.TUB DAILY EVENING TKLKOUAPH PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 2, .1870. SOKfiS WITH REFRAINS. FX JEAN INGBXOW. I.-A Winter San. Came the dread Archer tip yonder lawn (Night is the time for the old to die), But woe for an arrow that smote the fawn, When the hind that was sick nnsoathed went by. father lay moaning, "Her fault was sore (Night is the time when the old must die), Yet, ah, to bless her, 'my child, once more, For heart is failing: the end is nigh." "Daughter, my daughter, my girl," I cried "(Night is the time for the old to die), Woe for the wish if till morn ye bide" Dark was the welMn and wild the sky. Heavily plunged from the roof the snow (Night is the time when the old will die.) She answered, "My mother, 'lis well, I go." Sparked the north star, the wrack flew high. First at his head, and last at his feet (Night is the time when the old should die), Kneeling I watched till his soul did fleet, None else that loved him, none else were nigh. I wept in the night as the desolate weep (Night is the time for the old to die), Cometh my daughter ? the drifts are deep, Across the cold hollows how white they lie. I sought her afar through the spectral trees (Night is the time when the old must diej, The fells were all mnflled, the floods did freeze, And a wrathful moon hung red in the sky. By night I found her where pent waves steal (Night is the time when the old should die), But she lay stiff by the locked mill-wheel, And the old stars lived in their homes on high. II. A Gleaning Song. 'Whither away, thou little careless rover? (Kind lioger's true), Whither away across yon bents and clover, Wet, wet with dew?" "lioger here, Roger there Roger O, he sighed, Yet let me glean among the wheat, Nor sit kind Roger's bride." "What wilt thou do when all the gleaning's ended, What wilt thou do ? The cold will come, and fog and frost-work blended (Kind Roger's true)." "Sleet and rain, cloud and storm, When they cease to frown I'll bind the primrose bunches sweet, And cry them up the town." "What if at last thy careless heart awaking This day thou rue ?" "IH cry my flowers, and think for all its breaking, Kind Roger's true; lioger here, Roger there, O, my true love sighed, Sigh once, once more, I'll stay my feet And rest kind Roger's bride." From Good Words for May, LA CLAQUE. From the ""all Mall Gazette. If any person of a philosophical turn were to make a profound study of the French cha racter with a view to ascertaining what are the reasons which have hitherto made liberty a plant of such difficult culture in France, he could scarcely fail to cite the claque as an apt illustration of the extremely long-suffering disposition of our neighbors with regard to petty tyrannies. La claque, as every one knowB,is an institution having for its object the systematic applauding of theatrical pieces, good, bad, or indifferent. The claqueur is a gentleman who, for a peonniary coLsideration, takes his seat in the pit, and clapB his hands at everything and everybody he sees on the stage, from seven o'clock in the evening till midnight inclusively. If any individual among the paying por tion of the public appears dissatisfied wifch the performance, and so far forgets himself as to hiss, it is the honorable mission of the claqueur to bawl, "Turn him out!" "Ilit him on the head!" and other amenities; and if there be any song or tirade which seems particularly to jar on the nerves of the au dience so as to excite shouts of "Oh!' and acute indications of suffering, the claqueurs sever miBS the opportunity of energetically demanding an "encore," in the hope no doubt that a second hearing of the piece may ena ble the malcontents to perceive its beauties. Considered in its aim and in its effects, the claque is the exact emblem of government by minority, or, to speak more precisely, of tyranny exercised by an unintelligent, turbu lent few over the good-natured, apathetic many. Until very recently the Government of the Second Empire was carried on entirely upon claque principles. Under the llouher Baroche dispensation when official candi dates flourished and the Legislature was packed with automaton voting machines warranted to cry "Aye, aye," and to record their suffrages correctly through all wind and weather; when every utterance of the Minister of