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Nature intended that
every woman s h o u l d
look forward to the com.
ing of her baby with jO)‘
and hope, unclouded ‘1
anxiety. Almost 1):
less parturition is qt
the usual thing amon,~
uncivilized people.
Even in our own country
it occasionally happens
with women in robust
health and good condi-
tic-n. It ought to be the
rule instead of the exCep-
tion ; and it is a fact that
a very large roport1on
of the usual pain and suf<
fering may be avaided b, .
mother’s general health,
and specially strengtheningthe particular
organs concerned in parturition. .
Manymothers have been brought through
the trying time almost palnlesslyibyjhe aid
of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. . It
prepares the system for delivery by_ im-
parting‘the organic strength and elasticitS
which the mother specrally needs; shortens
the time of labor and of confinement; pro-
motes the secretion of abundant nourish-
ment for the child and fortifies the entire
constitution against the after period of de-
pression and weakness. It’s use_ should
begin in the early months of gestation—the
earlier the better.
Mrs. FRED HUNT, of Glenm'lle. Schenectady Co.,
JV. K, says: “ I read about Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription being so good for a woman with
child, so I, got two bottles last September, and
December 13th, I had a twelve-pound baby girl.
When I was confined I was not sick in any we .
I did not suffer any pain, and when the ch d
was born I walked into another room and went
to bed. I never had an‘afier-pain or any other
pain. This is the eighth child and the lat est
of them all. I suffered eve hing that esh
could suffer with the other babies. I always had
a doctor and then he could not help me very
much, but this time my mother and my husband
were alone with me. My baby was only seven
days old when I got up and dressed and left my
room and stayed up all day."
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of the battle differs somewhat from
'the’ Official report.
VAS ON THE 1‘lI ONITOR
HANS ANDERSON, SOLE SURVIVOB
OF A HISTORIC CONFLICTJ
II‘he Tel eran Sailor Gives a New and Inter-
esting Version of the,Fight \Vith the
Famous Confederate Bong; -M‘crrimac
Near'flampton Roads,
Hans Anderson, the last survivor of
the fighting volunteer crew of the Mom.
tor in its memorable battle With the
Merrimac, was born in the western
part of Sweden in 1823, and comes
In
1847, just fifty years ago, he arrived in
America, and sailed hence all over the
world on board thé‘ fine American
ships of that period. In 1856 Anderson
joined the American navy, serving on
board the frigates Faimouth and Con-
gress. How he came to be one of the
crew of the Monitor he tells himself
in an interesting way, all the more inA
teresting, perhaps, because his account
As Anderson is the
only surviving witness of the battle—
Comm-odore Worden having been tak-
en away early in the fight on account
of his injuries—his recollections are
certainly of some historical value.
HANS ANDERSON.
New York’ ”slim Steam Fitters Have
Trouble With Plumbers.
ARBITRATION WAS PROPOSED
Bishop Potter Vi'ns to Have Adjusted the
Matter by Mutual Consent, ch: Pre-
cipitato Action by One. of the
Parties Prevented.
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New York, Manch 30.—A lockout of
1,100 steamfittcrs and their helpers and
a threatened strike of 40,000 union
building trades mechanics is on today.
The lockout arises from the strikes of
the Enterprise Association of Steam
Fitters and the Progress Association of
Steam Fitters’ Helpers against the
Amalgamated Society of Plumbers and
Gas Fitters, whose members have been
doing what is known as thermostatic
work—that is, making pipe connections
with a. steam heat regulating device
controlled by the Johnson Heat Regu—
lating company.
The board of walking delegates
further sustained the steam fitters and
helpers by ordering sympathetic strikes
on the new Columbia college buildings,
two new schoolhouses in East Eighty-
seventh and East Eighty-eighth
streets, and the Brooklyn Polytechnic
institute.
The plumbers’ socic‘.y is not now rep-
resented ir. the board of walking dele—
gates, having withdrawn therefrom
eight months ago because the society
refused'to abide by the rules of the
board in not making an agreement
with the marble industry unions re—
garding work which the latter claimed
belonged to their trade‘ and which the
plumbers had been doing.
