11112131111 10 1011122: I Havana Gives a. Wildly En- thusiastic Reception. PATHWAY STREWN WITH FLOWERS. 'Phe Cuban Commander In Chief Wei-’- comed by the Governor—Bands Play American and Cuban Airs. Thousands of People In Line. HAVANA, Feb. 25.—General Maximo Gomez, the Cuban commander in chief, entered Havana yesterday afternoon, escorted by“ General Ludlow and his Staff and Troop L of the Seventh Unit- ed States cavalry. He marched at the hehd of 2,000 armed Cuban horsemen and footmen. The population of the city was wildwvith enthusiasm, throwing themselves in front of the general’s horse, impeding its progress, and pelting him with flowers. The general reviewed the troops at the palace Genel a1 GO- mez arrived on the edge of the town from Marianao at 12. 30 p. m., escorted by the Second Illinois band and thlee battalions. These battalions then re— turned to their camp and did not enter the city. . The procession stopped frequently, eventually filing into the main streets 'le the city, passing Central park and arriving at the palace at half past 2 o’clock. The Prado and other avenues were lined with patriotic clubs, taking up various positions of vantageland then joining the procession as it paSsed on from the palace. from a balcony of which it was reviewed by General Go- mez, . Once at the palace, the Cuban com- mander in~chief was welcomed by Senor- Federico Mora, the civil governor; May- or Perfecto Lacoste, the members of the city council, the Junta Patriotica, the members of the assembly, the secreta- ries, Officials of all classes and numer- ous patriotic clubs. The palace was beautifully decorated, and all previous efforts in the display of banners and bunting were surpassed by the almost endless showing of silk embroidered standards and 'flags, hundreds of which Were carried by Havana’s daughters. Following the procession were many private carriages filled with women rep- resenting the best society, some alle- gorically dressed and others waving flags. The Cuban bands playedthe Cu- ban national hymn, varying this with “Dixiefl’ “The Star Spangled Bapner,” “The Stars and Stripes Forever” and popular American marches. There were many allegorical floats ex- pressing the friendship between Cuba and the United States. Two attracted particular attention, each drawn by three yoke of oxen. One represented the Cuba of yesterday, a woman stand- ing with manacled hands, a broken wheelbarrow and other signs of desola- tion at her feet; the other the Cuba oi today, a woman under a palm, smiling and surrounded by many evidences of prosperity.' The contrast was very ef- fective and everywhere applauded. Many Dominican flags were shown, and there. was one representative float in honor of the country of Gomez. Sev-' eral figures dressed as North American Indians were Conspicuous. No fewer than 25,000 people were in line, requiring three hours to pass a given point. The horses of the Cuban cavalry were scrawny and ill fed, and the cavalrymen were clad in a vague. Cuban uniform. A11 carried Reming- ton carbines, with nondescript bundles . of clothing and bedding. They marched in line of twos. The infantry occa- sionally kept step and as they passed the palace presented arms. Most of them carried Cuban flags stuck in their rifles. The enthusiasm of the crowd was di- rected to General Gomez and certain well known commanders rather than to the troops themselves. As compared with the way the American populace welcomes back soldiers—the men who have done most and suffered most—the Cuban troops seemed neglected. After the review at the palace Gener- al Gomez, accompanied by his staff, proceeded toEl Vedado to visit Gov- ernor General ‘Brooke. Last evening he attended the charity ball at the Tacon theater, where the best Havana society was present. Boxes for the function were sold at a high premium. The foreign consuls raised their re- spective flags in honor of the day. The crowds throughout were orderly. Alto- gerher the entry of Gomez was well timed, his presence making the anni- versary festivities doubly important and giving the enthusiastic people a twofold opportunity to express their emotions.- A Banquet and Medal For Schley. BALTIMORE Feb. 25.—G eral Felix Agnus, chairman of the com ittee hav- ing in charge the arrangements for the banquet to Admiral Schley, which will take place in this city on Tuesday next at the Hotel Rennert. announced that all of the 300 seats had been bespoken‘ and that no rrore are available. It was also announced that General Miles will be present and respond to “The Army." The banquet is to be made the occasion for the presentation of a medal to Ad- miral Schley by the state of Maryland in recognition‘nf his services during the late war with Spain. ———————L Accused of Smuggling. NEW YORK. Feb. 25.