THE EVENING GAZETTE ferret. Lire fllSlIRANGE OF -NEW YORK. RISEARD A. MccuRDv, President. Statement fer the leer Ending Dee. 3t,’97. According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. t INCOMEQ $42,693.20! 99 11,469,406 24 $54,162,608 23 Received for Premiums From all other Sources Ersn‘unsnmnnms. To Policy-holders for Claims by Death , To Policyaholders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. For all other Accounts $13,279,630 66 12,712,424 76 '10,132,005 57 $36,124,060 99 ASSETSQ United States Bonds and other Securities ' First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage Loans on Stocks and Bonds Real Estate 5 . , , cash in Banks and Trust Companies _ Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, $132,917,341. 45 69,423,937 31 12,880,308 00 21,618,454 88 11,705,195 82 6,141,200 20 $253,786,437 66 MM Reserve for Policies and other Liabilities Surplus Insurance and Annuities in Force AN EXPENSIVE BONNET. mqulsltely Carved Out of Tortoise mien for Queen Victoria. Her majesty, Queen Victoria. W is the dowdiest royal Europe, has in her possession the -most expensive bonnet in the world. It is not a triumph of the milliner's art, and it is not likely to be the mode. In fact, the Queen has newr worn it. The natives of the Navigator Islands were most anxious to make the Queen :1 present. There ras formed a committe, which debuted long and patiently what would be most apprOpriate. Jewels were out of the question. It Would cost a. fortune to give to one of the richest sover< signs in the world a jewel that She would appreciate. Even the most gorgeous cloths were not advisable. India had excelled them in weaving. The gift should be suggestive of their part of the world and made by their people. But what?—that was the question. The committee dis-agreed. One gentleman resigned in despair. The new member injected some ginger into the crowd and revived their lag ging spirits. The new member said emphatically that even a Queen had vanity enough to want to possess the most expensive bonnet in the world. One of their own tortoise shells should be made into a bonnet. It should be carved by their own people, and while it would not cost them very dearly, Victoria would find it quite expensive if she went shopping for it in Bond street. An elaborate bonnet was made of a whole shell. The workmanship was exquisite. Never was a tortoise‘ shell wore artistic-ally carved. The shape is like that of the Salvation Army lassies’. In due time the Queen re- ceived the gift, and wrote the com- mittee a note of thanks. The Queen found the material as well as the shape, a little impracticable as far as ever -day wear goes, so she sent it to the British Museum. But the cominit- tee, which feels that a load is off its mind, draws mental pictures of Queen Victoria driving down the “Ladies’ Mile,” and nodding to be: faithful subs 3ects and wearing the gift that caused so many wrinkles in the gray matter 53s,_59_8.194 so $936,634,496 - 3 Ihave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be‘ correct: liabilities calculated by the Insurance Department. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplusa dividend will be apportioned as usual Report of the Examining 00mmittee. ' Office of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. To THE HONORABLE, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES or TIIE MUTUAL LIFE IIISIIIIIIIIIE COMPANY OF IIEVI YORK. The undersigned, a Committee appointed by your honorable body, On the twenty- second day of December, I897, to examlne the Annual Statement of the Company and to verify the same, respectfully—fl REPORT-I- 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 ofiice 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 corrc on. 