Norwalk weekly gazette, Wednesday, June 4, 1890 · page 2

 

 

 

NORWALK GAZETTE,

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The stars :hat burn with purest beam,

Like brilliants round the brow of night,

. Not half so warm and lovely seem,

As eyes that shine with friendships light,
When turning back our wandering feet

\Ve know that sacred fire will rise,
And feel each moment doubly sweet

That brings us near those beaming: eyes.

! I know where richest blossoms blow,

' And cloudless skies bestow their smiles;

\Vhere streams in meltingr music flow—-
Thro‘ hallowed and enchanted isles.

But I can see each fairest flower
In cloudless eyes and feel the spell

Of tones whose lightest sound has; power
To match Apollo‘s winding shell.

I would not tread where angels lead.
If friends I loved were left behind

With tears to weep and hearts to blecl
Tho‘ paradise my steps Should find:

Its beings may be fairer far, .
Its streets of gold and jasper be;

But leave me where my loved ones are,
That will be paradise to me.

—Brook1yn Eagle.

‘ A NIGHT ADVENTURE.

During the year 1869 I was employed by
the Bank of Raybury to exchange money
between it and the Bank of Mutual Re-
demption, with which they did business in
the city. It was not a very interesting
employmen ., and one which gave me but
a small salary, but just then times were
dull and work scarce, so I was glad to get
anything to do, especially as I had an aged
mother depending upon me for support.

One dark, drizzly November night—and
nearly all November nights are dark—the
stage for Raybury broke down hopelessly,
fifteen miles from , its destination. Of
course, the accident happened in just the
worst part of the road, where it was next
‘to impossible to get a carriage of any kind,
and Where the only place of entertainment
was a rude log house, dignified by the
name of the J eifersou inn.

Mr. Griggs, the landlord of the tavern,
was soon on the spot, and gave it as his
opinion that the passengers had better go
to his house for the night; but as some half
dozen of them were determined to go on,
there was no alternative but to get out an
Old express wagon, which was stacked
away in a remote shed, and dispatch them
on their way. The stage horses were made
available, and the passengers piled in with
selfish haste; and long before I could get
my vnli ‘2 out of the ruins of the stage and
reach t in wagon, it mid I'lllllblcfl our, and
left me, with a half dozen more, behind.

It was absolutely necessary that I should
be in Raybury that night, else I should
cause serious inconvenience at the bank
next morning. And as I had been so often
congratulated on my promptitude in my

business, I felt very loth to be benindhand
now. I spoke to Mr. Griggs about it, and
asked if it were not. possible for llllll to let
‘me have a horse for Raybury. I would
pay him liberally, and return the animal
in good condition the next- day. But he
only shook his head. He had only one
horse in the stable, he said, and Mrs.
Griggs was subject to dreadful spells Ofthe
colic, and might be taken at any hour, and
he made it arule of his life never to let
Digby go out of :1. . stable for fear Mrs.
Griggs might be seiz. .::id die before the
doctor could be brought.

Under the circumstances Of course I
could not urge my request for the use of
Digby, and there was no chance for me to
get to Raybury until the 11 O’clock stage
next day unless I footed it, and that I
should not for a moment have hesitated to
do had it not been for the fact that the road
to Raybury was the vilcst in the county. I
always felt like swearing when I rode over
it, and doubtless I should have yielded en-
tirely to the sin of profanity if I had at—
tempted to walk it.

“Go to my house and stay tO—night, Mr.
Marsh,” said the landlord. “I can give
you some venison pie and a pot of beer for
your supper and a nice shake down before
the kitchen fire.”

“Pray, sir,” said a sweet voice at Griggs’

elbow. “is there no way to go on to Ray-
bury?”

“th t-o—night, my dear,” said Griggs,
softening as the light of his lantern shone
over the pretty face of a young girl whom
I had scarcely seen before, she having been
an inside pascengcr. “I guess you’ll have
to take up with such accommodations as
my llL use oll‘ers. I shouldn’t wonder if
Sally—t hat‘s my darter, miss—will let you
have half of her bed, seeing as you’ve been
un fortunate." '

“i must go on,” she said earnestly. “I
have been some months from heme, and
have been summoned thither by the illness
of my father. Indeed, sir. I cannot delay
here, for the dispatch said my father was
dying.”

