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THE DAILY EVENiivti Tai.KGRAPII PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, DECEMftKll 31, 18G8.
American Art In the l'Aris Exposition.
The following extract from the "Report on
the Fine Arts," by Frank Leslie, United States
Commissioner to the Universal Exposition at
Tarie, la interesting. After enumerating the
drawbacks to which the collection of works
for the American gallery was expo3ed, Mr.
Leslie says:
Notwithstanding all disadvantages, seventy,
five pictures, by tulrty-eight artists, were sent
forward from the United Htatea and plaoed la
the Exposition. Oi this number at least one
third should not, under any pretense or influ
ence, have been admitted to a place. It is
doubtful if they could have obtained room in
any local exhibition where ordinary discrimi
nation is exercised In the choice of pictures.
Now, we have upwards of 400 painters, mem
bers of the different academies of design in
New York, Loston, l'hlladelphia, and other
cities, and it Is idle to pretend that the plaoe
of the twenty-five mediocre or utterly worth
less pictures could not have been supplied by
at least creditable works of art. Many sued
works were accessible. Among them may be
mentioned with credit the fine pictures by
Uradford, drawn, after careful study, among
the icebergs and on the coast and among the
natives of Labrador. One of these, oifeied by
the artist, he was obliged himBelf to exhibit la
1'aris, where it speedily found a sale, while
the eye of the visitor to the Exhibition was
offended by, in one instance certainly, no less
than lour so-called works of art from a single
unpractised and obscure hand.
The American collection occupied one end
of the British gallery and the walls of the
Avenue d'Afrlque dividing this gallery from
the Italian. This passage was constantly
crowded, so that the lower ranges or tiers of
pictures could seldom be seen, or, if at all, at
a great disadvantage. Thus Gilford's "Twi
light on Mount Hunter," Hubbard's "View
of the Adirondacks," and McKutee's "Vir
ginia in 18G3," were hung in very bad light,
while works far inferior had prominent places
in the gallery itself.
Not only was the American exhibit of paint
ings by no means an exhibition of the various
styles of American artists, but it was equally
delicient as a type or representative of Ame
rican art in 1867. Few of the pictures had a
distinctive, still less a distinctively, American
character, except Johnson's well-known and
justly appreciated "Kentucky Home," which
compared favorably with the best European
works of similar character and attracted much
attention from students. Some other small
pictures by the same competent artist could
hardly be called finished, and might judi
ciously have been left out of the exhibition.
It is to be regretted that of character or genre
pictures we had so few ppecimens, since in
thlo department, always the tuust popi-ilar, we
wight have achieved u real distinction.
The department of pointing in which the
United btates may lay claim to highest excel
lence is undoixbtedly landscape, aui, as was to
be expected, the largest proportion of pictures
in the American gallery were landscapes
twenty-eight in all. But these were iuale
ju;i.e representatives of the genius of oar
painters in this, their favoilte branch of art.
They were not characteristic; for, with the ex
ception of a single work by BierstaJt, with
his broad elects; one by Church, accurately
studied and well manipulated, aud one eaeU
by Gignoux and Gilford, they represented no
important scene or combination of scenery in
the United States, aud might be taken as pre
senting views in almost any other country.
Our autumn aud winter scenery
found 110 proper representation, al
though in depicting tliesa we have artists
of real merit. It may be paid generally that
our landscapes are brighter, more cheerful
and pleasing than those of European artist3 a
not unnatural res alt, oousideriug our clearer
and more brilliant sky and atmosphere. Oar
artists, as a whole, have to deal with bolder
scenery, and are consequently often more elec
tive in their results. The dull skies, long
twilights, and generally tame outlines of
nature in European countries are reproduced
in piotures also dull, leaden, and monotonous,
but nevertheless carefully manipulated. Yet,
with all our natural advantages of subject and
general success in landscape painting, it is
hnmiliating to say that we did not rauk any
higher in the Exposition than Prussia, Swe
den, and Switzerland.