—Emil Beme. a cabin passenger on the North German Lloyd steamship Saale. which arrived yesterday, was arrested on a charge of smuggling. Beme gave his address as the Hotel Bismarck, 180 Rudolph street, Chicago. When searched, a number of rings, watches and other jewelry, worth about $500 in all, were found on his person. Beme was arraigned before a. United States commissioner and held in $1,000 bail for a further hearing. Susquehanna. River Ice Gor‘ged. LANCASTER, Pa, Feb. 25.—Ice in the Susquehanna river has gorged at Safe Harbor and‘Turkey Hill. The tracks of the Columbia and Port Deposit railroad are under water at several places, and all'trains on the road have. been an- nulled. The situation at Columbia. Washington Borough, Safe Harbor and other places along the river is very se- rious. Broom Corn Goes Up. MATTOON. 1115., Feb. 25.—At a. meet- ing of the broom corn buyers of central Illinois the price of brush has been ad- vanced to $150 per ‘ton. This makes an advance of $50 per ton in the past four months. .cle race in Sydney, Australia, but was ~_—— BiJSlNESS N EVER BETTER. Exports Surpass Last Year’s Record. and Failures Are Smaller. l NEW YORK, Feb. 25. ——R. .G. Dun &} Co.’ s weekly review of trade says: The situation is without precedent. Business has never been better on the Whole, and in some great industries the gain is astonishing. Exports s‘urpas:I last year’s as much as imports, though the excess over imports then was heavy. Failures are smaller than last year and 1 smaller than in either of six years past. Stocks are stronger, the average for the active railway securities being a little) higher and for trusts much more, owing to the extraordinary advance of 47%, cents in tobacco. But there are some who fear that such prosperity cannot last. The upward rush of 16.5 per cent in! the prices of pig iron since Jan. 1 and 17. 6 per cent in prices of iron and steel products does indeed raise a question whether exports of such products may not be temporarily checked, but if they could be entirely stopped, as they are not, the balance due this country would still be large. The crush of demand for finished products at a time when nearly‘ all the works are crowded by orders covering production until July 1 or later causes many to refuse to contract be- yond that date except at higher prices, and a rise under such circumstances may prove the one thing needful to sober buyers and to bring into the list of producers other establishments here- tofore idle. Wheat has gained only a fraction in price, although Atlantic exports, flour included, have been 2,567,364 bushels against 2,080,417 last year, and, includ- ing other exports, 3,279,736 bushels against 3,656,793 last year. The exports have been so heavy that many doubt their continuance, and yet grain comes from the farms and goes abroad as if such doubt had no basis. Failures for the week have been 191 in the United States against 233 last year, and 40 in Canada against 30 last year. CONDENSED DISPATCHES. Rumors of the death of the ameer oi Afghanistan have reached Bombay. Lady Curzon, wife of the viceroy"oi India, was reported ill with fever at Calcutta. General Reyes, the insurgent leader, has proclaimed himself provisional pres- ident of Nicaragua. ' The customs receipts at Tacoma fox January showed that a great commer- cial boom had set in. James Somerville won a one mile bicy- a corpse, having died on the last lap. Secretary Gage said there was no truth in the published statement that another bond issue was in contempla- tion. The dowager empress of China pro- tested against the slaughter of he; sub- jects by the Russians near Port Ar- thur. The Adams Inquest. NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—The inquest in the Adams case was continued yester- day .andprovgi 01; less, interest than any of'the'previous hearings. P’ractieal- 1y nothing tending to throw light upon the murder of Mrs. Adams or the at- tempted murder of Cornish was reveal- ed. The day was almost entirely devot- ed to direct or implied denials of testi- mony offered by Cornish. Molineux was the principal in this respect, denying many of the allegations that Cornish made on Wednesday. Colonel Austen al- so made a rather important point in de- nying that Barnet ever in the slightest implicated Molineux, as inferred by Cor— nish Wednesday. On the whole the tes- timony may be said to have been favor- able to Molineux. M. Deroulede’s Farce. PARIS, Feb. 25.—Deroulede's comic opera coup is destined *0 cover himself and his league with ridicule. It was the one thing wanted to give President Lou- bet a.~ firm seat and has probably helped the cause of Dreyfus revision more than anything else that has happened for some time. According to his own ad- mission he is liable to imprisonment for life, but the authorities do nOt desire to give him the halo of martyrdom. There- fore he will escape more easily. No Court, Says Long. WASHINGTON. Feb. 25. —In answer to an inquiry Secretary Long said yes- terday that he had not thought of or- dering a court of inquiry into the merits of the Sampson—Schley controversy, nor did he contemplate allowing Schley to be forced out of the service through any technicality such as the failure of the senate to confirm-his nomination to be rear admiral. Much Ice Encountered. ST. JOHN’S, N; F.. Feb. 25 —Tl:.