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OF NEW YO BK.
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RICHARD A. McGURDY, President. ‘
. Statemeii for the Year Ending Dec. 31,’97.
According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York.
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TRAGEDY on COMEDY ‘
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I knew George
well for two years—ever since he had
been married, in fact and considered
him a rising fellow in the literary
world. .He had not done anything very
great, but
promising, and his name was gradual.
ly making itself known. Unluckily,
he had married the wrong woman.
But my friend was not like some
men—die did not whine and cry, he
made the best of it. He did not go out
and search for a “twin soul” to whom
he might confide his marital sufferings
though, Phoebus knows, he had
enough to put upw'iih. It was not
bad temper. It was jealousy—bitter,
mean, incessant jealousy—that grudg-
cd him even his literary fame. Aga-
tha Arbuthnot was one of those little,
pale, blue—eyed women, with a spite-
ful tongue and a narrow heart, who
have ruined the career of many a sen-
l
Arbuthnot pretty ‘
. work I’ve done yet.
his work was distinctly ;
envy me because 1 am the wife-of tin—
genius, George Arbuthnot.”
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Her scornfui emphasis only brought
a smile to Arbuthnot’s face.
- “1 don’t know about that,” he said,
good temperedly, “but it’s the best
And if it's suc-
cessful, Agatha. I shall be able to buy
you that diamond bangle you coveted '
the other day.”
But even the reference to the dia-
mond bangle failed to move Agatha.
“How long will it take you to finish
it?” she asked, slowly, looking down
at the untidy desk.
“I hope to finish it by next week,”
said Arbuthnot. triumphantly. “I‘ve
allowed Lorrimer, The Vicekly Review
man, to see some parts of it, and he‘s
expressed a very favorable opinion
‘and Iliink‘s it’s bound to be a suc-
cess.” -
Agatha’s eyes narrowed at the cor-
ners.
“Lerrimer’s a fool,” she said. angri-
Ofi
THE NEW DEFENDER.
It“ To Be Constructed Under Lockout!
Key in the Ben-celled“ Yards.
The new cup defender will
of course, be built under lock and key,
the usual method or the procedure
that is adopted at the Herreshoff
works, and little beyond the statement
that she will be of the bulb-fin type
and that her lines generally will not
depart radically from those of the De-
fender, could be ‘leal‘lled.
While the Herreshol‘t‘ family is large.
it looks upon “Nat” as its genius. At
the age of ten he could sail a boat
with consummate skill and judgment.
When seventeen he became a student
in .the Institute of Technology, in Bos-
ton. where he still further developed
his taste for physics as particularly
.applied to steam engineering and‘na-n
val architecture. In 1870, when twen—
ty-two years old, he became connected
with the well known Corlis Steam En-
gine Company, of Providence, R. I..
and with the famous George Corlis
,~ . _ , ly.
sltlve man. She h"t0d to heal her r- ~ .. ., - . .
husband’s praises V‘soundcd" in her It was one cold afternoon, ten days garnet. treat practical knowledge In
‘ ” later, that Arbuthnot stood on his engineering and the application Of
ears. 1. D .' . ‘
Received for Premiums . . . . $42,693,201 99 One qftemom imam. wag Summit, door-step in the act of inserting his Egg: goofy-h flung has 32117 at the
. 1 . - I t . - " ' n'uvn
. ‘ . . ’5‘ ,” ° .5 latchke 1, smilinor at some pleasmg S e mil—MC e engines
From all 0th?" sources 0 - ' 0 I I94699406 24 Arbuthnot because some n o-men woo reminisbences of Dhis recent talk with and all the naval construction at the
nrsnnmsnmnlnms.
To Policy-holders for Claims by Death . .
T0 Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc.
For all other Accounts
‘ assnms.
i354, 162,608 23
$13,279,630 66
12,712,424 7‘5
'10,132,005 57
$36,124,060 99
had happened to call the day before
had gushed, and told her how fortu-
nate she was to be the wife of such
a rising genius. Her face was crim-
son with anger, and her voice very
shrill as she mimicked her callers.
"Dear Mrs. Arbuthnoti How proud
you must be of your clever husband!
