THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 18C9.
ALL A1J0UT WOMEN.
An tX'Avlmm Ppinmncr the Nnrit- Itramn-A
lllnxl at tho Klomlrn- Oliro I.ounn'si IMltml
Fulminntion Mcvrro Arraignment of the !"n
rnllcil l.t-H Drninn.
from ratkard'n Monthly for July.
There wore always great evils attaching
the theatrical profoHnin. I ljuve nlwnys de
plored them ilnt'ply. Aime of thoin I have
made the theme of previous mnfi.in8 Brtielos.
No one who hns rend my nitieles will sny that
I have not earnestly dofoinlod the thoatrioal
pTofension, in spite of thews evils, at the same
time that I Kaid. honestly, how I loathed
them. In thin fooling f loathing I have ex
pressed the sentiments of a large class of
people who wore, like myself, bred to the
wtngo, but w ho could not shut their eyes to
the eviln which have cursed it. Within a'fow
years these evils have grown to appalling di
mensions. Decency and virtue have, been
crowded from the ranks by indecency and
licentiousness. A coarse rnge for nudity has
Hpread in all our theatres until it has come to
be the riling force in them. Hoeing this truth,
1 have shuddered at it. Seeing its eH'ects, I
have mourned over them. In every place
where I have spoken of the siago I
have denounced this enoronching shame, but
I have always coupled with denunciation of it
defense of the drama. At the Woman's
Fuffrnge Convention in New York, on May 1,
I denounced this thing again: but, as 1 was
not speaking at length upon this subject, but
only touched upon it in passing, and by way
of illustration, I did not, as usual, defend the
dr, nia. At once there roso so will a yell as
nil the fiends from heaven that full wero
furious ut my course. Certain portions of the
press ut tacked mo. and accused me of slander
ing the profession to which I once belonged.
Anonymous letters poured in upon me at the
office of the Authors' Utiion in a sort of flood,
vilifying me, .upbraiding me,' covering . mo
with course and gross revilings. I was asked
to explain such base conduct. It was de
manded that I should tuke back my rash and
reckless statements I was requested to re
member that I had once been very glad to
think well of the theatrical profession. How
dared I say I could advise no honorable woman
to turn to" the stage for support?
Turning the matter over in my mind care
fully, I have come to the conclusion that I
have in my hands an opportunity for doing a
great deal of good by the simple course of
making my defense. And I conclude also
that my testimony in this matter has peculiar
weight, as coming from one who is of a dra
matic family, and may be presumed to speak
from close and immediate observation, if not
from experience. This is true. Though for
years I have not played a part in a theatre, I
have not been altogether separated from asso
ciation with us people, lue ties wmcli bind
me to these, people are strong and close. I
never expect to sever them wholly; but they
shall not prevent me from giving my allegi
ance to the cause of morality, virtue, honor,
and integrity, though, as a consequence of
this, the theatrical heavens fall.
They curse of the dramatic profession, for
which editors, critics, authors, and managers
struggle to find a fitting name, is my general
theme in this article: which is, at the same
time, my defense against the charge of slan
dering the dramatic profession.
What the Tribune calls the' Dirty Drama,
the World the Nude Drama, the Time
the Leg Drama, and other journals various
other expressive adjective styles of drama, I
call the Leg Business, simply.
Does any one call the caperings of a tight
rope performer the Aerial Drama the tricks
of an educated hog the Porcine Drama ?
There is a term in use among 'profes
sionals'' which embraces all sorts of perform
ances in its comprehensiveness, to wit: The
show business.
In this term is included every possible thing
which is of the nature of an entertainment.
with these three requirements: 1. A place of
gathering. L An admission fee. 3. An
audience.
This remarkably comprehensive term cove rs
with the same mantle the tragic Forrest, when
lie plays; the comic J i'erson. when he plays:
the eloquent Ueecher, when he lectures; and
the Biveet-voiced Parepa, when she sings. It
also covers with the same mantle the wander
ing juggler, who balances feathers on his
, nose; the gymnast, who whirls on a trapeze:
lli rlniiKniiKA u-lin intpviivf .a tliA vtrwitrv rf
motion; the clown, who cracks stale jokes in
the ring; the performer on the tight-rope, the
negro minstrel, the giant and the dwarf, the
learned pig, and the educated monkey. There
fore, it includes the clog-dancing creature
with yellow hair and indecent costume.
All these things being included in the show
business, you see it is almost as wide a world
as the outer world. It must be a very wide
world which should include Mr. Ueecher with
the learned pig.
It must be a very wide world which should
include Rachel, Ristori, Janauschek, and
Lander with the clog-dancing creuture of in
decent action and attire.
Hut by as good a right os you would call
Mr. Beecher and the learned pig performers
in the intellectual sphere, you would call
Janauschek and the clog-dancing creature in
terpreters of the drama.
How, then, does it happen that, in attack
ing these yellow-haired nudities, I am com
pelled to say that they disgrace the dramatic
profession?
In this wise: These creatures occupy the
temples of the drama; they perforin in con
junction with actors and actresses, on the
same stage, before the same audience, in the
fcame hour. They are made legitimate mem
bers of our theatrical companies, and take
part in those nondescript performances which
are called burlesques, spectacles, what you
will. They tarry oil' the chief honors of the
hour; their names occupy the chief places on
the bills; and, aR I said 'in my speech at the
equal-rights meeting at bteinway Hall, they
Win the chief prizes in the theatrical world.
