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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-29
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ATENTENT
OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE
Commercial Union Insurance Company

OUMMUI Uiul UuiVH AHSui nIOO OUiHpunl
OF LONDON, ENGLAND. ON THE 31sT DAY
~ of December, A. d. 1894, and for the year end
missioner OF the State of California, pursuant to
the provisions of sections 6lO and Gil OF the Polit-
ical Code condensed as per blank furnished by the
commissioner.
CAPITAL.
Amount of capital stock, paid up in
Cdsn' 1,zOoUOU UU
ASSETS.
Real estate owned by company.....S 2,16664l 46
Loans on bond and mortgage. ....... SAT, 6S7 IA
Cash market value of all stocks and
bonds owned by company ......... 5,O34,s1l 90
Amount of loans secured by pledge
OF bonds, stocks and other market
able securities collateral. ....... 2l6250 81
Cash In company's Office. ...........
Interest due and accrued on ali -''0O'O0' 10
stocks and loans. ....:...:....:. 2,74s %
and mortgages. -. .......... S474 70
Premiums in due course OF coec-
Bills receivable, not matured, taken
for fire and marine risks. 66,77S rs
Total assets life department. S,437,6l7 20
Sundry offices for guarantees and
reinsurance on losses already paid. AS, 2S2 90
Rents and interest due. .............. 1868 Sc
Stamps on hand. 2,761 As
Total assets .....................$1 s,s7s,Os 90
LIABILITIES.
Losses adjusted and unpaid lossesl
in process of adjustment or in
suspense; losses resisted includ- 743,525 90
Gross premiums on fire risks run
ming one year or less, 8. rein
so per cent; gross pre- 1,S79,575 90
mums fire risks running
more than one year, s.. rein
surance pro rata. ...........
Gross premiums on marine and in
land navigation risks, s.. re-
insurance 100 per cent; gross e05,000 90
premiums on marine time risks,
s.. reinsurance 80 per cent -.
Liability under life Department.. S,437 GIT 90
Cash dividends remaining unpaid. 1890 66
All other demands against The com-
pany OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 2i543,4S1 SO
Total liabilities. 81 ,1ss 50
INCOME
Net cash actually received for fire
Net cash actually received for ma T''00'410 O%
rine premiums -. 1,142.7ss 1s
Received for interest on bonds and
Received for interest and dividends
on bonds, stocks. loans, and from
all other sources. ................. 33321O SO
partment ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, - 1,215,ss1 So
Received for transfer fees. 446 Sc
Total income ....................$ 8,172,s52 Os
EXPENDITURES.
Net amount paid for fire losses (in-
Guiding g.. losses OF previous
Net amount paid for marine losses ''--' %
Gncuding g.. losses Of previous
years.. Observation-Disclosures. 666,151 81
Dividends to stockholders. .......... 311,587 40
Paid allowed for commission
brokerage. ............... 7s6,s77 Sd
charges for officers clerks, etc.
paid for State, National and 1851, ISL 10
local taxes; all other payments
and expenditures. ................
Total expenditure of life depart
ment. .......... .................... ob6,2O7 Al
Total expenditures. ..............$ 7,437, 1852 80
FIRE. MARINE.
Losses incurred during
the year..............$3,3s 1874 1858 90 1864 ,3O1 90
RISKS AND PREMIUMS.
FIRE RISKS 1 PRENrrr1Ta
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Total liabilities.

Net cash actually received for fire
premiums
rlHe premiums. .--......--....-
Received for interest on bonds and
Received for interest and dividends
on bonds, stocks, loans, and from
all other sources.
Received for income from life de-
partment ...................
Received for transfer fees. ..........
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
THE MONETARY UNIT.

> Commenting on the declarations of
silver men that silver was the none
tary unit in our government for
nearly one hundred years. an ex-
change by way Of dispute cites the
opinions of Jefferson and Hamilton on
bimetallism to this effect: Thomas
Jefferson thought that the unit should
stand upon both metals. Alexander
Hamilton wrote him: '.But upon the
whole, it seems most advisable not
to attach the unit exclusively to
either metal because this cannot be
done effectually without destroying
the character and Office of one of
them as money and reducing it ITO the
situation of mere merchandise.
TO annul the use Of either Of the
metals is to abridge the quantity of
the circulating medium, and is liable
to all the objections which arise from
a comparison Of the benefits of a full,
with the evils of a scanty, circula-
ton" Jefferson in reply to Hamilton
wrote: 'I concur with you in thinking
that the unit must stand upon both
metals"
That is all right and so is the state
rnent that this lis the true doctrine
of bimetallism; and the declaration of
the Democratic party, when it de-
clared itself to be in favor of the use
of both gold and silver as the stand
ard money of the country, was moth
Ing more than stating and repeating
the doctrine enunciated from the
earliest history of our government"
But all that is no contradiction of
the fact that the silver dollar was, as
stated, the monetary unit of the
United States for nearly hundred
years, for it was so constituted by stat
ute. Both gold and silver were freely
coined and were equally the money of
the United States, but silver was by
law the unit of values and remained
so until gold was declared to be the
unit, by the act of 1873. The law is
one thing, the financial views Of JEFF
6erson and Hamilton are another, yet
both are all right.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
SHOULD BE PROHIBITED.