In saying this it i3 not meant to be nuder
stood that the Exposition, as a whole, pre
sented any remarkable landscapes. A number
might be called good, but lew could be pro
nounced excellent.
And here it may be observed, in parenthe
sis, as a matter worth remembering by as
piring artists, that landscapes have a less
general or popular appeal than meny other
classes of paintings. Authors of the best
works in this department, not in the American
alone, but in every other, would be astonished
to see how indill'erently their productions were
passed over by the tnoueands who wandered
throngh the galleries of the great Exhibition,
while figure subjects and represeuta-
tions of active or historical scenes
never missed attracting a crowd of
gazers if not critics.
The natural scenery of our country, its
variety and kaleidoscopic efivots, cannot be
surpassed. Italian sunsets and Alpine sceuery
have become conventional in Europe as syno-'
nyms artistically of the tropics and of gran
deur in vale and mountain, and, as contrasted
with thedulnessof English skies and the puny
altitudes of Wales and Scotland, they may be
justly regarded as beautiful and grand. Bat
Washington Is in a lower latitude than Rome,
and Florida is parallel with the Insert of
Sahara.
Every aspect which nature exhibits, from
the torrid heats of Algeria to the bitter cold
of Norway, is to be found in our own country
on every scale of extent and grandeur. Our
Atlantic seaboard stretches over 3000 miles,
and our l'aclflo line from the headlands of
California to the pole. Our field of art, like
our area of development, is almost illimitable,
aud it is no fault of ours if the wilderness in
one instance be uncultivated, or in the other
nature's wonderful combinations nnportrayed
on ths canvas. It has taken almost 500 years
to rear the unfinished Duomo of Milan to its
present proportions It was commenoed 105
years before the discovery of America by Co
lumbus, and yet scarcely 100 years have
elapsed since the United States had a being.
Nevertheless, as already said, we have an
art material that ought to inspire and develop
the native artist, whatever his tastes or
talents, whether as a painter of lake, river,
marine, and seashore subjects; of mountain,
prairie, or forest scenery, or of the thousand
striking aspects and episodes ot busy and ad
venturous life of which the United Btates offers
so many illustrations. The stormy Atlantic
and the placid Facifio, the broad lakes of the
North and the shadowy lagoons and bayous of
the South, the turbid Missbsippl, crystal Hud
son, swirling and plunging Niagara, St. Law
rence and Columbia, and the Colorado flowing
through the deep refts of plateau aud moan
tain, are all equally subjects for the poet's pea
and the painter's pencil. The severe
landscapes of Maine, with steel
eolored lakes framed in by dark
evergreens and reflecting the cold, stern hills,
afford abundant scope for a taste gloomy and
severe. The rich valleys of the Middle Btates,
grefn with growing crops, golden with ripn-
lug grain or ruuuy wun auinmuai ums,
brightened with cities and villages, j
streaked with railways ; nd cantls; f
smoother expanses of the South, its. Indies
wastes of pines, broad, dreainy cotton
plantations and level horiions rice-field,
its orange and palm trees these, too, offer
their thousands of combinations to the eye of
the artist and their inspiration to his touch.
Oar meteorto conditions and phenomena are
equally varied and grand, and we have the
characteristics, accessories, and incidents be
longing to three great and broadly defined
rates of men ana t pes of human life and
civilization.
AVe should excel in landscape pnintiDg in a
legrte corresponding with ttie variety and
majesty of our subjects and with that excep
tional favor with which this branch of art is
regarded in onr country. Bat oar artists
must be less timid aud catch more of the
boldness and vigor which made Norway and
Sweden, and even Russia, crnBptouous in the
l'aris Exhibition, and enabled them to take
rank as our superiors in landscape painting.