A woman who has not ability enough to
rank as a passable "wolkiug lady" in a good
theatre, on a salary of twenty-five dollars a
week, can strip herself naked, and bo thus
qualified to go upon the stage of two-thirds
of our theatres at a salary of one hundred
dollars and upwards.
Clothed in the dress of an honest woman,
8he is worth nothing to the manager. St ripped
as naked as she dare and it seems there is
little left when so much is done she becomes
a prize to her manager, who knows that
crowds will rush to i-ee her, and who pays her
a salary accordingly.
These are simple facts, which permit of no
denial. I doubt if there is a manager in the
land who would dream of denying thoin.
There are certain accomplishments which
render the Nude Woman more valuable to
managers in the degree that she possesses
them. I will tell you what these accomplish
ments are, and you will judge how fur they go
toward making her, in any true sense, au
actress.
They are: 1. The ability to sing. 2. The
ability to jig. ii. The ability to play on cer
tain musical instruments.
Wow that I Live put tlitja do ra, I perccjye
that they need explanation after all; so com
plete is bo perversion of everything pertain
ing to this theme that the very language is
beggared of its power of succinct expression.
To sing: Yes, but not to sing as l'arepa
sings, nor mie.h songs as she sings. The songs
in demand in this sphere are vulgar, senseless
and, to tho most triumphantly successful,
should bo capable of indecent constructions,
and accompanied by tho wink, the wriggle,
tho grimace, which are not peculiar to vir
tuous women, whatever else they are. The
more senseless tho song, tho more utterly it is
idiotic drivel, the better it will answer in tho "
absence of the baser requisites. Hero is a
specimen:
"I.lttle Bo-nrep, Rhe lost her shorn,
And don't know whore to l-iiul tier;
Leave her alone nml dim '11 come home,
And fetch her tall beltl-tni her.''
A simple nursery song; and if men were
babies, innocent and harmless in itself; but
men are not babies, and tho song is not sung
in a simple or harmless manner, but with tho
wink or the idiotic stare that means a world,
and sets the audience into an ecstatic roaring.
To jig: Let no one confound jig-dancing
with the poetry of motion which is illustrated
by a thoroughly organized and thorough-bred
body of ballet-dancers. Pallet dancing is a
profession by itself, just as distinctly as is
singing in opera. A dansouso like Fanny
Kllsler or Tnglioiii, or, to come to the present
moment, like Morlacchi, is no more to be
ranked with those nude jiggers than an actress
like Mrs. Lander is. The ability to jig is an
accomplishment which any of these undo
creatures can pick up in a few weeks. A
danseuKe, who has any claim whatever to tho
title of tirtintr, must be bred to her profes
sion through yenrs of toil and study. In this
country the ballet proper has had little illus
tration. Yet it is a branch of art not tho
noblest art, it is true; but, by the side of the
jigging woman, almost rising to dignity.
To play on certain musical instruments:
These instruments should be such as to look
queer in a woman's hands such instruments
as the banjo and the bugle. Now, I am not
saying that the ability to sing silly songs, to
jig, or to play tho banjo, in itself disgraces a
woman, however little it may entitle her to
my esteem. I am only calling attention to
them as valuable aids to tho nude woman in
her business, and letting you judge wliethor
they give her any right to the name of actress.
You, no doubt, will at once remark that these '
accomplishments have hitherto been peculiar
to that branch of the show business occupied
by the negro minstrel. Rut in tho hands of
the negro minstrel these accomplishments
nmuse without disgusting us. They
are not wedded to bare legs, indecent wrig
gles, nor suggestive feminine leers and winks;
nor is there a respectable minstrel band in the
United Stiiaws to-day which would' tolerate in
its members the double entendre which fly
about the stages of some of the largest tem
ples of the drama in this city. The minstrels
would not dare utter them. Their halls
would be vacated and their business mined.
It requires that a half-naked woman should
utter these ribaldrous inuendoes before our
fastidious public will receive them unrebuk
ingly. To what branch of the show business, then,
do these creatures belong ? I answer to that
branch which is known by the names of va
riety show, concert saloon, music hall, and
various other titles, which mean nothing un
less you already know what they mean. No
one in the show business needs to be told
what a variety show is. It certainly is not a
theatre. Until the reign of the Nude Woman
set in, variety halls were tho resort of only the
lowest and vilest, and women were not seen in
the audience. The Nude Woman was some
times seen upon the stage, but she was only
one of a large variety of attractions she was
a luxury hugely relished by the low and vile
who went to see her; but only permitted to
exhibit herself economically, for fear of cloy
ing the public appetite. Delicate caution ! but
how useless, her later career in our theatres
has shown. There she is exhibited ceaselessly
for three hours, in every variety which an in
decent imagination can devise. When tha
Black Crook first presented its Nude Woman
to tho gaze of a crowded auditory, she was
met with a gasp of astonishment at the
effrontery which dared so much. Men
actually grew pale at the boldness of tho
thing; a death-like silence foil over the house,
broken only by the clapping of a band of
cld'jxeiirs around the outer aisles; but it
passed; and, in view of the fact th.it thaso
women were French ballet-dancers after all,
they were tolerated.