The Herald declares that "a free pass
to a public officer is designed as bride,
and whether the object is accomplished
or not, the giving either directly OF, by in
direction should be prohibited by the con-
stitution." That is the position which
was taken and maintained in the recent
constitutional convention of New YORK,
and the amended constitution OF the Elm
pire state now prohibits the giving of free
passes by railroad or other corporations
to any public officer, and prohibits any
public officer from accepting the same.
When this matter was up before the Utah
constitutional convention it met with Vio-
lent opposition, and it would be very in
teresting to know the grounds upon
which the members who opposed it based
their opposition. Why should an officer.
a servant of the public, intrusted with the
peoples business and receiving a salary
raised by taxation, be the recipient of ia
vors from corporations which are crea-
lures of the people, while the people
themselves are denied such privileges, not
by law, but by the corporations? All men
are not susceptible to, bribery, but 1t is a
notorious fact that in every state in the
Union the railroad and other corporations
have INDUCED in wholesale bribery of
members of legislatures, judges, asses
sors and other servants of the people.
Corporations are soulless. They do not
extend passes or other favorS to public
or private parties without expecting IA
vors in return therefor.-Ogden Press.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
anrEx AND WoMEN.v

A new weekly paper is to make its
appearance soon. 1t is to be called
'sMen and Women" It is not to be
a political paper. 1t will treat on ques-
tionS of interest to both sexes and
seek to elevate them socially, morally
and religiously The prospectus will
be found in today's Herald. The
names of the editors and publishers
ought to be 0idence that it will be
ably conducted and be worthy of the
support of the people of Utah. Orson
F. Whitney's abilities as a writer, his
torian and public instructor are so
well known and appreciated that they
need no eulogy of ours. Calvin Rea-
soner is the author of The Handbook
Of Republicanism, a little work that
has been circulated throughout the
territory He has been in journalism
for many years, was connected with
prominent Kansas papers and was a
Washington correspondent before he
came to Utah. He has written much
since his residence here, and has
demonstrated his powers as
philosophical as we'll as rniiti-
cal writer. The joint efforts of
a staunch Republican and thor
ough Democrat will be pretty good
proof that partisanship is not to color
or rather discolor the new weekly. The
Herald wishes it complete success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

AS this is Sunday an ecclesiastical
joke will not be considered out of ths
way. An old gentleman who had not
been noted for religious proclivities,
announced himself, says an exchange,
as an Episcopalian. Being questioned
as to the correctness of this. "Oh, yes, y
said the old man: III tell We how if
is. Last spring 1 wenhs down to New
Orleans visitin', and while L was there
I went ter church, and it happened to
be an EpiscopaIian one, and among
other things 1 heard 'em say that
they'd left undone them things they'd
oughter done and done them things
they hadn't oughter done; and 1 said
to myself, That's just my fix, too and
since then I've always considered my
self an Episcopalian." The rejoinder
to this was, that if that was a correct
definition, the Episcopalians formed
the largest religious body in the world
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
WHAT HAS BEEN CAN BE.

ut is practically impossible to have
the two metals current side by side.
They are continually changing in
value, more so lately than previously,
and give us only a sort of hide-and-
seek currency. Now, you see silver,
and now you see gold, but you never
see both at one and the same time.
We have seen silver fall to nearly so
cents on the dollar within a few years.
We now see it rising again three or
four points in month. How can such
elements be chained together even by
the will Of the powerful American
CongreSs?"
That. clipped from a prominent east
ern journal is a specimen of the kind
of argument" which is being offered
by the goldite press against the move
ment for silver
The truth is that silver and gold have
been current as money, side by side,
in the world from time immemorial
They were so for nearly a century IN
the United States and would have so
continued but for the legislation Of
1873. Partially restored in 1878, silver
and gold are current side by side now
to certain extent. Every silver dol
lar in circulation is as good for money
as dollar in gold.
No nation on earth attempts to do
without silver as currency. England,
which is on what is called a gold ba-
sis, cannot do without silver money.
You can see both at one and the same
time in circulation even there. Twenty
shillings in silver are worth sover-
eign in gold, and a sovereign in gold
will bring no more anywhere than
twenty shillings in silver money.
Gold and silver as metals in the
market change in value because of un-
fair legislation. Make silver money
the financial basis; throw open the
mints to its free and unlimited coin
age: stop the coinage of gold; and
see how soon the yellow metal will de-
preciate in market value and silver
begin to appreciate.
Silver has fallen and has risen again
a few points, because it has been de-
posed from its position as a money
metal. Restore its rights to that po-
sition and it will soon return to a
steady value as metal on a par with
its coin value, which it will maintain
as fixedly as gold will.
The gold and silver elements" were
companions during the first hundred
years, nearly, in the history of this
country. They were not chained to-
gether," but united in financial matri-
mony for the common welfare. The
will of the American Congress can be
made all-powerful in fixing silver and
gold as the money of the country. be-
cause that whole thing is a matter of
legislation. and what the law joins to-
gether no goldite can put asunder.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
SENATOR HILLS NEW FRIEND.

