator, caused no end of mirth.provoking
gibes. after its painful aspects were dissipat-
ed. Doctor Baldwin, a physician of some
prominence here, went recently to the Hot
Springs, Arkansas, to be treated for rheuma-
tism. He telegraphed his wife: “Am out of
pain, gaining fast." The operator sent Mrs.
B. the following transcript of the despatch :
“Am out of pain,yofng fast." Mrs. Baldwin
packed up the necessary mourning hablli-
merits and hurried for Hot Springs, where to
her great astonishment, she was met at the
railway station at an early hour in the morn-
ing by the doctor in a good stats of preserv-
ation. So many recent deaths rendered the
above unintentional error of the telegraph a
subject of far less merriment than would be
indulged .in in times of less frequent and
sudden mortality.
ransoruh.
Attorneys Albert Relyea and John B.
Hurlbutt, with Frank Leonard, of Norwalk,
Albert Comstock and wife, of New Canaan,
Wm. F. Rockwell and M. Buckley, of Meri-
den, Edgar T. Welles, ex-Senator Eaton,
Arthur Egleston, George L. Chase and wife
and Wm. H. Gross, of Hartford, John E.
Earle and son,Fred C. Earle, Jas. Gallagher,
Sr. and Jr, John E 'Searles, Col. Ben Par-
dee, S. A. Galpin, and Mrs. L. W. Dudley
and daughter, of New Haven, A. M. Woos-
ter, of. Bridgeport, Miss E. S. Hawley, of
Stamford, Mis. Henry T. Curtis of Fairfield,
Allen Tenny, of Norwich, George H. Cowell
of Waterbury, are among the Connecticut
people crowding the Capitol the past week.
L. M. Monroe and wife, of New Canaan,
are expected here the present week.
W. E. Jackson and bride, of New Haven,
have parlors at. the Ebbitt.
Lawyer Hurlburt and Frank Leonard left
for home on the 9:50 train last night, expect-
ing to be in Norwalk in time to attend Sun-
day school today.
A telegram received here from Waterbury
last evening, announced Gen. S. W. Kellogg
as confined to his bed with a severe cold,
threatening pneumonia. As ever, B.
And Still Anorlier.
Richard Lewis, living at No. 8 Edwards
street, New Haven, brakeman on the Con-
solidated road, was badly injured Wednesday
by being struck by the draw signal on the
east side of the bridge at South Norwalk. A
reporter of the Gamma found him lying on
a stretcher in one of the up stairs rooms at
the depot, whither he had been carried after
the accident. When he was struck lie was
rendered unconscioes, but luckily was not
knocked off the car, and when the train
reached the depot he was discovered and
his wounds dressed; He stated that he was a
brakeman on the freight train that left New
Haven at 1:30, and when nearing the South
Norwalk draw, in response to a signal from
the engineer, went on top of his car to put
on brakes. The heaviness of the atmosphere
made the smoke from the engine hang low,
and he could not see the drop signal.
The left side of his head and body was one
complete mass of bruised, raw and disfigured
flesh, and a more repulsive and pitiablc sight
could hardly be imagined. 0n the arrival of
the 6:13 train that evening, he was placed on
board and carried to a New Haven hospital,
where he is new rapidly recovering. It is a
singular fact that young Lyons, the brake-
man who was killed here a week ago, was a
brakeman on the same train, and from facts
developed at the coroner's inquest in his case,
it is plain that he must have been struck by
the same signal that struck young Lewis.
Lewis is a strongly built young man, about
19 years old, and had only been on the road
a short time. He was formerly employed by
Mr. Butler in the telephone ofiice at South
Norwalk.
The Stamford Fire.
On Wednesday evening about nine o’clock
fire was discovered in the large five.story
building in Stamford, owned and used by the
H. W. Collender Company, for the manufac-
ture of billiard tables. The alarm was given,
but owing to the bad condition of the streets,
it was fully forty minutes before the newer:-
ginc was on the scene and water turned on.
Meanwhile the fire had rapidly spread and
by the time the apparatus reached the spot
the fine building was one mass of seething
flames. The building was totally destroyed,
involving a lossof' over $200,000. It was
peculiarly unfortunate at this time, as the
company .were rushed with large orders and
were very busy. Mr. Collender has hired a
factory in New York City, and work was re-
sumed'yssterday and will be continued there
till his factory in Stamford can be re—built.
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Sunday Trains.
For some time past the ofiicialsgif the New
York, New Haven and Hartford read have
had under consideration the advisability of
runnipg a train from New York to Boston
and vice versa on Sundays. in connection
with the Boston and Albany road. It is con—
templatedplacing the scheme in operation in
the Spring, and should it ultimately become
an established thing it will prove a great con-
venience to the traveling public.
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A Splendid Entertainment.’
The Pat Rooney troupe gave a most excel-
lent entertainment at the Opera House last
evening. The house was crowded I." its ful-
lest capacity and all present were delighted
with the performance. Pat Rooney is the
best Irish comedian now on the stage, and he
has, this season, a better company than ever
before. The Stirk family of bicycle riders
are unquestionably the most accomplished
performers in that line in the profession.
Dick Morosco and Kitty Gardner do a very
clever Dutch sci. Hoey, the Indian club
swinger, has few if any equals. Sharply and
West, the comedians, are among the best in
their line now traveling. Harry Steele,
the English burlesque artist, does a very
amusing act on parlor skates. Little Katie
Rooney, a “pocket edition" of the "only
Pat." is a pleasing vocalist and quite an ac-
complished actress. The troupe, as a whole.
is an e'xciptionally good one, and deserves
the liberal patronage of all lovers of the
lighter class of amusements—Rochester Post
Important; Railroad News!
RESIGNATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE BAR“
BURY AND NOIIWALK RAILIOAD.
Having heard that Mr. A. Suflurlbutt,
Presidentof the Danbury &. Norwalk Rail—
road, was about to resign that position, a re-
porter of the GAZETTE cal-led yesterday, at
the Central National Bank and learned from
Mr. Hurlbutt that such 'was his intention.