There were tears in her voice, but it was
too dark to see whether they dimmed her
eyes.

“It‘s too had I” said Griggs; “but I couldn’t
let Digby go on any account; because, you
see, if Mrs. Griggs should be took, she’d die
store we could git Dr. Lumston here on foot.
You see, when she has these spells she’s
awful! Hello! Who’s coming now?”

A close carriage drawn by two dark horses
had come up and halted by the side of the
overturned coach. It was just light enough
to show me that there were two men in the
carriage, and that they ifi‘orc caps with the
visors well down and were muffled well
about the throat; but it was a chilly, raw
evening, and one needed to bc mufl'lcd.

“IVhat’s the difficulty?” asked one of the
men, in a hoarse voice.

“St-age upset,” said the landlord; “axle-

tree broke, and everything went to thun-
der.”
' “\Vell, you’ll get your house filledtonight,
if you’re the landlord of- the place back
yonder,” said the stranger. “Any gentle-
man here that would like to go on to Ray-
bury? \Ve would take one down.”

I stepped quickly forward, and said I
should be greatly indebted if they would
give me a seat. And then I introduced my-
self—Henry Marsh.

“And here’s a young woman as is going,
too,” said the landlord; “her pa’s sick, and
she must. git there, and I wouldn’t think of
' Digby out on account of Mrs.
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Ville. ‘s your name, my dear?”
“.-\.xt-.-il,” said the girl, “Madeline Axtell.

My hither
bury 1).. -.

The president Of the bank for which I
worked. i knew Judge Axtell very well,
and was able to tell Miss Madeline that his
illness was not considered dangerous. But
still she insisted upon going on, and at last,
after some considerable conversation be-
tween the two strangers, inaudible to us,
they consented to. takeus both.

I aSsistcd Miss Axtell into the carriage

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and took with her the back seat, our com-.

panions occupying the front.

Only one lamp of the carriage was burn-
,ing, and that gave a. very dim light, and
the farther we went the deeper seemed to
'grow the darkness. It. was a. lonely road
’at any time to‘ Raybury, but now it was
iparticularly gloomy, and I was confident
,thfit Miss Axtell showed to some degree
,tlie vague forebodings which I could not
pi‘évent myself from experimeing, for slit

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, drew closer to me, and once she asked me
‘ how long it would be before we reached
Monville—the next village.

\Ve came at last to Hemlock reach—a
long stretch of timber which intersected
the country at that point, and was some
three miles wide. There was not a house
for the whole three miles, and both sides

. of the roaded were wooded almost to the

wheel rut.

As the horse plunged into the blackness
of the place and panted and struggled
through the mud under foot Iwas confi-
dent that the two men spoke together in
subdued whispers, and that I distinctly
caught the words, “D——— the girl!” and
“Fifty—five hundrec .”

I grew cold with dismay. Fifty-five hun-
dred dollars was just me amount I had
about me, and it seemed very possible that
these fellows had gOt information to that
effect, and that I was to be robbed—per—
haps murdered. If I had been alone I
should have felt no fear, for I am natural-
ly what is called a dare devil sort of a fel—
low, and I had confidence in my courage
and strength, as well as in the pair of trusty
revolvers I carried in my breast pocket.

But Miss Axtell? What would become
of her? If they conquered me she would
be whOlly in their power, and if they were
what I took them to be—then God help
her!

We had traveled about half the distance
through the woods when the horses were
stopped abruptly, and one of the men rose
up in his seat and faced us.

Miss Axtell grasped my arm, and I knew
that she was terrified by the quick way in
which her breath came, but she did not cry
out, as most women would have done.

“There is no need of mincing matters,”
said the man, with admirable coolness,
“and I will come to the point at once.
You have 85,500 in your possession, and my
friend here and myself are in want of it.
\Ve planned the accident to the stagcfiby
sawing the axle half in two, and we hap-
pened along expressly to take you down to

taybury. The lady we did not reckon

upon, but could not well be ungallant
enough to refuse so much beauty in dis-
tress. And now the question is, will you
or will you not give us this money?”

“Most decidedly I will not!” was the
reply.