Of Senator Hills record in state poll
tics we have had much to say in the past,
and little that was favorable. TO his IN
crease in intellectual stature. since his
election to the United States Senate we
have also borne testimony with equal
frankness. He was the only Democratic
tariff struggle. There was no smell of
scandal about his clothes in q, crisis when
the Sugar Trust was lobbying its sched-
ule and honorable senator's were suspect
ed of specializing heavily in Wall street.
His speeches on the income tax were I'M
answerable and have been sustained by
the Supreme Court; and his record on the
tariff and on financial questions has been
consistent, conservative and honorable.
Senator Hill is today one of the largest
men intellectually on the Democratic side.
He is not a phraSe-maker. He is an or
iginal investigator and thinker.-N. Y.
Tribune.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

A local paper makes the statement
that Herald reporter has interviewed
Judge Judd in order to get his mind
on the runor about new anti-po1yg-
amy raid. The Herald knows nothing
of any such interview. and in answer
TO a straight question Judge Judd has
assured The Herald that he was not con-
scious of having been interviewed on
the subject by any one connected with
The Herald. So much fo- the rumor
about a rumor; both are Of the same
kidney.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

A weekly sheet devotes considerable
space to Warden Felix ]. Stark. for
some reason not explained. AS to his
alleged profitable speculative transac-
fions we know nothing. Concerning his
discipline and relations with his fell
low officers at the Pen, we learn from
good allthority-some Of the men them
selves-that there Is no reasonable
fault TO be found with the warden, that
he is good officer. strict in requiring
duty to be fully performed. but not as
asserted, either domineering or exact
ing In his demearor or demands. 1t is
syell 70 be just even Il one wants to be
critical.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
SALT LAKE TO SAN DIEGO.

The Colorado river. the lille of the
west. is the one great stream in the
the newly coming empire
of the Pacific coast. It drains SOUTH
western Wyoming, Colorado ard New
eastern Utah and California;
northern Sonora and ell Of Arizona;
an area of more than 50o. 900 square
miles: watershed of iaore than $780,
OOO.Oo0 acres. and carriss this vast
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
THE POPE's TIARA.

A Partisan journal reveals the rather in
teresting fact, if fact it is. that the tiara
worn of late years by the pope during
those solemn functions in which he
of the great triple crown, made of gold
and jewels and heavy with massive orna-
mentation, that forms one of the Vati-
cans most precious and sacred treasures.
Such is the weight of the real tiara that
Leo XIII. can no longer wear it without
danger-N. Y. Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The story told in our dispatches from
Berlin this morning in reference to the
American art exhibition in Berlin will
cause considerable surprise among
those who have not closely watched
the progress American artists have
made in the past few years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

It is announced that an eagle, meas
uring from tip of wings seven feet
eleven inches has been captured in the
Islands of Bressay, Shetland. Can it be
that the bird Of freedom is endeavoring
to give US the shake?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The suffrage ladies of Salt Lake are
expecting a fine time when Miss Susan
B. Anthony and Rev. Annie Shaw ar
rive. They are both talented ladies
end will not only be welcomed heartily
but listened TO with attention and
respect
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

AS a sample OF journalistic drivel
commend US to the Saturday Tribune's
idiotic comments on a little dispute be-
tween two Utah papers. The writer is
so bert on fabricating a "fitiR match
among the Democrats that he has ap-
parently become monomaniac.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
ExtremeIy Creditable.

The Salt Lake Herald's labor edition
last Sunday was an extremely creditable
paper and one that was especially inter-
esting and valuable to the laboring man.
1t was highly appreciated III 1ntic.-
Tinfic Miner.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Detroit Tribune: Starting from her
sleep, she seized her husband convulslve-
ly by the nose and one eyelid.
John" she cried, there's a burglar
going through your trousers! -,
what do you wake me up for r-
ritably demanded the head of the house.
'SettIe it between yourselves.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Cincinnati Tribune: ''Wny is 1t, Mr..
Greengoods," the young wife asked. that
you charge almost twice as much for
your peas as Mr.. Smith. across the way"
VERY easily explained, madam, ="
answered the Smiling grocer. our peas
are all hand planted. Those that Smith
handles are mere machine work.
IL guess I'll take some.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
THE SOUND MONEY! BUREAU.

