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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICES.
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NOTICE.

PROVIDENCE. r.. l., Feb. o, 1893.
Having sold our Fire Insurance business To
Messrs. Starkweather * Shepley, Vaughan
Building, Custom House street, Providence,
X l.. we take great pleasure in advising our
friends and customers OF the fact, and ask
for said firm continuance of the liberal pat
ronage and the pleasant relations shown us
by our former customers
In making this alliance with the strongest
agency I'm Rhode Island, we feel that we are
best serving the interests not only OF our
friends and patrons, but also of companies we
have so long represented.
SAML SHOVE.
SAML II. SHOVE
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06

JANUARY l, 1898.
SUMMARY OF
Forty-Third Annual Report
Manhattan Life
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF NEW YORK.
Organized 1880.
once of sEABoARD DEPARTMENT
113, 115. III, 119 BROADWAY.
NEW YORK CITY.
BALDWIN q BALDWIN. General Managers.
Insurance in force, ver.........S 81, 100000 90
Total Payments TO Policy-hold-
ers over'.'... ................... S,6OOo0 90
The YEAR 1892 SHOWS.
INCREASE IN ASSETS,
INCREASE IN INSURANCE IN FORCE.
INCREASE IN INTEREST.
INCREASE IN PREMIUMS,
INCREASE IN PAYMENTS TO
POLICY HOLDERS,
Total Income during 1892 g., ,739. 1851 SO
Total Disbursements.... 2,350,36 90
ASSETS.
Keal Estate. .............,.,...... $40, ,304 SO
First Mortgage Loans on Real
Estate. ........................... s,sOl, ,723 IS
United States Bonds and other
securities. ................ 3lJ6,252 90
Loans on Policies in force. e......... 70S,9Si 92
Loans on Stocks and Bonds ..... 3.292, ,ll2 80
Premiums in course OF Collection
and Transmission after deduct
ing 20 per cent................. eoi.7ls 80
Cash on hand and in Banks and
Trust Companies at interest. .... zoo. $50 o.
Interest accrued and all other
property. ,......................... 255.5l3 07
TOTAL AssETs...........si ae3. 77s II
Apportioned ss follows
Reserve on Policies. New York
State Standard a per cent?
y less Deferred Premiums 81, ,sa23ls 90
All other liabilities.......... y 2tr. SO O6
sUhfLUrs'"'".s,s.". ...... 81. 1873, 5Si O5
sl3.cg3.i7s II
Approved; A. c. LANDERs. Ins. Com.
We hereby certify that we have carefully |
examined in detail the assets as shown above, |
and that they are correctly stated.
r. A. WALTON,
J. OTIS HOlT, Icommlttee
BENZ. GRIFFIN.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06

RYAN-OPPER-I this city. Monday. April 8.
by Rev. NJ. III. Kennedy. TIMOTHY r. RYAN 70
CHAHLorlE A. oPPEh both OF this city.
RIO EDG E-In this city.
Tuesday evening. April 4. lsoa. by the Rev.
John street. Mr.. WILLIAM HENRY RICHARDS
and Miss JANE ROXY ELDhED0E. both OF
Providence. TX. 4.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06
MARRIED..

Marriage and Funeral Notices. one insertion
s0c.. each additional insertion. f5c.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06

PROVIDENCE. II. l., Feb. Q. 1893.
Having purchased the insurance business OF
Messrs. Samn Shove * Son, we have this day
received the appointment as agents OF the
companies heretofore represented BY them,
and respectfully solicit the continuation of
the liberal patronage so long given them.
BY prompt and careful attention TO all
business intrusted to us we hope TO merit the
great measure of confidence for so many years
reposed I'm Messrs Samuel shove & Son.
STARKwEATHER a SHEPLEy.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06
ron sALB-MIscELLANEo US

II will exchange for Real Estate Esfabllshed ri
years Small stock Proprietor wishes TO retire
from business Apply. los Ri hmond ~. mr2o-u
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-04-06
FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.


