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OF NEW YORK.
Brennan a. McGURDY, President.
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Statement for the Year brim lecemher 3lst, l896.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New Ifork.
INCOME.
- - - 5 39,593,414 25
l0,l09,28l or
Received for Premiums — —
From all Other Sources - — _
DiscussEMENTs, .
To Policy-holders 'for claims by death -
To Policy-holders for Endowments, Iividends, etc. - - -
For all 0ther Accounts — . - - -
insssrs.
nitert States Bonds and other Securities - ' - ~ -
First lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage - -
Loans on Stocks and Bonds - — -
Real Estate - — - _ .
Gash in Banks amt Trust companies _ - - - -
Accrued Interest, Ilet Deferred Premiums, etc- - - -
s i2,595,u3 55
I2,842,456 l
tensions 54
$36,2l8,575 I4
5 I r e,r25,oez l5
- 11,545,525 55
u,osr,525 no
22,151,555 55;
i2.5sc.see co
- . 5,555,555 55.
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Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities - - -
Surplus - — - -
Insurance and Annuities in force .‘ - - -
s 23,133,5|4_1_o
s 918,595,335 45
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I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct
liabilities calculated by the lnSurance Department CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual
_Report of the Examining Constantine.
Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF Tncsi‘nss or \
THE IIIIITIIAI. LIFE IIISIlllllllliE GDMPAIIY BF NEW Willi
The undersigned, a Committee apppointed by your honorable body on the twenty.
third day of December, [896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Company, and to
verify the same, .espectfully
REPORT
That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates between the (late of the
said reference and the date of this Report attended at the office of the Company, and have been waited on by the Treasurer,
the Comptroller, the Auditor and and the Cashier, together With the the respective aSSIStants of such Officfilsi and have care-
fullv gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. ’1th have examined
an d’countcd fiery certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the price at which the
same are carried in said Statement With the market quotations and find the same not exceeding such quotations—m fact, in
They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real propertyvheld by the Company,
They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have
and have counted the cash on hand held by the
many cases below them.
and find the same to be as stated. . _
verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies,
ashier. " ' . ' . . ‘
C And the Committee certify that all the books, papers. documents and cvulences of title of every description necessary in
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said oflicers and their assrstants, and that the same are,
urate in “ cod order and well kept. . ‘ .
acc AndthegCommittee further certify that the investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the sys-‘em and
methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendatioa
ROBERT OLYPHANT J. HOBA R'l‘ HERRIOK
JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D DICKEY. JR it
JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON
All of which is respectfully submitted
NEW YORK. J ANUABY 25,1897.
Board. of Trustees
GEORGE G Haves
ADRIAN IssLix Ju.
GEORGE S. Bowoom
THEO. A. Havmmrnu
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
\VILLIAII ROOKEI‘ELLER
Jams N. JARVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR.
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
Hunky H. ROGERS
JNO. W_ AUCHI‘NCLOSS
'l’HEODORE MORFOBD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
“ STUYVESAST FISH
AUGUSTUS D. JUILLIARD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER R GILLETTE
-H. WALTER WEBB
SAMUEL D, BABCOCK { FREDERIC CROMWELL 1
RICHARD A. MCCURDY l JULIEN '1‘. DAVIES
JAMES C. HOLDEN l ROBERT SEWELL
Hum-nu C. VON POST S, V. K. CnUGnu ‘
LEWIS MAY ‘ CHARLES R. HENDERSON
OLIVER HARRIMAN . RUFUS W. PECKHAM
Ronm'r OLYPEANT J. HOBART HERRICK
Glows. F. BAKER WM P DIXON
DUDLEY OLCOTT ROBERT A. Guannrss
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. ROBERT A assumes, Vice-President. -
WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager.
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President HENRY E. DUNCAN, .JR, Corresponding Secretary
WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBE RT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary.
FREDE RIC CROMWELL. Treasurer.
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIM PSON, 2d Assis'ant T1 easurer.
\VILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
EMORY MOCLINTOCK, Actuary.
' JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary.
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
C. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, Assistant Auditor. HENRY 8. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller.
JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. *
ED WARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor.
~MEDIOAL DIRECTORS:
GRANVILLE 31. WHITE, 31. D
GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS J. MARSH, M. l)‘
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JAPANESE COMPETITION HARMlfiESS.
So Says Hoshi Toru, t-ITO New Japanese
Minister to this Country. ’
Hoshi Tom, the newly appointed
Minister from Japan to the United
States in an interview on political and.
economic questions, said:
Japan has made wonderful progress
in all lines of manufactured products,
but I do not: think that the country can
be called a. rival of the United States.
