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Dinner that
Cost $4,000

Probably the most expensive dinner
given at Delmonico's restaurant, on
Fourteenth street. New York, was that
given by Morton Peto to the tea and
coffee merchants of New York, two
hundred in number. 1t cost twenty-five
thousand dollars. The rarest wines and
the most elaborate decorations We're
mere Incidents. The menu cards were
of gold and the guests sat on silk cush-
ions on which their names were en-
broidered In the center of the table
was a miniature lake in which swan
swans taken from Central Park. Clara
Louise Kellogg received $1,000 for
singing two songs at this feast, and a
present besides of a diamond bracelet.
The salon was smothered in flowers.
Another dinner given at one of the
Delmonico establishments. for ten peo-
pie. cost four hundred dollars a plate.
1t was luxurious enough to be classical
The walters. five of them, were dressed
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LARGE SUMS GIVEN AWAY.
Liberal Donations Made to Charitable
Educatio I..stI4a4I<>.,S

The year 1899 was a record breaker In
donations and requests made education
al institutions, libraries and art museums
charities. churches and religious enter
prises, and To towns and cities for the
public benefit and entertainments the
total reaching the colossal sum of $40
TAG, $50, while the year 1900 was a close SEC
ond, the total being So. 46l ,3G4. Both these
years must now give way to 1901 which
is the record breaker of the centuries
The total of its gifts reaches Si2S. SSS 49,
an amount which may properly be called
colossal The world has never before
known such generosity this in a sin
gle year. The century has opened well
for education, art culture, religion and
humanity.
OF the total amount stated above there
has been given to educational institu.
tons the princely sum of SOS $50 sol. to
4S9; to museums and art galleries. s11..
SIP: and to libraries. SI5.3SS. 1872
Andrew Carnegie. John d. Rockefeller
]. =. Morgan, Jane l.. Stanford and
others contributed sums running up into
the millions. The grea test single contri.
button was that of Mrs. Stanford, who
gave the Stanford university property TO
the value of $50 coo. 600. Mr. CARNEGIE
founded scores of libraries throughout the
United States. gave $4,000, 900 to the
Scotch universities and offered the same
of higher education. In the west DR.
u. Is. Pearsons of Chicago continued
his liberal giving to the smaller colleges.
The total contributions made for Ii
braries during the year outside of those
made by Mr.. Carnegie amount to 81. 37i-
200 Including his, the total is the extra
ordinary sum of SIS 237, 100.
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II BY powder explosion at Ripaulti
France: 81 by . railroad accident near
Bucharest; by FIRE at Naples; by gas
explosion at Newark, N. j.; 18 by
cloudburst In Preside County, Tex 50
by powder explosion in Cozena. Italy,
and Is by a mine accident at Nanaimo.
B. c.
In October "a were lost In gale on
the Japan coast: 20 by a typhoon at
Manila; 80 by tidal wave in the Sea
of Marmora. and II by flood In Sicily.
In November ITO persisted by storm
at Lake Baikal. Siberia; 9 by fire at
Hurley. Wis; by explosion at
Athens. Greece; by mine accident at
Erzeromi; % by mine accident at Tel
luride. Colo; by mine accident at
Bluefields, w. Va: by mine accident
at Wilkesbarre. Pa: 80 by boiler explo-
sion at Detroit. Mich: IS by railroad
disaster at Seneca, Mich. and Is by
drowning in the Hawaiian Islands.
In December Is were killed by a rail-
road accident at Kabron. Russia 20 lost
their lives by drowning In Japan: 140 by
drowning at Goa, India; II by gas explo-
sion at Pfttsburg, Pa; by boiler explo-
SION at PfttsburE. Pa; 80 by railroad
cfdent at Altenbrechen, Germany; 6 by
railroad accident at Melegnano. Italy: As
by IRE at Zacatecas. Mexico; 81 by rail-
by mine accident. Hartshorn 1. T.
b; by waterspout at Saffee, Morocco. 200.
me loss of life by railroad accidents
reported by mail and telegraph for 1901
was 1868 as compared with 4,169 in 1900
and 1886 in 1899. The number of serious
ly injured was 3.265 as compared with
ssh IN 1900 and 3,3S5 in 1899.
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-iynrhfngs n the iast seTgnfeen yexf1
may be of value to those engaged In the
study of this branch Of crfmino1ogy: 1885.
1s4t 1886. 1873; 1887. 122; 1888. 142: 1889. 176:
1880. 127: 1891. 1872; 1892. 235; 1893. 200; 1884,
1866 1855 III; 1896. 81; 1887, lG6; 1898. 127:
1899. 1c7: 1900, rs; '19O.. ;35. ~ III
The. lynchings in the various states
and territories were as follows: Ala
bama, Is: Arkansas, 5; California. 6: Col
orado. o; Connecticut 0; Delaware. o.;
Florida. Z; Georgia, IA: Idaho. L: Illinois
0: Indiana, !: Iowa, o: Kansas, 81 Ken
lucky. z; Louisiana Is; Maine, o. Mary
land, o: Massachusetts. o: Michigan. o.
Minnesota 0: Mississippi 16; Missouri. 6;
Montana. 4; Nebraska, o; New Jersey, o.
New Hampshire, o; New York. 0: Nevada
o: North Carolina. j: North Dakota. o.;
Ohio, o: Oregon, o: Pennsylvania, o.:
Rhode Island. o; South Carolina. 5: South
Dakota. o; Tennessee, II; Texas. IL; Yer
mont. O: Virginia, 2; West Virginia. q:
Wisconsin. o. Washington. o: Wyoming.
D: Arizona. /: District OF Columbia. o.;
New Mexico. o; Utah. 0; Indian Territory.
i: Oklahoma. 2: Alaska. 0.
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Wars OF the World.