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-- mnyis 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 evidence of title of ever sary in such examination have been freely submitted to the Committee by the said officers and thei 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 methods adopted by the Company in recording its transactions and caring for the assets are entitled to COmmendatio All of which is respectfully submithud. CHAS. R. HENDERSON ELBRIDGE T. GERRY A. N. WATERHOUSIJE "NEw YORK, January 21, 1898- S- V- R CRUGER J. HOBART HERRIOK JAMES C. HOLDEN y description neces- r assistants, and that and that the syfitem Board. of Trustees- FREDERIo 01:an J ULIEN T. DAVIES A. N. WATEREOUSn‘ S. V. R. CRUGER CHARLES R. HENDERSON RUFUS W. PEOKEAM J. HOBART HEBRIOK Wu. P. DIXON | ROBERT A. GRANNISS HENRY H. ROGERS JNO. W AUCHINOLOSB THEODORE MORFORD WILLIAM BABCOCK STuYVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD CHARLES E. MILLER WALTER R GILLET'P! I ,~, H. WALTEH WEBB SAMUEL D. BABCOCK RICHARD A. MOCURDY JAMES C. HOLDEN .HEBMANN C. VON POST WILLIAM J. SEWELL OLIVER HARRIMAN ROBERT OLYPHANT GEORGE F. BAKER DUDLEY OLOOTT GEORGE G. HAVEN ADRIAN ISELIN J R. GEORGE S. BOWDOIN WILL-IA!!! C. WHITNEY WILLIAM Rochr-ELLRR J AMES N. JAIW'IE CHAS D. DIGKEY JR ELBRIDGE T. GERRY JAMES SERIES; ROBERT A, GRAN ISS, Vi’c’.’-ePreside‘rrt. WALTER R. GILLETTE, G M i . .fiSAACF. LLOYD, 2d Vice-President Dufi°fi-pf‘”fiifiiox, concept: WILLIAM LEAb'l‘ON, Secretary. . . . ALBERT KLAMROTH, AssiSt’a FREDERIC CROMW " ' ‘ ELL, ' , . JOHN A' FUNDA, Assistant Treasurer. Tleasurer JAMES TIMI’SON 2d Assistant’Tr-basure WILLIAM F. SANDS, Cashier. . . EDWARD P. a ' . . . . . . E- EMORY MOCL T OLDFN, ASSIStaht Cashier. JOHN TATLOCK OCK, Actuary. CHARLES A, PRELLER, Auditor. , JR , Aswtant Actuary. ILLI . ' ‘ ' C. CLIFFORD GRETSIN GER, AS-Jistant Auditor. AM W RICHARDS, Comptrbller. _ J OHN. C. ELLIO 1‘, Superintende HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptrb‘l’lez' , nt of Domestic Agencies. EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, General Solici MEDICAL DIRECTORS: tor. ELIAS J. MARSH, M. D' GRANVILLE )1. WHITE, M I). G. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting. hdihg" secretary at Secretary, NEGHOLS 6e GILBERT, General Agents. shovels, At certain 3 .4 l .pf its main—Chicago Inter-Ocean. “bassouenmo GOLF CRAZE. P18}? _ “Look at this; piazza,” said :1 gm last summer, who didn’t play golf. “Isn’t it a pathetic sight? only you and I and a row of rocking chairs. Yet I can remember when it was crowded always at this time and every one of those tennis courts were occu- pied. Then we all played tennis, or salt here _Waiting to play and talking until We had a chance at a court or un- till it was time to go to thebeach. Then we all went down there in‘ a body. In- the afternoon. there was“ more tennis. In those days we were always togeth- er, and whatever fun there was with one another. “But that was before golf came. Look at this place now—deserted. Look at the tennis courts now-three children throwing the balls about. Where is everybody? Why, wander- ing by themselves over those fields, not paying the slightest attention to one another when they meet, and sim- ply absorbed in their game. That is another result of golf. The game has done that. be pulled down. And the worst part were pulled down, so long as the golf course was not damaged. It is only that that they take any interest it. now, and if the present is any indica- tion of what the future is to be, they are not likely to care about anything else for some time to come.”—Chicaglz Inter-Ocean, t_‘—- A REMARKABLE IRON MINE. The Deposit of Ore Is Considered Most Ex- traordiuary. A St. John's, N. 19., correspondent. Who has just paid a visit to the new iron mine at Belle Isle, Conception Bay, describes the deposit as the most extraordinary of the kind in the world. There is no gaping Shaft, no tall chimney, no pulling of steam eu- gines or clanking of machinery. About two hundred men were at work on the surface of the ground, scatter- ed over a considerable era, some with pickates, shovels and barrows, put- ting the‘ are into wagons; others drill- mg; by steam or hand, holes into the ;bed of, the ore which were to be icharged‘ with dynamite. ' ._Instca'd’ (if a‘ mine it