Ry slow and almost imperceptible degrees
this shame has grown, until to-day the inde
cency of that exhibition is far surpassed.
These women were ballet-dancers from Franco
and Italy, and they represented in their nudity
imps and demons. In silence they whirled
about the stage; in silence trooped off. Some
faint odor of ideality and poetry rested over
them. The Nude Woman of to-day repre
sents nothing but herself. She runs upon the
stage giggling; trots down to the footlights,
winks ut the audience, rattles off from her
tongue some stupid attempts at wit, some
twaddling allusions to Sorosis, or General
Grant, or other subject prominent in the
public eye, and is always peculiarly and
emphatically herself the woman. that
is, whose name 'is on tho bills in
largo letters, and who considers her
self an object of admiration to tho
spectators. The sort of ballet-dancer who
figured in the Jllnek Crook is paralleled on
tho stage of every theatre in this city, except
one, at this time. She no longer excites at
tention. To creato a proper and profitable
sensation in the breast of man, she no longer
suffices. Something bolder must lie devised
something that shall utterly eclipse and out
strip her. Hence, the Nude Woman of to
day who outstrips her in the broadest sense.
And, as if it wero not enough that sho should
be allowed to go unhissed and unrotten
egged, she must be baptized with tho honors
of a profession for which Shakespeare wrote.
Managers recognize her as an actress, aud
pay her sums ranging from fifty to a thousand
dollars a week, according to her value in their
eyes. Actresses who love virtue better than
money fire driven into the streets by her, and
it becomes a grave und solemn question with
hundreds of honorable women what they shall
do to earn a livelihood. I say it is nothing
less than un insult to the members of tho dra
matic profession that these nude women
should lie classed among actresses, and hold
possession of tho majority of our theatres.
Their place is in the concert saloons or the
circus tents. Theatres aro for artists.
A friend said to me tho other day that it
was inconsistent in mo to find indecency in
women exposing their persons, when men
constantly do the same that, as an honest
exponent of woman's rights, I ought to see no
more immodesty in a woman dancing a jig in
ficsh-colored leggings than in a man perform
ing a circus feat in the same costume. I
reply that I think such shows are indecent in
both sexes. Yet, nevertheless, in woman a
thousand times more indecent than in man,
for the simple reason that the coutume of tho
sexes in every-day life is different.
To ignore thw fuel j to just wilully shut
one's fjes to a roosonable argument. Women ,
in ftocjrMy conceal all the lower part of their j
bodies with drapery and for good and suffi
cient reasons, which no man, who has a wife
or mother, should stop to question. Rut Hot
this aside. Circus men, wlw .strip to the waist
in this fashion, don't claim to be actors. Now
I come back to the words I said at the Woman
Su ffrage Convention. They have been vari
ously reported by the newspapers. They were
exactly as follows:
"I ran advise, no honorable, Hnlf-rcspecting woman
to turn to the statfe, with It demoniilzliiK Inilii
encfH, which seem to he prowintf ftti'oiiRur and
etronirer day ty day; where the greatest rewards
are won ly a not of brazen-fared, elojr-tlitnulnir.
creature, with dyed yellow hair and padded limbs,
who have come here In droves from across the
ocean."
1 have been astonished and pained at the
extent to which the meaning of these words
has been distorted. The press and my anony
mous letter critics seem to be agreed in
taking the view that I attack, in these words,
the profession in which I was reared, and all
my family. Some of the letters sent me are
from religious people, encouraging mo to go
on; others are from actors and actresses,
seeking to dissuade me not always in gentle
language. The first letter on which I lay my
hands so gross in its language that I suspect
it to be from one of the nude women them
selves says: "You were, no doubt, satisfied
with the stage so long as it paid. Now, don't
sweor at the bridge that carried you over."
Terhaps this person, being new to tho conn
try, thinks it is true, as a newspaper once
said, that I wos formerly a ballet-girl.
Hitherto I have only laughed at this story,
as on a par with that of the person who
thought me a daughter of tho negro preacher
Logutn, or that of the "dress reform" scare
crow who believed me "formerly a ballad
songstress." I laugh at it no longer. I
answer, in all gravity, that I never was a ballet-girl,
nor even a jig-dancer.
It is true that I was once a member of the
theatrical profession; so were my futher and
my mother; so were my five sisters; but I say
with pride never was there a Logan who
sought any connection with the stage save in
the copucity of a legitimate player. There
were no nude women on the stage in my
father's day. Such exhibitions as aro now
made on the stage of many leading theatres
were, in his day, confined to that branch of
tho show business known as tho model urtit
another perversion of words; but most peo
ple know their meaning in their present ac
ceptation. Across this infamous bridge no
Logan ever walked. And, one by one, every
member of our family has left the stage be
hind, until, at this writing, not one remains
upon it, though, of their number, there are
seven still living who have trod the boards.
I take up next an,anonymous letter, dated
at Roston, and signed, "A Sister Member of
the Profession. " The writer says sho is a re
spectable actress, and professes to be ignorant
that gross evils prevail in tho theatrical
world. She refers to my letter in the New
York Time, and asks at what theatre such
questions were ever put to nu applicant for
employment.
