The Owosso times., 1882-03-03
OUR NE " YORK LETTER.
New YORK, FEB. 20, 1882.

From Our Own Correspondent.
New YORK, FEB. 20, 1882.
More carelessness has resulted in
the death of several people, the
injury of more, and big scare to a
great many. The great -four mills,
hard by the Fulton ferry, on the
Brooklyn side of the East river, ex.
ploded on Thursday, just before
noon, or rather boiler in them did,
and blew engineer, firemen, and
perhaps others into eternity, while
the roof of one ferry boat was crushed
in and the passengers on another
holly bombarded with flying bricks,
while the adjacent streets were the
scene of the widest stampede. Ii
was a new boiler too. for your RADIx
was struck with its monstrous size, as
they were slowly introducing it into
the building week or ten days ago.
Assets S0+7oa,9s7.92! That's a
nice little sum Of money. No bogus
about it either. That Is the little pile
owned by the Mutual Life Insurance
Company, according to their last
statement, and they proceed to detail
exactly what those assets consist of.
There are no bonds of railroads in
moon or anything of that kind, but
everything solid as the great business
palace where the sagacious admin
istrators of the soundest provision for
widows and orphans ever hit on by
the ingenuity OF man conduct their
noble business. 1t is sturdy Board
OF Directors, a list of good, substan-
tial, vigorous, wholesouled business
men that it is treat to look over in
these days of unlrustworthy trustees.
AS for +. S. Winston. the president,
his name is household word. He
commands a grand army of benefac
tors to the provident, and he handles
them with unequaled skill. 1t is a
wonderful institution, this Mutual
Life Insurance Company. During
the year ending December 81, 1881,
it paid policy holders no less than
$Is,64o,IIa.Is. Just think Of it!
And yet, in spite Of the reduction
they made in 1879, offs per cent.
on ordinary life policies, step which
set every other insurance company
against them at the time, which
everyone declared must ruin them,
they have paid dividends of $s,947-
3os.8s. They charge less than
other companies, and are guaran.
teed by their simple, honorable and
wise methods of doing business
against the remotest risk Of burst.
up. That's the sort of company
your old RADIx backs all the time.
We have to mourn the loss of two
harmless cranks, a demented French.
man and his son, who was perfectly
sane for years after the brains Of his
sire had been warped, and, it is
presumed, became crazy through
sympathy. Under the delusion that
Sam had robbed them of some, more
or less, mythical property, they were
in the habit Of perambulating the
streets, like modern Don Qu:xotes,
with cuirass and back plate Of tin or
wood, with the lamentable legend Of
their woes inscribed thereon. When
they first adopted this singular
amusement, they were frequently
arrested, but for some time have
been unmolested by the police, and,
strange to say, even by the hoodlums
of the vicinity. The old man died,
and the son has vanished. He will
probably turn up at the morgue.
A majestic monarch of the wilds
Of Africa, in the shape of mulatto
youth Of twenty tender years and
eight feet one inch high, who has
earned his living and much admira-
ton Of callow Juveniles in sundry
side shows, has come TO serious grief
He loved not wisely and too, too
utterly we'll, and now languishes in a
prison-cell, because a little Teuton
girls parents objected to the pro-
jected matrimonial alliance between
their blonde daughter and the dusky
giant. 1t seems pity, for the giant
intended to fix her up as Circassian
Albino, and the King Of Ashantee
and his bride would have made a
lovely pair.
All the letter-carriers seem just
now TO be grievously afflicted with
sciatica and rheumatism. Most Of
them are veterans, but even the
victims to much slumbering in the
mud, twenty years ago, usually get
relieved in such balmy, spring like
weather as we have lately been
favored with. The fact is, their
torments are due to love or mischief,
or both. Valentines day was the
trouble. you see. The boys in gray