“Then we must use force,” said the man,
“and I warn you now that I will murder
you before I will allow you to escape with
the money! Give it up peaceably, ' and I
pledge you my honor that both yourself
and the lady shall be left at the next vil-
lage safe and unmolested.”

I Will never give up 2 cent; of the
money,” said I, feeling my indignation £5.20
at the scoundrcl’s coolness; “not a cent of
it, unless it is taken from my dead body!”

As I spoke the man flung off his coat and
seized me by the shoulder. Quick as
thought I leaped out of the carriage, drag-
ging him with me, and then began the
struggle. ‘

“Don’t use the pistols,” said the villain
who was taking care Of the horses; “they
would be heard too far; knife him if you
have got to stop his wind!”

My antagonist was a powerfully built
fellow and exceedingly strong, but I was
lithe and athletic, and we were very nearly
matched. Over and over we rolled in the
mud, sometimes one gaining an advantage,
sometimes the other, but neither giving up
the struggle. Once I had him by the
throat and his gurgling cry for help
brought the other man to the spot.

Two against one was rather fearful odds,
but I felt no disposition to yield. They
beat me and crushed me with their weight,
but they never once succeeded in pinioning
my hands. and I flatter myself that I gave
them 5035.; blows that they felt sensibly, to
say the least.

But after a time I felt my strength giv-
ing way and knew that I could not hold
out much longer. How Miss Axtell guessed
it I do not know, but just as the larger
man of the two had planted his knee on
my breast and was raising a knife to strike
it to my heart I saw by the dim light shed
by the carriage lamp that the young lady
had got down from the vehicle and was
hurrying toward us.

I tried to shout to her to escape while
she had a chance, but if she heard she did
not heed. She c2 .me straight on, and the
next moment I heard a cry of rage and
pain, and the man on my breast tumbled
Off violently and lay kicking upon the
ground.

She had made a slip noose with her scarf
and flung it over his head while he was too
much occupied to notice her presence. And
now the brave girl was tugging away at
the scarf with all her might, and the man
was choking and swearing at a tremendous
rate. ‘

Suddenly he twitchcd the scarf from her
hands, and then, with a wild oath, he
sprang upon her and both went down to
the ground.

Breaking loose from the other man I
rushed to the spot and saw the villain was
tying Miss Axtell’s hands. She was be-
tween me and him, and I called out to her:

“Miss Axtell, drop 3 our head and do not
move until I tell you to.”

She obeyed, and simultaneously I fired
one of my pistols at the exposed breast of
the man. He dropped instantly, and be-
fore I could turn to his companion I felt
his grasp again upon my throat and the
cold touch of steel upon my forehead. It
was no time to indulge in questions of right
and wrong if I would save my life and
hers, and, without pausing to argue the.
morality Of the proceeding, I gave this man
the contents of the other barrel of my rc-
volver.

It settled his business for him so effect-
ually that be caused us no more trouble;
and, having ascertained that both the men
were dead, I lifted Miss Axtcll into the
carriage and drove as fast as I could to the
next village, where I roused the proper
authorities and placed them in possession
of the facts. Then I took Miss Axtell
home, and was gratified to find that her
father was out of all danger and in a fair
way of a speedy convalescence. ,

The two robbers were recognized as Old
offenders; they had each been at one time
in the state prison, and were well known
as very desperate characters. Considering
everything, my escape was most providen—
tial.

Perhaps the reader will be interested to
know that during that uncomfortable
night I fell desperately in love with Miss
Axtcll, and so successfully did we both
plead with her father that, rich old nabob
as he was, he consented to our marriage;
andnow I am cashier of the Rayburybank
and Madeline is my wife, God bless her!—
New York \Veeklr.

In the formation of a single locomotive
steam engine there are (nearly 6,000 pieces
to be put together, and these require to'be
as accurately adjusted as the works of a.
watch. . _

Eat an apple every night and you will
lengthen your life ten years. You Wilhdo
half as well if you make it a. rule to drink
a. glass of water every night. .

“Cereal food,” said the tramp-reading
the advertisement. “Humphl. I’d likéj'to
see real food. It’s this sham grub‘that’s
lziliin’ mo.”—Epoch.

 

 

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WAL'klN'o'A ‘l'RACK FOR AHLIVl—NVG:

It’s a Useful Though Not a. Pleasant Oc-
pation, as Many Men Know.