There are 500 members in the Enter-
prise Association of Steam Fitters and
600 in the Progress Association of
Steam Fitters’ Helpers. These two or-
ganizations have an annual agreement
with the Master Steam and Hot Water
Fitters’ association whereby members
only of the two unions were to be em—
ployed by the bosses’ organization and
wages of $3.50 should be paid to jour—
“I came up to New York on the fri-
gate Congress just beforc Christmas,
1861,” says Anderson. “I heard that
the Monitor was ready to go to sea, but ,
lacked some of her crew. I went at
once to the rendezvous in Cherry street
and offered myself as one of the volun-
neymen and $2.25 to helpers.
The unions were in turn to furnish
competent workmen and refrain from
doing any work for firms outside of the
Master Steam and He; Water Fitters’
association.
Violation of Apr-cement Alleged.
tecr crew. I was accepted, and the
next day we started down the East‘
River from the navy-yard. The piers
all the way round to Castle Garden
were black with people, who cheered
and, shouted as we passed them by.
On Saturday night we arrived at
Hampton Roads, and a little tug
steamed out and asked, ‘What little
thing is that?’ We answered, ‘It is the
United States Monitor,’ and they had
soon reason to remember us. The Min-
nesota was aground, and we went
alongside of her until the next morn-
ing. We had nothing to eat since leav-
ing Brooklyn except a bit of salt pork
and some bread, and we did not get a
square meal until we were through
with the Mcrrimac.
“In the morning the Merrimnc was
seen. I was on deck looking at her
through a glass, as was the officer of
the deck. I was the only one who had
ever seen the Merrimac before and told
the officer that it was the boat they
wanted, but at first be rather scouted
the idea. ‘Why, she looks like the roof
of a house,’ he said. I told him that
was just what she did look like. Well,
he sent me to report to Lieutenant
\V’ordcn. The lieutenant came on deck
and after the Mcrrimac had maneu-
vered some and sent a shot at the Moni-
tor we go‘: in shape for action and sent
a shot at her. It went high, or rather
it glanced into the air from the slop-
ing deck of the enemy. Lieutenant
\Vordcn ordered the gunners to de-
press the guns and take lower aim. The
second shot was still too high, and the
lieutenant shouted to the gunners to
take the elevating screws in their
hands and let the guns come down.
The third shot went all the. way
through the rebel. Just before this,
however, one of the shots from the
Merrimac (had struck the Monitor at
the pilot house, and the shell exploded
just as one of the protecting bars of
the pilot house broke. Powder flew
everywhere, and Lieutenant \Vordcn’s
face was blackened. He started out
on deck to get some air, and on his
way went through the firing turret.
The enemy’s sharpsh-ooters would be
sure to pick him OK, and I took the lib-
erty to grab hold of the lieutenant, tell—
ing him he must not go out. He con-
sented to remain inside, although in
great pain. ‘
“Signals were given to some of the
other ships of the fleet to come and
take the lieutenant away, and this was
done. In the meantime the Merrilnac
had signaled to the battery ashore for
assistance, and, looking through the
peephole of the turret, we had. the mor-
tification of seeing the Mcrrimac towed
down in safety by vessels sent out from
Norfolk, when with a brave command-
er we would have. sunk her. The
Mcrrimac was sinking and all ready to
hoist the white flag because of her con-
dition, when she suddenly saw that it
was not necessary. It was a pity that
the brave Worden was wounded so
early in the battle. If he had contin-
ued in command we would have sunk
the rebel, or she would have sunk the
Monitor. .