He said that at the meeting of the Board of
Directors to-day he should formally tender
his resignation as President‘of the road. In
answer to a question of the reporter, Mr.
Hurlbutt said: ‘
“No, I have no objection to stating my
reasons. While I do not desire to say that
I am much of the time unwell, yet my health
is by no means as good as it used to be. I
have on hand, without this position, fully as
much business as is desirable and Ifiud it
impossible to give it that attention it should
have and at the same time faithfully perform
the manifold duties of the presidency of this
road." '
“Who will succeed you i’" was asked.
1‘That is for the directors to say. We have
a Board composed of gentlemen who cannot
be excelled and from their ranks I have no
doubt an able and excellent selection will be
made. The company should have a president.
who lives on the line of the road and who can
give a great deal of time to its business. The
affairs of the road are in good shape and I
doubt not will be kept so."
“Will you sever 'your connection with'the
Board 1” Our reporter asked, to which Mr.
Hurlhutt replied :
“No, I intend to remain a director.”
Mr. Hurlbutt was elected President of the
read at a meeting of the stockholders last
Fall, and though he has held office but a short.
while, has managed the afiairs of the road
with signal ability and energy. While the
road has excellent material from which to
select his successor, atItbe same time Mr.
Hiirlbutt's retirement is to be sincerely re.-
gretted.
In relatioh to the ‘aflairs of the road we
have all along maintained that they were in
‘a most prosperous condition. In the Guam-is
of January 80th. in the center of a railroad
article we editorially said .-
In this connection it is pertinent-to say that
the Danbury & Norwalk railroad never was
in a better and more prosperous condition,
and if their prospects continue as favorable
as they now are, at the end of the ensuing
year they not only will be enabled to pay a
large dividend. but will have a handsome
surplus .beside, even after making many im-
portant improvements.
Since the above, various rumors and state-
ments calculated to mislead the less know-
ing stockholders have been circulated, derog-
atory to the welfare of the road and its stock.
The very source of some of these was enough
.to throw discredit upon the report, but, find-
ing that many are uneasy concerning this
road, we have made a thorough examination
of the subject, and they can now set' their
minds at rest. At no time this year has an.
aflcfal sale of any of the stools of this road been
made at use than. 70. Not only is this so,
but a gentleman of this town went to New
York last Friday and in open market made a
bid of 7 2, but was unable to get any of the
stock at less than ’75. And, too, there is
another phase to this matter of the stock. In
the present depressed condition of the stock
market it is noticeable that while richer and
more important stocks are dropping from five
to ten per cent, the stock of the Danbury 85
Norwalk remains almost stationary and the
only change in its quotations, if change there
is, is on the upward scale. This being the
case, there is no particular reason that we
can see for stockholders to feel any alarm.
The road has been and is cxueedingiy well-
managed and is a credit to all the local inter_
ests which it represents.
run Hsnrronn AND nannim.
The principal Office of this new railroad
enterprise is temporarily located at No. 69
Church strcct, New Haven, where a suite of
several r00 5 is occupied for offices of the
officials, and Civil Engineer Bryson and his
assistants. The work of the surveying par-
ties who have been prosecuting their labors
through all of the recent unpleasant weather,
is forwarded to the office, entered upon the
map of the route and estimates made of the
cost of construction. The steepest grade on
the line is (50 feet to the mile, near Perichcs-
ter, but it is probable that another survey
will be made in that section in Si cure a bet-
ter grade. There is a general dteign to avoid
grade crossings of highways all along the
route, with a view to the future.
Mr. J. C. Rawn was last iii-iii appointed
assistant engineer of the Hartford «S7 fiuilem
road in charge of the whole line of survey
between New Haven and the New York line,
with his headquarters, for the present, at
New England road, been in partnership with
Contractor Dyer, (who built a large part of
the western extension of the New England)
in a contract in western. New York on the
extension of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road. Mr. Rawn was associated
cieut and hard worker.
Norwalk. Mr. Rawn has, since leaving the.
OB l'l‘UA RY.
Tiinononn J unsung
In the death of Mr. Daskam, which oc-
curred on Thursday morning last, Stamford
loses one of her citizens who has for the past
twenty-five years been prominently identi-
fied with every public interest of the town,
and one whose loss will be deeply felt. Be-
side holding various minOr public offices, both
of the town and borough, he had been post-
master at Stamford since April 15111.1801,
having been appointed by Abraham Lincoln.
He was a staunch Republican, and it will be
difilcult to fill his place in the party. One of
the best of organizers, he was also an effl-
In the councils of
his party his advice was generally accepted,
and it is due to hiiii that it be said, “his
genci-nlship won many battles." Among his
personal and intimate friends, of which we
was one, how his genial, jovial, hearty pres-
ence' will be missed. A good citizen, com-
petent public servan', faithful and loving
husband . and father, dutiful son and true
friend, how sorely your loss will be felt.
Ex-GOY. a. l). nonean.
Although born in Massachusetts, Mr. Mor-
grin moved to Connecticut at a very‘ early
age, and entered business in Hartford, where
he remained until 1836, when he removed to
New York city. While living' *in Hartford
he was elected to the City Council, and he
has always taken such a deep interest in
matters pertaining to that city, that very
many people have always considered him a
Connecticut man. He was married to Miss
Waterman, of Hartford, in 1833, soon after
reaching his majority! In New York, Mr.