But one picture in the American gallery wai
honored with an award namely, Church's
"Niagara." (The artist's medal with 500f.
in gold). This well known picture has au
established American and a considerable
English reputation, and is a faithful aul
effective rendering of nature. The secoud aud,
perhaps, more ambitious picture exhibited by
the brush artist, "Ti e Rainy Season in the
Tropics," received not unmerited criticism for
the dazzling glow of Its rainbow, a meretri
cious feature, which blinds the eye to
the lice effects of clilf and mountain, which
constitute the chief merit of the pio
tnre. The next largest and perhaps
in all respects the most conspicuous
picture in the American gallery was Bier
Btadt's "Rocky Mountains." Iu arrangement
of light and shadow, and in the rendering of
the water, its purity and depth, this ploture
was probably unsurpassed in the entire exhi
bitiont And it derived signal advantage from
the introduction of au element too often ne
glected even when admissible in a landscape,
viz., life in the foreground. The introduction
of a camp of explorers, with Indians, etc, is
not only effective but appropriate, and gives
a living interest to the picture without de
tracticg from thn silent majesty of the na
tural features which it was the great object
of the painter to portray. Had the solitary
award made to the Uuited States been left
to the suffrages of the mass of the lovers
and appreciators or art who visited our gal
lery, it is not improbable that that doubtful
honor might have, been conferred on "The
Rocky Mountains."
"Mount Washington," by Gignoux, is a good
effective picture, bu by no means one of
the I best productions of that artist, aud lost
much of its real fll'cct by being badly hung iu
the gallery. Had i his prolific painter been
consulted in the natter, the America gallery
might have been greatly, enriched and the
credit of American art much elevated. Gifford
had two very excellent pictures in the Exhibi
tion, though but oiju of them was huug, to
gether with Ilnbbard's goodaDd well-manipulated
"View on the Adirondacks," in the dim
passage called Avoiue d'Afrique, where it
was difficult to see it at all. " Lake
George in Autumn," by Kensett, a carefully
studied piece, but deficient in force in the
fort ground, atti acted much attention and was
well appreciated. "The Symbol," by Duraud,
was generally regarded as an ellective picture
by competent foreign critics", as was also "Vir
ginia in 1803," by MaoEutee. "Autumn in
the Woods," by the artist last named, is by
no meats one of his bast works. Tuese were
the principal landscapes exhibited. The re
mainder were either mediocre or absolutely
poor, and, if their places could not have beeu
supplied with better works, they might, for
the credit of American art, have been omitted
from the gallery altogether.
Vnlna1l .Hiuiuscrljd".
One good result of the war in Abyssinia is
revealed in a leiter from an oflicer of the
British Museum. When the British troops
occupied Magdala they found about one thou
sand manuscript volumes, which King Theo
dore had gradually brought together iu order
to form a library lor the church, which he in
tended to build, dedicated to the Saviour of
the woild, Maahanti 'Alain. From this mass
of manuscripts, Mr. Manziuger, British Consul
at Ma&sowah, an accomplished linguist, and
Mr. Holmes, of the British Museum, archie
ologist to the expedition, selected three hun
dred and sixty of the finest. The remainder
were given to the priests of the ohuroh of Cae-
licot, troin whom some of them appear to have
beeu purchased and taken to England by both
officers and soldiers. The Indian Government,
in liberal compliance with the recommenda
tion of Lord Napier, has presented this entire
collection to the trustees of the British Mu
seum, with the exception of a few of the hand
somest volumes, which are destined for the
royal library at Windsor.
Mr. W. Wright, of the British Museum,
who gives this interesting information, de
scales the collection as follows:
"In point of age- these manuscripts may
perhaps disappoint the expectations of some
scholars; for, with few exceptions, the greater
number belong to the seventeenth and eigh
teenth centuries, and some were transcribed
during the reign of Oheodore himself. A
considerable number, especially of the litur
gical class, contain pictures in the different
styles of Abyssinian art.