Our factories are still in their lnl'ancy'
and it will be many years before we
caureally be said to be competitors of
the United States.
As regards the recent war. I do not
believe that the war feeling has entirely
died out; what you would call patriot-
ism is still manifest throughout the
country.
As regards Korea, it is true that both
Russia and Japan have a. watchful eye
over it, but it is an independent coun-
try. The relations between Japan and
Russia are most friendly.
America, and by America I mean the
United States, has always had a warm
place in the hearts of the Japanese and
we have 1' or everything pertaining to
the United States a. most warm and en-
thusiastic feeling. There is no danger
in the world of Japan becoming a foe
to your industries.
SWICS SCHOOL. LAWS ARE STRICT.
They Are .llso Senflblc and Tend to Blake
Good Citizens.
Primary education is compulsory
throughout Switzerland, and no mercy
is shown to people who attempt to keep
their children away from school. In
Solotliurn are not even allowed the
option of having their offspring edu-
cated at home or in private institutions,
says the Pall Mall Gazette. Considera-
ble trouble is taken, however to ar-
range the school hours with due re-
gard to general convenience. In sum-
mer the classes begin at 7 o'clock in the
morning; thus, when the children have
done working with their heads, they
still have time enough to work with
their hands. They have their holidays,
too, in the autumn, so that they may be
able during the harvest to help in the
fields. Not only is primary education
free, but in poor districts food and
clothing are distributed at public ex-
pense among such of the children as
need them.
rat—Imam!) SHIP. ‘
Birds and Animals Come to
This Port.
Sea captains who come to this port
have the fondness of their felloiVs for
odd pets. The skipper of one of the
slower trans-Atlantic boats has a tame
dove who keeps up a. perpetual cooing
in his cabin. Goats are the favorites
on board the Mediterranean tramp
steamers. Besides, their milk and flesh
are much esteemed in a pinch by the
sailors of Southern Europe. '
Quite a brisk trade has grown up out
of this penchant for collecting animals
and birds in the travels of ofiicers and
men. There are several shops near the
bridge that rely chiefly on the coutri~
butions of the tars for their stock curi-
osities. Naturally most of the pets
come from Asia and the South Ameri-
can and West Indian ports, and so the
shOps are located along the East River
wharvcs where the vessels from those
ports are docked.
H0 w Ital-o
n Was Misinformcd.
Humor has a. way of cropping up in
the most unexpected places, and news-
paper men, probably because they have
more to do with the world than other
people, their business being to .tell the
world of the world’s doings, have seen
this fact demonstrated time and again.
The other day the city editor of a. New
Orleans paper heard that a prominent
citizen had dropped dead, and he
promptly assigned one of his reporters,
a quiet, dignified man, to go to the res
idence and secure facts from the fami-
ly of the deca-zz-rrwl from which to build
an Obituary. . The reporter reached
the residence in due time and, compos-
posing his features until they had as-
sumed an expression of proper sadness,
rang the bell. The door was opened be
a gentleman, who asked what was
wanted. -
“I am the representative of the——,"
said the reporter, “and I want some
facts about the life of Mr. So-and-So.”
"What do you want with them?"
“We wish to publish his obituary.
He dropped dead an hour or so ago.”
“Well,” said the gentleman who had
answered the bell, “he may have done
so. but that’s the-first he has heard of
it. I am Mr. Sci-and. So.”——New Or-
leans Timcs- Democrat.
Cannibalism in Africa.
Cannibalism has been surprisingly lit--
tle discussed in books of travel. We
are told that in such and such a district
cannibals are to be found, but we hear
no details, neither how the flesh is pre-
pared, what joints are preferred, nor to
what extent the practice is prevalent.
Capt. Hinds asserts that nearly all the
tribes in the Congo basin are or have
been cannibals, and that the practice is
On the increase, not; merely for supersti-
tious reasons, but also for the provision
of 1004]. ‘There‘ is a. certain sturdy, fat
race in Africa. which has never been
famous for its prowess, but which is
made a regular staple article of diet.
Whole cargoes are constantly carried
up the river and sold to the natives for
food. Inquiries for a. fresh supply of
natives are often accompanied by the
complaint that “meat is scarce just
now.”
Timely Resistance.
There is one kind of courage much
. -eded among us. and which is happily
on the increase, that of resisting those
social Observances which have ceased to
bring either pleasure or profit to those
who maintain them. They are often
defended on the ground that if not use-
ful they are at least harmless; but this
is only a. plausible delusion. Whatever
fails to bring good of any sort forfeits
its right to exist. If, in no other way,
it is injurious by simply obstructing
the path, which, if left clear, might be
put to some worthy use. '.
a. bad elephan
AN 31.393155“ EXECUTED.