Morgan’s success is too well known to need
repeating; in fact, the firm of E. D Morgan
&. Co. has a world-wide reputuiion. Having
a sort of pro-disposition to politics, Mr. MOr-
gun, after securing a competence, decided
upon entering upon a political career, and in
the spring of 1849 he was elected to the first
ofiice of a public character which he held in
New York, that of President of the Board of
Assistaht Aldermen. It was during the
cholera'epidemic, and while many oflicials
left their pests and fled the city, to his praise
be it ever remembered, Mr. Morgan remained
to, minister to/the sick and dying. In 1850
he was elected to the State Senate, serving
two terms in that body. He was aViee-Presi-
dent of the National Convention at Pittsburgh
in May, 1856, when the Republican party
organized, and as Chairman of the National
Committee, he opened' the convention at
Philadelphia a few months later, where John
C. Fremont was nominated. He was elected
Governor of New York in 1858, and was re-
elected in 1860, hissecond term carrying him
into and through the early part of the Rebel-
lion. In 1862 he was elected to the United
States Senate, and served one term. While
Governor of New York. President Arthur
was one of his staff, and became to New
York'on Friday last to attend the funeral.
Mr. Morgan was 72 years of age at the time
of his death, which was caused by heart dis-
ease, he having been subject to slight attacks
for years. The‘ncws of his death was re-
ceived with the deepest expressions _ of
sorrow throughout the city, and flags
on public and private buildings were dis-
played at half mast. His funeral took place
on Friday morning, and the remains were
taken to Hartford for interment. The estate
of Mr. Morgan is valued at about $10,000,000.
oarr. xsaao Damuon.
Our community was shocked Saturday
afternoon by the news that Capt. Isaac
Demmon had died suddenly of heart disease.
He was employed as sexton of the Second M.
E. Church, and on Saturday morning was
cleaning the church and walks preparatory for
the morrow. While thus engaged he was
seized with sudden pain.. and entered the
basement of the church and laid down upon
a settee. Finding. himself getting worse, he
made his way to a window and called for
help. Mr.” E. J. Hill, who was then passing,
wedt to his assistance, and finding him very
ill, summoned Isaac Selleck, Jr., who had
that moment stepped off the horse car. A
sleigh belonging to Platt Price happened to
be standing near, and into this Capt. Demmon
was assisted, Mr. Selleck getting in with him
to take him to his borne on Butler street.
When the sleigh had reached warren Fitch's
store, Capt. Demmon exclaimed, “Oh, this
pain! I can’t stand it 1'” and immediately
fell back, gave a gasp and died. The lifeless
body was taken to his house, and the grief of
his wife and children was beaitrcnding to
witness.
Capt, Demmon was well known here in
town, where he has been engaged in business
nearly all his life. About forty years ago he
entered the service of Capt. Noah Selleck as
cook on his packet “Domestic," and by his
industry and good qualities was fast promoted
until he was appointed captain. He remained
with the “Domestic” ten years, and then, in
1853, he associated with George W. Selleck
in running a packet line between this port
and New York. He continued in this busi-
ness 'until 1867, when he embarked
with Chief Engineer Bryson of the Hartford
& Harlem for several months at the time of
the laying out of the route of the Connecti-
cut Western road.
The New iron Dravv.
Bids for the sub-structure of the proposed
new iron draw over the Norwalk river )1
South Norwalk, were opened by the com-
mittee, Friday, in the ofiice of Superintend-
ent Sandiforlh at South Norwalk. The
specifications stated that the piles and the
wooden structure that is to support the
masonry, were to be creosoted, while the
fender pier was to be or not, according to
the decision of the committee, therefore bids
were invited in both ways. The process of
creosoting the wood work renders it too large
degree impervious to the worms, salt water
and decay. “
The bids as received for the work includ-
ing the creosoted fender pier were as fol-
lows: ’ ~
S. A. Hammond, Bridgeport..........$13,000
C. R. Waterhouse, New Haven....... 18.140
W. Rosevslt, New York .................. 13.977
Ross & Sanford, Jersey City. ...... 14,400
Without the'creosoted fender pier they
were: ' ~
S. A. Hammond.......
C. R. Waterhouse.
W. Rosevelt ....... .....
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..............,$12000
.. 12,189
.. 13,707
Ross & Sanfdrd ........................ 12,600
The contracts have not as yet been awarded
either for the sub or super-structure.
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Complicated.
A dispatch from Providencb a few days
since, informed us that the estate of the late
Rev. Dr. Mercer of Newport, on which that
gentleman had paid a tax on a valuation of
810,000 while he was alive. had, seen after
his death been estimated at $200,000, and is
nowascertaincd to amount to over $1,000,-
000. It puts a heavy strain on our credulity
to believe that the deceased millionaire
was not knowing to the facts‘ that he was
worth a great deal .more than he acknowl-
edged to the assessor of taxes, and 'tis our
opinion that the reverend gentleman will
find himself in,an extremely awkward posi-
tion when he endeavors to make an expla-
nation to good_ij. Peter before he passes
the celestial gate. lie must, be prepared to
payers, or else he must take the position-
aud we are not sure but 'tis one that he
could dcfend' successfully 'Liand I .‘withOut
“warping" his conscience—that the values
placed on his property after his death are
extravagant, and that his valuation, $10,000
is a fair one, owing to the imperfect drain;
age in Newport, about which there was so
much said in the papers last summer. But
we do not wish to “pregu-dt's" the case, as .
old Abel Foster of Providence used to ex-~
press it. so we will leave Mr. Mercer to
“square it" himself, expressing the hope
that he has gone fully prepared with certifi-i'
cates of character. I
Collendcr'a one hundred and twenty Work:
men, who were thrown out of employment
by’ the recent fire in Stamford, received
orders to go to work yesterday in New York
for the same company.
1 ' termini; s,
prove that it 'is‘ 'no sin to cheat'the Govern- _
ment or to get the better of his fellow taxi
in the grocery business with Mr-
Newcomb, under the firm-name of Demmon
» &. Newcomh. While in this business he met
with reverses, and finally the firm dissolved.
From that time on he busied himself in vari-
ious ways until a year ago, when he was
given the position as sexton of the Second
M. E. Church, which ofiice he held at his
death. Always of a lovable nature, strict in
his business honor, Capt. Demmon had eu-
deared himself to a large circle of friends and
acquaintances, who will be deeply pained to
learn of.\his sudden demise. Mr. Demmon
leaves a wife and four children, two of whom
are grown up. The family are to be sympa-
thized with in this, their deep affliction, and
we trust their numerous friends will see to it
that they receive some substantial sympathy.