"As regards its contents, the collection
fairly represents every branch of the Ethiopio
literature, which is, like the Syriao, almost
exclusively ecclesiastical, and consists, in
grtat part, of translations from the Greek,
Arabic, and Coptic. We have here nume
rous Biblical manuscripts, comprising, besides
the ordinary canonical and apocryphal books,
the Book of Enoch, the Kinalo (Liber Jabi-la-ornm,
or l'arva Genesis), the Ascension of
Isaiah, the l'arallponiena of Baruoh, and the
ApocalypBe of Ezra. The liturgical seotion
contains manuscripts of the Fsalter; the
Deggwa and Me'rat or anthems and hymns
for various occasions, with musical notation;
Missals and various other office books and
h; nan-books. To this class also belong the
Nagara Marjam, or discourses for the festivals
of the Virgin Mary; the Gebra Hem a mat, or
services for Passion Week; the Denauut, or
homilies for the festivals of the archangels
Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, eto.
"In the department of theology we find such
books as KOrlos; that is, Cyril, comprising Cyril's
Trotphoneticus ad Imperatorem Theodosium,'
the dialogue 'quod nuns sit Christ us,' and a
collection of homilies by various Fathers; the
'Ancoratns,' and other works of Eplphanlus;
Chrysostoin on the Epistle to the Hebrews;
the homilies of Severus of Eshmunlan; the
works of Mar Isaao of Nineveh; the treatises
ascribed to Kalamentus, or Clement; the 'Si no
de's, or Connoils of the Church,' and the 'Di
dascalia Apostolorum.' Besides these, there
are copies of the 'Halmilnuta Abau, or Faith of
the Fathers;' Fbiluxenus of Mabfig on the
Monastio Life; the Gannata Manakusat, or
Faradisus Monaohorum;' the 'Uawi,' a huge
compilation, apparently known by the name
of 'Talmid,' drawn up by George, the disciple
of Anthony the Syrian; the Aragawi Man
fatawi,' Fans Manfasawi,' and others. Here,
too, may be mentioned the famous 'Fetha
Najaet,' a cede of olvil and conon law.
"In chronological and hlstoiloal works tin
literature ol Abyssinia is not rich.' To thj
former class pertain the well-known treat-i
of Abfi Shaker; to the latter, the Universal
History of George ibu Ami I; the 'Z6o;'t
Aihud; or, History of the Jews,' by Joseph,
Ben Oorlon; and the 'K-hra Nagast, or Glory
oftheKfng8.' There are also two Chronicles
of Ethiopia, which may prove both useful an I
interesting. The one seems, roughly speak
ing, to contain the history of the latter half of
the last century; the other is a work of greater
extent, commencing with the creation, but
enttring more or less Into detail from the time
of Arc-da tsijon onwards. It is brought down
by contlnnators far into the present century.
The histories of Alexander the Great, King
Sekendes, and Serkis, or Serglus, of Armenia,
are rather historical romanoes than histo
ries. Of ecclesiastical legends there is, how
ever, no lack. Besides the Miracles of Our
Lord, of the Virgin Mary, and of the three
Archangels, we may here mention the 'Gaila
Hawftrjftt, or Acts of the Apostles And Disci
ples;' the Senkes.tr, or Synaxarinm,' that is,
the Menologium, or Martyrology for the whole
year, generally comprised in two large folios
or quartos; and numerous Lives and Acts of
siDgle Saints, an oh as GivorgU, or Georgo,
Eustathins, Takla HuimanOt, Fasi'aias, Luli
bala, eto.
"Almost all the above works are In the an
cient Ethiopio language; the number of those
in the modern Amhario being very small.
With very few exceptions, the M33. are legi
bly, often beautifully written on well-prepared
vellum; and many of them are not inelegantly
bound in wooden boards, covered with stamped
leather."
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P&R AIND INTEREST,
At irthich rate the holder or UOYF.KX
MILNT SEtUKlTIKS can nuke a prollt
bIIp cxcliange.