In my letter to the Tinu, I said:
"I referred the other night to decent youne; women
who are net celebrities merely honest, modest girls
whose parents have left them the not very desirable
heritage of the stage, and who tind It dllllciilt to ob
tain aay other employment, being uneducated for
any ointr. lien uiese gins go nuo a ineacre to
apply for a situation now, they Hud that the require
ments of muiiugerH are expressed In the following
quest lens:
'1. 'Is your hair dyed yellow?'
"1. 'Are your legs, arms, ami bosom symmetrically
formed, mid me you willing to exposu tlleluV
"3. 'Can you sing brassy sougf, and dance the can
can, and wink at men, and give utterance to dis
gusting half words, which mean whole actions'.''
"4. 'Are you acquainted with any rich men who
will throw you flowers, and send you presents, and
keep ai!out dubious rumors concerning your
chastity ?'
"fi. 'Are you willing to appear to-night, anil every
night, amid the glare of gaslights, ami before the
guze of thousands of men, in tills pair of su'iii
breeches, ten inches long, without a vestige of
drapery upon your person ',"
"If you can answer these questions affirmatively,
we will give you a situation; If not, there's tlio
door."'
At nothing have I been more astonished
than at the manner in which this letter has
been received by certain "professionals."
It is not necessary, I suppose, to give, with
the accuracy of a criminal trial report, the
exact questions which pass between managers
and actresses who seek for employment, Thair
purport is unmistakable. Take this one
which was asked a beautiful and modest young
woman whom I have known for years, an ac
tress by profession, who was quietly edgod
out of her last situation because she carried
decency and womanly reserve too far in the
presence of an audience which cheered to the
echo the nude creatures who trod tho same
stage wiih her:
"Are yon up in this style of business?"
This question needed no interpreter for
the manager pointed, as he spoke, to one of
the members of his company, photographed
in an immodest attitude, with her legs clad
in flesh-colored silk, and her body in a tight
fitting breech-cloth, richly embroidered. Sho
was not "up in" this sort of business; she
sought employment as an actress; there was
none for her, and she went away, to apply
with like results at other theatres.
She sought employment as a respectable
actress at fifteen or twenty dollars a week.
She would have refused $.100 a week salary to
tlo what the Nude Woman does.
If the above instance does not indicate
managerial requirements sntliciently, take
these statements from managerial lips:
"Devil take your legitimate drama! I tell
you, if I can't draw the crowd otherwise, I'll
put a woman on my stage without a rag on
her."
So said a manager of this city in the
Hearing of. a dozen people; and tne disgust in
remark was bandied about from mouth to
mouth, as if it had been wit.
A proprietor of one of the theatres above
named, where n legitimate play was running
without paying expenses, rubbed his dry old
hands together and said:
"Aha! we must have some of those fut
young women in this piece to make it draw."
I go down to Roston for a moment, where
lives this anonymous letter-writing actress,
who is so singularly ignorant of what is pass
ing about her, to it-ention the rumor which
was set afloat by a nuimtfer of a certain one
of the blonde nudities, to the effoct that she
was once the mistress of the Prince of Wales.
This manager deemed it to his interest to
keep this vile story alloat. It gave an added
piquancy to the creature, who nightly wrig
gled about his stage in a dress of silk which
fitted her form all over ns tightly as a glove.
I stay in Roston long enough to note that,
in tho late Workingwonien's Convention
there, a lady related the trials of a young
friend of hers, who went upon the stage and
endured Insult and wickedness from managers.
The same lady corroborated my own observa
tions, with the statement that managers look
upon the girls they employ as women of the
town.
My anonymous "sister member of the pro
fession" has been fortunate beyond most ac
tresses of this period, in coming in Contact
with nothing of this sort.
I respect the theatre in its purity. I re
spect the Rctpr wh.g js pr, artist, even the
harmless clown of the pantomime,' who miKef
us laugh without otiending decency, lhat 1
love so many good and lovely women who
are actresses is my chief reason for deploring
the reign of a closs of women who are neither
good nor lovely, but coarse, indecent, painted,
padded, and dyed. '
if it were possible to - treat the Mude wo
man question, and leave the nnde woman
hersclt out of it, I should be glod to do so. i I
am the last to wish to give pain to any person;
but, in the path of clear duty, there is no
choice. When it becomes a question betwoen
suffering, struggling virtue, and vice which
rolls in luxury aud gathers unto itself wealth
by tho sheer practice of its wickedness, no
woman who loves honor ia her sex can hesi
tate as to the course to be taken.
The spirit of most of the anonyniou letters
I have received is one which might woll
cause me to hesitate in tho path I hive
chosen, if fear were stronger in mo than prin
ciple. Rnt neither the sneers of low-class
newspapers nor the threats of anonymous cor
respondents shall have weight with me. I see
no other way to effect a euro of this Nude
Woman evil but to make it odious. To tint
end I shall do what in me lies. This article
is but n beginning. I shall not cease to c m
bat the encroachments of tho Nudo Woman
upon the domain which should be occupied
by truo artists, ond by virtr.ous men and
women.
Firm in the belief that this in decent army
can be routed, I call on all honorable souls,
both in and out of tho profession, to stand by
my side and strike hard blows. We shall got
hard blows in return, no doubt, but poor in
deed must be the panoply of that warrior who
cannot hold his own against tho cohorts of
the Nude Woman. Whatever falls on my
head in consequence of my words, I promise
to give thrust for thrust. I do not fear tho
issue.