The funeral will take place at the church
today at 2 p. m.
m
Found Dead in Bed.
The following from the Aiken (S. C.)
Journal and Review,‘ of Feb. 7th, will be of
interest here where deceased was well
known :- - '
We are pained to announce that Dr. N.
Bedortha, of Saratoga Springs, New York,
was found dead in his bed yesterday morn.
ing. The Doctor was about sixty years of
age and occupied the Chamberlain Cottage
as an oflice, practicing medicine. during the
winter months in Aiken, and returning
North during the summer. When founil his
body was cold and it is supposed that he had
been dead several hours. The doctors are of
the opinion that he diethof heart disease.
His remains will be sent North for final in-
m ‘
The papers are full of “Food" medicines,
but there is no “food" nonsense about Car-
ter's Liver Bitters. They make you want
all the food you can get; sold by J. G.
Gregory .3 C . . '
..—.*————
Mother’s Should Know It.
Fretful babies cannct help disturbing
everybody, and mothers should know how
soothing’Parker's Ginger Tonic is. It stops
babies pains, makes them healthy, relieves
, their own anxiety and is safe to use. 417
_~—.—— '
Grayzhairs often cause annoyance, which
Parker's Hair Balsam prevents by restoring
the youthful color. ' 417.
__.__.__‘.
Smart Weed and Belladonna c'ombined
with the other ingredients used in the best
Eorousiplasters makes Carter's S. W. & B
acksche Planters tbs bet-t in the market
Prics‘35 cents; sold by J. G. Gregory & Co.
~———-._
, "Quick as a. Wink.”
Bockwoed’s Instantaneous Photographs,
17 Union Square, New York City, @Mr.
Rockwood gives personal attention 0 the
posing of sitters. ~3m43
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Yer-loony. . Iyl
Peruvlnn syrup cures D spe sia Gene 1
Debility. Livercomplaint. Boils’. unlinorb. Chi-0':-
icnpigrrhead Nfirv‘pus Afi'ectipns, Female Corn-
sp in s _ n a _ incasos or inatin
{sate o the blood.‘ >8 g in a. bad
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_ 0n Thin-Iv Dnys’l‘flnh. ,
' Tan Von'ruo Bnu 00., Marshall." Mieh., will
send r. Dye’s Celebrated Electro—Voltaic Belts
and ectrlc Appliances on trial for thirty days
to men( young or old) who are afflicted with ner-
vous liability, lost vitality and kindred troubles,
gusrantecin speedy and complete restoration
of health an manly Vigor. Address as above.
N. B.—-No risk is incurred. as thirty days trial is
allowed. 1352
COMLIUNICATE D.
(We wishit understood that, while we give-the
truest latitude to all reputable and responsibly
endorsed communications, w neither endorse or
hold ourselves responsible for the opinions ex-
pressed shcreln.-—EDs. GaznrrnJ
That Piled ‘Up show;
MR.Eni'ron :—In last week's paper you said
that a cart at the expense of the to‘v‘v'n was
removing from our streets the piles of snow
thrown there by the Horse Railroad éornpany
in cleaning their tracks. Now, MnEditor,
you were slightly mistaken as to the location
of the expense. It is not done at the ekpcnsc
of the town but at the expense of the borough.
Still, sir, that is a matter of trivial import-
ance and not what I particularly deiirc to
speak of. What I specially wish to call
attention to is, what your item already has
done, viz., that the said company have for
years been in the habit, after a snow storm
of shoveling the snow from their tracks out
great discomfort as well as danger to the
traveling public. , The road has a charter of
course, and it is no more than right that
' they should be entitled to a clear track, but
does their charter give them the right to
obstruct the public streets with p) ramids of
snow and ice? Docs their charter give
them the right to make it necessary for the
borough to be at almost weekly expense to
clean up the obstructions that they have
placed -in its streets? In the published
accounts of bills ordered paid by the Court
of But-gasses, readers of the Gaznrrn are.
familiar with the large bills for “highways’
and it is decidedly pertinent for every tax-
payerjto ask, “What portion of each of these
monthly bills for the care of highl‘vays has
been incurred in cleaning up the horse
railway debris l." I am speaking particularly
of snow, but winter is not the only _tlme that
th: company throw their truck into the
streets. In summer the scrapings and refuse
matter from the tracks are diligently
shovelled onto the roads and whether said
roads are improved by this Operation or not
I leave it for those who have noticed, to
judgeJI am inspired by no feeling of emnity
against. the horse railroad in indictlng these
lines but simply as a matte; of justice and
right to the already over burdened tax-pay-
ers of .this community, and to them I pro-
pouud this question, “Are you willing to
pay out of your individual pockets fer the ox-
peuse incurred by theiborough by the wrong
doing 101 ,this corporation 1" If yd‘b are,
you may do so,b uth, for one, am disgusted
with the milk and water tactics of the au-
thorities in permitting this petty sfilndling
of their own as well as the pcoplca’ money.
The horse railroad is a convenience, and as
such it should be upheld, but when it comes
to _be a nuisance It should be luminar-
ily “squelchcd”.
is another phase to this matter. Snow,
when cleared from the railroad tracks form a
bank of more or less height according to the
depth of the snow fall. Now supposing
some sleigh, in trying to cross over one of
these banks, should be upset and the occu-
pants thereof seriously hurt; if a suit was
brought for damages who would foot the
bill? The horse railway, whose fault it
was? ,I think not. Look to it Messrs.
Burgesses, before you are harassedwith the
proapective payment of a large bill of costs.
But I have trespassed on your time find
space long enough and in conclusion will
only say: I spoke to one of the Buigessss
on this very same subject, using almost the
same argument 1 have used here, and my
answer was that occasionally a verbal protest
had been made but that the company had
claimed grent rights from their charter, and
“somehow nothing chi; was done." Now if
this is" so, isn’t it .time something has
done ? If the company have “great rights"
let them show. them, but. until they do, in
the name of all that‘s just, do not allbw this
infringement on the public'c rights.