Some of the. old railroad track walkers
mu boast of records equal to that of loco-
motives in the point of miles which they
have covere< . Engineers sometimes claim'
that they have ridden 200,000 miles or so,
but the men who have walked that far are
not often heard of. Still there are plenty
of them in the branch of the railroad serv-
ice of which the “track walker” belongs.
They are the safeguard of travel which the
public knows least about. They prevent
hundreds of accidents, but their good deeds
are rarely, if ever, rewarded, as is the case
with the faithful engineer 01' flagman.
And it is a peculiar fact that there is no
line of promotion, consequently no great
incentive to careful work.

A reporter got some ideas about their
duties from Thomas Epsnan, now foreman
of a section Of trackmen in the yard Of the
Grand Central station. Sesnan has been
employed on the track work of the Harlem
railroad for forty—two years, and is now
looked upon as a patriarch among the
trackmen. He has had charge of a gang
for the last eighteen years; before that he
was a trackman himself. He says that he
helped to lay the second track of the Hai-
lem road in 1848, over which the New
Haven road first entered the city.

“Every piece of railroad,” he said, . ,“is
divided into sections of from five to seven
miles, if it is single track, and from three
to four miles, if double. A foreman with
a gang of five or six men keeps each sec-
tion in order. All but one are trackmen,
who are kept busy making repairs. That
one is the track walker, who patrols the
tracks all day long with an eye out for
weak points and obstructions which might
cause accidents. Of course there is a sec-
ond track walker at night who does the
same work.

“The track walker’s outfit includes a
hammer, wrench, lantern, red flag, a few
torpedoes, bolts and spikes. No, he doesn’t
walk at pedestrian speed. His gait
shouldn’t be more than two to three miles
an hour. A man might hurry over the en-
tire ground inside Of an hour, but he
couldn’t look at every bolt and rail connec—
tion as his duties require. If it’s a double
track road he walks on the track facing
the direction from which the train is com—
ing and examines only one track at a time.
He takes the other track on the way back.
A track walker gets over the ground, as
far as he is able, just before the trains pass
over his section. But he keeps at work all
day long, and if he has a double track, di—
vldca into three mile sections, he ought to
make about three round trips a day over
each track. This would make a day’s av-
erage of twenty—four miles.

“An experienced track walker can tell a
loose bolt at a glance. Sometimes it will
be caused by a broken rail, and he will see
that the joints do not fit. Generally a
loose joint will be indicated by a disturb—
ance of the earth, causing a crevice be-
tween the sleeper and the rail. In this
case the track walker props the rail with
a thin piece of wood, which he must carry
in his outfit. Fish plates and angle plates
are distributed along the line, and the
track walker sometimes has to replace
broken plates if there isn’t time for the
section gang to come up before a train is
due. In case of a broken rail or obstruc-
tions which he can’t handle, the ti‘ack
walker puts torpedoes on the tracks and
uses his red flag to warn a passing train.
Then he leaves his patrol and informs the
foreman and trackman as soon as possible.
In emergency cases at night the track
walker wraps his red flag about the lan-
tern as a signal. Torpedocs are used also.

“I never heard of a track walker’s being
promoted to a better paying position. Once
a track walker always a track walker.”

“Anybody can get such a job, then,” sug-
gested the reporter.

“Not a bit of it,” retorted the patriarch.
“You couldn’t, for instance. I’d like to
see you bolt on one of those angle plates;
and you’d have to do it in case Of emer—
gency. A man must have experience as a
trackman first. The foreman picks his
track walker out of the trackmen. Their
pay is all the same—about 81.35 a day. But
if there is any promoting being done, the
track walker is never the lucky one. Some
trackman gets the raise. The track walker
must go back to the section gang again if
he expects to get up in the world.

“As a rule, track walkers keep at it all
their lives. A man who worked under me
on the section between Philmont and Crary—
ville, on the Harlem road, a trip six miles
long, made two round trips 3. day. He
started from Philmont at 5 a. m., and by
the end of the first round trip of twelve
miles it was noon and he got dinner. An-
other trip and he gave way to another man
at 5 p. m. This man, Michael McGrath,
kept up his twenty-four miles walk about
every day in the year for eighteen years.
Reckoning 360 days to the year, this makes
more that 155,000 miles. Many rack walk—
ers have kept it up longer. A man on the
Erie says he has walked more than 200,000
miles.