COrrONSrtne Jannaryl CASHED,, or
bought at full rates fr fi'ilJ. .
WE. PAIKTEB CO.,
BAAKEKS. A.D DEALLI-S IS UOVUW
M1IXT SLCUKITins,
Ho. SO South THIRD Street,
; t PHILADSLPUIA.
Dealers In United States Honds, and Mem
bers or Stock and Hold Exclian?e,
Keceire Acconnts of Fiuiks and Hankers on
Liberal Terms,
ISSUE BILLS OF EXtUAMJE ON
C. J. IIAMBRO & SON, LONDON,
B. METZL.ER, S. SOUN & CO., FRANKFORT
JAilEB W. TUCKER & CO., PARIS,
And Other Friiiclpal Cities, and Letters oi
. Credit Available Tlircngliout Europe.
S7JIT1I, KAM'OLPll & CO.,
S. V, corner TIIIIiD and CUESNDT Sts.,
FHIDADKI.PHIA.
II 28
c
u
p
OF
O li
UKIOH PACIFIC RAILROAD,
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD
5-20s and lS81s,
DUE JANUARY 1,
AUD GOLD,
W A N T E D.
Dealers In tJovernmeut Securities,
No. 40 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
U PHILADELPHIA.
gTEnLmc a wild si an,
BAKKKT.S AND BHOKKR9,
Xo. 110 South THIRD Street,
AGENTS FOR SALE Of
Flrbt Mortgage Bonds of KockTord, Uoc;
Island, and St. Louis Railroad,
Interest EVJN PEIt CENT., clear of a'l tatf
payable in GOLD Angunt and February, for sale
V7 and accrued tutwresl lit currency, Alao
first Mortgage Bonds or the Danville
Uazlcton, and Wilkesbarre Bailroad.
Interest 6EVEN PEB, CENT., CLEAR OF ALL
TAXES, payable April ana October, fur sale at 80
and accrued Interest
i-auiphleta wuu ruaps, reports, and fall Information
of these toads alwavs on hand for distribution.
DEALEKH hi Oovernmeut iiuuds, cold, Silver
Oi apoos, eta
bTCCKS of all kinds bought and sold on commis
sion In Hew Yoik and Phllauelpula, 11 8 tulhs
GLENDINNIKG'lAViniCO,
,o. 48 .South XIIIICD street,
PHILADELPHIA.
GLEHDIMNfi DAVIS & AMORY
No. 2 NASSAU St., New York,
I5A.NKLKS AMD DltOKEKS.
Direct telegraphic communication with
the A'ew York Stock Boards from the
Philadelphia Office. 12ltf
QANKINC HOUSE
OP
JayCooiie&O.
ob. 112 and 114 Sooth TIILKD Street,
PHILADELPHIA.
Dealers In all Government Securities.
Old 520s Wanted In Exchange tor en.
A Liberal DiQerenee allowed,
toniponnd Interest Notes Wanted.
Interest Allowed on Deposits.
IIOLLEOTIOMH MADE. BTuUKB bOBght and sold
On Gotuailaalon.
toeolat business accommodations reserved for
laiilea.
We win rcsIts applications for Policies of Ufa
Insurance lu the National Life in.orauee Company
of the tolled ktates. JTuU uaurtuauun given Hi oiu
DOit,
FINANCIL.
KKKERS
or
No. 35 South Third Street
PsIIUDELPHIA.
DCALCRS IN
GOVERNMENT SECURITIES
STOCK, COLD
AND NOTE BROKERS. 1
A i. .rot l;,iuks, 1 inns, miU Indlvidualt ruioixcd, iulj4
IMi:i!lT AI.T.O AVT'D ON HAT.AXCEf.