State, every gesture of his hands, every look of his eyes, were nailed witn treble salvos of applause; when the press of France was gagged, and the only papers encouraged were those cnameieon organs called semi official prints, which changed faith, opinion, and principles as often as they were required by their patrons; when the aspirations of the people after freedom were drowned in the braving of those mysterious citizens who, -whenever the Emperor walked abroad, were hired by the Frefecture de Police to cheer and be enthusiastic at the rate of one frauo fifty centimes per head when all these things were, what was the whole system of Napoleonic! government but a claque f and what were the official deputies, official jour nalists, and oliicial acciaimere respectively. but so many claqueurs commissioned to make unpopular imperial larces pass muster. and to reduce unaccommodating critics to silence t Owing to that esprit froiulc.tr, that peculiar propensity to rail and carp at everythin which is inherent in Frenchmen, the claque lias long been looked upon in i ranee almost in the licht of a necessity. Parisians crroan at it, and hate it as schools do the rod; but most of them avow witn good-humored resig nation that were it not for the claque, which keeps opposition within bounds, a French theatre, like a French free parlia ment, would soon be turned into a bear-garden. So far back as the time of Charles V, when public holidays were almost always solemnized by the performance of "mvBtenes, or open-air plays representing Bcriptural episodes, it was found that many idle students and apprentices were, wont to congregate together in order to jeer at the players; and so to put a atop to this an order w as made by the Grand Provost that a certain number of sergeants of the Marshalsea should attend at the "mysteries" for the purpose of maintaining order, inese worthy sergeants, prototypes of the modern policeintn, virtually constituted the first claqu we hear of; for, though they were supposed to be merely impassive and impartial spectators, their real business was to incite the publio to cry "Noel ! Noel !"' at the good bits, and to drag off disapproving 'prentices to the Chatelet, where a smart whipping wan given them to correct their taste on dramatio questions. As time rolled on, however, and as play-houses arose, theatrical managers found it necessary to be more tolerant. The question of pay had something to do with this. In the reign of Henry III it cost two sols (about 7d. modern money) to go into the pit of one of the two wooden theatres then existing in Paris; but it was an understood thing that by disbursing this sum the spectator had a perfect right to express what opinion he pleased as to the performance; and if we may believe Bran tome andjother contemporary writers, the most approved method of conveying criticism was by pelting the actor with stones, which the play-goer brought with him for the purpose. Whether this liberty of judging led to incon veniences or no is not very clear, but we may conclude it did; for about a century later, Loa is XIV being king, we find an order of the Lieutenant of Police. La Reynie, formally prohibiting any expressions of disapproval whatever within the walls of royal theatres. This was at the time when Corneille, Moliere, Racine, and Rgnard were popular favorites; and it may be remarked that a critic bold enough to hiss in those days ran a twofold danger, for not only was he exposed to be seized by M. de la Reynie's agents, but he stood the best possible chance of being beaten black and blue by the liveried servants of the noblemen who sat in the boxes. There is a story told of the Prince de Conde, who, being one evening at the Comedie Francaise, and observing a man in the pit hiss a scene in Cintia, jumped up indignantly and shouted to his Bervant below, "Seize that fellow!" Unfortunately for the Prince, he was but lately returned from the unsuccessful campaign in which he had been obliged to raise the siege of Lerida: and the man in the pit had only to shout, "Oh no, my lord, you don't take me; my name's Lerida," to turn the laugh against the discomfited nobleman, and to insure himself the protection of the audience. It may be mentioned incidentally that in the reign of Louis XIV theatrical performances began at