"The next day,” concludes the vet-
eran, "President Lincoln and Secre-
tary of the Navy Gideon Welles came
on board and complimented us. The
11,000 men stationed at Fortress Mon-
roe offered to subscribe $1 apiece for
a fund for our crew, but President Lin-
coln said; ‘No, those men have done
nobly. and the country for which they
have fought and achieved such a vic—
tory is willing and able' to reward
them.’ Fine words, but we never got
anything. Yet I don‘t kick, I got my
little pension. enough to live on with I
what my wife earns." '
The steam titles and the board of
' delegates assert that the Master Steam
Fitters’ association violated the agree-
ment by. subletting the contracts to the
Johnson Heat Regulating company,
which employed members of the plumb-
ers’ society to do the thermostatic
work. As the plumbers’ society is not
represented in the board of delegates,
the latter maintains that the Master
Ste-fin Fitters’ association further vio-
lal ' its agreement. with the union
stc. .ru fitters and helpers by employing
tlze- wlumbers, who are considered as
DOIZ“":lOll men and treated as such by
the board and the trades unions it rep—
resents.
The Master Steam Fitters’ association
considered that the Enterprise and the
Progress associations had violated the
agreement striking against the
plumbers and thus stopping other steam
fitting work and causing the bosses loss
of time and money, although there are
strike clauses in all building contracts
that free the contractor from loss in
case of strike. '
It is said that the bosses’ association
was willing to leave the plumbers do
the thermostatic work because the heat
regulating device is under a patent and
can be done by the Johnson company
or its agents only. The device is an
automatic valve that regulates the tem—
perature in rooms where there are
steam radiators to which it is attached.
Efforts were made to settle the strikes
by arbitration, and the board of dele—
gates had accepted the kindly offices of
Bishop Potter, president of the councila
of mediation and arbitration.
A Lockout Forced.
There was a strong likelihood that the.
difficulty would be adjusted satisfacto-
rily, although the board of delegates pro—
posed'to show that the steam fitters
were really entitled to make the pipe
connections with the heat regulators
and would so convince the arbitrators.
But the Master Steam and Hot VVa-
ter Fitters' association sprung a sur-
prise upon their employees by placing
in their pay envelopes the following
notice: ,
“Inasmuch, as the agreement hereto-
fore existing between the Master Fit-
ters’ association and the Enterprise
and Progressive associations has «been
grossly violated by the last named
associations, the Master Steam and
Hot Water Fitters’ association has de—
clared the said agreement null and
void; therefore, each and every steam
fitter and steam fitter’s helper who
wishes to continue in our‘ employ is
hereby directed to report at our shop
and there agree to and sign our new
rules before going to work.”
Meetings of the Enterprise and the
Progress associations were hurriedly
called and the members decided that
the bosses had forced a lockout and
had in the beginning violated the
agreement by subletting contracts to a.
nonunion concern which had employed
plumbers to do the work steam fitters
should have done.
The union steam fitters and helpers
resolved to resist and refused to sign
any new agreement on rules. Hence
the lookout. The bosses’ association
now declare the two unions as practic-
ally On a strike.
The notices received by the steam
fitters put a grave phase on the strike
situation, and the Central Labor union,
in meeting at Clarendon hall, went into
executive session and, it was said, dis-
in
cussed the situation and decided to sus- '
tain the steam fitters and the board of
delegates in any action they might
deem proper to take in the matter.
\Vhether it will order any more
strikes is not known. It has tied up,
the buildings mentioned in the first
part of this report and may wait to see
whether the Master Steam Fitters' as-
sociation employs nonunion men.
If it does, the board is bound by its
rules to strike every job where non-
union men are at work.
There may be a general strike short-
ly of all the union mechanics if mat-
ters are forced by employers, and if it
does occur 30,000 or 40,000 fibnunion men
will be- forced to quit work, for there
are that many employed in various ca-
- ROBERT OLYPHANT
- .— THE nvENlNooAstTE “,’-_ O ?;g_,
[BIG unusual.
THE MUTUAL 1.1m INSURANCE lln.
’ * aroHARD A. ' Mcounnr, President. -
Stillman mils lea Enliir lenmber 3Ist, l89
'Aceordingto the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
INCOME, . .
Received for Premiums. - ‘ — - - - 3 39,593,414 20
From "all 0lher Sources - - - - - I0,l09,28l 01-.