He’s quite a genius. How I envy you
living with the man who can write
such exquisite stories!”
“Clever! Enqnisite! A genius! I
never saw ‘any genius in your silly
tales. Beastly rot, I call them. I wish
to goodness I’d married Henry Jen-
his publisher.
Suddenly a wild, terrified cry broke
from the house, followed. by scream
after scream, reiterated with such in-
tensity of anguish that Arbu'thnot
himself caught the infection of terror,
and fumbled with trembling hands at
the latchkey.
At last he managed to open the
door and run into the hall. A, fearful
sight (met his eye. From 'his study
do-or flew something—an object envel-
oped in writhing flames, and from it
there came piercing, agonizing shrieks
As the draught from the open door
Herreshofi’s.
When he left the Corlis company he .-
joined the Herreshoffstas part owner,
designer and superintendent, and
there, by his work. he has become de-
servedly famous.
The Gloriana, oivned by E. D. Mor-
gan, N. Y. Y. 0., was the first vessel to
snow Nat Herreshoff’s fully developed
theory, bllt its value Was demonstrated
in the Pelican. a much smaller vessel,
built several months before the Glori-
ana was designed. The theory was
subsequently cal-riot to its perfection
in the sloop \iasp. which has been.
and is. perhaps, the most successful
United States Bonds androthéer Securities . $132,017,341 45 kins instead ’of you. At any. fate, blew fiercely down the coma,”- the boatever buntat 8mm
First Lien Loans on Bond afld Mortgage 0 0 69,423,937 3! [JESSE Eragldlleotrllilii‘igepdggifl 11111113133; filameslileaped higher anltln-higiell; rttilulm: The development of cup defending
' J . , -_ - ’ , t eir iving prey. un 1' u no models was really be un in 1892, with
Loans on StOCkS and Bonds ° ° ~" 12,880,308 00 what “193' mean. ’1‘ course I’m stupid sickened gaze saw nothing but a. brilv the centreboard 5100f; Navahoe. built
21,618,454 88
and brainless and silly—not good
liant ball of fire.
for Mr. Royal Phelps Carroll, N. Y. Y.
Real Estate . . . . . . 4
Cash in Banks and Trust Companies . . 11,705,195 82 3:09?” for you to Wine your boots t. GodtlhItflwasi Agtiltfhal glag (livitt-h tot; 0,, which became famous in British
—‘ ‘ ure, e am n~g gure as e 0W!“ as well as American waters. This
A°°ru9d IntereSt’ Net D eferr ed Premiums’ etc' ‘ w And then— ‘Al‘buthflot did the most him and threw out its arms in agony. vessel was built in the south shop at
' , $353,786,437 6’6 sensible thing possible. He walked out Arbuthnot caught it in a tight em- Bristol. .
Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities . 218,278,243 07 of the dining room, and locked himself brace, and with all his streliigth hurled bThe cup, candidate Colonia, a. keel
1‘ III up in his study. himself and the shrieking gure onto oat-followed, being set up in the
511 p S d A .iti '1 . F . . . W George’s ~ den wasn’t much of a the carpeted floor and rolled over and 'south shops late in February, 1893, im.
Insurance an an“ es n orce ' ' $93 9 34,496 3 “study,” merely a smokehegrimed over until at last the flames were mediately after the Navahoe was
. den, furnished with a seeond-handbu- beaten out and he knew the fire was launched. Previous to that time the
conquered. centreboard Vigilant, the victorious
l have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find thesamo 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 {run HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES or
THE MUTUAL LIFE INSUBAIGE COMPANY OF NEW YORK.
The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, on the twenty-
second day of December, l 897,to examine the Annual Statement of the Company and
to verify the same, respectfully——-—
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 date of this Report, attended at the office of the Company, and have been waited on
by the Treasurer, the Comptroller,the Auditor, and the Cashier, together with the respective assistants of such officers
and have carefully gone over all the items contained in the said Statement, and have found the same to be corrt 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 below them. 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. ,
”a. 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 that
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 recordipg its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to commendation
All of which is respectfully submitted.
NEW YORK, January 21, 1898.