“The unpleasant part comes in rainy or
wintry veather. Of course if the snow is
six inches; deep on the tracks, the track
walker can’t see the rails, let alone the
loose bolts, and this is the only time he gets
a holiday. But the chances are that he
vill have to tu ‘n in with the rest of the
sec-tion gang and help clear the road.”—
New York Sun.

 

Looking for Spittoons.

There is a tradesman in this village who
occasionally gets off a good thing. The
fact that he is innocent Of any intent to joke
adds force to his comical sayings. The
other day a lady called at his place of busi-
ness and asked:

“Have you spittoons?”

“Eh?" said the merchant, pricking up
his ears.

“Can you show me a. spittoon?” repeated
the lady, in a higher key.

“NO, ” said the merchant, “I have nothing
of the kind; but,” he added ,hospitably,
“you can spit in the coal bed.”

The listeners chuckled audibly, and the
lady smiled and took a hasty departure.—
Richmond (Me) Bee.

 

Millionaires of Ancient Times.

The sacred writings tell us that Solomon
was immensely rich—that silver was abun-
dant in Jerusalem, and that in one year the
king received from Hiram 300 talents of
gold, equal to $16,250,000. It is known that
in Assyria there were large masses of gold,
and that Darius received in tribute from
Persia as much as $16,250,000. In Greece,"1
the wealth of Croesus was esfiiated at $15,— '
000,000, and that of Pytheus at as large a
sum. At Rome, Tiberius, it is said, left a
legacy of $110,000,000, and Augustus ob-
tained by testamentary dispositions as
much as $160,000,000.—-Dry Goods Chronicle.

 

A professor in the'University of Klausen-
burg claims to have compounded a solution
which completely neutralizes the poison
introduced into the system by the bite of a
mad dog. This solution consists of chlorine
water, salt brine, sulphurous acid, per-
manganate of potassium and eucalyptus
OIL -

 

A ‘i‘ruo Story of a Dog.

People living uptown in the neighbor-
hood of Sixth and Oxford streets, Phil-
adelphia, often see droves of sheep driven
through the streets. One man with his
droves has for an assistantonly a shepherd
dog, who is expert in his way. The man
is fond of stopping and tells the dog, by a
wave of his hand, to mind the sheep while
he is absent.

Recently a gentleman timed the shep-
herd. He was in the house thirty—five min-
utes. The dog marshaled the sheep close
together right at the corner, near where
his master entered a dcor, and then lay
down to rest, but was on the alert for any
movement among the sheep.

He kept them packed closely together,
and if one moved out of the line he rose
and with a few barks soon had the sheep
back in place. He would run around the
flock to see if all was right and then lay
down again, only to repeat the watch when
another moved. He had them in such a
group that they filled the street from curb
to curb, but he would not allow them to
get on the pavement.

At last a wagon came along; the driver
wanted to turn up the street, and, not be-
ing able to go through the group of sheep,
stopped. The dog saw the dilemm, step-
ped out and soon had the sheep arranged
in file on one side of the street, leaving
plenty of room for the horses and wagon
to pass. Nobody told the dog what—he
knew. After it was all done his master
came out and gave the dog a pat on the
head and a piece of pretzel by way of re-
ward—New York Tribune.

How to Retain Trade.

The merchants who think they gain
trade by trusting customers of doubtful
standing may find a moral in this little
story: A certain jobber has for years sold
supplies to peddlers. His methods are pe—
culiar, but as they are based on a knowl—
edge of human nature and especially of the
specimens with which he has to deal, they
generally work to his satisfaction. Many
Of his best customers are sold onaspot
cash basis only. One of these was buying
some goods from him the other day and
found, when the bill was presented, that
he lacked $2.65 of thc'uecessary sum.

“I’ll pay you that little balance the next
time I come in,” said the customer. The
jobber reflected for a moment and then
said:

“You needn’t trouble yourself to pay it.
I‘ll make you a present of the difference,
Mr. Blank,” he said. Turning to thc
bookkeeper, “Receipt this bill in full.”