3 49,102,095 21
DISBURSEMENTS, .. .
l0 Policy-holders ‘ifll‘ lilalms by 06th - . - - S l2,595,| I 3 39
12:; Pelieynholtlers {or Endowments, Dividends, etc. - — - 12,842,455 a
l0,18l,_095 64
$36,2l8,515 I4 .
For all billet decorate
assays.~
nllerl Slaies Bonds and other Securities
First lien Loans on Boat! and Mortgage
Loans on Slacks and Bonds
Real Eslale
flash inhale and Trust companies
accrued Interest, Net Ielerr'ed Premiums, ale-
8 I 10,125,082 15
11,543,329 55
0,031,525 00
22,151,555 65
12,500,330 00
5,535,555 06
sum—115E
205,010,633 12
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3 29,133,5I4 10
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S 9|8,698,338 45 .
Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities
Surplus
Insurance and Annuities in farce
Eh ave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to beacorr
liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department CHARLES A. PRELLER. Auditor.
From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual
Report of” the Examining Connmittce.
Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
vTO THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 'or 3
"WE MUTUAL LIFE INSUHAHGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK
'E'he undersigned, a Committee apppointecl by your honorable body on the twenty-
third day of December, I896, to examine the Annual Statement of the Cornpany, and to
verify the same, .espectfully
REPORT.
That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have at various dates between the date of the
said reference and the (late 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 officers, and have care-
fullv gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be correct. They have examined
an (I counted every 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—in fact, in
many cases be l v: them. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company
and find the s "’16 to be as stated, They have also verified the valuations of the Company’s holdings of real estate and have
verified the deposits of money in the various banks and trust companies, and have counted the cash on hand held by the
Cashier. .
And the Committee certify that all the books, papers. documents and evidences of title of every description necessary in
such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and their assistants, and that the same are ,
accurate, in good order andwell kept. ' -
And the Committee further certify that the Investments of the Company are of a high order, and that the System and
methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation
All of which is respectfully submitted ROBERT OLYPHANT J. HOBART HERRICK
JAMES N. JARVIE CHARLES D. DICKEY. JBJ
NEW YORK JANUARY 25, 1391 JAMES C. HOLDEN CHARLES R. HENDERSON
The company has issued an order whereby women can be insured without the extra
charge heretofore required. More definite information on‘the subject will be furnished by
the local agent, Mr. A H. Camp,
Board. of Trustees
GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN ISELIN JR.
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN
THEO. A. HAVEMEYER
WILLIAM C. WHITNEY
VV-ILLIAM ROCKEFRLLER
JAMES N. J ARVIE
CHAS D. DICKEY JR.
ELBRIDGE T.{GERRY
HENRY H. ROGERS
JNO. \V AUCHINCLoss
THEODORE MORFORD
WILLIAM BABCOCK
STUYVESANT FISH
AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD
CHARLES E. MILLER
WALTER B. GILLETTE
H. WALTER WEBB
FREDERIC CROMWELL
J ULIEN '1‘. DAVIES
ROBERT SEWELL
S. V. K. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
RUFUS W. PECKHAM
J. HOBART HERBICK
WM P DIXON
ROBERT A. GRANNISS
ROBERT A GRANNISS Vice-President.
\VALTEE R. GILLETTE, General Manager. --
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President. ‘ HENRY E. DUNCAN,.JR, Corresponding Secretary
WILLIAM. J . EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary.
» ' FREDERIC CROMWELL. Treasurer. , ‘_
JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer.
WILLIAM P, SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.
EMORY M CCLINTOOK, Actuary. _ -
' JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary. -
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. , WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller.
C. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, ASAistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller,
JOHN C. ELLIOT. Superintendent of Domestic Agencies.
ED WARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor.
MEDICAL DIRECTORS: _ .
G—USTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' GRANVILLE M. 'WHITE, M. J)
General Agent for
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SAMUEL D, BABCOCR
RICHARD A. MCCURDY
JAMES C. HOLDEN
HERMANN C. VON POST
LEWIS MAY
OLIVER HARRIMAN
GEORGE F. BAKE-R
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