-e Furness liner Damara, Captain VVii— limas, 13 days from Liverpool, with a general cargo, which has just arrived here, reports encountering unexampled ice floes off'the eastern coast of New- foundland, extending 300 miles seaward and south over the southern edge Of the Grand banks, right in the track of ocean shipping. To Pay W'uniunuker. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The arrest of Gideon W. Marsh. president of the failed Keystone National bank of Phil- adelphia, is recalled by a. bill introduced yesterday by Representative Young of Pennsylvania to reimburse W. H. Wan- amaker in the sum of $20, 000 paid by him as surety and bail for Marsh. Automobile" Ambulance. CHICAGO. Feb. 25.—The first auto- moble ambulance ever constructed was presented yesterday to the Michael Reese hospital of thiscity. It was built in this city and is the gift of five prom- inent business men. The a’mbulanCe weighs 1,600 pounds, and its speed ap- proximates 16 miles an hour. The Boston Futurity. BOSTON, Feb. 25.+The board Of offi- cers ofthe New England Horse Breed- ers’ association: has decided to open a $10,000 futurity stake for foals of 1899. The entries are to be counted as 2 and 3 year olds. The race will be run on the Breeders' association track in Readville. Suicide-at a WOIIdlng. .. MOWEAQUA, 1115., Feb. 25.—Miss Grace Sanner, daughter of a. ‘wealthy farmer, committed suicide by ,taking strychnine while sitting at the wedding feast of her half sister, whose mar- riage to John B. Orris had just taken place. Grace was at one time engaged to Orrin. l ’ture. 1111+:E,v'1111~111~1 G THE SMART REPORTER. l'c “ as \Vllling to Give Information About Ducks Free of ' Charge. 'It was two o’clock in the morning. All of the reporters but one had gone home, says the Detroit Free Press. The night editor sat at his desk reading over the copy of the last remaining res porter. There hadn’t been a word: spoken for a half—hour. The rumbling of: the distant presses and the clicking of the typewriter were the only sounds that broke the silence of the night. The telephone bell gave aloud long peal. “Hello, " cried the night edito_,r as he jammed the potato- -mashe1 to his left ear. “Say,” said the telephone,‘ ‘Vve are having a little discussion down here in Hogan’s place and we want to know which can fly the faster, a canvasback duck or a redheaded woodpecker. “Say. Bill," yelled the night. editor to the solitary reporter, “which can fly the faster, a canvasback duck or a red- headed woodpecker ?” “Duck,” laconically answered the re‘ porter. The night- editor turned to the tele- phone and told it that the duck was much the swiiter aerial navigator of the two. “How much faster?” asked the tele- phone. “How much fastei, Bill?” “Eight miles an hour 1n warm VV cath- er and ten miles if it’ 5 cold.” “Eight m1les an hour.” repeated the night Cacclitm. “Why is it?” asked the telephone. “Why is it, Bill?" “Because he spreads his canvas. The' woOdpecker hasn’t any." Ting-d-ling-a-ling‘. NATURE OF THE ALLIGATOR. The Reptile Described in Detail by One \Vho Knows Its Habits and Pecullurlties. An alligator is not an attractive crea- He. has not a single "virtue that. can be named. He is cowardly, treach- erous, hideous. He is neither graceful nor even respectable inappearance. He is not even amusing ,or grotesque in his ungainliness, for as a. brute—a. brute unqualified—he is always so intensely real that one shrinks from him with loathing. and a laugh at. his expense while in his presence would seem curi- ously out of place,_ says Appleton’s Monthly. His personality, too, is strong. Once catch the steadfast gaze of a free, adult; alligator‘ s wic ked eyes with their odd Vex t1cal pupils fixed full upon your mm and the significance of the ex- pression “evil ey’e and the mysteries of snake charming hy pnotism and 1100- dooism will be readily understood, for his bruti s-h, merciless, unflinching store is simply blood- chilling. Zoologicallv, the alligator belongs to the genus crocodilus, and he has all the hideousness of that. family, lacking somewhat its bloodthirstine 55, although the American alligator is carnivorous by nature, and ocbcasionally cannibal- istic. Strictly speaking, however, the true alligator is much less dangerous than his relatives of the old world, and he is correspondingly less courageous. THE SEA’S PHOSPHORESCENCEQ Ancient \Vrittngu Contain No Mend. tion of This Most striking Phenomenon. It is peculiar that so striking- a. phe- nomenon as the. phosphorescence of the " sea should remain almost unnoted