is an open Quarry cf_ yeti- hematite ii-‘on‘ ore. which is' detached“ from its be'd far more easily thalisjto‘ne in a quarry. .The ore lies in" a‘ libr‘iz'bntal stratum. three-miles in length; and is covered ion the surface by about two feet of ,ro‘ck..'1_’1‘his is just stripped Off, and :she'c'tionsi‘of the our laid bat-6: Then, bylblasting. masses of the'ore are de- tz’Iched, and long terraces'are formed, Erisingin shelves, above each other. and ‘iu"thcse the men go to work with 'crowbars, .pickaxes, wedges and intervals along these, terraces the steam drill is at Work,’ or “the sledge hammer or jumper, making holes, which. when Charged ,with,,clynamite, are exploded by electricity. ', , t On panel‘tratingthis first Stratum of Ore a bed,.‘of_,_ rock is reached. some three or four feet thick, similar to the Surface rock._. ,W'hen this rock stratum is pierced, 'anotbcr bed of [mu ore is reached. of about the same gliickness,,as the, first. ‘For anything yet lrnown_tliere may be a third iron [ore Stratum underneath this bed. A. n. cane, noose Agent. ho ’ personage in , Effects 0fthe dame 3“ Girls Who D° N“ So far as these piazzas are = concerned, the clubhouse might as well 3 about it is that nobody would care if it 3 ‘ -‘ I l - THE LORD’S PRAYER BYBOOTH. 5 How the Actor Entranced a Coterie of Dip- lomats in' New York City. “I think,” said an old actor, in talks] ing about the Booths. “the most thril~ ling experience I ever passed through ' was in New York city ‘one time when quite by accident a number of for- eign diplomats from Washington, a , few American statesmen, Some promi- 3 Rent New Yorkers and one or two 01 us professionals were gathered togeth- ' er in a smoking room in the Fifth Ave- nue Hotel, when somebody asked ' Booth, who by the merest chance hap- ' pened to be there, if he would not r;- peat the Lord’s Prayer for the assem ‘ binge. I Was sitting not far from the tragedian when he fixed his eyes upon ithe man who made the request. I T think it was Lord Sackville lVest, at that time British minister to the Unit ed States, and I shall never forget the peculiarly searching expression that Booth shot out of his dark eyes. They seemed to penetrate the very soul of the man, at whom they were directed, and then, as if satisfied, resumed theii wanted vacuous density. “We were all breathless with anxie- ty, at least I was, for seldom would i he ever recite off the stage, but at ' length he arose, walked to a little cleared space at one end of the room, and began a recital that even after all these years makes me thrill through and, through. He said ‘OuI Father,’ and never before had those two words been clothed with the maj~ esty and reverence with which his look and tone enveloped them. And then he carried us into celestial regions, 01]! spirits seeming to leave our bodies and follow his behest; he lowered us into depths too dark for Dante’s genius to conceive or Dore’s pento portray; the power exerted over us was simply un- natural. His musically resonant tones sounded slowly through the room, and as he swayed his lithe body we uncon- sciously followed his motion. It was something horrible, beautiful, terrible fascinating—I cannot “find words in the language to express it. There are none. “I would not go through the scent, again for a thousand worlds, and yet if I had the. Opperiunity I would brave ' any danger to hear it once more. Do 4 you understand? Those few score words as deliveredby Edwin Booth were the most powerful argument fOI - Christianity that I ever heard, and could everyone on the face of the ' globe have heard them there would no | longer be atheism. Boo‘th strode out ' of the room when he had finished and d mmuhgjeous Sl-vgh of relief arose, when without a. “PM We “91:31? singly and on spice, and . .. think any one of us tliiiiki of that thril- ling evening without a" shudder. He Was a’ great man, a great mah."—Kan‘- sa-s City Times. l i t t L... ._..._...__...__...-..__..__-.