four or half-past, and were generally over by 7 o'clock. Actors were seldom paid a fixed salary, but usually formed a sort of joint-stock society, dividing the profits share and share alike. The price of admission to the pit was then (10t2-171.r) five sous, equivalent to about lOd. nowadays; and a seat in the boxes cost two livres, i. c, four and a half modern francs. As the playgoing publio was very limited, audiences were much more refined and difficult to please then than they are now, pd PnythiDg like the modern claque would have been useless. If a pteoe was good, it was enthusiastically and uproariously cheered, the spectators throwing flowers, money, and in some cases even jewelry, to the performers (the Duo de Richelieu, in the reign of Liouis XV, one day threw his gold and diamond snuff-box to the chief actor in Voltaire's Zaire); but if the piece was bad, it fell llat at once, without nope of remission, and no amount of mercenary applauding could have galvanized it into life again. Tne biographers of Scarron mention that at the first performance of one of the poet's early pieces tbo curtain fell at the conclusion of the first act amid a dead silence. The actors were much chagrined, for they had counted upon the success of the work; but instead of continuing the other acts the leader of the troupe came forward and naively declared that as the rest of the piece was no better than the beginning, indeed perhaps rather worse, the actors would not put the courtesy of the audience to the test, but proceed to play something else. This announcement was received with a general burst of applause, and Scarron's play was shelved accordingly. A considerable change had come over the theatrical world some hundred years later, when Napoleon I ascended the throne. There were then eleven theatres in Paris in a more or less flourishing condition, and the claque was then a recognized institution, working not so much on behalf of theatrical managers as for the behoof of publio order in general, and of the Prefecture of Police in particular. The Emperor liked nothing in the shape of civil turmoil, and everything that resembled a riot, whether in a theatre or in the streets, was put down at once. If a maa was caught hissing in a theatre, the least that could hap pen to bim was to be dragged before the Commissaire de Police, and made to show his passport, state who he was, and what were his' means of living. During the restoration it was even worse. Party spirit between Roy alists and Uonapartists ran so high from 18 !." to 1KW, that a piece which was applauded by the press of one party was sure to be cried down by the organs of the other. Had it not been for the formidable array of claqueurs, which every manager took care to have in the Eit, half the playhouses of Paris would have een converted into battle-fields; as it was, the claqueurs had often more than enough to do in stifling the groans of the Quartier Latin students, who were wont to go en masse to all the "first performances" at the Theatre Francais and the Odeon, and howl hideously whenever any anti-liberal sentiment was uttered on the stage. Up to 1820 it was usual for theatrical mana gers to covenant with a chef de claque (or leader of the claque orchestra), and give him so much a year, on the understanding that he should bring five-and-thirty or forty claqueurs to the house every night. One day, bow ever, it was discovered that this arrangement was not at all a paying one. lae only man who thrived under it was the chef de claque. who generally made his fortune at the end of a few years, and retired rich; while his ex employer, the managor, too often ended his career in the bankruptcy court. The chef de claque had several ways of making money out of his contract. Besides his fixed salary from the manager he received so much a year from most ot the actors and actresses, especially from those who had not much talent: and, in addition to this, he frequently sold at a high rate the forty seats which he received gratis. now-a-days all tnis is changed. Instead of the manager paying the chef de claque, it is the latter functionary who pays the manager, xnree or i our years ago, when a cabal was organized by the Quartier Latin against the 'Henrietta Alarechal of the Brothers Goncourt, the chef de claque ot the