Cn-A woMAN's READ Is LEVEL AND HER
~ Judgment good when she selects home at
WaehlhRton fark ap6-5t
lroR sALE-A BEAUTIFUL SUMNER RESI-
utes walk from the depot consisting OF 7-room IL.
story cottage with cellar, nice barn with basement
stable harness-room. accommodations for four or
i've S@rr.ge' boi hne 81 steam heated green house
bSnss onse and % bn SHg and 9taer out
everything in q - class condition; excellent we'll
ESGs Of she haest VSreses OF a OsfhSfd All of sh % al
are in good ana healthy condition and nicely
house; eight acres OF fine level land. ali under a
DESIRED the n ae fnn Gf sa aaS n
b d,sired for home or SUMMER resIdenes; can be
corner ID lrraL,e street. apT-6t
- Ot-BEAUTIEs EVERY ONE OF THEM, WE
IL have the finest you ever saw: Ask ISAAC l..
notF TO show you these beautiful lots at Wash
EoR ,sALE-FARM ~ EXETEK, r. l., ~
It miles from slocumy.lle station. Farm q 100
SO eorSs Wool mile; from asnos kerIeStaffs IpIaRfs
eoIlIogs prize zoo cash Mr RSse near the place
dress, y. NJ sTocKBRIDGE. South franklin
Mass ap3-6t
o1-roHl IRVING! WHAT WILL PAPA. SAY
Just tell him that am buying lot at Washing
tor PARK Pa ~ on r The ns'allment plan and everyIhng
l'oR sALE-TNo NICE LOTS WITH FINE To-
Il ., room cottage. near two car lines. Address
C-sl. News ofiice. f22-tf
Do-ARE YOU ENGAGED, YOUNG MANI IF
= - So buy " ur Intended home OF ISAAC Il,
GOFF at Washington PARK. apd-5t
LoR SALE-IINE COUNTRY RESIDENCE
II and farm, buildings all neariy new about 30
acres OF and. 20 cultivated, excellent fruit orchard
two miles OF post onico and railroad station; great
bargain N sold at once Address. A-ig News once.
f22-u
EoR sALE-ELEGANT LOT oN WALDO ST,
II near Cranston cas very low u sold this
month. Address BIS News once. jai6-tf
DD-THE PROVIDENCE LETTER CARRIERS
by Uncle sam in the New England states. See the
lots az Washington Park they are the handsomest
ever Onered. ap0-5t
4 GREAT INSTRUMENTATION REAL
"A estate, fronting three streets. near Hoyle
building. Address Ale, News ofice. ilp-tf
HOMES HOMES HOMES. IS MINUTES RIDE
III on N. Y. y. a. A II. X. r.. near street cars
houses. lots 81 both on easy terms beautiful stua-
ton. A-S. News ONCE. ni6-u
LNoR sALE-LOTs IN THE FINEST SUBURB
IL ofthis city for dwelling purposes wide streets
and avenues. now being ourbed; uawtuxet water
ana gas electric cars pass sir times an hour nuo
view OF the bay from every lot better than living
IN the citys not too late 10 build this fall n you buy
NeNs once lne-u
LoR sALE-soME or THE FINEST HOUSE
II lots at the North End of the city. at-what
price do you Think Only t22 10 t5, and only g. a
month 10 pay NJ that VINO wouldn't own a house
lotl Only few near horse cars left jump quicH
Address Flo. News once. nfo-u
IN-EvERTHING eoEs so Do THE HOUSES
~ aud lots at Washington Park aps-5t
The morning call., 1893-05-09
NOTHING BUT PRETENsE.

The Stockton Independent is inclined to
take gloomy view of things. while most
people in the interior see a promise Of bet
ter times in the general movement for a
local competing system. The Independent
has no more faith in these than C. p.
Huntington himself. It says that the pre-
tended zeal Of San Francisco for cheaper
transportation for the State is all pretense
and nothing but pretense. Apparently the
only person who has the interests of the
whole State at heart is c. P. Huntington.
The commercial city of any State depends
upon the prosperity of surrounding coun-
try. A drought in the interior affects the
city as severely as the country. Trans
p0rtatiOn rates that prevent free inter
course between interior towns and cities
and the metropolis cripple the latter quite
Is much as the former. The present pur-
pose of San Francisco is to provide means
pf communication between the city and ell
parts of the interior at as low cost as is
consistent with the service. It will look
Tor its profit In the increased trade which
cheaper means of communication will
bring. This may be selfshness. but if so
it is the enlightened selfshness that keeps
the world moving. Enterprises which
promise no profit to the projectors in any
form are viewed with suspicion. Even
when good Mr.. Huntington springs some
project on the people which he assures
them is for their sole benefit, the people
are shy of it. In working for cheaper
Communication with all parts of the State
San Francisco is working in her own in
terests. She is working for the best inter-
ests of all parts of the State.
The morning call., 1893-05-09
FERTiLiZING EGYPT.