CHAS. R. HENDERSON
S. V. R. CRUGER
ELBRIDGE T. GERRY
J. HOBART HERRICK
A. N. WATERHOUSE
JAMES C. HOLDEN
Board of Trustees-
‘l’ve exhausted the
amarriage, I’ll be hanged if I’ve e):-
reau, two ortliree chairs, and some
shelves Of books. Agatha called it
“George's sulking room,” but I knew
it was the only haven of refuge Ar-
buthnot could find in his own house.
“A man must time his own weird,"
Arbutlm'ot- said, as he sat down wear-
ily at the bureau and looked at the
sheets of paper that littered over his
de k. "I’m not the only fool - who’s
found marriage a failure; and after
all, I’ve got a brain as well as a
heart. I’ll give myself up to work, and
waste no time in morbid self-pity.
That’s a form of cowardice that leads
to the cutting of one's throat; and it
possibilities of
hausted the possibilities of life.”
He smiled grimly, and taking from
one of the pigeon. holes a notebooa,
laid it on his desk and began to read
its contents.
From thatday arouthnot progress-
ed swiftly through the book that was
to make his name. This was to be' his
lilasterpiece, wherein he would show
his best of bra-in and heart; and, as
the weeks rolled on and the novel
neared its end. Ariil‘dhnot realized his
work was good, and in that knowledge
could alford to live. and did live, with-
out love and sympathy.
In truth“; be needed every support
that Work and philosophy could give a
man. Agatha’s conduct grew daily
more shrewish and violent, and her
tongue less fastidious in its choice of
words.
“So you’ve taken to locking yourself
up in your sulking room,” she cried
one day, when Arbuthnot had perforce
been compelled to answer her heavy
banging on his study door. “It’s a nice
thing when a husband comes to loci;
himself up from his wife! I suppose
my society’s not good enough for such
a clever man as you.”
Arbuthnot saw that she was in one
Three hours later :the doctor came
softly down stairs. He had used all
his skill to bring life back to the dis-
figured body that now lay motionless
on the bed. It was all in vain. Aga-
tha’s injuries were beyond all help”
and she had lived only three hours af-
ter Arbuthnot had carried ‘her up-
stairs. '
Her husband had never left her
side, and, though badly burned about
the hands and face, had scarcely real-
ized his own injuries. As he looked at
that cruelly disfigured face, new
swatlleli and hidden ill bandages, a
rush of tears blinded his eyes. and he
knew that all past differences were
swept away, and that Agatha would
live henceforth in his memory only
as the woman he had once loved with
all his heart. Before life flickered 0.1;
ill that suffering body, Agatha opened
her eyes once and met her husband‘s
gaze fixed with intense pity and love
upon her face. To Arbuthnot it
seemed that she pleaded dlllnbly for
forgiveness. but even as he looked the
lids closed again, and in a few ino-
ments Agatha's spirit had slipped into
the great silence. .
\Vhen all was over. Arbuthnot
stooped and kissed the cold, pale lips.
Later in the evening he went down
stairs to his study. As he entered the
room a shudder ran through his body;
'he remembered the figure of flame
that had leaped into his arms but a
few hours ago, and his heart was torn
at the thought of Agatha’s sufferings.
As yet it was a mystery how she
had caught fire. Presumably she had
been warming herself in his study.
and her thin grenadine dinner dress
bad swept too near the flames. A few
dull red embers still glowed in the
grate. Arbutlinot lit‘ the lamp and sat
down mechanically to his desk.
“Thank God for work!" he said,
with a deep sigh. “At least I can for-
get for a ti-me—" ‘
cup defender. was started in the north
shop. The Colonia was launched in
May, and the Vigilant in June, 1893.
The Vigilant was the first vessel of
any size ever painted with bronze. and
her record here and abroad need not be
recalled. ,
The Defender was commenced in
February, 1895, in the south shop, and
was finished and overboard the fol<
lowing July. The new defender. the
yacht that will meet the Shamrock,
will be built in the south shop. where
the Navahoe. Colonia and Defender
Were constructed, and will probably in
form closely resemble the victorious
craft of 17595. as there may be danger
in making too abrupt a departure from
her successful. design. The study of
the Defender by N. G. Herreshoff did
not cease with her races. For three
years he has had her in mind, ponder-
ing over her form and her perform?
ances. which were unhappily too mea-
gre to satisfy the multitude of exact.
ing yachtsmen. And this continued
thought must result in further im~
provement, if such is possible.