The war which has most conspIcuousIy
engaged public attention during the year
has been the Boer war. 1t has now as
sumed the form of guerilla warfare, and
the new year opens with serious losses
inflicted upon British arms. In addition
to the South African struggle there has
been the customary number of reVou-
tons in Central America. and a more or
less sangu~ary conflict between Venezue-
la and Colombia. The pending trouble
between Argentina and Chile may be set
tied by arbitration. The Chinese has
been closed by treaty. In the Philippines
desultory warfare with StrolnS bands OF
natives continues. The list of casualties.
including killed and wounded. for the
year is as follows: Abyssinia, 1000; South
Africa, 5,377: Arabia. 5.l4i: Venezuela g.
5S3: Colombia. 2,5SS; China. 1604: Africa
f,26f; Philippines, SOS: Mexico, 421; Corea
315; Sumatra, 2sS; Java, IS; Albania, 81;
Bulgaria, Al; Macedonia. "a. The total
losses for the year are 27.6S1, as com.
pared with 1873 SIS in 1900.
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Socialism
in Japan

The recent action taken by the home
department with regard to socfalistic
publications and organizations will
probably create an impression that ia
pan is in some danger of being invaded
by the enemy which continental Eu-
rope finds so much difficulty in holding
at bay. 1t would not be a correct i'm
preston we think, and our belief is
confirmed by the Jill Shimpo. which,
while admitting that the reign of plu-
tocracy cannot be altogether prevented
in this country. denies that any condi
tons suggesting the growth of social
ism have yet become visible.
The Jill evidently thinks that the
rich and the poor in Japan are not sep
arated by gulf comparable with that
dividing the plutocrat and the Pauper
in the West, Here the poor man has
his compensations. He takes his holi-
days, goes to fetes and festivals and
enjoys himself thoroughly on occasion.
There is nothing intolerable in his lot.
The Jill might have added that the
rich mans manner of living is by no
means so conspicuousy superior to the
poor mans. as it is in Europe or Amer
lea.
Concerning the actual possession of
wealth, we really doubt whether the
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Z < . z q ~ ( 4
FIJI trademark rIghtfully used befoT0
the passage of, the former act. There
fore. from almost the beginning sof tho
registration of trade5nnra<1 lhH 10 tho
middle OF 1898 the kaEelt dice at
Washington allowed the registration
act. so that they had become assQctat-
ed with the goods OF q certain etajOn-
/: As late as the first half OF i1S9egehH,
ienteen surnames were Registered -
trademarks by applicants OF the same
name. Then the policy of the patene
Office suddenly changed; the letter Of
the main act of congress was stuck to
like grim death. but the spirit Of the
supplemental act was entirely crushed !
out of ii.
The reason at the base OF the prin-
ciple that surname must not be used
as a trademark is that surname
cannot be the exclusive property OF
any one person as against all others
who own the name.
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Newspaper Thinks
There is Little
Opportunity for
Its Development

Japanese plutocrat of this twentieth
century is a much richer man than was
his predecessor of Tokugawa times.
But apart from the mere question Of
degrees Of wealth, there is the fact that
Japanese rich man is singularly care
full not to make any striking display
of cpulence. He seems to have an in
stinctive desire to avoid contrasts
which might excite public envy.
There are not. indeed, quite as large
possibilities Of differentiation in Japan
as in Europe or America. The Japan
csc house and the Japanese manner OF
living do not offer such extensive OPP
portunities for magnificence and lux
ury, in outward appearance at least
But when due allowances are made on
that account, the conviction is still
forced upon any careful observer that
opulence in Japan is deliberately de-
prived of many of the ostentatious fea-
lures which in the West render 1t SO
ugly in the eyes of Indulgence. Which
of us knows of even one very wealthy
japanese who makes a parade of his
riches or devotes his money to pur-
poses of glitter and display? So long
os that spirit of placement prevails
the advent of socia1istfc ideas Will 90
deferred.-Japan Mail.
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FIRE LOSSES WERE GREAT.
Year Has Been Very Hard tho In
surance COMPANIES.