After the peddlcr had departed a friend
who was present asked for an explanation.

“That man," replied the jobber, “is one
of my best customers. He comes here
very Often and pays cash for all he buys. I
am sure of his trade a; long as this con-
tinues; but should I ever give him credit,
however small, he could not withstand
the temptation of swindling me out of the
debt. He would never enter the store
again, and I would lose both my account
and my customer. The first loss is always
the best, so I made him a present of that
small balance, and will thus retain his
trade. ’ ’——chelcrs’ \Vcckly.

The Bond Between the Earth and Sun.

It would almost. seem as if our globe
were always trying to escape from the
thraldom of the sun, who, knowing how
fatal to us such an escape would be, inces-
santly interferes to prevent it. If only the
sun were to withhold that attractive power
by which the earth is maintained in the
course at present followed, dire calamity
must result. This globe of ours is now
hurrying along at a pace of eighteen miles
a second, and if the sun’s attraction no
longer restrained us we should not con—
tinue to revolve in a circle, but would at
once start off in a straightdino through
space. Every minute would take us more
than a thousand miles, and by the time a
hundred days had elapsed we should be
twice as far from the sun as we are at
present. His light and his heat would be
reduced to one-fourth part of what we now
enjoy. \Vith every successive minute the
sun’s influence would still further abate,
and it is almost needless to add that all
known forms of life must vanish from the
globe. It is, therefore, satisfactory to know
that we possess every security that the
sun’s attraction will never decline from
what it is at the present moment, and
therefore there is no ground for any appre-
hension that life shall be chased from this
globe by a dissolution of the bond of attrac-
tion between the earth and sun.~—Good

Vords.
‘What Becomes of Old Hats.

Most people who buy hats hcre leave
their old ones. YVhat becomesof these old
hats? If the body of the hat is very old it
is sold to the old hat man, who strips it Of
the band, the sweat band, and maybe the
lining if it is not too much worn. He usu-
ally sells these strippings for twenty—five
cents. But if the hat is only partially
worn it is kept here until the accumula-
tion become too great, and in that case the
old hat man has a harvest. But those
that are not too much worn, which we re-
tain, are brushed up for the benefit of our
customers. A man omcs in who wants
his hat renovated. he job may require
time. The man may not want to wait;
says “Lend me a hat,” and we give him
one of these. A good many of these hats
are worn to baseball games. People don’t
like to wear good hats to a ball ground.
There is a superstition that there is apt to
be rain some time during the day on which
a game of ball is played, or that a hot ball
may get loose on the grand stand. That
is why so many Old hats are worn to ball
games—Interview in Chicago Tribune.

Presence of I‘innd.

Lieut. Von Barby, of the Twelfth Hussar
regiment, Germany, was riding with the
troops in the neighborhood Of Merseburg,
when his horse took fright and bolted. All
efforts to restrain him being fruitless, he
gave him the rein and waited his Oppor-
tunity to jump Off. To his dismay the ani-
mal swerved suddenly in the direction of a
plateau overhanging a broad expanse of
water; a few moments and both horse and
rider would be over the edge. A bright
flash was seen for a moment, the saber of
the officer fell upon the head of the steed,
and they both came to the ground, the man
safe—Exchange.

Estimate of the world’s population: The
Mongolians lead with about 639,000,000, and
the Aryans, which comprise practically all
the people of Europe, four-fifths of those of
the American continent and all of the
civilized residents of Australia, come next,
with 545,000,000. The negroes are put at
150,000,000, the Semitic people at 65,000,000,
the Malays and Polynesians at 35,000,000,
and the Indians of North and South
America at 15,000,000.

 

A colossal scheme has been projected for
conveying petroleum in pipes from the:
port of Baku. on the Caspian, to Batoum,i
on the Black’sea. The length of the line;
of piping is 497 miles, the cast iron pipes,
are to be eight inches in diameter, and; .

,JoIIN W. mesons. General Agent. New Haven,conn. -

there are to be sixty-four intermediate‘
stations. . . ' ‘ .‘ :

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OF NEW YORK.

 

ASSETS, - - - -

Increase in Asset-s, . . . . . . . .
Surplus, . . . .

