1i #‘ 1 ' ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President I ' ' . ...__., .—.....,..._~. ,. WT ‘- ., . , , - THE EVEN 1 p": 1... Mann 1.1a ‘ [some ; Rios-mas A. accuser, President. .altmentforthe Year Ending Dec. 31,’97. .' Accordingto the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. ' _ ‘ INCDME. Received for Premiums . . . . . _ From all other Sources 54296939201 99 11,469,406 24 .$s4.162,608 23 o DISEERSEDIENTS. To Policy-holders for Claims by Death . ._ . $13,279,630 66 To Policyaholders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . 12,712,424 76, For all other Accounts _ . . . . . 10,132,005 57 $36,124,060 99 ASSETS. United States Bonds and other Securities 3 - ’ . . $132,017,341 45 Firs't Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . t . ‘ . 69,423,937 31 Loans on Stocks and Bonds . . . . 12,880,308 00 Real Estate . . _ . . ‘ . . 21,618,454 88 can in Banks and Trust Companies . . 3 . 11,705,195 82 Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. . ‘ . 6,141,200 20 . $253,786,437 6'6 Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities . . 218,278,243 07 Surplus . . . . . . . $35,508,194 '59 Insurance and Annuities in Force ' . . _. $936,634,496 33 I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct; liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual Report of the Examining Committee. —~ Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES or - THE MUTUAL LIFE IHSUBAHGE COMPANY OF NEW 3 YORK. The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, on the twenty- second day of December, I 897,to examine the Annual Statement Of the Company and to verify the same. respectfully—w REPORT That, pursuant to the power and authority thereby conferred, the Committee have, at various dates between the dated the said reference and the date of this Report, attended at the Office of the Company, and have been Waited go by the Treasurer, the Comptroller,the Auditor, and the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of such Oflicers and have carefully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be corre ct. They have examined and counted every certificate of stock, bond and other obligation held by the Company, and compared the prices 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 belowthem. They have examined and counted the bonds and mortgages on real property held by the Company, and find the same to be as stated. They have also verified the valuation of the Com-‘ pany’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. 1 And the Committee certify that all the books, papers, documents, and evidence Of title of every description neces- sary in such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said Officers and their assistants, and tlfi‘t the same are accurate, in good order, and well 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 submit-ted. CHAS. R. HENDERSON ELBRIDGE T. GERRY A. N. WATERHOUSE NEW YORK, January 21, 1898. S. ‘V. R. CRUGER J. HOBART _HERRICK JAMES C. HOLDEN Board of Trustees- HENRY H. ROGERS J No. W AUCHINCLOSS THEODORE MORFORD WILLIAM _ BABCOOR STUYVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIABD CHARLES E. MILLER ‘ WALTER R. GILLETTE . H. WALTER WEBB GEORGE G. HAVEN ADRIAN ISELIN JR. GEORGE S. BOWDOIN WILLIAM C. WHITNEY WILLIAM ROOKEFELLEB JAMES N. JARVIE CHAS D. DIGKEY‘JB ELBRIDGE T. GERRY JAMES STREET}; FREDERIO CROMWELL J ULIEN T. DAVIES A. N. WATERHOUSE S. V. R. CRUGER CHARLES R. HENDERSON RUFUS W. PEORHAM J. HOBART HERRIOK WM. P. DIXON ROBERT A. GRANNISS SAMUEL D. BABGOOK RICHARD A. MCCURDY JAMES C. HOLDEN HERMANN 0. Von POST WILLIAM. J. SEWELL OLIvER HARRIMAN ROBERT OLYPHAN’I‘ GEORGE E. BAKER DUDLEY OLCOTT ROBERT A. GRANISS,Vice-President. ‘ WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. DUES du—P. BRECK, Corresponding Secretary WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary. 3 - FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. - ' ‘ JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON. 2d Assistant Treasurer. »WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier. EDWARD l’. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier. 3 EMORY MOCLINTOCK, Actuary. 1 ‘ ' ' ‘ JOHN TATLOCK, J R , Assistant Actuary. ‘ CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. . ' WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. O. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER, Aesistant Auditor. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller - JOHN C. ELLIOT, Superintendent Of Domestic Agencies. EDWARD LYMAN SHORT. General Solicitor. MEDICAL DIRECTORS: ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M D G. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting. arduous someone, ‘eenerai Agents, ' A A. n. RARE, Loser Agent, , r f . . 3* .TO ABOLISH AN AR'GI-IY s' ‘. , 3...