"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just. "
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PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW YORK
CANAL AND RAILROAD COMPANY'S
SEVEN PER CENT. BONDS.
A limited amount of theso Bonds, guaranteed by
the LEHIGH VALLEY RAILKOAQ COMPANY, Is
offered at NINETY PER CENT.
The Canal of the Company Is 105 miles long. Their
Railroad, of tho same length, Is fast approaching
completion, and being principally owned by the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, will open In con
nection therewith an Immense and profitable trade
Northward from the Coal Regions to Western and
Southern New York and the great Lakes.
Apply at LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COM
PANY'S OFFICE, No. 303 WALNUT Street, Phila
delphia. CHARLES C. LONGSTRETH,
9 Iflt Treasurer L. V. R R. Co.
BANK REPORTS.
jf2r ABSTRACT OF REPORT OK CONDI
TION OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF THK
REPUBLIC OF PHILADELPHIA, made to tho Comp
troller of the Currency, as shown by its books at tlie close
of business on the 12th day of Juno, WB:
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts $1,2M),3.'U 35
United States Bonds deposited
with the Treasurer of United
Slates 5H0.0000O
Bonds on hand 141,000 00
Real Katate (productive) 1UJ.12110
2,0")3,4Vi-45
Legal toniler Notes, Coin, and
Certificates 3).(W011
National Bank Notes 31,71800
Fractional Currency and Stumps. 6,518'82
Premiums H.ittoOO
Due from other Banks 671,730 99
9W0,8a2'81
Expenses and Taxes S.l'.iSMI
Total it3.tH2.60o HO
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock $1,000,000 00
Circulation 117,600 00
Deposit 1,6!U,2!)48
Prviit aud Loos 83,71712
ToUl C3,042,60d'o0
rWladelvUi,JuuW,lW9. vUtntfT"
INSURANCE.
DELAWARE - MUTUAL SAFETY IN4U
RANI K. COMPANY. Incorporated by the Legis
lata re of PeunhjrUaaia, k . ... . , (
Office, 8. E. corner of THIItl) an4 WALNUT Streets,
, . rilild'iellihtu. ' . . t
MARINE INSURANCES !
Oa Vessels, Cargo, and Freight to all parts of the world.
INLAND INSURANCKH
On goods by river, canal, lake, and land carriage to nil
parts of tiio Union.
F1RK INSURANCES 1
On Mcrchsndire generally; on Stores, Dwellings, Hmsns,
F.to.
ARdfTS or THK COMPANY,
November I, 1KHH.
(200,000 United States Five Per cent. loan,
10 40s i,r.") l)')
120,000 United States Mx Per Cent. Lon,
ImhI LM,k)09
50,000 United States Six Per Cent. Loan
(for PaoiHc Railroad) 60,000'UO
. 200,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent.
Loan 211,375'Oti
125,00(1 City of Philadelphia Six Per Cent.
Ioan (exempt from tax) PS.S'U'IK)
50,000 State of New Jjiraey Six Per Cent.
Loan TT 61,5111)0
20,000 Penn. Rail. First Mortgage Six Per
Cent. Bonds... 20,2 "TOO
25,000 Penn. Rail. Sicond Mort. Six Per
Cent. Bonds 2I,0X)'00
26,000 Western Penn. Rail. Mortitafffl Six
Per Cent. Bonds ( Penn. Railroad
iroarnnteo) 20,fi2VOO
3i',000 State of Teunessoe Five Per Cont.
Loan 21,000 000
7,000 State of Tcnneaseo Six Per Cont.
Umn 6,031 '25
l&.OOO Oerinnntown (ias Company, prin
cipal and Interest (ruurmtood by
City of Philadelplua, 8 K) shares
Stuck . . l.),0,rl'iH)
10,000 Pennsylvania Ruilroad Company, 2'W
shares Stock H.UmO
6,000 Nortn Pernsylvania Railroad Co., 1(0
shares Stock 8,-VWHO
20,000 Philadelphia and Southern Mail
Steamship Co., ft) share Stock.... 15.O00CO
207,900 Loans on Hoard and Mortgago, tirst
Liens on City Properties 2'7,900.ilO
frl,l0!i,!i00 Tar. Markot value, lJ:V.vi2.V25
Cost, 1,093,U4 20.
Real Estate Srt.iKKl .VI
Bills receivable for insurance mailo 32.1,4W m
Balances due at agencies, premiums on marino
policies, accrued interest, and other oVMh due
the company 40,17 8
Stock and scrip of sundry corporations, $:I50.
Estimated value l.flS'OO
Cash in bank $llii,iri"l tM
Cash in drawer 413 63 llnVKl'TH
(l.on.stf-Ho
Thomas O. Hand,
John (J. Davis,
James C. Hand.
1 heophilns Panldiiifr,
Joseph H. Seal,
lliudi Craie,
John R. IVnrore.
Jacob P. Jones,
James Traquair,
Edwaid DurliiiKton,
H. Jones Brooke.
James H. McFarland,
Edward I.afourcade,
MHF.CTOnR.