Axxoraroz.
To the National Bank of Nor-
walk.
, an o‘rna LETTER.
My attention has been called to yOur cir-
cular which has just been widely distributed.
announcing that your recent election resulted
in the choice of-an almost “New Beard of
Directors,” all in the prime of life, etc., etc.
Your bank is certainly to be congratulated
if the “New Board" proves to‘be made up of
men who will insist‘that at least ordinary
care be taken of the monies of its customers,
and that all contracts shall be faithfully per-
formed and especially in all transactions con-
cerning loans and collateral securities that
when your customers repay the money they
may have borrowed, the bank shall fulfil its
part of the contract, and return to them their
collaterals which the bank has demanded
and held as security for such payment of
loans.
For, until youviank ignores its former ac-
tion refusing to eturn collaterals, in any
event, upon such repayment of loans, I fear
that your bid for business in your late circa-
lar will not avail, as your refusal so to do
from the year 1870 to the present time has
b3) very generally deemed to be repugnant
to all well settled notions of justice, while
the decisions of courts of last resort have al-
ready established the only reasonable doc-
tribe that the borrower is entitled to the re-
turn of his collateral when he shall; have re—
paid his loans. ,
I am encouraged to hope for youi conver-
sion in this important matter as I notice that
further on in your enumeration of your roa-
squs why you should be trusted with “local
business fatal-eats," you state that ypu have
obtained “sofa of approved construction,"
which seems to be a tacit admission that such
special night watchman u on duty fireside the
bank," although your cashier swore that s
watchman inside a bank increased. the its-
bility of a bank being robbed, and that a
Iightin the nighttime was no men as 0f pro-
tection; which precautions notwithstanding
your remarkable testimony against them, I
believe you immediately observed after your
bank was entered, while from that time your
ofiioe has exhibited an illumination second to
none of the banks and ofilces of the Borough.
Ndw since you have profited by your own
experience and the example of all prudent
Iheso precautions which, had you listened to
good advice before your bank was. rubbed,
would have preserved you from your riport-
ed loss, may I not hope that the time is not
far on when you will do me the tardytjustice
of restoring the valuc‘of. my collateral-secur-
ities which you have so long ,negleoied and
refused to pay me. The circumstances of
my transations with your bank are well un-
derstood by all your directors. I hail en-
dorséd notes to the amount of twelve thou-
sand dollars for E. V. A. Chicbcstcr, and
you had discounted one of these notes for
gather with the other notes, he;fsiled to pay,
and you required me to give my own note for
that amount in payment of his note, and had'
compelled me to surrender to you four U. S.
five-twenty bonds of one thousand dollars
each, as collateral security for my payment
of the three thousand dollars Mr. Chichestsr
had borrowedupou my endorsement. When
I paid the note and called for the collateral
bonds described in the note, you refused to
return them, or their equivalent value, and I
brought-1 suit for'thsir recovery and for
other securities for which I had called a few
days before the robbery, but which you had
not found time to deliver. 011 the trial you
“defaulted" whiclylogal term your president
explained as meaning that you “retreated to
a safer place than trial by jury," npd Judge
Granger rendered judgment in my favor for
“em dollar and legal outs." Yonrldirectors
also know that shortly thereafter Mr. S. E;
Olmstead, who had obtained a loan from you
and delivered collaterals upon youi; d'emnii'ti"
to secure the repayment of his loan, paid his
loan which you demanded, and at the same
timn calledfor his Collaterals, which ybu re-'
fused to return. or make good to him; and
that he also brought a suit for their recovery,
before J udge Culver, in the same court
wherein my suit was tried, who rendered
judgment in favor of Mr. Olmstead, not for
“one dollar-f!" but for the full amount of his
into the village streets, thereby creating"
Now Mn. Entrou, there ,
a safe is a new thing with you, and that “a -
bankers and proclaim that you have adopted- ’
him for three thousand dollars, which to-,
.1 in. o’clock
"ogg'iigtlormed’
collaterals with interest and costs, in in for
“Four thousand four hundred and forty.
three dothm and seventy-nine cents," and, in
his findings says: “and the court finding that
said bonds were lost and stolen in. consequence
of the defendants neglecting to take and enter-
a judgment which you know, bankers and
in accord with reason and justice, and
sound law, as well. I respectfully ask if, as
you claimed, my collaterals were lost by you
at the same time and the same time as Mr.
Olmstead's; must it not have been through
the same negligence on your part?
If you have any remaining doubts as to
your LEGAL responsibility for collaterals as
held (for it may be vain to plead justice and
souls,") the following brief reference to de-
cisions of courts of last resort must dispel
so strange a delusion which may have turned
away the “loml business interests,” you seem
to invite in your late circular.
The Court of Appeals of the State of New
York in afirming the judgment of their Sii-'
perior and General Term Courts for the full
amount of collaterals upon the repayment of a
loan, say f‘The securities were negotiable and
valuable and the Corporation possessed ample
means of keeping them safely and securely.
Besides lhe association was under an implied
OBLIGATION on courmor by the transaction
itself, to return the securities when the debt
was paid. ,
The Court of Appeals of the State of'Mary-
land, also in a similar case, held the same
doctrine, and says the bonds were not. held
as a special deposit, but as collateral security
for a debt than existing, that there is no
doubt of the power of a bank to enter into a
(warmer of'that kind, that the measure of
damages is the value of'the bonds at the time
they were stolen, and then confirm the judg.
ment of the lower court against the bank for
the fdll amount of the collateral securities,—
and I doubt not that our own Court of Errors
would have come to the same conclusion had
an appeal been taken, as would have been the
case had my attorney kn wn all the contents
of the letter which Judge Granger sent to the
Clerk of the Court some time after the trial,
containing his verdict of “one dollar" in my
favor, before it was too late to appeal to that
court, and I believe that my petition for the
restoration of my suit. to the docket of the
court would have beenroported favorably. If
I had known these facts in time to have alleged
them. with the other reasons in that petition,
as they present the strongest grounds for the
restoration of my legal remedies of which I
was deprived by its not being known in time
that the letter contained any reference except
to the finding of facts, having been simply
advised by postal card from the clerk that
the judge “gives judgment for plaintifl' for
one dollar, and finds the facts substantially
as claimed by defendants.”