— .. A, . GOVERNMENTS UNITE TO PUT AN END TO THE EVIL. An International Police System .To Be Perfected In the Near Future. , The Anarchist Movement Has Assumed Alarming Proportions. Lucchenl, though an Italian, owes man press and the Paris commune. which, though often suppressed. still breeds its vipers for-all of the Elli-‘0' pean capitals. The German anarchist is above all things a thinker. Be it is who writes the burning which incltes .the hotheaded Italian and Frenchman to action. There are exceptions, of course, for it is currently understood that it was a German. Schnaubelt, who threw the Haymar- kct bomb, and for this crime Parsons. Fisher, Engle, Spies, Fielden. Lingg, Neebe and Schwab, all but two of them Germans, suffered death or 1m- prlsonment. True it is that the anarchist prates of Proudhon’ as the father of the cause, yet in an argument they cast aside the milder logic of the Frenchman and gorge themselves on‘ the economic theories of Carl Marx, who put the problem tersely for these anarchists when he defined the communists of his time, and they have developed into the anarchists of today, as “on the one hand, practically, the most ad- vanced and resolute section of the working class parties of every coun- try, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoreti- cally, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march. the conditions, and the ulti- mate general results of the proletarlan movement. The immediate aim of the Communists ls the same as that of all the other proletarlan parties; forma- tion of the proletariat into a class. overthrow of the bourgeois suprem‘ acy. conquest of political power by the proletariat.” ‘And here again is a typical Marx sentiment: “The Communists disdain 'to conceal thelr views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at 3. Com- munlstlc revolution. The proletarlans have m ing to lose but their chains. l‘hey haven World to win." ' It was Ors’lnl, in 1858, who began the war' which militant anarchy has since waged on society. Be it‘ was ~— an-d, with his companion, Flerl, was guillotined. There was a queer blend- ing of the anarchist and the liberator In Orslnl, and he has been to thous- ands a martyr of a still bleeding cause. Since the night of November 7, 1893, when bombs were thrown- into the 'Llceo theatre at Barcelona, where hun- dreds were killed, European society, royal and bourgeois, has been in con- stant dread of attack, although the work of Ravachol in 1892 caused no little consternation in France. With six bombs he on different occasions blew up the house of the Princess de Sagan; the residence Of Judge Benoit, who was unusually severe on anarch- ists; a store at the corner of Rue de Clichy and Rue de Berlin. wherein twenty persons were killed or wound- ed; the Cafc Very, where two young people dining were hurled to eternity, and finally a portion ofthe Palais'de Justice. All these exploits were performed in the first months of 1892. Two ju- ries brought Ravachol in “not guilty,” frankly admitting that they were afraid of their lives to condemn- him, although they clearly recognized he had committed the crimes attributed to him. Mothers in France" at this day frighten their restive or unruly chil- dren by threatening to hand them over to Ravachol. ‘ The murderous act of the Parisian anarchist Vaillant. who threw a‘ bomb among the French deputies, aroused the whole civilized world to the neces- sity of concerted measures to.check the mad «violence of such social out- lawry. Vaillant’s cowardly attempt to assassinate the legislative representa~ tives of the French people probably marked the turning point in the his- ‘ tory of anarchy. Hitherto the war on society had engaged onlyonearmy— the army of the aggresso-rs. Now the army of the. defence took a hand in the active hostilities. ' Within forty-eight hours after the Valllant incident the governments Of conferring with one another, either by telegraph or through their accredited representatives, regarding the meas- ures to be taken for their mutual pro tection against anarchistlc foes. It was settled in short order that no more toleratlon Should- be extended to the publication of incitements to the wholesale destruction of life and lib- erty._ Entirely toomuch consideration had hitherto been shown to 'what seemed; mere noise andbluster. The. time had come when society must re,- ‘.sist even an academical propagation of the tenets of Anarchy. . But the work of the stiletto went 011. Still the deed of Vaillant difij'ered much from that of Santo Or Of Luc- chenl. 3 . . H. - The chief- fact to be borne in mind in the consideration of the Vaillant in; cldent is that the outiavv’s murderous design wasl'dlre‘cted‘ .not against a monarch or anyone presuming__ to pen- joy hereditary rights over the people. but. rather against the people, them- selves as represented by their elected officials. The'clvilized world can read- ily understand an attackf‘like Vall- laut’s when directed against‘atyrant. at't'iiéli. ’a. réthI'iICL-Ihe.’ .mest tsetse"! aiid’ equitable. . form ' of- SPY???) medias ' pinin~-tha‘t7thé‘ceheral SISteinefganar: l NG (g AZET r E - .1 . his Anarchistic education to tire Ger-' literature ‘ the dill’erent states of Europe were, When;r’_‘however,v anarchy presumes, to , yet__.¢1.slvlesiihyi-the humanfiledrilt is. 3 chy means simply ln’dlsCriminate wan fare on all law' and order. .3 TheSe men are pretty nearly all alike. Of Luccheni little is known be- yond his more recent life, but like Va‘uant, he was notorious .for rank physical cowardice, and nothing could have evidenced this better than his se— lection of a woman as his victim. It is pointed out that no anarchist has yet- had the courage to attack even one man where the individual had an opportunity to defend himself. To say that popular feeling against the anarchists is extremely bitter is to put it ‘very mildly, and the popular demand for suppressive measures is certain to force the governments to adopt far more stringent precautions than any that have yet marked the counter revolution against lawless- ness. . For a long time the individual cow- ardice of anarchists had one marked and peculiar effect; it led society into the great blunder of vastly underesti- mating the danger of their presence in the community. A foreign commenta- tor on the subject remarks that it had become the fashion in government re- gions to think that the danger from anarchists was a mere dream of the police dualierities. A French minis- ter of state is quoted as saying: “Of every ten anarchists, there are seven who are in the employ of. the police, and three who are errant cowards.” It was this sentiment, however, that has prevented hitherto the adop« tion of well considered and effective" measures of repression of anarchists. It is pointed out that even on the perpetratlon of the outrages by Ra- vachol, the people and government of France insisted that the episode really meant nothing; that it was the act of a mad man who had 'no accomplice, while about all the precaution that the prefecture of poll-ca took was to request the Scotland Yard officials to keep them posted as to the comings and goings of certain inhabitants of the French quarter of London. Santo Caserlo, in open day, on June‘ ' '24, 1894, had no- trouble in plunging his stiletto ,lnto the; heart; of President, Carnot, although.- the latter. was being. feted by the whole clty of Lyons. and his carriage was surrounded by officers 101‘! the Republican Guard. It was by theverlest, acoldent that. EKing Humbert3,of,.ltaly's life was not: cut off by an anarchist in April of. i.last year, as he drove tothe Cappam 3nelle races. .GlovannbAcclarlto's foot Slipped as he stepped on the king’s Carriage, and all news was thus taken from the blow which be aimed at the monarch’s h ' ; who threw the bomb at Napoleon III. “' cart. Anglollllo, another Italian anarch‘ .ist. was more successful in the at- tempt whrlch he made on the virtual ruler of another nation. The steel which he held in readiness escaped the eyes of the police and of the special detectives, and on a quiet Sunday af- ternoon, some thirteen months ago, he let out the life blood of Spain’s prime minister, Senor Canovas del Cas- tillo. ' The present year has been fertile enough in unarchistical exploits. On the evening of February 26 a murder. ous attack was made on the life of the King of Greece. Successively at~ tempts were made on Nicholas II of Russia, and on Welhelmlna I, the new- ly crowned queen of Holland. It would seem, however, as if the Lucchenl epi- sode had changed all this. The gov— ern ments of Europe arelln negotiation for the adoption of measures for con- centrated action and for the unification of their respective laws bearing on the subject Of social outlawry. This step is positively necessary in order to meet the anarchists on equal grounds, for it has been proved beyond doubt that there is close and constant con. nectlon between the anarchists of different countries. They have a mag- nificent organization for the prompt and secret interchange of news and for furnishing each other all forms of material assistance. To fight such an elaborately organized system of evil. governments throughout the world must adopt a scheme of mutual aid. Among the essential details of such a scheme are the establishment of a permanent international police com- mission against tlze anarchists, as well as special national commissions. The persons whose names get on the list of suspects will be under police sur- Velllance in all countries. International legislation will also be adopted in regard to the sale and manufacture of explosives, and an at- tempt will be made tosecure uniform lcgis‘ation in all countries for the re- pl‘eSSlOD. of anarchism. It will be dif- ficult to obtain this, but It is hoped that the sense of self-preservation in the presence of