__._-.... ,-- _ ._ F TOO UGLY TO DIE. 0:10- of Bill Eye’s Inimitable Stories ‘Vliicb Illustrates His Humor. Two Bill Nyes or Artemus Wards or Mark Twains are never born, says the Philadelphia Times. The peculiar form of Nye’s humor can be illustrated by this incident. One evening at the Union League here he objected in an apparently serious way to a certain Story that had been told. He said that while it was not exactly firrelig- ous in tone, it was irreverent. “Now,” he continued, “I’ll tell you a storv which could be read with im- 5 punity to a mite society. There was a : man who had to die. The doctor told him so, and urged him to die with neatness and dispatch. The man told the doctor to go out on the lawn and kick himself. The doctor then advised the wife to go to him and explain the folly of keeping up his desire to live. “Tell him that it‘s only his nerves which are supporting him. and that if he will tell you what is preying on his mind he’ll pass away like a bit of pie.” , “So the agoinized mother of the fam- ily went” to the father of the same, and said: ‘Hubby, you know I love . you. Tell me what it. is that Worries you.’ ' I , “ ‘Oh, go to bed!’ saidihe invalid. I "Then the suffering mother appealed I to her sorrowing children, but they, too, were unsuccessful. “So as a last resort the priest was sent for. The situation was explained to him and he visited the invalid. ‘My son.’ said he. ‘I am aSsured by the best medical advice that death is in- evitable to you. There is a burden on your mind. DiscloSe it to me be- fore I give you absoiutioli.’ “The invalid sighed. ‘Oh. well,’ said be, ‘if you put it that way, I'll tell you. The fact of the business is I’m so darned ugly I’m ashamed to be laid OUI.’ M _.. . _.-.,' -_-_.,. t t i i t i .n .t. .. Origin of the Word “D830." It Is. the Spaniard whose language furnished this slang name for the merit of the Mediterranean countries who come to the United States. ‘One of the most familiar names borne by the‘ Spaniard is “Diego.” It serves nearly as’ Well as John in this country as“ a typical name for a boy or man. English sailor‘s long ago came to know Spaniards as “dagoes,” because “cargo" was about as near as they could handily come to “Diego,” which sounds‘ like ‘fDe-aye-go” in Spanish. It was not’ for jolly seamen to discriminate to‘O' closely between Spaniards and Portuguese. or even be- tween the Spanish and the Italians. All of these nationalities looked much alike, and the general scund of the language they spoke was similar. So they were all “dagoes,” for'seafaring purposes. and from the coast'the nick- name followed the immigrants from Mediterranean countries To whatever part of. the United States they mad!- their way. 1 Back?! for Cig temporaneous Broadhead—“One fluently about nothing without any previd'u‘s 'preparation.”——l’uck. PETTY ECONOMIES IN GERMAMY.‘ ar Stumps \Vhere Smoking 1. Not Allowed. An American in Munich writes to a New York paper concerning “German thrift,” with examples of petty ccon~ omies he has seen in Germany, and that strike nary. He tells of a stout German gen- tleman who came into the lobby of one of the picture-galleries of Munich one day last summer puffing a cigar. After depositing his hat and umbrella, he looked around uneasily. on the entrance (1061‘s to the gallery warned him that no smoking was al- lowed. Finally his face lighted up as he strode over to one corner and de- posited his half—finished cigar in a sort of metal rack fastened to the wall. “So!” he exclaimed with a sigh of re- lief, and marched in to see "the. pic- tures. another German, having “done” the pictures, approached the rack in ques- American-s- as extraordi- Big signs Almost art the same moment tion, and, having scrutinized its con- tents, selected a‘ stump of a cigar as his particular property, and proceeded to light it before getting on his hat and coat. This provision for saving the stumps of cigars was a novelty to the American, and he examined it ‘ with some curiosity. A sign, “Clgarre Ablade," placed above it in large lot- ters, announced its purpose—a “leav- inc—place” or “depositing-place” for