Theatre Francais brought, on the second and third nights of the performance, five hundred claqueurs to the rescue. The uproar within the theatre was terrific;the claqueurs raved and the students shrieked, but in the end it was the students who got the best of it. They had stronger lungs than the mercenaries, and after the third performance the piece was withdrawn. It was very curious to see a chff de claque in the act of recruiting bis troupe, Within a few doors of every French theatre is a cafe where the chief claqueur establishes his headquarters. Towards five or six o'clock he puts in an appearance, and is immediately mobbed by the forty or fatty persons who are anxious to be enrolled for that evening. As a rule the first thing the chff dt claque looks at is the dress of the candidates. He accepts no blouses and do slovens. If he sees a man well-arrayed, hearty-looking, and florid of countenance, endowed with good broad shoulders and fine big hands, he generally enlists him at once. The terms of admis sion to the claque vary. Sometimes (espe cially in summer), if there is a dull piece being performedit is difficult to tiod claqueurs, and the chef presses every one he can get, accepting eight sons, six sons, and even as little as four sous from each of his troupe. Should the piece be so hopelessly dull or the weather so hot that no one will volunteer to pay even twopence, the chef must then have recourse to what ragamuffins he can find, and pay his troupe instead of being paid by them. When there is a popular piece, however, the chef de claque sometimes has several hundred candidates to choose from, and on such occa sions he can make his own terms. On the nights of a first performance of Augier, Sar dou, or Alexandre Dumas fils, the eeats in the claque fetch five or ten francs apiece. If a row is expected, as at the revival of Enmni three years ago, and that of Lucrrcc Borgia last January, the places fetch quite fancy prices. In addition to the income he derives from selling seats at a profit, the contractor of the claque still makes a fine bonus by levying a tribute upon the actors and actresses. It is always easy for a spectator to guess which of the performers pays the claque and which does not. No matter how slight may be the part which an actor or actress has to play, he or she is sure to be warmly applauded if the chff de claque has been well paid. For a debutant to refuse payment would be folly almost amounting to artistic suicide. Some of the more popular dramatists, Alexandre Dumas among them, have, at different times, endeavored to abolish the claque, at least so far as their own works were concerned; but the attempt has always failed. As in the days of Napoleon I and under the Restoration, so now, the claque is in too good odor with the police to be easily superseded. Before the noisy bands of applauders can be safely dis pensed with, French playgoers must become different to what they are now. So long as the French mind evinces, as it now does, a sly relish for furtive hisses, and takes overt pleasure in downright dramatio rows, so long will the bluff chef de claque be at his post, erying in a stage whisper to his honorable troupe, "Allons, les enfans, tous ensemble; chaudement et a bas las cabale ! " DRY GOODS. LII1EII STORE, No. 028 ARCH STREET AND No. 1128 CHESNUT Street Spring Importations. IMMENSE STOCK OF LINEN GOODS, WHITE GOODS, and HOUSE-FURNISHING GOODS. PRICES DOWN 8 !1 mwt TO PRESENT GOLD RATE. GEORGE FRYER, No. 910 CHESXIJT Street, Invites attention to his stock, of DRY GOODS, se lected with great care, and will be sold as cheap as any house in the city. BLACK SILKS from 10 to 16 per yard. FAC Y SILKS from f 1 to f : 0. ELERNANI la Clack and Colors. INDIA AND OTHER 61IAWLS. INDIA PONGEE. DRESS GOODS IN GREAT VARIETY, and many articles not to be found In an; other store. GIVE US A CALL. 4 0 2m A R IS. AU PETIT ST. THOMAS, RUK DK BAO, No. 27. 29, 81, 8S. 35, No. 26 RUK liK L'UNIVKRSITK. This house, established onwards of rift years, it univer sally known and tuned aa one of the tirut establishment in Paris, in which thorough confidence may be placed. In it immense premises, whioh all foreigner! should visit, will be found, at the lowest prioes, the most complete as sortment of . nilAB. AlKHT KUVIILIIKS INDIA ANu FRKNUU CASHMERK SHAWLS, WOOLLKNS, LACK. LINOKRIK, READY MA DH ARTIGLKS FOR LADIES, MANTLES, CLOAKS. FURS. 