I will only add that your Board comprises
at the present time, at least one new mem‘
ber who, first: my suit was tried, joined in
thr- gcneral expression of surprise and indig-
nation at your refusal to make good my col‘
lateral bonds upon the discharge of my en:
forced indebtedness; and I trust a majority
of the other directors are convinced that the
grounds on which my claim is based are too
well settled~to admit of a doubt of the right
and justice and legality of that claim, cer-
tainly for the value of my collateral bonds,
which when you took possession of them,
you said, in reply to my remark questioning
your manner of care, “lzeell, these the bank 18
responsible for. "
If these are your honest convictions, may
I not hope that you will maintain them by
such unswerving adherence to the right. even
in the face of trifling loss, as will Lresult in
the full discharge of a consumer asvsacredly
building as if legally cnforced,for, every sim-
ntales. ' E W. Srnaar.
em ORDINARY cam: in preserving them,”—— '
business men everywhere received as fully ’
right, the only guide of honorable and honest.
men, if it is true that “Corporations have no'
ilar contract which his been resisted, has
been legally enforced in our own'and other
BIRTHS.
In South Norwalk, Feb. 14, a son to Mr.
and Mrs. Olin 8. Young.
.. _
'MARRIED.
Southport.
n/\I\A/vu\/Wu \.
m—n "aha...“ ....... u ..
\;vV\/yvaA/W\An AA WAAAA An
In Wilton. Wednesday, February 14th,
by Rev. Frank Thompson, Anna M. Gregory
eldest daughter of the late Hon. Wm. D.
Gregory, of Wilton, to Geo. N. Pike, of
DIED.
man, aged 22 years, 10 months.
his father's residence.
respectfully invited to attend.
68 years, 5 months and 2 days.
51 years, 5 months and 17 days.
ghan, aged 40 years.
James L. Clark, aged 29 years.
his age.
of its most honored and beloved citizens. .
rci‘ercnces' Enquire atihis ofllce.
Enquire at MRS. M..BURNS. Spring Hill.
Boy Wanted.
once.
I\ xxxxxxxx z xxxxxxxx \I\I\I\IW\I\I\I\I\I\I‘I\I\I
In Norwalk, Feb. ‘10, DeWitt C. Grum-
man, son of Sylvester and Betsy A. Grum-
Ifif’ Funeral on Thursday at 2 p. m.from
Relatives and friends
In Norwalk, Feb. 17, Isaac Demmon, aged
In Norwalk, Feb. 17, W, H. Littell, aged
In South Norwalk, Féb. 16, James Mona-
In Springfield, Mass., Emma, wife of
Entered into rest, Feb. 111b, Hon. W. D.
Gregory, of Wilton, Ct., in the 001k year of
A dearly beloved husband. a. devoted father,
an affectionate brother. a warm, true friend and
a public spirited citizen.ha-, alter a long illness
passqd away. and Wilton mourns the loss of one
ANTED —An American man wishes a sit
nation as man of all work with some iamily.
Is competent to take charge of a farm. Best of
317p
ll‘UATION WANTED.—To do general
housework. Can take care of milk and butter.
0 LEARN the Printers trade. Apply at this
Boy Wanted.
For Music Store, Apply at this Ofilce.
118
Wanted.
Good Cook,
‘ this office.
Wanted.
W0 or three furnished rooms.
“a Box 49, or enquire at GAZETTE OFFICE.
p _
Lost. ‘
l7tli inst.. a bunch of keys.
ON Saturday.
Finder wil 0
this ofiice.
Lost. ‘
A PAIR of EYE-GLASSES with gold chain at-
tached. Finder will be suitably rewarded b
leavma the same at BEATTY’S GROOEB
STOB ' ‘ us
Lost.
SUNDAY Foleth, 1883, on the Bond between
the 2nd M. E. Church and Barton, via West
ave.and Turnpike, .a Mink Collar. A reward
will be paid by leaving it as the Post Office, No
walk. 1:8
To Let.
THE LARGE elegant mansion on West ave.
now occupiedby Mrs. Lawrence. For par-
ticulars and permits ӣ11.? t
at: B J.
0
J. STURGES, Agt.
West Avenue Property
For Sale.
THE large. elegant mansion on West Avenue,
_ (iormerl y occupied by Mrs. Lawrence.) con-
taining fifteen rooms, ’all finished on In the most
substantial manner with all the modern improve-
ments. The rooms are large and eapacious, ceil-
ings high, and in excellent condition. the piazza
extends across the entire front; and the walks
and lawns are very fine. Shade 00d, and the
location the finest in the Borough. be grounds
are about 100 feet front and contain about two
acres of land. There is a splendid burn or. the
premises, and in good order. Must be seen to be
appreciated. Cal on BENJAMIN J. STUB G!
for permission to examine. 8t
Auction.
ILL be sold at Public Auction to the highest
bidder. the. following Personal Rotate be-
longing to the assigned estate of Joseph bi. Pot.
tor,consistin of 10 Pianos.9 Organs. 20 01.31009-
ons, in Accor. cons. 1 Cornopeou,20 PianoStools,
a large quantity oansic Books and Sheet Music,
also a variety of l‘ianooovers, and other articles
too numerous to mention. Sales Will commence
March 1st.‘i_883, at 10 o’clock. iornenoon, and will
continue daily (Sunday excepted)-nntil the wohlo
stock is disposed of. Sale to commence at the
Jewelry Store of A. W. Austin, on Wall_ Street,
orwalk. Conn. A variety of the Musical In-
‘. meats In said store; please call and exam-
. nforc the sale. ’
~ AM; there will be sold on Monday. March 51b,
g. m., on Wall street, Norwalk,
.. ring Wagon, With top. one
Phaliontu'ne light .