I Edmund A. Render,
tvimuoi r.. rvtokoa,
iienry moan,
William U. I.udvrifr,
(ieorKe ii. Leiper,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
John I). Taylor,
( .eorsa W. itorn;iriou,
William (i. houhon,
Jacob KicKel,
Spencer Mcllvnino,
D. T. .Morgan, I'lUblinr",
John B. Semplo, "
A It I..-..
uosuua r, J'.yre,
THOMAS c! H A N ll. President.
. JOHN C. DAVIS, Vioo -President.
HENRY T.YI.BURN. Secretary.
HENRY HA LI., Assistant Secretary. 1 Ii
1829,
CHAltTEK PERPETUAL.
Frantlin Fire Insurance Company
OK nill.ADF.I.PMIA.
Office, Nos. 435 and 437 CHESNUT St.
Assets on Jan. 1,1869, $2,677,37213
CAPITAL
ACCRUED SURPLUS
i'KKMIUMS
..tgioo.ono'oo
.l,()-i.J,.VJs-
.l,l!M,!IJI:l
UNSETTLED CLAIMS,
INCOME FOR IS!,
Losses paid since 182p,07er $5,500,000
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Liberal Terras.
The Company also issues Policies on Konta of Building
of all kinds, O round Konta, and Mortgage.
DIRECTORS.
A I . A DtOu
Alfred O. Raker,
a i i au i" i btor.
Thomas Sparks,
William S. Urant,
Thomas S. Ellis.
oamuei i,ram,
Cooriio W. Richards,
laac I.ca.
George tales.
Gustavu fl. Benson.
ALFRED G. BAKIiR. Presidont.
, GEO RUU KALES, Vice-President.
JAS. W. MCALLISTER. Secretary.
1 1I EODOKK M. KEUKli. Assistant Secretary. 8 9
A
S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANOE COMPANY.
No. 501 BROADWAY, corner READE Btroot, New York.
CASH CAPITAL ifclM.iMI
$12i,0U) deposited with the State of New York as security
for policy holders.
LEMUEL BANGS, Prosident.
GEORGE ELLIOTT, Vico-Prosident and Secretary.
EMORY McOHNTOUK, Actuary.
A. K. M. PUKDY, M. D., Aledical Examiner.
BKKE11KN1IKH BY 1'KHMIHHION.
Thomas' T. Tasker, John M. Mans, J. B. Lippincott,
Charles Spencer, William Divine, James I .on,
John A. Wright, S. Morris Wain, James Hunter,
Arthur U. Collin, John B. McCroary, Ii. II. Worne.
In the character of its Directors, economy of manage
ment, reasonableness of rates, PARTNERSHIP PLN
OF DECLARING DIVIDENDS, no restriction in foinale
lives, and absolute non forfeiture of all policies, and no
restriction of travel atter the tirst year, the ASBUK Y pre
sents a combination of advantages offered by no other
company. Policies issued in every form, and a loan ot'
one-third mado when desired.
Special advantages ottered to clergymen.
For all further information address
JAMES M. LONG A ORE,
Manager for Pennsylvania andsDolaware.
Office, No. 3ii2 WALNUT Street, Philadelphia.
FORM A N P. HOLLINSHKAD, Special Agent. 4 li
QT R I C T LY MUTUAL.
Provident Life and Trust Co.
OF PHILADELPHIA.
OFFICE, No. Ill 8. FOUIITII STREET.
Organized to promote LIFE INSURANCE among
mendiera of tho Society of Friends.
Good rinks of any cluna accepted.
Policies lsuued on approved plans, at the lowest
rates.
President, SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY,
Vice-President, WILLIAM C. LONGSTKBTn,
Actuary, HOW LAIS D PARKY.
The advantages otfered by this Company are un
excelled. 8 1 27
J N S U K E A T H O M E,
Dt TBI
Penn Mutual Life Insurance
COMPANY.
No. 931 CHESNUT 8TREET, PHILADELPHIA.
ASSETH, t2,0t)0,O00.
It H AKTiatliD BY OVlt OWN 8TATE.
MANAGED BY OUIl OWN CITIZEN.
LOSSES PROMPTLY PAID.
POLICIES ISSUED ON VARIOUS PLANS.
Applications may be made at tho Home Ofllce, and
at tho Agencies throughout the State. 8 18
JAMES TKAOUAIll PRESIDENT
NAitll EL K. STOKES VICE-PRESIDENT
JOHN W. IIOUNOie A. V. P. and ACTUARY
HORATIO S. STEPHENS SECRETARY
rpHE ENTERPRISE IXSURANCE COMPANY
1 OE PHILADELPHIA.
Onice S. W. Corner J OIJKTH and WALNUT Streets.
I'IKE INSURANCE EXCI USI VKLY.
PERPETUAL AND TERM POLICIES ISSUED.
Cash Capital JO(Uli)() (10
Cubh A abets, May, iHtifl, OVER HALF A MILLION
noiif jA ks.
miUOJTOKS.
F. TUtchford Rtarr,
J. UvintTHton Frri
iNuJnro t razitr,
John M. At wood,
lienjaiuin T. Treuick,
(ieore H. Ktuurt,
J oil ii 11. lirowi).
Jamus L. Claghorn,
William G. Roultou,
Charles Wheeler,
Thomas H. Moutgomory,
James Aei-tseii.
1 hit Company in mires only
nrst-class risks, taking no
specially hazardous risks whatever, such as factories,
K.'RATCHFORD STARR, Presidont.
THOMAS H. MONTGOMERY, Vice President.