Increase in Surplus, . . . . . . . .
Receipts, . . . .

Increase during year, . . . . . . . .
Paid Policy-Holders, - . . . .

Increase during year, . . . . ~ . . . .
Risks assumed, . . . .

Increase during year, . . . . . . . .
Risks in force, . . . .

Increase during year,
Policies in force,

Increase during year,
Policies Written in 1889, . . . .

Increase over. 1888,

no.- can.

 

Real Estate and Bond and Mortgage Loans,
United States Bonds and other Securities,
Loans on Collateral Securities,

Cash in Banks and Trust Companies at interest, . . . .
Interest accrued, Premiums deferred and in transit, etc,

fl

be correct.

 

Risks
Outstanding.

Risks

Year. Assumed.

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NEW YORK, January 29th, 1890.

 

Board of Trustees

Samuel F. Sprouls,
Lucius Robinson,
Samuel D. Babcock,
George S. Coe,
Richard A. McCurdy,
James C. Holdcn,
Herman G. von Post,
Alexander H. Rice,
Lewis May,

Oliver Harriman,
Henry W. Smith,
Robert Olyphant,
George F. Baker,
Joseph Thompson,
Dudley Olcott,
Frederick Cromwell,
J alien T. Davies,
Robert Seweli,

George Bliss,
Rufus W. Peckham,
J. Hobart Herrick,
Wm. P. Dixon,
Robert A. Grannis,
Nicholas C. Miller,
Henry H. Rogers,

Theodore Morford.
William Babcock,
Preston B. Plumb,

Stuyvesant Fish,

Charles E. Miller,
James W. Husted.

 

ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Ice-President.

 

A. N. WATERHOUSE, Auditor.

 

FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer.

EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Assistant Cashier.

WILLIAM G. DAVIES, Solicitor. WILLIAM W. RICHARDS,

MEDICAL DIRECTORS.
'GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D.
WALTER R. GILLETT, M. D.,

 

VVillIam D. \Vashburn,

STATEMENT .

RICHARD A. McCURDY, President.

For the Year Ending December 3131:, 1889“

$l36,40l .328 02

$10,319,174 46
$9,657,248 44
$1,717,184 81

$31,119,019 62
$4,903,087 10

$15,200,608 38

$473,058 16
$151,602,483 37
$48,388,222 05
$565,949,938 92
$83,824,749 56
182,310

23,941

44,577

11,971

THE ASSETS ARE INVESTED AS FOLLOWS :

$69,361,913 13
$50,323,469 81
$9,845,500 00
$2,988,632 79
$3,881,812 29

$136,401,328 02

 

Liabilties (including Reserve at 4 per cent,) $126,744,079 58

I have carefully examined the foregoing statement and __find the same to
A. N. WATERHOUSE, Auditor.

From the Surplus above stated a dividend will be apportioned as usual.

Surplus.

1884. . . 8 34,681,420. . . $351,789,285. . . .$103,876,178.51. . . $4,743,771

1885 . . . . 46,507,139. . . . 368,981,441. . . . 108,908,967.51. . . . 5,012,634
1886. . . . 56,832,719 . . . . 393,809,203 . . . . 114,181,963.24 . . . . 5,643,568
1887 . . . . 69,457,468. . . . 427,628,933. . . . 118,806,851.88 . . . . 6,294,442
1888 . . . . 103,214,261 . . . . 482,125,184. . . . 126,082,153.56 . . . . 7,940,063
1889' ‘ ' ' 151,602,483. . . . 565,949,934. . . . 136,401,32802. . . . 6,557,248

S. VanRensselaer Curzon,
Charles R. Henderson,

Jno. W. Auchincloss,

Augustus D. J uilliard,

ISAAC F. LLOYD, 2d Vice President. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary. ~_
FREDERICK SCHRODER, Asst. Secretary.

EMORY MOCLINTOCK, LL.D., F. I. A. Actuary. _ .
JOHN TATLOCK, JIL, Asst. Actuary. CHARLES R. PERRY, 2d Asst. Actuary,

JOHN A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier.

Comptroller.

E. J. MARSH, M.D,

A. H. CAMP, Agent. Norwalk, Conn.

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THE MUTUAL
Ll INSURANEE COMPANY. ~

 

 

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