Backboard. one Square Box . sign, Sle gls and
and Wagon Poles, and three Harnesses; all in
good condition. Conditions made known at the
SILAS P. TUTTLE, Trustee.
time and place of sale.
218
Washer and Ironer. Inquireaa:
t
Address Lock
erewarded by leaving them at
:1
para Box 8 ring We on, one .
616
THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL
STATEMENT
OF THE
CONNECTICUT MUTUAL
LIFE
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
N (:1. Assets, January 1, 1862, ‘ 518,718,003 37
Received in 1852,
. For Premiums. 84,008,029 83
For Interc3t& rents 2,605,207 37
Profit and Loss, 155,853 89 7.759.09h 09
s50.537.xsr 40
DISBUBSED IN 1832,
To PoLicr-Honbisns:
For claims by death
and matured en-
dowments, $3,171,507 27
Surplus returned to
policy-holders,
Lapsed and Surren-
dered Policies,
1,230,500 as
901,486 23
Total to Policy-holders, 55,309,494 18
Exrnnsas: -
Commissions to Agents, Sal-
erfes, Medical Examiners’
fees. Printing, Advertising,
Legal, Real Estate, and all
other Expenses, 678,706 50
axes, ‘ 376,611 87
-——— 80,364,812 55
l
nausea Nn'r Assnrs, Ill-10.31.1852, 950,172,311 9i
SCHEDULE OF ASSETS.
Loans upon Real Estate, first lien, 810,482,993 43
Loans upon Stocks and Bonds, 366,803 28
Premium notes on Policies in force, 3,083,074 35
Cost of Real Estate owned by the Co. 12,040,468 88
Surplus by N. Y. Standard 4}; per ct.,about
' 6,850,000 00
Ratio of expense of management to receipts
in 1882, 8.75 per cent-
Policies in force Dec. 31, 1882, 63,662, in-
suring.. $157,135,751 00
JACOB L. GREENE,
President.
JOHN M. TAYLOR, Secretary,
WILLIAM G. Knao'rr. Aas’t Secretary,
DANIEL n. WELLS. Actuary”
ELISIIA BISLEY, Supt. of Agencies.
ALFRED F. RICHARDS,
/
General Agent,
2t7 Room 10, Company's Building, IIarford, Ct.
AN OPEN nuts.
To the Public of Norwalk :
As the season for active work in
heuse building approaches, contrac-
tors and others interested may find
it to their advantage to consult the
sources from whence the supply of
the materials they need can be ob-
tained. 1f .
Brick, lee,
Cement Pipe for Drains, Sewers,
or Wells, is needed: if Drains
or Wells are to be dug and
piped.
we can supply the one, and will be happy to
do the other. We are sole agents for
Patent Tender Wood,
and we are prepared to furnish in any quan-
tity at short notice, and at fair prices,
Goal (2: Wo’od.
Our Oflice and Yards are easy of access.
II‘O . "
w Respectfully, &c., .
C. T. Leonard & Son.
Norwalk, 001111., Feb. 201b,1883. 8n
, Pereinptory Sale!
0
The Little Stare ’Rnnl lie Colin,
J AS. S. EARLE. Proprietor,
will \ commence selling its stock at
. auction, on
. SATURDAY, FEB. 24th, -
at 10 A. m., sharp.
Off for the South!
1
600118 Til BE CLUSED 011T !'
- JAs. s. reassure, AuctIOneer.
' ' N0 SHERIFF’S SALE.
I
But a Rare ,Chance of Securing
Bargains. tilt
For Sale.
I 1WENTY-FIVE(25) barrels of good cider vin-
egar. Enquire of ANDREW JACKSON
sap Wilton.
For Sale or to Rent.
THE house and 101 known as the Quigley place
For particulars enquire by letter or ierson.
UIGLISY,
ally to J . O.
Oilice oi Paulding .0 Slossom
24 New Street. N. St.
Cost of United States neg’ed Bonds, 495,62500
Cost of State Bonds, 619,900 00
Cost of City Bonds, 2,334,156 4
Cost of other Bonds. 7,951,747 :13
Cost of Bank Stock, 122,761 00
Cost of Railroad Stock, 25,000 00
Cash In Bank, 2,624,600 40
Balance duehfrom agents, scoured, 24,011 75
850,172,311 91
ADD
Interest due and accrued. $028,055 12
Rants accrued, 16,500 96
Market value of stocks and
bonds over cost, 440,597 07
Net premiums in course of
collection, Nounr
Net deferred quarterly and
semi-annual premiums, 14,807 12
_———— $1,430,050 st .
Gross Assets, December 31, 1882, _ 851 602.422 78
Lunrurms : '
A mount required to re-insnre
all outstanding policies,
net assuming 4 per cent.
interest, 840,848,704 00
Additional reserve by Com-
pany’s Standard, 3 per
cent. on policies issued
since April 1, 1882, 17,446 00
All other liabilities, 1,028,874 57
—--—- 847,895,024 57
Surplus by Company’s Standard. $3,707,398 21
Surplus by Conn. Standard, 4 per ct., 3,724,844 21
OFT
Nev-York hie
. REVENUE
Premiums ............................................
less deferred premiums January 1, 1882 .............
Intere‘sé and rents (including realized gains on 'real
so .............................................
Less interest accrued January 1. 1882 ................
Iossesby death, including l'leversionary additions to
Total paid Policy—holders .........................
9 Taxes and re—inzurances. . .- ..........................
ditlonai collateral security) .......................
Temporary loans, (secured by stocks, market value,
'Loans on existing policies, the reserve held by th
Surplus by the New York State Standard. at
to participating policies in proport‘fli to their contr
annual premium.