Al.EIANHKB W. Wibtkr, Secretary. a5
"PIIGKNIX INSURANCE COMPANY OF
JL PHILADELPHIA.
INCORPORATED WU--OHARTER PERPETUAL.
No. 224 WALNUT Slreet. opposite the Exchange,
This Company insures from loss or damage by
EIRE,
on liberal terms, on buildings, merchandise, furniture,
etc., far limited periods, and permanently on buildiua-s by
deposit ot premiuma. -
The Company has been in act ire operation for more than
SIXTY YEARS, during which all losses have been
promptly adjusted and paid.
John L. Tlmlpe,
David Lewis.
in. v.. Alanuny,
John T. lwis,
William S. Grant,
Kobirt W. I-eauiinff,
benjamin Ettlnff,
Tuoinus It Powers,
A. K. Alctlenry,
Edmund Castillon.
Samuel Wilcox,
i - , , M...,.
Jwrenue Lewis, Jr.
JOHN R. wUCUiiKliK. President.
Jvitjy. i J
INSURANOE.
THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE INSURANT
J. COMPANY. ;
---Tnrorrmrated Ikja -Charter Pnrpetnil. '
No. M0 WALNUT Street, opposite Independence Sonar-
'I his Company, favorably known to the community ft
over forty rears, continues to insure attains!, loss or ilatnu
by tire on Public or Private Ituildinus, either permanent
or for a limited time. Also on Furniture, Stock of Goodi
anl Merchsmlise generally, on liberal terms.
Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, is h
Tested in the most en refill manner, which ennbles them I
offer to tho insured an undoubted security in the cases
loss. 1
piBKcTona.
Iisnin Smith, Jr ,
Alexander Renon,
Isaac Hazlohlirst,
Thomas Robins.
John Deverenx, ?
Thomas Smith. I
n . . '.
d.Lvl:v."'n'l,'a,all,'
Di.niel Had
DANIEL SMITH, Jr., President
WM. O. CROWFI.I., Secretary. TkV
OFFICE OF THE INSURANCE COMPVNS
b, ii (ir, ?PRT1 AMERICA, No. 2a WALNUT Street
Philadelphia.
Incorporated 17W. Charter PeruotuaJ. i
Capital, ff&m.ouo. x
M AKiNE, Y-N LA X D, AND t IR K TNoUiiriNO''j
OVER $iUW,(0 LOSSES PAID SINCE IT.j ORG AH
IATION.
Arthnrn flnffin
PinF.rrons.
I Francis T? (ln.
Samuel W. Jor.es,
John A. Hi-own,
Charles Tcvlor,
Ar- brose White,
Mlliani W elsh,
S. Morris Wain,
John Mason,
1 :...,..& 1. II ...rivr.n
Edward 11. Trotter,
Ed-vurd S. Clarke,
T. Olmrltfln Henry.
Altrad 1. ,enp '
John P. Whito,
Louis O. Madeira,
Charles W. usl.niu
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, F-ro,H.t
M T..Xf " I'LAIT. Vice I'' resident, f
JT 'nUTls" M(R1K, Secretary. 31I
JMPEKIAL FIKE iNSUIiAXCE Co!
LONDON. I
ESTAIIMSIIED 1S0:. J
Paid-tip Cf.pitti! and Accumulated Ptinds,
j58,000,000 I IV GOLDi
TREVCST & HERRING, Agents,
2 45 No. 107 S. THIRD Street, Philadelphia.
CIIAS. M. PREVOST. CH A3. P. 11ERRINC
j
LUMBER.
SPRUCE JOIST.
SPRUCE JOIST.
H KM LOCK.
HEMLOCK.
18G0
186S
1 ttitO SEASONED CLEAR PINE.
1CUV SEASONED CLEAR PINE
CHOICE PATTERN PIM:
18G9
SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS.
REI CEDAR.
1801)
FLORIDA FLOORING.
H.ORIDA FLOOlNO.
CAROLINA FLOORING.
VIRGINIA FLOORING.
DELAWARE FLOORING.
ASH FLOORING.
WALNUT FLOORING.
FLORIDA STEP HOARDS.
RAIL PLANK.
18C9
1 K.tM WALNUT HDS. AND PLANK.. 1 o(,
1CUV WALNUT RDS. AND PLANK. 10U.
WALNUT HOARDS. c
WALNUT PLANK.
UNDERTAKERS LUMRER. 1Q(n
lOUsJ UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, lOUtl
RED Cl.ltAW
WALNUT AND PINE.
1801)
w
SEASONED POPLAR. IQ.0
SEASONED CHERRY. 10011
ASH.
HITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. 1
HICKORY.
1809
CIOAR liOX MAKER'S' I Qi'ft
SPANISH CEDAR HOX HOARDS. f
FOR SALE LOW. j
1801)
CAROLINA SCANTLING. 1Qf?fV
CAROLINA H. T. SILLS. lUUi
I1UI1HAI MJANTL1NU.
1801)
CEDAR SHINGLES. Of
CYPRESS SHINGLES. lOO
115
AlAULE. BROTHER 4 CO.
No. 2jW SOUTH Street.
E
SLER & BR OTHER'S
U. S. BUILDERS' MILL, j
Nos. 24, 26 and 28 S. FIFTEENTH St.)