English engineers are considering plans
to irrigate the cultivated lands of Egypt
during the period OF low Nile. Should
they succeed the production of crops Will
be greatly increased and probably much
land now neglected brought under cultiva-
ton. II is suggested that the waters Of
the Albert NyanZs. in Equatorial Africa.
might be impounded and drawn upon in
the dry season. This supply should prove
ample TO drench the land of Egypt
throughout the year, but II not there is
abundance In the same region to draw
upon. The Victoria NyanZa is still
larger sheet. The scheme is bold and per-
haps not costly, for pipe construction is
unnecessary All that Is needed is dam
across the lake and then the water could be
liberated as required. But IL is an element
OF danger to consider whether the Mahdi
would not on the way to Egypt take to
dam construction on his own account
either to spite Egypt or for the purpose
of fertilizing his own barren domain.
The Mahdi has no money. but he has de-
voted followers, who might be set to the
task successfully IL the engineering skill
could be obtained, and then Egypt might
have trouble in the heart Of the Dark Con-
tinent once more. There are other plans
which may be carried out in preference.
Under thorough irrigation throughout the
year the delta of the Nile would be
capable of producing several crops year
in luXurance.
The morning call., 1893-05-09
OUR IRON PRODUCT.

In 1892 this country actually produced
2,540.110 tons more of pig iron than Great
Britain. In 1880 the American output
was 800. 703 tons against 7.875.130 by
Great Britain; in 1891, S,279, $40 tons
against Z, ,22S. 496; and in 1892 9,157, $50
tons against 6,6l6, 500. The United States
had a very small stock on hand at the
commencement of last year, being less
than three-quarters of million tons, and
the stock on hand in December last was
only 535, 616 tons. Hence the industrial
energy represented in the figures cited is
remark able. Coal and iron are the very
foundation of manufacturing success. and
we are now in a position 20 utilize our
resources and to claim supremacy.
Prior U 1890 Great Britain led the world
in the production of iron. We barely
turned out one-haIf the quantity from 1883
TO 1855, inclusive. After that year our
smelters began to reduce the disparity
greatly, and now that we are in the lead
there is little danger of tagging in the
competitive race. Most of our iron is for
LUme consumption, so that we have very
strong market, which is tributary to the
support of many industries. Great
Britain. on the other hand, exports 40 per
cent Of her pig iron. which may be classed
as so much material sent abroad for
further manufacture.
Germany has been advancing notably in
lron-making since 1856. mainly owing to
the use made of the Thomas Chemist
smelling process, by which low qualities of
iron are depEosphorized for conversion
into steel. From 1887 onward Germany
has made over four million tons annually
The product last year was 4, 1913, OO3 tons
France produced slightly over two million
tons in 1888, but fell below that figure
every wear until 1892, when the output was
2,022, 9S9 tons. The total pig iron of the
United States. Great Britain, Germany
and France has during the last five years
averaged over twenty million tons. Last
year the total was %. 5S9. SS2 tons, and
Americas share is going up SO fast that
we shall ere long produce oue-half the
supply. With such wealth of raw material
our progress in manufactured iron and
machinery of every description was TO be
expected, and the future is bright. The
Pacific Coast is thus far only in the in
cipient stage OF development in the indus
tries connected with iron, but the oppor-
tunities promise too we'll long to remain
neglected
The morning call., 1893-05-09
TIME TO PLANT.

a citizen of Chico sends a communica-
tion to an evening contemporary in which
he gives examples of the manner in which
the Southern Pacific Company is develop
ing the State. The distance. the citizen
writes. from Chico to Port Costa is about
$50 miles, every mile of which is either
level or on a down grade. But the rail-
road company charges grain shippers
S3 20 per ton on carload lots from Chico
to Port Costa. For less than S5 the
same grain will be transported the 10000
miles that lie between Port Costa and
Liverpool This is a case Of charging all
the traffic will bear. Bat the fruit schedule
is even worse. The charge for getting
fruit TO MARKETS SO great that few venture
to plant orchards. But the tins has come
to plant. Before an orchard planted next
winter is In bearing condition there will
be competing railroads all over the State
The morning call., 1893-05-09
a DANGEROUS PRECEDENT.