the danger which menaces' society will prove stronger than all other considerations, and will facilitate the tasks of the governments when they come to propose such leg- islation to their respective parlia- ments. ' . Germany will perhaps begin the great work by the enactment of. the Umsturzrbill, which caused no little consternation when first proposed sovi- eral years ago in the ranks of the So- cialists. ' ' Husband: "It seems to me» that you come to my office a. good deal mere than there is any necessity for.” Wife: ~ “I cannot help it, dear; your manners in the ofllce are so much nicer, than they are at home that I like to enjoy the contrastif . ~ “I Wish I was a girl.” said Bobbie. ’ “Why do you wish that?” asked his father. . . “0h, then I wouldn’t have to bother about thinking what I’ll be when I’m a man.” Cora: “Pauline is smarter than you, my dear. She. can "accompany the new tenor on. the piano.” _ I Perdlta: “YES. but I can accomnm 111111 on my bicycle." .3 3 3 " _ The Cutaway Coat, ' The cutaway-jacket, which is one of the popular forms of outdoor garments designed for this autumn. thOugh a very seVere garment, is extremely sty1-' lab in appearance and is a. fad which not appealing to the generality of wo- mankind will undoubtedly prove pop- ular to the woman of exclusive tastes. A jacket of this description built Of castor colored Venetian cloth, moulded the. figure like a. gloel and fastened Islightly to one side of theefront with slx small velvet covered buttons. Al soft fluffy feather boa encircles the. neck and tends to soften the mannlsll- aspect of the coat. A saucy little toqu- of satln‘and straw is trimmed in front with black velvet and wings. Handsome Rugs; Probably the most satisfactory lnex«3 expensive rug is one of body Brussels carpet. These are usually kept in? stock at the large carpet-houses, mada' from remnants as they accumulated They can be had in various sizes from} a square of nine feet or even Somewhat; less to a size that will serve in a 'largo‘ room. They come, too. in beautifuli Persian patterns, and well made as: they are, . with borders carefully, matched and scams lined and pressed." they are both handsome and durable. Al‘ good domestic Smyrna costs a little more, and has the added advantage of use on both sides. The ingrain art a room where the wear is at all serious? They are useful and effective, as they? come in excellent designs, for light ser- vice, thelr extreme cheapness being an- other advantage. The imported rugs of this character are more durable, as they ought to be, costing twice as much or more, but their patterns are rather dull, and their grade of colors limited and difficult to tone with furnishings. Jute rugs are to be found in most at—, tractive patterns and in 21 variety Of colorings, dark and light, and at a very low price. They should be purchased, however, with the knowledge that their wearing qualities are poor. Dainty Sandwlches, The scented sandwiches, such as clover, nasturtlum, rose and violet, in vogue with very dainty people, are made by covering both the bread and; butter with the leaves or flowers, al- lowing them to remain over night, and then simply serving the bread and but- ter sandwich. Thim the crusts from the loaf Of bread, put it into a. large soup scented flower; wrap the butter in a; piece of cheese-cloth ‘and put it also in a tureen; cover with: clover. Next day the butter and bread will be filled with the flavor and odor of clover. For afternoon teas nut sandwiches, mixed fruit sandwiches, or slices of chopped fruit which have been firmly, pressed together, using no bread what- ever, may be used. Plgnollas or pine nuts, black wal- nuts, almonds and pecans may all be put through a meat chopper, mixed, 8 very little salt added, andspread over bread. ' "Wilhelmina.” jackets, hats, ties, and blue in some of the mast beautiful shades we have ever seen .these dyes produced in. appear among tailor cloths, velvets, etc., for autumn gowns, and the trace of white needed appears on the silk or satin 'revers, vests, guimpes, and plastron or blouse fronts Of the ,waist or 3 jacket. In mlllinery. these colors are quite as prominent, and in. the red shades particularly are some dahlia and damask tints with a mili. tary name' that are superb examples of the dyer’s art. . . , you are addicted to poker playing, and that last night you lost $25. Young Fog'y—The idea. Why. I don’t even know how to play. ,the game. . - OldFogy—So I am informed by the *party who .won the. money.—Boston Transcript. ' ' 3 .' , ‘ ’ Midnight Burglarz, “Fork out every farthing you’ve got or I'll—” Jawer (half ~awake): "Look here, Maria, this is coming it too strong; Didn’t I give you all I had when I can"- 3 some?" . ; ' squares are not to be recommended in ' tureen in a bed of clover or any highly, , ma Fogy—I .am pained to bear that l .I\
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