Voting in 1864.
One of the most interesting features
of the stirring war election of ’64.
when Abraham Lincoln ran a second
time for the presidency of the United _
States and was opposed by General
George B. McClellan, was the voting
of the soldiers. For nearly four years
these gallant men had marched and
fought, periling their lives willingly
on a hundred bloody battlefields and
knowing no laws but the commands of
their superior OIIICGI'S. NOW they were
again to exercise their rights as sover-
eign citizens; some at their homes,
where they had gone on furloughs,
and many in their far off camps.
Extraordinary precautions were ta‘
ken to secure the untrammeled vote
of the men fighting at the front and to
guard against corruption. Some of
the states had'made provisions, be-
of her paroxysms of rage, and resolved
to control his own feelings.
“I wanted to finish some work,” he
said calmly, looking at the floor ii”:-
tered with loose sheets of paper. “And
this room is hardly lit for a lady's soci:
’ GEORGE G. HAVEN
ADRIAN 1311le J n.
GEORGE S. Bownom
WILLIAM C. W HI’I'NEY
WILLIAM lioclrnrnLLnn
HENRY H. ROGERS
JNO. W AUCHINCLOBS
THEODORE MORFOBD
WILLIAM BABOOOK
STUYVESANT FISH
FREDERIO CROMWELL
J ULIEN ’1‘. DAvnls
A. N. WATE‘BHOUSE
S. V. R. CRUGER
CHARLES R. HENDERSON
SAMUEL D. BABCOCK
RICHARD A. McCuan
JAMES C. HOLDEN
Harms C. VON Poss-
WILLIAM J. SEWELL '
He opened the deep drawer wherein
his pile of manuscript had lain ready
for the printer’s hand. One or two
omissions could easily be rectified
now, and the work would soothe his
fore the war broke out, for taking the
vote of soldiers absent from their re-
spective states with the army; and
the other states had adopted similar
provisions as soon as the necessity bee
(1:33;; Curitiba (1:?fiiig' EECKHAM AUGUSTUS D- JUILLIABD J‘AMES N. J'Anvrng ety. You see. I have scarcely a chair weary heart and brain. But—tho came apparent
Gnonan F BAKER WM P DT Em“ CHARLESIE' MILLER "HAS D DICK-Erik that is unoccupied with books.” drawer stood emptY- Hastlly be At this time General McClellan was
. .. . IXON WALTER R GILLETTE ELBRIDGE cpl-G333?- "Yes, it’s a horrid hole,” assented pulled out its counterpart. Ho; that, supposed to be very popular with the
DUDLnr Oncor'r
ROBERT A. GRANNIBS ,
H. WALTER WEBB
JAMES 8911va '5"-
ROBERT A.” GRANISS, Vice-President.
,
ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President
WALTER. R. GILLETTE, General Manager. .
DUEH du-P. BRECK, Corresponding Secretary
Agatha, curtly; "hunt you men who
write are more like pigs than human
beings. Just look at the dust on thai
desk; it's shameful. And Sarah says
you won’t let her touch your papers.
l‘m ashamed to have such a dirty
room in my house: I'll come and due;
it myself to-morrow." .
At these words Arbuthnot lost his
philosophical self~ccntrOL
"I must ask you not to touch the
too, [held nothing. Wit-h feverish hands
he rumaged each pigeon hole, turned
everything out. of his bureau, .sought
on the chairs, the tables. The manu-
script had disappeared! '
A fearful thought darted into his
brain. He ran to the fireplace—his
eyes fell on some charred ashes in tho
fender.—Black and White.
An Honest Klng.
soldiers. and many of the political
prophets of the day predicted that the
soldiers’ vote would be cast almost sol—
idly for “Little Mac,” as he was some-
times afliectionately called. But the .
boys in blue carried their own thing-
ing machines along with them. and
these did not permit of their forgetting
“Father” Abraham. The subjoined ta-
ble gives the'army votes, which were
counted in canvassing the returns for
electors.