Tip, a Vicious Ill-ctr. Strangled to Death
' In Bridgeport. -
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, March Iii—Tip,
the elephant with a hemicidal tendency,
was strangled to death today in the Bar-
num 85 Bailey winter quarters. -
A persistent effort was made to kill him
yesterday with cyanide of potassium, but
Tip carefully separated the poison capsules
from the food and spat them out.
A hundred men with a fall and slip
noose attacked him today. They dragged
him over sideways while his feet were
pinioned with chains and proceedetl""tt
strangle him.
The 31/2 ton brute struggled bravely for
13 minutes before he gave up the ghost.
Tip was valued at $6.000, but was too
ferocious to be of service in the circus. He
was 20 years old.
They killed “1) simply because he was
He had been with the
Barnum &. Bailey show since infancy and
was old enough to know better.
He was 11 feet high and carried $500
worth of tusks.
Recently Tip grew bad tempered and in-
sisted on venting his ill humor on outsid-
ers. When a 3% ton elephant gets to do-
ing this, it; is time for the powers of the
show to send him an ultimatum.
The Barnum & Bailey people decided to
do this, and at first decreed that the
“note” should take the form of cyanide of
potassium.
Four ounces of this poison, it is esti-
mated, was administered yesterday. Still
the big brute refused to die. He munohod
a. stray ounce or so of cyanide in a con-
templative fashion and clung coquettishly
to life.
For hours a. crowd waited to see him ex~
plode, collapse or at least to run amuck,
but all in vain.
Finding the poison had no effect, Tip’s
keepers rejected several plans which kind
bystanders suggested and decided today on
the strangling scheme.
A namesake of Tip’s wah killed by poi-
son in Central park, New York, three years
ago.
A LOOKUP WRECKBD.
A Quartet \Vhich “'22.: ‘as Dangerous In
Prison as Out. of It.
GREENWICU, Conn, March 17 -—Four
prisoners completely wrecked the interior
of the Greenwich lockup early today in a.
partially successful attempt to effect cs-
capc. Last evening an alleged disorderly
house was raided by leputy Sherifi Fitz—
roy, and Mrs. Talbot, the proprietress,
Thomas Fox, George English and William
Harris were arrested and locked up. At
midnight rl‘own Watchman Fulton heard
loud noises, and, investigating, found that
the prisoners had broken down the iron
door of the lockup, and Harris had made
good his escape. The alarm was given,
and Deputy Fitzroy start-ed in a carriage
for Stamford, the' home of Harris, and suc-
ceeded in capturing him. According; to
the story told by the other prisoners, Har—
ris had picked the lock of his cell and guin-
ed access to the corridor. where he found a.
heavy coal shovel. With this he managed
to open two other cells, and then fled The
two remaining men when detected were
trying to release Mrs. Talbot from her cell.
This morning it; was found that the interi-
or of the building, which is a one story
brick structure, is so badly damaged that;
its complete rebuilding is necessary. The
quartet is being given a. hearing today.
TO CURB m TRUSTS
An Important Measure Introduced In the
Senate at Albany.
ALBANY, March 17. —-A bill has been in-
troduced in the senate by Senator Martin
(Dem., N. Y.), intended to compel any
combination or trust to file yearly state-
ments in this state, if it maintains an
office here. The statement is to be filed
with the secretary of state and is for the
purpose of having a. true record of the
financial standing of each company. Rail-
road, mining and manufacturing com-
panies doing business wholly without the
state are exempt. Besides the yearly state-
ment of capital, assets and liabilities, any
increase of capital shall be noted and filed
Within 30 days after it is accomplished, to-
gether with the vote by which it was
adopted. The statements are to be signed
and sworn to not only by the officers, but
by a majority of the directors.
The “feather.
Cloudy, followed by clearing; warmer;
easterly winds.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Closing Quotations of the New York Stock
Exchange.
NEW YORK, March 16.—Money on call easy
at l%@2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper,
3@4 per cent. Sterling exchange easier, with
actual business in bankers’ bills at $4.87@
4.87% for demand and $4.85%@4.85}«j for 60
days. Posted rates. [email protected]}é and 34.8%,
4.88%. Commercial bills, $4.843é. Silver cer-,
tiflcates, 63%@63%c. Bar silver. 02c. Mexican
dollars, 480. Government bonds flrm. State
bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm.