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EIKKK8 SCHMIDT, MANUTACTUBKHS OF FIRST-CLASS PIANO-FORTES. Fnll if Aran Lee and moderate prioea. S 3 WARKKwOMS. No. 610 ABOH Btreet, PROPOSALS. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. To Railroad Contractors. Scaled Proposals will be received at the office of the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY,' No. 120 BROADWAY, corner of Cedar street, New! York, nntil WEDNESDAY,. '.the 1st day of one, 1870, at m',; o'clock Noon, for the Grading, Masonry, Bridging ' and Ballasting of that portion of the Northern Paclilo Railroad in the State of Minnesota, extending from the Dalles of the St. Louis River to the-'Red RJvef, the western boundary of Minnesota (a, distance of about 330 miles), Including everything . requisite to complete the road-bed for a single track, and necessary side tracks, ready to receive the -rail! superstructure.' Proposals may be for the work in detail, or by the mile. .v ; j t , . , Tne said Company will also, receive Proposals, at the same time and place, for the timber cross-ties, and for the iron rails, spikes,, and fixtures for the; road as above. The iron rails to be delivered on the, dock at Duluth, Minnesota, or at the crossing of the1 Mississippi River, and the ties to be received accord-' ing to blank forma which will bo ready for distribu tion on WEDNESDAY, May. , lT0, at theoillce of the Company,' aa above, where plans of the struc tures, and maps and profiles of the road, with full specifications, can then be seen, and the time al lowed for completion of the contracts made known. Ihe Company reserve the right to reject any or all bids not deemed to be for the Interest of the Company. Printed circulars containing full Information will be furnished on application, by mail or otherwise, to EDWIN TV JOHNSON, Chief Engineer, or to the President of the Company, at the office, No. 120 BROADWAY, as above. 'I . ? 1; JB GREGORY SMITH. President Northern Pacific Railroad Co. New Yorlf,rAfrll S, 18T0. 4 2T10t UEQAL NOTICES. TN THE IMSTPJOT COURT FOR THE CITY -- AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. MATTHEW (5JtAIO, Aisignee, etc.. vs. JOHN McLEAN and SARAH, his wife, District Oourt. Levari Facias, March 1 err. 187 No. 160. The Auditur appointed by the Court to report distribu tion of the f nd in Court derived from a Sheriffs sale, under the above entitled writ, of All that certain lot or piece of ground, with the improve ments thereon erected.situate on thewest side of American street, In the Seventeenth ward of the City of Philadel phia, 1H0 feet north from Master street, thence northward alone American street 73 feet, tbence westward at right angles to American street til feet Vi inches, thence west ward at ritfbt Angles to Cadwalader street til feet 7 Inches t Mid. Cadwalader street, thence asnthwardl along (ha same 13 feet, thence eastward at right angles thereto 48 feet 1 l-i inches, and thence further eastward at tight angle to American street 4o teet Hi inches to be ginning. - i' , Subject to ground rent of $433. Will attenS to the duties of his appointment noon WEDNESDAY, May 11, 1870, at 8' o'clock P.M., at his Office, No. (18 WALNUT Street, in aaid oil, when and wbere all persons interested are required to make their claims before the Auditor or be debarred from corning in Upon said fund. K. O. M ITO U ELL. 4 38 lot Auditor. ROOFING. RJ:A D Y ROOFING. Thta Booting la adapted to all building. It can be applied to BTKKP OR FLAT ROOFS ' at one-half the expenae of tin. It is readily pat on old Shingle Hoofs without removing the ehinlee, thai avoid. lag the damaging of eeiliaga and fomitore while under WIW VOR'TlTBfwri, WITH WELTON- KLABTIO PAINT. ' l ira always prepared to Repair and Paint Roofs at sue notioe. Also, PAINT tOH BALK by the barrel or gallon Ue 1ft and eheap in the niaxket WKLTON, 1 178 No. Til N. NINTH Btrte t. above Ooataa. FIRE AND BUROLAR PROOF SAFE J. WATSON & SON, Of ihe UU ami of EVANS A WATSON, J &j FIRE AND BURQLAB-PROO , B A. IT IS T ORE NO. 13 BOUTII FOURTH STREET, I HI A few doom aboee Ohesnut a fhltal PAPER HANGINGS. OOK! LOOKU LOOK!!! WALL PAPERS and Linen Window 8 had as Manufactured, the cheapest in the eitv. at JOUNSTON'B DH.t, No. 1(W3 bPUlMl OAHDKN Btreet, below Eleventh, iiranvh. No. U7 t JOiKJUL UueeW Caastlen, New Jersey. tH m QAftPETINQS, ETO. X. . IXBTtJX. CEA8. F. WKEEB. 