General" AeENTs,1
FOR
&; PENNSYLVANIA M
"tun WLvl
s. tlkl'
yiZj e0FT'IE oi,
or the "CECo
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Tip X.XTIOV AT. T.IKK iNsfHA V( V. ('(IMPAVY Is
n 1 or.it inn rliniMi'red h- special Act of Congress, an
rd J uly i"., ltm wild a j
CASH CAPITAL, $1,000,000, FULL PAID. j
Mhi ml terms ollire1 lo Asonts ami Solicitors, wild
arr- invllcil tn apply ul our olllce. . . j
Km I tMiriiciilurs to ln h;tl nn nppllcntlon nt our ofTlrw,
ii'iitiMl in Hip Rocciml story ol' onr ltunklnir IIoiirl',
Ihti- CirrulnM nml I'aiiiulilclR. fiillv diw.llilnir tlia
dviint:ii' uIIlTlcI Uy the l oinpmiy, may be lind. t
i:. W. CIiARK A CO., j
i'o, 35 South nird St.J
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
1829 -CHARTEK PEKPETUAI,3
Franklin Fire Iiisur.uscc Co;
OFFIfK; I
ilil LIIESM.T STIwLEIa'
1
8. and
AKfcETK W JAMIAKT 1. Itfl.
?. ' ,, srAi-lV (,m,Wff3'K)
J'h.ailUifit, l.4.M4-eK
Uei' ITliD CL.klo. UNUijlh, t& Ig7i
t-j-..:; j-.nt Mii's rsa ve;a
fS .".iO.OOO.
ix. ii. i"i aud Xcair-'jiur-y ioi:cirti on jLibrl Terms j
U'o.te 1'ilea,
llroa F.i.ef,
Jrrt' cis w, L-w;s, M r
i KoDT'.sHi axitii, '
V... I' V. , , ,,V"VJ1'- xTiaen,
u.wm.ih. iviuw, y ioe-rre;iuenl.
rar.e. N. Bain
c.t-uel t-4 .uiit,
'mi.i : W l;u.iirC
li.vo.Lta,
Cm a la.f
lt,i.a : la Jiexintt-T, Kr..aot. thi. Cmnn&nT hi.
.itc.KH v m: of Fi.i iDufK. 112
nu Axe
3 H 5 U R E AT HOME
IN IHK . .
Vmn Mrji-a! life Iizsyrciice Co.
xo. J21 tHLSAUr St, riiiladeliiJiIa.
ASiStls, Sl J.OOO.OO.
UilARTKivK.'. UY OUU OWN BTATE,
.MANAGED LY OUU OWS
LtJt Hiib i'KUMf ILY PAID.
I'0LICiK3iisoLi.D OiN VAUIUUb PLAJIH.
Aiii hoMiluus umy i.e wio at tue IIou.e Odlue, and
the AucfccUs tliroutfiijui, the State, 2 lg
JAMtN HttLllt RttEellDKN r
hA3,l:1' M'hS. V I fUfcelD UNT
V. MWliNfcK a. V. A. aud AOiUABY
il01A'Alt H. SkVk'Hl: Js.UKJfirAilV
TSUKAMCE
uw
JSVliW AMERICA,
Mo. p2 WALWUT BTHEET, FUlLADA.
1 1 : OOKA'uiiA Th.i) mi. CHAK'fltit PUitU-fcX UA1
Aiarluv, JuiuiKi, auu tit lusuruuoe,
ASSETS JaNUaHY 1, 18C8, . !iWl,2ti6-7i
SW,Mt0W LoiweB i'aio CuL Stow itt
Uii;anutttion.
0 0 Al p a N Y
Ai-.h: r 0. Oclliii,
rikiiiut! VV. Joiiph
Joliu A. iiixwu,
l ruiica Ai lut,
Ambiose w line, -Wllllr.w
W elbU,
i-lchiira D. W oe d,
8. Jdorrls Warn,
DIKjiClOllB,
ueurice L. Atarrison
i'tanou H. t upe, '
r,, wnru zx, i;oi.Or,
Kdwaf d o I'larke,
T. Churllua Uoiuy,
Alfked L. Je-tdun,
Joliu I. Www,
Louis (J. Madeitav
COilHAfiy OP
Alt! titi.. (4. rfu riM r. .