. ~ .« l .
3 WILLIAM J. harlION, Secretary. R ALBERT KLAMROTH, Assistant Secretary, ij'fj'DGI-‘S on‘my desk.” he said, hastily. Whoever WISE the f0110\"ins 11“le States Lincoln. McClellan.
. F EDERIC CROMWELL, Tleasmer. 1 allow Sarah to brush and dust. ev‘ own to a feel.ng of respect for thl. , 4174 -41
JOHN A.'FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. . JAMES TIMI’SON. 26. Assistant Treasurer erytfilng in the room but my desk. honest King- King Frederick VI- of MameH" ”ni'” «3566 5590
_WILLIAM [3. SANDS?- Cashier. EDWARDiP. HOLDEN ASSiBtant Cashier ' and that I attend to myself." Denmark, while traveling through Jut- £32121”sz .le ' "243 49
_ EMORY MOCLINTOCK, Actuary. ’ ' “Of course you fly at my “11-03: land, one day entered a village school Pennsylvania-22...... 26.712 12 349
JOHN TATLOCK, JR , Assistant Actuary. “he“ I 0"“ t0 do anything “WW" and “mm the Children "my and “1‘ Maryland .. 2.800 '321 .
CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS Com troller 5““ “at” “will“ “mug “er Bum] mug?”- and quiteready *0 “SW9” 1’" Kentucky 2,194 2,323
O. CLIFFORD GRETSINGER, Aerlistant Auditor. HENRY 8. BROWN Assistafnt 0011; troll‘ ’ fail on the desk and crumpling several questions. ,, - .. Ohio .. .. 41,146 9,753
9 JOHN G ELLIO p, Suoerintendent of DomesticA enci’es p 9': of the loose sheets together. “i can-‘1 “Well, youngsters, he said, LWhEt Michigan .. 9.402 2.959
EDWARD LYMA‘N SHORT General Solicign- ' i’l‘m‘k ‘° -‘-'°“ W “1““- I “0 “”‘Ong- ”9 the “‘13?” °‘ “‘9 greatest kings of Iowa .. 15,173 1,364
MEDICAL Dmnoions- ' ' mm Games Of marrying “ genms‘ Beneath? . Wisconsin .. .. .. 11.372 2.453
- You're enough to make any woman Wlth one accord they Cl‘led outLjCa— California .. 2.600 , 237
ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D-.
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G. SJWINSTON M. D. Consulting.
GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M D,
_ arduous a stunner, sartorial Agents,
Aoifi. shun, nooolghgono, '.
want to drown herself!" -
"I beg your pardon if I spoke has.
tily," said Arbuthnot. ruefully con-
templating the sheets of paper which
Agatha was fast trampling into balls.
“but I’ve nearly liui'sned my book. and
these sheets of paper are rather valui
able." -
Agatha threw the balls onto the tail
ble. ' . ,
“And this-book is to make you fa-‘
shells?" she-askml. with bitter—con.
tempt. "I suppose, when it‘s pull
lislleil. every one will come in and
hate the Great, Waldemar and Chris.
tian IV.”
Just then a little girl. to whom the
schoolmaster had whispered some-
thing, stood up and raised her hand.
“Do you know another?” asked the
king.
“Yes, Frederick VI.”
“What great act did he‘perform?”
The girl hung her head and stam-
mered out. “I don’t know.”
“Be comforted, my child,” said the
king. “1 don't know, either.”—Tit-
.«lA Ina-
‘ty!
This table does not give the vote of
all the soldiers. Many were at their
homes on furloughs; and no separate
acocunt of their votes could be kept;
but it is sulficient to show the warm
place Abraham Lincoln held in the
hearts and brains of the privates of
I
64.
Mrs..Taddells: “Let’s see! Susie
Dimpling is about twenty years old,
isn’t she??? ,
Mi‘s. Wimes: "Susie Dimpling twen~
.Susie Dlmpling will never seq
twenty again if she lives to be eighty."
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