We venture the opinion that John De
Witt Warmers soggy literary efforts Will
not convert a single tree silver voter
Washington Post.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

A prominent professor of palmistry
makes the declaration that women with
long thumbs are bound to have their
way. How about the women with short
thumbs?
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
A snIendid EHort.

The labor edition of The Herald last
Sunday was a very creditable paper. 1t
touched on almost every class of labor
and the articles were well written and OF
The Herald on its splendid effort.-Payson
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
Got There.

AS might have been expected last Sun
DAYS Salt Lake Herald was a grand sue
cess. and a credit to that progressive
journal. If enterprise in Journalism Leads
to success, The Herald has already got
there. Eureka Democrat.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The moon in Philadelphia must have
been delayed considerably last night, If
one is to judge by the inky blackness
Of Salt Lake streets. Fie upon such
treatment by a soulless corporation!
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
a FEW PEOPLE.

Sarah Grand. the novelist, married at
the age of Is. For some time she lived
with her husband in China and afterward
Travelled all through Japan with no es-
cort but her maid.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion will meet in Chicago May to
consider the Denver complaints. Let
Salt Lake keep her eye on the result.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
A Hummer.

The labor edition of the Salt Lake
Herald Sunday last was hummer. 1t
contained thirTy-two pages of interesting
matter, and much valua BILE information
and argument. 1t should be preserved for
reference.-CoalVille Times.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Even Republican organs admit that
trade is generally improving, and in
the face of unwise strikes and Iockouts
that are bound to retard it's progress.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

II you were about to journey to a
warmer or collier climate you would
make careful preparations.
Besides taking a supply of warmer
Or cooler clothing, as the case might
De, you would thoughtfully select a
stock of medicines as safeguards to
keep you in good health.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

William Black the novelist cannot
write a line unless he is secluded and
quiet. On the other hand. Pinero, the
playwright, likes TO be where there is
noise and crowd.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The Herald issued a most creditable
labor edition on last Sunday. 1t was d
good stroke of newspaper work and dem
onstrates that we have live newspaper
men in Utah.-Manti Messenger
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

That we shall have a satisfactory
= cons titution may chiefly be ascribed to
the Democratic members of the con-
Vention.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

0ur citizens should never cease talk
ing about and working for the Los
Angeles or San Diego railway.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

,4ne tide is turned. MIR. CrokerNs
horses have started the procession of
Democratic victories.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Members of the convention believe
that he might make an acceptable
state senator-but United States
senator never.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

ireland sent out $3.50 emigrants in
1894; yet no one heard that the New
York police force was very greatly en-
larged.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Missouri Democrats are solid for free
coinage Of gold and silver.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

DR.. Herman Grote one of the greatest
numismatic authorities in the world, died
the other day in Hanover, aged 49, He
was for many years an active journalist,
having been editor of the Hanoverian
Lanleaves. He was the founder of the
Historical Society of Lower Saxony.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The silver conference will be small
but distinguished body.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

And now they are writing to the
Chicago papers to ascertain whether
Professor Coin actually lectured there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Compos. 1t is said, is preparing "to
act''-it will be tragedy.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Dean Hole is back at Rochester with
s., 500 for the repairs of the cathedral,
the profits of his lectures in this country.
He found that his lecture On Persons
Have Net took best in America.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The Galveston deep water harbor is
q success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05
OUR LABOR EDITION.
A Sumner.
A Good Stroke.

The labor edition of the Salt Lake
Herald Sunday, was a 32-page sumner
Murray American.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

They call the Kaiser, William the
2 Sudden.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Nicaragua ought at least to save a
homestead and $3.50 for each membeD
of the family.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

AS an object lesson the convention
has been a great Democratic success.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

The saying that figures do not lie is
not always applicable to figures of
speech.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

President Faure. of France. is very
fond of the society of actors, htterateurs.
artists. etc. Under his regime the Elysee
has taken on a more bohemian aspect
than it has worn for years. Every presi-
dent that France has had has felt or
affected to feel an interest in arts and
letters, but NJ. Faure is the only one who
has made a grand effort TO draw close to
him the leading authors, painters, sculp-
tors and journalists in Paris.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-05

Spare Moments: There she lay" says
the sensational writer. there OF the floor
breathing out her life in short pants.
She must have been lady bicyclist in up
to-date garb.