A writer in a morning contemporary
condemns the practice of enforcing laws
before they have been declared constitu-
ti0nal by the Supreme Court. He declares
it absurd to consider a law OF Congress
law until the court has indorsed it. 1t
seems little strange that the American
Government should have got along los
years without our contemporary advice.
The uniform practice of our Government
ever since 1t was established has been TO
give credit TO an act of Congress. There
was a wholesome example when legal ten
ders were isued during the war. There was
another in 1878, when the Bland act de-
clared the silver dollar 1t provided for
full legal tender in payment of bonds and
other debts. There was still another, in
1883, when Congress passed an act forbid
ding ChiOese bearing the certificates re-
quiTed by previous act TO land. Grover
Cleveland was President when the act was
passed, and he saw that 1t was enforced. 1t
was some months after that the Supreme
Court declared the act constitutional. In
ordering the suspension Of the Chinese
registration act until the Supreme Court
shall have passed upon il President Cleve-
land has established a misehievous pre-
cedent. There are always people opposed
TO law, and under this precedent the en-
forcement of law can be deferred until
the Supreme Court declares it to be consti-
tutional. Taking the Chinese registration
act as an Illustration, the utter folly of
the precedent becomes apparent. Ii we
suppose that the court shall declare the
law constitutional, what is to be done?
The law gives no alternative OF deporta-
tion. The Chinese have been encouraged
to defy the law until the time has passed
IN which they can obey it. The result will
be wholesale deportation or an admission
on the part Of the executive branch Of the
Government that 1t is powerless to enforce
an order OF the legislative branch. The
President has nothing to do with laws but
to enforce them. II he thinks bill m
wise lie may veto it, but when bill be-
comes law he has no ch dice but to enforce
1t. Under any other construction OF the
duties Of the executive a war entered upon
by one administration might be brought to
a shameful close with a change OF admin
lstTation in spite Of Congress. The Presi-
dent might simply refuse to employ the
means for conducting a war which Con-
gress might place at his disposal. The
Oregon Populists who declare the failure
TO enforce the registration act cause
ior impeachment are certainly right. In
peachment proceedings In Congress are
not possible at present. but impeachment
IN the judgment OF the people amounts in
the end to pretty much the same thing.
The morning call., 1893-05-09
THE SCHOOL CENSUS.

Last year School Census MarshaI.W. W.
Bausman conducted canvass for school
children which gave old ground to build
upon. 1t was the first time in some years
that bona fide census had been taken.
Mr. Bausman was intrusted with the
same work this year and has just sub
mitted his report. He has found 1881
more children Of school age this year than
he found last Probably a portion Of the
increase may ba due to the fact that the
census was taken last year in June, after
the schools were dismissed for vacation,
and this year in May, before vacation set
in. But as school children were traced
pretty closely lest year when not fonnd in
person the chances are that the greater
part of the Increase is real. The report
diScloses some features that are not pleas
ant to contemplate. There are 65.314
children of school age, but only 4O,63S who
attend public schools. Allowing 96l6 for
private schools there are 1000 who do not
attend school at all. 1t does not follow
that these 1860 have never been to school.
Some have reached the school age and
have not yet commenced and others have
dropped out. But 5000 out of total of
60 900 seems large number to be out of
school the year through.
The morning call., 1893-05-09

able in gold or to authorize an issue of gold
bonds. Neither of these measures is
within the scope of the executive. The
treasury may issue bonds under an exist
ing law, but they must be coin bonds. An
act of Congress will be necessary to an
issue of gold bonds. If Congress refuse
both of these means of relief the gold in
the treasury may be paid out in the course
of a few months. The fact that there has
been proposition under consideration to
pay treasury notes in silver will tend to
increase the demand for gold. We have
not changed the present conditions of the
treasury to the present administration.
The laws now in operation have been in
force for several years. The adminlstra-
ton, however, Is expected to devise
measures to meet existing conditions. As
yet. beyond a stubborn determination to
maintain the gold standard. the Cleveland
administration has indicate ted no policy
which can afford permanent relief.
The morning call., 1893-05-09