During the year 12,178 policies have
.1
DAVID DOV/S,
MORRIS FRANKLIN,
HENRY EOWER
WM. H. APPLE’l‘ON,
WILLIAM BARTON.
WILLIAM A. BOOTH,
H. a. CLAFLIN
, s. s. FISHER
JOHN M. FURMAN,
THEODORE M. BANTA, Cashier.
D. O’DELL, Superintendent of Agencies.
CHARLES WRIGHT. M. D., . ,.
HENRY TUCK, "I D., irillccical Examiners.
Endpwmenis matured and discounted, including Reversienary additions
0 same ............................................
Annuities, dividends, and returned premiums on cancelled policies ...... 3,821,158.76
Commissions, brokerages. agency expenses and physicians' fees.
Office and’law expenses, salaries. advertising, printing, &c ...............
Bonds and mortgages. first lien on real estate. (buildings thereon insured
for 517.950.000.00 and the policies assigned to the Company as ad-
LOOMIS L. WHITE.
ROBERT B. COLLINS,
CHAS. wsioii'r. M.D.,
WILLIAM H. BEERS,
THIRTYnElGHTH rennin. REPORT
HE
insurance 00.
OFFICE, Nos. 346 and 34:8 BROADWAY.
JANUARY 1, 1888.
Amount of Net Cash Assets, January, 1.71882. . . . 345530900036 .
ACCOUNT.
...... $9,604,188.38
...... 452,161.00—39,152,627.38
estate
...... 3,089,213.21 .
291 ,254.80— 2,198,018.41—s“ 35035519
$57,080,652.65
DISBURSEMENT ACCOUNT.
same ............... $1,955,292.00
427,258.95
...... - , .71.
M“? 391393... 234518.21
1,332,038.38
385.111.18— 58.162.131.54
__,________
$48,918,515Jl
_ ASSETS. .
Cash in ba , on hand, and in-transii (since received) ........ .: ........ $1,216,026.61
invested in United States, New York City and other stocks, (market value, ‘
519.953.956.52) ........................................................ 18.072.014.81
Real Estate. . , .......... ~. .............. '. .................................. 4,133,065.13
..................... 19.306.940.16
$5.191,1 39.50) ...... 4,313,000.00
a Company on these
policies amounts to $2,690,961) ....................................... 494,032.23
*Ouarterly and semi-annual premiums on existing policies, due subse-
a quent to January 1, 1863....._ .......................................... ,, 540,555.51
*Premi‘ums on existing policies in course of transmission and collection. 394,395.19
Agents’ balances .......................................................... .424.95
Accrued interest on investments January 1, 1883 ......................... 326,000.06— 348.918.515.11
Excess of market value of securities over cost ............................ ' . 1,881,881.11
*A detailed J's/redid: of flies: item: will attention [/12 11:11er amma '
rat/art filed will: the Insurance Department oft/w Sitar: q/‘Nzw Yer/é.
CASH ASSETS, January 1, 1883. . . . . . . . . . . $50,800,396.82
Approprlated as follows:
Adjusted losses, due subsequent to January 1, 1883 ........ . $351,451.21
Reported losses, awaiting proof, etc ............................... 138,910.23
Matured endowments, due and unpaid, (claims not presented). . . .. . 53,350.43
Annuities. due and unpaid (uncalled for) .................................. 6,225.86
Reserved for re—insurance on existing policies: partici sting insurance
at 4 per cent. Carlisle net premium; non-participat g at 5 per cent.
Carlisle net premium. . z . ............ _ ...... _ ....................... 43.174.402.18
Reserved for contingent liabilities to 'l'ontine Dividend, .
Fund, Januar 1, 1882, over and above a 4 per cent.
reserve on exisiin policies of that class ............... $2,054,244.03
Addition to the Fund urlng 1882 for surplus and matured
reserves ............................................... w
$3,164,210.03
DEDUCT— ,
Returned to Tontine policy-holders during the year on
natured Tontines ................ , ....................... 1,012,837.81
Balance of Tominefund January 1.1883. . ................. 2,091,312.16
Reserved for premiums paid in advance .............................. 35,78 .36
$45,851.555.03
Diwsrble Surplus at 4 per cent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... 4,948,841.79
4%. per ct., estimated at lo,ooo,ooo.oo
From the undivided surplus of $4,948,841 the Board of Trustees has declared a Reversionary dividend
ihution to surplus. available on settlement of next
been issued, insuring $41,325,520.
Jan. 1, 1879, $125,232,144.
an. 1, rare, 1.5.005.
Number of Jan. 1, 1880, 45,705. Amount Jan. 1, 1880, 127,411,763.
. Jan. 1,1881.48,548. Jan. 1,1881, 135,126,916.
Policies in force Jan. 1. 1882. 53.927. . at risk Jan. 1, 1882, 151,160,824.
Jan. 1,1883.60.15€l. Jan. 1,1883, 111,415,091.
1818 :1 car 676. 1878 $1,948,665. , . Jami 1819 321311.136.
Death- lave! 1:569:854. 111002110 ism: 2,033,650. Dmsiblc Jan.\1:1880: 3320.311.
claims :33? amgséggg from 3313(1). 2.33332. Surplus at jan.1,1gg;. $33.83?
- . g 5 , , .. , an.1 1 .
”“1 1882: 129551292. Inter°°t 1882: 2,198,018. 4 p“ can“ Jan.1:1883: simian.
TRUSTEES:
EDWARD MARTIN,
jOHN MAIRS,
HENRY ’I‘UCK, M.D.,
ALEX. STUDwELL,
R. SUYDAM GRANT
ARCIIIBAI.D II. WELCII.
S.
mounts FRANKLluvnendent
WILLIAM H. BEERS,
Vice-President and Actuary.
BEN. S. CALEF: Manager New England Branch Office, Bialto
Building, cor. Milk and Devonshire 815., Boston, Mass.
For General or Special Agencies in Connecticut, rates or information, apply to
Branch Office of Company. Boa-eel Building, [15, 1 17,119 Broadway. New York.
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