VBXBI.JC Tlatt, b c.eif.ry.
UlLLLnM. itUKui.KH, JLlarrtsbtin, Pa-, Centra
A ar lit for tnehu.UioI l'ntis I vauia.
OiUKalX I.N'bUKAKCli
i itilL.ADEl l,ilA.
iNCWitl uitAl 1 lbJI-CHAIlTKR PEKPKTCAL.
No. II4 WaL b'I S.rott. opiioKite Hie AxcuaiiKa
i ti Is Cou.puuy luku:is iroui loss or dauuge by
i; 1 it id,
on liberal terms, ou builuu t. merchandise, fnrnlttira.
ctc.,loi llin eu i-cridds, aud periuauenuy on build.
11 gn by lep01.lt or f r-iuium 1. -'Ilie
t lui any Um htun lu active ouerat loo for mora
tlmn tlX 1 Y VKAi. during wiiiou aU losses have
betu LroiapUy aojnie.l aud put J,
liliikO'i'OtU. , .
Joliu L. Modfie, David Lewis.
.in 11 11 T. Lewis,
Wililnni W. (jiaT.t,
Kubert W. Leeunug,
D. Clark Vi lmilon.
Lawrence Lew's, Jr.,
bm lAinln iiulni.
Tnouias ii . Powers.
A.K. McUery,
JLdu und CJasllllon.
bainuel Wiicox,
JOtlN IL WIlCHIi illl'U IxaaManf
Bamdkl Wiloox, brcreiary. ' s.zsj
Daniel Smith, Jr.,
Alexander Benson,
Ii-aao ilatdt-hurbt,
Xhotuas KoOius.
BKE 1NSUKAKCB EXCLUSIVELY TUB
Jh.3MsxLVAAiA FIKJI. iWtjCKANOHl OOM
A'Al ineorporaied lbi Otiarter Perpetual Ma
6IU WALimIIX oirttt, opi oulie Independeuce Hqnara
This (Ximii.uy, favi rably known to the oouiuiunlty
tor over lorty year, cuuilnnes to Insure against loss
or damage by lire 011 Publlo or Private BuUdlnsT.
either permanently or for a limited time. Also oil
iuriiUure Hiocks of Uoods, and If erohandlae cena.
rally, ou liberal terms,
1 heir Capital, togeitur with a large bur pins JTnnd
Ib luveslbd lu the most csrelul manner, wuich enables
tin m to offer to the lnsurea an undoubted seourliv in
the case of Ions.
ii ueverenx,
Thomas oniith,
Henry 1-ewls,
J. IJIlIlnuhmm 7.1L
.lilCI ZlDUUIIl'B, jr,
UANlk L bUIXh. J.,Pesloent.
WM. P. CBOWKLL. Becretary. tSUj
QTRICTLY MUTUAL.
PROVIDENT LIFE"aND TRUST CO.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, Ko. Ill H. FOUltTII NTKEET;
Orsaulsedto prontbte IAX& i-CnoUiiAJSCJfi aiUoua
menihers ot the
bOOIKTT OP FRIKNDat -
Oood risks of any class accepted.
Policies Issued upon approved plans, al tfcs lowest
Wle" President,
BAMT-'i-L K. bUIPLKT.
Vloe-Presldent, William a LDNQSTSBTH.
AciYiary, HOVvT,ASD PAKKT,
The advntges ottered by this Uompany are
tcUfeO 1 171
JKI'LKIALIIKK C1I COMFAJi Y
LONDON.
lOTAKXISIIED 1S03.
Paid-up Capital and Accumulated rands,
S8,0 00,000 IN GOLD.
PREVOST dt lUkRRINOAaTenta,
I H tra. ( Wo. 1U7 Bouts THUD Btreet, PaLla,