the Government has the friendship of Mr..
Mellor, chairman, who is a supporter of
home rule. and may be expected 20 put
down by the closure speciOus or frivolous
de bate. The first amendment came from
Chamberlain, and it was tloored with a
decisive majority.
Another balloon disaster has gathered in
another victim. Accidents whet the ap-
petite OF the crowd for sensationalism,
and the prospect of a generous collection
of quarters nerves the foolh ardy aeronauts
for risky EXPLOITS. The man who was bat
tered against the housetops on Sunday is
probably manned for life, yet il the bal
loon were patched up for service next Sun
day there would be another foolish fellow
to take his place. A fair measure of
safety would be secured if the ascents took
place on the other side of the bay, but as
II Is only sorry bit of showmanship the
trapezists and parachutsts study the
crowd rather than safety.
From the executiOner's point of view the
death of Harris by electricity was COM
passed with perfection. Pain could not
have been felt even for the hundredth part
of a second. Harris, as it we're, closed his
eyes and was gone. The dynamo has been
adjusted to do its ghastly work on these
dread occasions without the possibility OF
bungllng. 1t is certainly a less offensive
mode OF taking life than hanging, but the
later is almost instantaneous also. The
only interval of consciousness in most
cases must be while the fall is straighten-
ing the rope.
The Arizona prison at Yuma Is conducted
on very free principles. The prisoners
may either cut their way out or carve one
another over personal uuarrels. every en-
conragement being given to license of that
description. Butcher Knives daggers,
saws, files and slun gshots are about as
fine n collection in the hands of the cri
nails as could be catalogued in detecti ve's
room of horrors. How these implements
of nefarous husbandry have been allowed
to pass the guards is one of the puzzles
which justice should ferret out. Lax
prison discipline is about as vicious as no
punishment for crime.
Mr.. Gladstone has offered the laureate
ship vacated by Tennyson to John Ruskin,
who is very pOetical as prose writer and
imaginative with his pencil. but has never
taken rank as a poet from the verse he has
composed. Perhaps the PFemieris guide d
in his selection by Ruskin's own analysis
of poetic creation in Modern Painters"
He describes poetic quality as noble or
refined thought woven into beautiful, dig
nified or feiicitous expression. aud its
spirit is to be sought in painting. sculp-
ture and architecture, as we'll as in litera-
ture. SwinOurne is possibly not jealous,
but why has he been passed over?
The morning call., 1893-05-09
NOT MUCH ENTHUSIASM.

The New York Herald says the appear
ance of President Cleveland and the Duke
of Veragua in Chicago did not excite much
enthusiasm. The people seemed to have
an impression that Cleveland would not
have come TO Chicago if he had not been
practically compelled to. The Duke seems
to have got into the chilly wake Cleveland
left behind him. There were 400 years
between the descendant of Columbus and
his great ancestor and there was not en-
thusIasm enough in Chicago to form con-
nection between the two. Mr.. Cleveland
has already acquired the reput alton of
being a New York man. His country is
bounded on the north by Canada. on the
east by New England. on the south by the
solid South and on the west by the hori-
zon. When he chances to face the west.
he sees nothing but an expanse OF sky.
The morning call., 1893-05-09
SILVER PRODUCTION.

That the quantity of silver obtained from
the mines of the United States and various
other countries is increasing there can be
nc doubt. Some mines are imperative.
their owners waiting optimistically for
better terms for their product. but fresh
deposits of ore are being opened and sta
tisticS of the aggregate yield are always in
the ascendant. Colorado, it is said. had
an output of 1900, 900 more ounces of silver
in 1892 than in any former year. At time
when the position of silver as money is so
much In the balance and the treasury at
Washington is heavy buyer, prospectors
and owners of mines steadily prosecute the
industry of production undeterred by con-
sequences or prophecies. Mines Of little
worth are clos ed, but those which are rich
are worked with energy, and the silver is
sold for what it will fetch.
An Z stern paper states that there is
good authority for the statement that none
Of the silver now offered in the market
costs more than 40 cents an ounce to pro-
duce it. and that some of the very rich ores
yield silver at a cost which does not exceed
- cents an onnce. Probably there is little
basis for this estimate. No account is
taken of work that produces little or no
results. Silver is found in some quantity
in almost every country. and it has been
tapped in wonderful quantity in numbers
of mines in North as well as South Amer
lea, besides Russia and Australia.
1t cannot be said that any such increase
is occurring or is probable in the produc-
ton of gold. Reports of vast auriIerous
reefs awaiting development coma from
South Africa, and undoubtedly there is
much to hope for in supplies from that
quarter, but the worlds stock of gold is
thus far only being augmented slowly.
Some of tile best-nformed practical mining
men declare that in California there is still
very great amount of gold locked away
in quartz which the capitalist may set free
if he will be courageous and persevere.
But whatever the case may be with regard
to gold. the abundance of silver is not
questioned.
The morning call., 1893-05-09
THE MEANS OF GETTING GOLD.

correspondent wants TO know why the
treasury has not the same power to secure
gold now that it has possessed in the last
fourteen years. Legally it has. Custom
duties as well as excise taxes are payable
In gold or silver on the option of the persons
paying them. In 1873 when this law went
into effect there was substantially but one
KIND OF money in the country. There had
been no silver dollars coined since 1873 and
the lew millions coined before that date
had nearly disappeared. Con sequently
duties were paid in gold though payable in
silver. AS the volume of silver money has
increased the proportion of taxes paid in
silVer mas become larger. The Government
takes In less gold than formerly, but con-
tlnnes to pay gold when gold Is preferred
by creditors. AS THE CALL has said. there
Is no way under present laws of getting
gold into the treasury. The means Con-
Rress may adopt are to mako duties pay