1T1C. T. CERNAA, E. J. LESTER & C0.'S CARPET "WAREHOUSE, No. 29 North SECOND Street. Opposite Christ Church PHILADELPHIA. OARPETINGS. VELVETS, BODY BRUSSELS, TArESTIlT BRUSSELS, THREE-FLIT, ZNORAXZvT VENETIAN CARFETS. ALSO, 'Oil Cloths, Window Shades, Etc., IN GREAT VARIETY. ALL TUB ABOVB GOODS WILL BE SOLD, WHOLESALE AMD RETAIL, AT THE Lowest Market Rates. E. J. LESTER & CO., i Opposite Christ Church No. 29 North SECOND Street. 4 9 smwSm PHILADELPHIA. 1870 RETAIL DEPARTMENT. 1 Q-T 1870 McCALLUM, CREASE S SLOAN, 1 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN CARPETING S, Warehouse, No. 509 CHESNUT St. Spring Zmportations. ! ;" I NEW AND ELEGANT DESIGNS AT I Greatly Reduced Prices. 1000 PIECES ENGLISH BRUSSELS, , 1000 PIECES CROSSLET TAPESTRIES. Host of ttie abore are of extra quality, new styles, private patterns and designs expressly for our trade. Canton Matting, English Oil Cloths, Cocoa Mattings. McCALLUM, CREASE & SLOAN ..No. 609 CHESNUT Street, sawfm3m PHILADELPHIA. CARPETS AND OIL CLOTHS ASSIGNEES' SALE OF A LARGE STOCK OP CARPETS, MATTING, OIL CLOTH, AND WINDOW SHADES. TO BE SOLD TOR CASH, AT STORE, DEPUY S OLD STAND, No. 253 SOUTH SECOND STREET, . 4 S6 6trp PHILADELPHIA ARCH STREET CARPET WAREHOUSE. CARPETINGS. New Styles at the Reduced Bates BRUSSELS, 3-PLY8, INGRAIN. AND VENETIAN CARPETUVCiS, At SS per cent. lower than last season's prices. JOSEPH DLACKVOOD. No, 832 ARCH STREET, 1 19 Smrp Below Ninth, Sooth Side. CARRIAGES, ETC. BREWSTER & CO,, or OROOME STREET; WAREROOMS, FIFTH AVENUE, CORNER OF FOURTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK. ELEGANT CARRIAGES. In all the Fashionable Varieties EXCLUSIVELY OF OUR OWN MANUFACTURE, AND IN ALL RESPECTS EQUAL TO THOSE BUILT TO THE ORDER OF OUR MOST VALUED CUS TOMERS. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. 4 wfmaot D EINQ AND SCOURING. JOSEPH H O T T B T, KLKVB PK PAKI8, FBENOH 8TKAJ1 PVK1NU AND BOOURINO. On aojaiodol Weaxiua AppareL foe Ladies. Gents, aad Children. Patent airatoa to BWetetuac PaaM trot rouaaeipoiav i;ost. TOST CERTIFICATE No. 6551 FOR 3 J 8HARK8 OUMMON 8TM)K of the I.KHIGIl VAIJ.KY RAILKOAU COMPANY, io name of Mary E. Chance. A uplivatHia haa beea) iuade fur renewal. April 3Mfr!0. tI3t L FE IN8URANOE Statement of the Condition MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL Life Insurance Company or Springfield. Elas.?., ON THE 3 1st DAT OF DECEMBER, 1SC9. Salt if Matiarhtttr'.f. Cnnnlp f JTampJrn, M: Be it remembered ti-st, on this 81st day of January, A. D. beiore the subscriber, a Oornmimionnr in atld far the Ktate of Ponn.ylvania, duly commissioned and ant bo-. rir.ed by. the (iovernorof the State ofj Penneylvania to Uka the acknowledgment ef deeds aad other writinara, to be lined and recorded in the aaid Htale of Penaaylvania, anrito admininter oaths and affirmations, personally ap peared Caleb Hive. President of the MaiwachaeetU Mu tual Life Insurance Company, and made oath that the) followinc is a true statement of the condition of eaid In surance Company upon the Sist day of December, A. And I further certify that I hare made persona exami nation of the condition of aaid Maasachiinetta Mutual l.ifo Innuranee Oumpany on this day, and am atin8d they have assets snloly invented to the amount of S 87!,. P67 H7-10i dollars. That I have examined tne securities now in the hands of the company, aa set forth in the an nexed statement, and the name are of the value repre sented in the ntatemunt. I further certify that I am not interested in the affairs of said company. In wit nsa whereof I have hereunto et my hand (hkaL. j and affixed niy official seal this Slat day of Janit- OKOROK WALKKR, Commissioner for the Bute of Pennsylvania. FIRST. Ciipital Stock Nothing. Purely Mutual. SECOND. The value as nearly as may be held by the Com pany... .... $97.M-00 Cash on band j W4 7i Canh in First and Second National Banks of ' (Springfield 25.2W75, Cann in bands of sgonta in course of tranamis sioD 36 20997 Amount of loan secured by bonds and more- ' , gages, constituting the first lien on real estate on which there la loss than one year's interest due and owing fii3 138-61 Amount of loans on which interest has not been ' paid within one year Amount of stocks owned by the company, specifying the number of shares snd their par and market value.