We offer this soason to the trade a larger and more'
superior si ova 01
Wood Mouldiners. Brackets. Balusters.
Newell Posts, Etc. j
The stock is made from a careful selection of Michigan"
Lumber, from the mills direct, and we Invite hnildersand :
contractors to examine it before purchasing elsewhere. '
Turning and Scroll Work in all its varieties. btim J
JUMBER UNDElt O O V E K. j
i
ALWAYS DRY.
WATSON & CILLinCHAtVI,
3 29 No. 624 RICHMOND Street
"OAXEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
-a. ii.UJiJiU.ii I'LANK, ALL THICKNESSES.
1 COMMON BOARDS.
1 and 2 SIDE FENCE BOARDS.
JWHI'IE PINE FLOORING HOARDS.
YELLOW AND SAP PINE FLOOKINGS,
4.V SPRUCE JOIST, ALL SIZES.
M and
HB..11 luck. .IUIST, ALL SIZES.
,r . PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY.
Together with a general assortment of Building Lnmber,
for sale low for cash. T. W. SMAI.'l'Z
""' FIFTEENTH and STILES Streets.
ENGINES, MACHINERY, ETC.
PENN STEAM ENGINE AND
BOILER WORKS NEA FIK A LEVY.
tifiW.foi'. BOILER.
MAKERS. lil.At KSM I "IS .nH l,rITvriMu I
.IX' IJT PRAOTIOA I. AND Til nil! wni 1 a rT
, . - - - - , .....a . 1.11. I, US.IUK
for many years been in successful operation, and been ex
clusively engaged in building and repairing Marine and
Itivor Engines, high and low-pressure, iron Boilors, Water
Janks, Propellers, etc, eto rospectfully oiler their ser.
viue. iu iiie ouuue as oeing luuy prepared to contract for t
engines of all sizes. Marine, River, aud Stationary; having T
sets of patterns of dilforent sizes, are prepared to execute i
orders' with quick despatch. Every description of pattern- i
making mado at tne shortest notice. High and ljiw-pros- -
sure 1 ine Tubular :.nd Cylindor Boilers of the best Penn- '
sylvania Charcoal Iron. Forgings of all sizes and kinds. S
Iron and Brass Cast intfs of all descriptions. Roll Turning, J
Sorew Cutting, and all other work connected with the i
above business. 1
Drawings and specifications for all work done at the i
establishment free of churtre, and work guaranteed.
1 he subscribers have amide wharf dock-room for repairs -
of boats, where they can lie in perfect safety, and are pro- 5
vtded witli shears, blocks, falls, eto. etc., for raising ueavf '
or libl weights. .
JACOB O. NEAFIE. "
JOHN P. LEVY,
JH BEACH and PALMER Btroota.
SOUTHWARK FO UN DRY FIFTH AN1 I
WASHINGTON Streets. . I
PI1II.AWLPHTA. -,
. MERRICK A SONS,
. l ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS,
mannfacture High and low Pressure Steam Engines foi
Land. Kiver, and Marine Service. I
Pollers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, eto. ,
Castings of all kinds, either lion or Brass.
Iron I rarae Roots for Gas Works, Woikahops, and Rail 5
road Stations, eto.
Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and most im T
proved construction.
Every description of Plantation Machinery, also, Sngar '
Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Puns, Oil btoaul Trains, DaC
fecutors, Filters, Pumping Eugines, eto. 'i
Sole Agents for N. Lilian's Patent Sugar Boiling Appa- '
ruttis, Nesmyth's Patent Steam Hammer, and Aspiuwall v
A Wooleey's Patent Contriiug-al Su-ar Draining M- f
Oidnos. 4$
QIRAR D TUDE WORKS, j
JOHN II. MUltniY & BROS. 4
Olaniilucturcrs of Wrought Iron Pipe, Eto.
PHILADELPHIA. PA.
WORKS, ?
T WEN T V-TI 1 1 II l nnd FIMtEUT Ntreet.
OFFICE, 41
No. 4-i North EIl'TII Nrrert.
STOVES, RANO.ES, ETO.
NOTICE THE UNDERSIGNED
would cell the attention of the pnblic to his
BKW umi.mhn r.AiiijE f CltMACK.
This is an entirely new heater. It is
as to once oommeud itself to general favor, being a ooiulii
nation ol wrought aud cast iron. It ia very simple in its
construction, and is perfectly air-tight; self-cleaning, ha.
ing no pipes or drums to be taken out and oleaued. It is
co arranged with upright Hues as to produce a larier
(mount of beat from the same weight of coal than any fur.
race now in use. The hygrumetria condition of the air aa
I reduced by my new arrangement of evaporation will at
once demonstrate that it ia the only Hot Air Furnace that
will produce a perfectly healthy atmosphere.
Those in waut of a complete Heating Apparatus would
do will to sail and examine the Golden Eagle.
CHARLES WILLIAMS,
Hos. 1132 and 1134 MAKK ET Street,
. , . . . Philadelphia. -
A large assortment of Cooking Ranges. Fire Board
glf! Low Down Grates, Ventilators, eto., always ou
N. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly dona. 1 104
DR. KINKEL1N CAN BE CONSULTED ON
all diseases of s oertain specialty. OiSaW hours, 8 to
a, WciWB.iiLJtVlJXUbUss'. M