by the ancient, Writers. There are several reasons for this. The ancients seldom ventured far away from the coast; they hugged the shore by day and pulled up at night on some convenient beach, hence they did: not Often see phosphorescence at all. Their ships were merely boats, not built or rigged for sailing close to- the wind, which' Is the most favorable position for Observ- ing this phenomenon. All such occur- Iences were regarded by the ancients as being of evil Domen—the superstition with regard to St. Elmo’s fire isa. sur- vival of this belief—and hence the ap- pearances when seen were not much talked of. Then, too. the ancients, sav- ing, perhaps, only the Phoenicians, hated the sea and all its works, and seem to have been curiously insensible to the beauties of nature. It is still probably a fact that the minute organ- isms which produce phosphorescence are infinitely more plentiful in those seas which were known to the ancients than they were then, in consequence of the extermination of whales and other marine animals which prayed upon them. Ben. and Their Keepeu. It is really surprising how much bet- ter a lot of hens do if they are on good terms with the one who takes care of them. They have a way of sizing their keeper up that is‘astonisbmg. If they like him they are protuable: if they do not there' 15 something wrong with the keeper. _ It is a pretty good thing to get on Speaking terms with- tbe hens. They have a language that , is easy to learn. and are great talkers if properly encouraged. — Farmer-3' Voice. stomach upsets the whole aya- tem. It is L50 starting 110.11! or many dis- eases. Stomach HOSIETTER’S , Ti‘eRS puts . ' a disordered slam-ch into 1103737th \ LEBRATED good working order agalh, cumin dyspep- sis, “031,? S": CMACEH :31an A disordered, ”constipaé ' INCOME. Received for Premiums . . ll . . From all other Sources' . . . . . DISBUEEEMENVESQ To Policy-holders for Claims by Death . ’. To Policy-holders for Endowments, Dividends, etc. . For all other Accounts ASSETQS United States Bonds and otherSecuritles , . » . First Lien Loans on Bond and Mortgage . . . Loans on Bonds- and other Securities, . . Real Estate, appraised by Insurance Superintendents , at $23,534,826.8.8 : Book Value . , . . Cash in Banks and, Trust Companies . . . Accrued Interest, Net Deferred Premiums, etc. LIABILITIES. Policly Reserves, etc., . . . . Contingent Guarantee Fund, , . . . Divisible Surplus . _ . . . . . . insurance and Annuities in Force . _ p A. . CHARLES A. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as 1131111 0' l HENRY H. ROGERS JNO. W AUCHINCLOSS THEODORE MORFORD . WILLIAM BABGOCK STUIVESANT FISH AUGUSTUS D. J UILLIARD CHARLES E. MILLER WALTER R GILLETTE l H. WALTER WEBB FEEDEEIC CROMWELL JULIEN T. DAVIES A. N. W'ATERHOUSE CHARLES R. HENDERSON RUFUS W. PECKHAM J. HOBART HERRICK WM. P. DIXON ROBERT A. GRANNIBS , I GEORGE G. HAVEN SAMUEL D. BASCOCS RICHARD A MCCURDY JAMES C. HOLDEN' HEBHANN C. VON POST WILLIAM J‘. SEWELL OLIVER HARBIMAN ROBERT OLYPHANT GEORGE F. BAKER Donner OLCOTT W AL’IEH R. GILLETTE, Generai Manager. iSAHO l". LLOYD, 2d Vice-President WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ' i _ . FltEDERIC CR0MWELL,T1'eaeure1-. .. JOHN A. FON HA, Assistant Treasurer. ~ " W ILLIAM l’. SANDS, Cashier. ‘ EDWARD 1'. HOLDEN, EMORY MCCLINTOCK,‘ Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, J3 , Assistant Actuary CHARLE‘ A, PRELLEIt,Aud1tor. C.CLIFF.)1.tJJ GRETS‘INGEB, Asuistant AuditOr. J OliN C ELLIOT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies. ’1? )W Alt!) LYMAN SHORT, General Solicitor. ' MEDICAL DIRECTORS: 31.1 h‘ J. MARSH. M I) GltAN VILLE 11 WHITE 0. S. WINSTON M. D. Consulting ' film; Elia '1' l’VISIIQSS. v GAZETTE.» ;A 7 ~ 7 ['lHiMUlUALU 111511111 01“ NEW YORK. A... HGAHE, Local Agent. RICHARD A. 'MOGURDY, President. Statement for the Year Ending Dec. 31:98. According to the Standard of the Insurance Department of the State of New York. $42,318,748 51 12,687,880 92 355.006.6251 43 $13,265,908 00 11,485,751 35 10,493,379 53 $35,245,033 88 $160,956.14! 33 68,503,580 90 9139696”) 00 20,604,649 61 11,621,377 36 6.434.957 to $277,517,335 30 233,058, 640 68 . , 42. 238,684 68 $2,220,000 00 27 9517- 2 36 $971,711.11” 79 lhave carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. liabilities calculated by the Insurance. Department. PRELLER, Audnon Board of Trustees ADRIAN ISEL1\ J n GEORGE S. Bowoom WILLIAM C. W HIT: as, W ILLIAM ROCKEF ELLIS JAMES N. J'Anvm CHAS D. DICKEY J11 ELBRIDGE T GERRY J Anus SrErEB; ROBERT A. GRAN-18$, -Vice—President. DUES du—P. BRECK, Correspoe ing Secretar, ALBERT KLAMRUTH, Assistam Secretary JAMES TIMI 8013.211 Assistant Treasurer Assistant Cashier WILLIAM W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. HENRY S. BROWN, Assistant Comptroller WES dB @EEEEET, General Agents.
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