Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-25


F0RD's OPERA HoUsE.-The last performance OF
1.-TWO Nights In Rome" Will be given this evening,
WITH Mss Jeireys Lewis IN the part Of Anonia
at the Opera House next week. and Will. as usual,
do rushing business.
NATIONAL THEATER-The splendid spectacle OF
"Black Crook" which has held great audiences In
enraptured suspense during the week will vanish
after to-nights performance: Mapleson's Opera
Company will sing at the National three nights
next week, beginning Monday night, and the Law
renee Barrett Dramatic Company will have pos
session OF the theater during the latter pert Of the
week.
HER MAJEsTY's OPERA COMPANY will begin a
short season at the National Monday evening with
carmen, which Will be followed Tuesday eve
ming by AIDA and Wednesday evening by so
hengrin." The demand for seats has been very
great
THE CAPITAL THEATER-The "IIorse Shoe 4
Combination" has won high encomiums from good
audiences at the Capital Theater. A fine variety
performance is promised next week.
HAGUE's BRITISH OPERATE MINsTREIs will give
Sunday evening concert at the National Theater
Tomorrow evening, and offer very attractive
program.
"JANE EYRE" win be performed In German at
Abner's Music Hall Monday evening for the bene-
fit of the German orphan asylum.
"AFRICAN WIT AND HUMOR'' Will be the subject
OF the lecture by Hon s. g Cox, to be delivered at
Lincoln Hall next Thursday evening for the benefit
OF the Berean Baptist church
THE LAWRENCE BARRETT DRAMATIC CLUB open
Thursday at the National with"JuliuSC aesar, with
the following cast: Brutus, G. B. Rheem Cdssi,as,
{. b. Hanford; Mare Antong, d. c. Bangs; Caesar,
j. A. Mahoney; Cdsco, ii. c. Robinson; CtfanG,
o. G. Eckstein; Second Citizen s. B. Milton
Decins B'1aus, j. T. Hawkins; 7febontus
c. G. Pearce; POT'tia; Miss Annie Cayis Cdtphu-
ma, Miss Jennie Thompson; Lucf,ts, Miss Belle
Will be produced, C. B. Hanford playing Sh3locE.
The GAME OF Polo next Monday night promises
to be very exciting one. The, The B Ball
and the home team are bent on regaining their
lost place.
or Cur. Tho
case OF smallpox reported yesterday at the health
Office as having developed at the corner of Sth and
The patient is Mr. Vim. Lewis, who had been en-
ployed at the smallpox hospital as a carpenter in
charge OF The fitting up of that structure for the
for this position, having had the smallpox about
ten years ago, his face showing Enthusiastically the
marks OF the disease. Mr.. Entwisle the building
inspector, recommended to the Commissioners that
good pay be given him, as it was a diSagreeable
duty TO be among the sick patients, and he would
price paid him was Sc per day, and new suit Of
clothing when he left there. Mr. Lewis remained
there twenty days, and, feeling unwell,we to his
home, at Sth and streets, on the 18th instant He
had an eruption on the skin last Monday, but did
not have his case reported until yesterday, when
il was found that Ii was q real case OF smallpox,
and he was removed to the hospital, quite sick
Great care was taken in the fumagatiOn and disin-
fecting of the place, and it is not likely that any
further cases will grow out OF this one.
THE NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
In to-days STAR is published the thirty-seventh
annual statement of the New York Life Insurance
Company, which, for almost a generation, has
thrown It's protection over the families OF those
patrOnZiDg il. The 1892 statement shows an In
crease i'll assets, income from interest and surplus
over those realized in the 1881 report The inter-
est receipts of the last eleven years exceed the
death losses by 81 $50 0O0 and since the organza-
ton OF the company in 1916, have paid all the "
penseS OF management, and added nearly nine
millions Of dollars to the fund held in trust for
policy-h0derS. These interest earnings, and the
remarkably small ratio OF mortality, which, in a
growth from SIS, s11 in 1870 TO 81 Us ISL in 1881,
OF over ight millions Of dollars, only
showed an increase OF 067 death claims, affords
an intelligent explanation of the handsome re-
turns realized Ontne TOntine investment policies,
now maturing. These yield over four per cent.
compound interest on endOwmentS, while on the
life plans the estimated results have been eX-
ceeded from - to II per cent The adaptation Of
the Tontine investment policy TO life insurance
allows investors TO earn interest on their
premiums, while protecting their families with
insurance, and, as practiced by the New York Lie
insurance Company, gives that insurance at the
very lowest cost. In spite OF the defamation OF
rival Institutions, the Tontne form OF policy has
become very attractive, not only in this country
but ia Europe, where the premium Income or the
conpanyS foreign agencies exceeded 81 $50 600 in
lSol. Inc Iontlne surplus, over and above four
per cent reserve, appears by the 1882 report to
Ceed Two millions or dollars The popular local
management are heSSTS. Tyler Rutherford, It's
Wtll-knoWn Washington agents