Cloning prices:
Atchisou .......... 11% New England ..... —
Bur. 8: Quincy. . . 77%; N. J. Central ...... 94
0., C., C. & St. L. 32% North American. . 4%
Chesapeake & 0.. 18%, Northern Pacific. 1395
Chicago Gus ...... 78% Do. pref ........... 37%
Cordage ........... — N. Y. Central ..... 99%
Cotton 0il........ 12 - Omaha. ............ 62%
Del. & Hudson. . .lc®% Ontario & \Vest... 14%
Distillers’ Trust. . — Pacific Mail ....... 26%
Erie ............... 14% Reading ........... 25
General Electric. 35% Rock Island ....... 68%
Hocking Valley.. 4% Silver Bullion ..... 68%
Lackawonna... . . .157 St. Paul ........... 77%
Lake Shore ....... 170 Sugar Refinery. . .113%
Lead .............. 25% Texas Pacific ...... 9%
Louisville & Nash 49% Union Pacific. . . . . 7
Missouri Pacific. . 18% “la-bash pref.. . . . . l5
Northwostern....109}{; \‘l’estern Union... 86%
' General lilarkets.
New YORK, March 1i;.—-l—‘LOUR—State and
western quiet EILil b'urcly steady: city 113
patents, $4.£[email protected]: winter patents, $4.5’ 4.85;
city mills clears, S-lflmjikO: winter straights,
84 [email protected].
VVI-lEAT—No. 2 red weak and lower follow-
ing less bullish crop news and disappointing
cables, accompanied by moderate unloading;
May, 79@79 9-160. ; July, 73523780. \
CORN—No. 2 quiet and easy with wheat.
OATS—No. 2 dull and featureless: track,
white, state, 22@310.; track, white, western, 2:3
0. .-
PORK»——Steady: mess, [email protected]; family. $9.75
@10.50.
LARD—Quiet; prime western steam, $4.45,
nominal.
BUTTER—Steady; state dairy, 12@lSc.; state
creamery, 13@180.
9@12%c.;
CHEESE— Steady;
small, 9@12%:c.
EGGS —- Quiet; state and~ Pennsylvania,
10910.: western, 10@101/§c.
SUGAR—Raw firm; fair refining, 27AM cen-
trifugal, 96 test, 35.10.: refined firm; crushed,
5c.: powdered, 4%c.
TURPENTINE—Quiet at 29%@29%c.
MOLASSES—Quiet; New Orleans, We.
RICE—Steady: domestic, 3%@6}éc.: Japan.
4%@4¥§c. .
'i‘ALLOW—Quiet; city, 396m: country, 336C.
HAYeSteady; shipping, .50@55c.; good to"
chnico, 67m725§c
state, large,
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recovering frOm
’ the illness at-
tending child-
' birth, or who suf-
fer from the ef-
,, fects of disorders,
deran currents
and displace-
ments of the wo-
manly organs,
-' ’ will find relief
and a permanent cure in Dr. Pierce’sr
Favorite Prescription. Taken during
pregnancy, the “Prescription”
MAKES CHILDBIRTH EASY
by preparing the system for parturition,
thus assisting Nature and Shortening
“labor.” The painful ordeal of child-
birth is robbed of its terrors, and the
dangers thereof greatly lessened, to both
mother and child. The period of confine-
ment is also greatly shortened, the
mother strengthened and built up, and an
abundant secretion of nourishment for“
the child promoted. If
THE MARRIED WOMAN
be delicate, run-down, or overworked, it
worries her husband as well as herself.
strength an cure those weaknesses, or
ailments, which are the cause of her
trouble. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip-
tion dispels aches and pains, melancho y
and nervousness, brings refreshing sleep
and makes a. new woman of her. .
Mrs. ABRAMLYON, of Lorraine, Jejersau Ca.,N.
Y" writes: “I had been .
suffering from ulceration
and falling ofthe womb,
forseveral ears, or since .
the birtlio myyoun est ‘ -.
child. Iconsulted al the .
physicians around here . ,-
and they gave me up and .
said there was no help f
for me. ‘ ‘
At last. almost discour‘
aged. I began taking Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Pre~
scription and tool; five
bottles. It is three years , " ‘
since and I have not had _,
an return oftheft‘roublei ' ‘ , ‘_ .
I eel very grate ii]. an "
in fact, owe vou my life, MRS' LYQN'
for I do not think I should have been alive now
if I had not taken your medicmc."
BUMMAN .
BROTHER
—— manuracrunmis or L—
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ERAL WATERS.
Flavoring Extractfi Also the
Syrups an-l .Olden Time
Fruit Juices, Root Beer.
I-e’mon Soda, Soda Water
Sarsaparilla, Supplied in
Birch Beer, Steel Fountains.
Seltzer and Vichy in Siphons. '
Address
' II. J. & (i. S. GRUMIMH,
4.4 Main Street. -
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Norwalk, Conn
ers, Lodges and Societies
will consult their customer-
sets by giving us a call.
wont: redo, write to use.
This is the (proper time to build up he: ‘
' annulmen— ~if you have .
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