- 458 shares National Bank Stock.. . $4n,Hiiu-(iu w eoiHu. Marktit tahtr. i.overnment nonas 2uo,7UU'iHj New York, aiisHouri, and Michi gan State Bonds M.OOO'OO Railroad Bonds snd City of bpriDgtield Bond (4;JU.U) 76,000 '00 297eaU 98,930-09 S2,6S6-0e M1,239-Ue Amount of Stocks held by the Company as collateral security for Loans, with the amount loaned on each kind of stock, its par and market value : A mount Lomneti iherton. S1750 5,00000 2,000-0 7,75000 MO'CO 2,800'Ot Marlttt , '' Value. Value. 15 shares Olasgow Manu- turing Stock........... $l,600t!0 $1,875130 CO shares Rational Park Bunk 6.000TK) 8,000 IX) 54 shares Chickopee Na tional Bank 2,40000 3.48O0O 65 shares Boston and Al bany Railroad stock... 5,500'00 7,8tw'0O 3 shares Third National Bank stock 300 00 37500 120 sharea Agawam Canal Co. 6,000-00 6,000001 8 shares Second M ational Bank 800 00 1,240 00 6 shares Riverside Paper ; Co. 6,00000 0,250 00 J 80 shares Westfield Gas light Co., with sureties 8,000110 8,000.00 3 U.S. bonds, $10(1 each.. SOO'OO SUs'OO Sti shares Chicnpee Na tional Bank stock 8,A00'00 6,22000 3 U.S. bonds,) each.. l.ftini'OO 1,7po'IK 1 " " jUlO 00000 69600 DO shares National Park Bank stock 6,00000 8,00000 8 shares Benris Paper Co. 3.00000 i.frKTfln 8,00000 20000 1,65060 l.too-oo OOO'IW 6,000-OD 2.500 0 11 shares Pynchnn Na tional Bank stock 1,10000 1,705'UO 6 shares John Hancock National Bank stock... 60000 UoO W) 8 shares Leicester Na tional Bank stock 80000 88060 30 shares Worceater Gas- 4,40000 3,00000 2,00000 6,00000 2.090W 3,50000 lishtCo 8.00000 8.75000) 4U. 8. bonds of 1K1..... 8,000 00 3.n;ouo 2 ' 2,00000 2,;ljOU0 49 shares Hartford and New Haven Railroad stock 4,90000 10,5.1500 18 shares New York and 1 New Haven R.R. stock 1,800X0 2,484001 1 bondCouncil BlutTsand f Kt. Josepn Railroad.- 1,00000 900 001 10 shares Continental na tional Bank stock. 1,00000 980 00 lOshaiaa American ICx. National Bank stock.. 1,000'SO 1,12000 10 shares Importers and I Traden'Nalional Bank I stock 1.00000 1,400'UO J 4 Donas Uouucii rtiuns aad St. Joseph R.K.... 4,00000 3,600 V0 10 sharea hpriua held Annednct On 1.00000 1.100-0(1 6 phules Beuria Paper f 10.00000 uo. D.UUU uu i.oo tu 12 shares Chicopee Na- I tionalBank 1,80000 1,74000 J 871,70000 $107,65700 $6876tW Interest on investmenta due and unpaid 9rj87 Accrued interest not jet due. 94,912 38 Utber available uiiaccliiineous assets, specify- ioK their character and value Aocrued rents . I,2rl35r Office furniture ciott &i Premiums in hands of agents, loss cash in course of tranMnistion 137,00207 Deferred premiums (quarterly and semi-annually)... 187.387-01 Loans on sureties 4,ut6.94 Loans on pohcies I,7h0 0 Loan Noise 681,310 8l THIRD. Amount of losses during the year adjusted but not due. 44.00000 Amount of losses reported to the oompany, but not acted upon... 6,50000 Amount of losses resisted by the company 16,500'Ou Amount of loases in auspense.awaiting further proof 10,00000 Amount of dividends due and in coarse of pay ment 100,79884 Auioun required to safely reinsure all oat standi, g risks at 4 per cent, oombiued expe rience v tble 3.481,02487 FOURTH. A mount of cash premiums received 64.S23 44 Promissory or loim notes &5,uM 3 Interest received from investment lbfl.Kit 14 Rents received Maim Total income $1,1U,223 W I'UTH. Amount of lossea paid during the year $270,80000 Amount paid and owing for reinsurunc? pre miums $28963 A mount of returned premiums, whether paid or unpaid $108,39188 Amount of dividends declared during the year : $203,903 Amount of dividends paid $116,750' 9i Amount of expencespaid during the year. In cluding eommikaions paid to agents and officers' salaries $lfl9,47211 Amount of taxes paid by the company . $8,68974 Amount of all other expenses and expendi tures $48,89867 Furely Mutual. rJo Capital Stock. lCOHlOKATi;i 151. OFFICERS: CALEB KICK, Fresldent. S. W. BOND, Vioe-Presldout. CHAS. McLEAN KNOX, Secretary. J. W. MASON, Actuary. , JOHN KNOX MARSHALL, feTAIE AGENT AND ATTORNEY, OFFICES: S. E Cerntr SIXTH and WALNUT Sti., SBinwret : PHILADELPHIA. ROBERT F. HARRIS, Medical Examiner,
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