cigars. The rack was of metal. and fashioned something like a miniature wit-crack; there was a special groove for each cigar, but no particular mark or number by which one could idem tify one stump from another, and no particular reason why the firsr-comer should not help himself to the best and bi gest cigar of the lot. These cigar repositories are common all over i‘rer- many in galleries, museums, and other places where smoking is not allowed. NECKLACE OF BLACK DIAMONDS. The Only OneKnowu in Existence Rutlely Valued at $65,000. The only black diamond necklace known to exist in this country or Eu- r0pe is that owned by Mrs. Celia Wal- lace, of the Auditorium. Mrs. VVal- lace has been fifteen years collecting them and has searched for the per- fect stones in every jewel market of the world. They are found more oft-- en in the diamond mines of South AL. rica and in rare instances in South America. The black diamond, as its name sig— nifies, is as jetty as a piece of coal. perfectly transparent. and with all the lustre and glisten and brilliant rays 01 its white sister. It is used as the mourning stone of the Russian court The necklace is composed of fourteen hung on a fine platinum DQQQQUBH. > ~- chain‘. Each one has a trifle centre, set closely around with of steel white diamonds from the Jaeger mine, South Africa'._ The black stones in this larger pen- dant and in the tWO on each side of ii are eight karats each. The rest are a trifle smaller. Between each pendant, hanging like a pierced d-ewdrop, is a single white diamond, while directly above the larger pendant is a nine- karat white Indian diamond of un- usual beauty. For this single stone unset Mrs. Wallace paid the neat sum of $6,000. It is almost impossible to cStimate the value of the necklace, as no two stones were bought at the same time and none Of them was set, but it if rudely estimated at $65,000.-—Chicag¢ Inter—Ocean. ‘ ‘mnufl 1‘ (113g Vu‘ .. meg“. u. -v v He Would Not Be Insulted. Jim O’Brien, a patrolman in one of the down-town police districts. stepped into Stanley’s shoe store on Christiaig street to buy a pair of shoes. He was a regular customer and wore a very heavy style of shoe. Stanley was busv at the time, but'there was a new clerk who came forward to wait upon O’Brien. The latter picked out a pair that suited him and prepared to try them on. It was a rainy day, and the customer’s socks were a trifle damp. The clerk accordingly pro. ceeded to sprinkle the insides of the new shoes rather generously with powdered soapstone that they might slip on more easily. O’Brien suddenly changed his mind Shunt the shoes. He didn’t want thcm, he Said, and pro: ceeded to draw on his old pair. As he was walking out the proprietor said: “Well, Jim, did you get suited?" Jim turned upon him a face red with anger. “No, Oi did not git suited, Mr. Stanley.” “VVhat’s the trouble, Jim?” “Well, sor, Oi loike ye purty well, an‘ Oi loiked yer shoes afore this, an‘ mebbe Oi’d kape on loikin’ ye an’ yer Shoes, but Oi didn’t come in here In: teh be insulted. Oi kin sthand a joke as well as the next wan, but whin a little whippersnapper loike that puts chloride of.lime on my feet, Oi don't mane to sthand fur it."—I’hiladelphia Record. Posféll'tortem Weddings in China. A Shana missionary who went to conduct a‘funeral the" other day nar- rowly escaped being present at a mar- riage. The dead man was a bachelor of 50, and fearing that his spirit would wander companionless in the world'of shades, relatives had scoured the country side for a dead maiden to marry to him and bury with him. A desirable bride had been found some seven miles away and was encoflined and prepared for the double ceremony of marriage and burial. the Christian service was concluded, and the missionary and his friend had left, the other ceremonies begaln. Mar- riages of the dead by interested friends are common in Shansi.—North China Herald. As soon as Little Elmer—“Pa, what is an ex- speaker'?’ Professor who can talk
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