The year has been especially hard on
the fire insurance companies. because it
has come Immediately after another year
of disaster. Losses were heavy in 1900.
many companies were forced to quit the
business. and those that held on did so in
and that better conditions were inevita-
BILE. Instead of that the losses for the
year in the United States $40 o68. 900
greater than in 1900
The result has been number of rein
surances. retirements and amalg ana tons
of companies unprecedented since the
year of the Chicago fire, when SO many
companies were ruined. Fourteen stock
companies and eight mutuals have re-
tired absolutely from the field beside a
great number of small mutual and as
Sessment companies. Scores of other
companies have retired from the West.
the South or both, or have materially re-
Stricted their writings in the sections of
the country where they had suffered
most
AS result business men needing large
amounts of insurance have been unab Bile
to get it, and horde OF wildcat com
panies and irresponsible Lloyds have been
started. to prey upon the necessities Of
the people.
The losses for the entire year are put
at 1852. OS4414. against $3.50 OPS. 900 in 1900,
and s119. 696 900 in 1899.
Life insurance has closed the most pros
porous year in It's history. The people
have been prosperous and have been in
vesting their money literally In endow-
ment policies and ordinary life policies
for the benefit Of their families. 1t Is be-
lieved that the total of new business
serve companies will be 81. 500 600. 900. and
that their insurance in force will amount
to $500 100000 One company alone has
written over $500 900. 600.
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BUSINESS OF RAILROADS.
Traffic Receipts Enormous. and Many
Miles OF New Track Laid.

Miles OF New Track Laid
Keeping pace with the general prosper
ity of the country, railway building in
the United States during the year 1901
has exceeded that of any previous year
since 1880. when 5670 miles of new lines
We're completed and the record for that
year might have been surpassed had the
steel mills been able to furnish the nee
eSSary cars
The records of the Railway Age for
1901 show that with the returns thus far
received not less than 5.057 miles of track
have been laid 332 lines in 43 states
and territories.
With the exception of Pennsylvania
there has been little building In the East
ern and New England states, but there
has been much important work in all
other sections OF the country, the great
The construction west of the Mississippi
River has amounted to 3,lS7 miles and
the states east of the Mississippi and
south of the Ohio hare added S9l miles
making a total of 407S miles built in the
states south of the Ohio and west of the
Mississippi.
Official reports to the Interstate COM
merce commission for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1901, show gross earnings of
all the steam railroads in the United
States were S1,57S 1854. 2O2, or an average
of $S,211 per mile. The previous year the
gross earnings We're 81, 4S7, OH S14 The net
earnings the past fiscal year We're $685.
007.924, or s3557T.2l3 more than in the
previous fiscal year. The amount of divi-
dends to stockholders last year was Sl21,-
los 637. which is Sl3, 0OO, 900 more than the
divident payments the previous year.
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THE FINANCIAL REVIEW
united States Has Sustained Position OF
Leader of the World.


A review of the financial history NJ
the past year should make every Ameri-
cans heart thrill with pride For If in
lsoV the United States fought it's way to
position as the financial leader of the
world, the last year saw this country so
fortffy Itself in the first place that its
pre-eminence in the financial matters of
the world is assured for an Indefinite per-
iod to come
Not only was the money center of the
world made permanent in Wall street
curing the year. but the invasion of the
markets of the world by this country
That had been gathering in strength for
ten years was likewise pushed during 1901
with such success that this country may
now fairly lay claim to the Industrial
supremacy OF the globe
Ihe extent of our invasion of foreign
markets during 1901 may he judged from
the figures contained in the annual report
OF the Secretary of the Treasury. The
foreign commerce in merchandise for the
hscal year 1901 showed a decrease of
30, OH in imports and an increase of
Ss2,2sl sos In exports when compared with
the preceding year. Comparinx the 30
ures of 1901 with those of 1891 there is a
decrease of S21. IA 031 in imports and an
increase OF sooS. 2s4lsl in exports. The i'm
ports or the year 1901 were 1923. 172165 and
the exports S.4s7. 764. 9s1 making the ex-
cess OF exports over imports 1864 800 S26
soth the total exports and the excess
OF exports over imports We're greater in
E"l than in any preceding year in the
history of our commerce
10 say that the country has prospered
during 1901 is a weak statement of the
facts The fioodtide of prosperity has
rolied ahead for the past twelvemonth
with ever-increasing strength, and with
no indications that the ebb is to come
me government finances have profited
much during the past year. Revenues
OF the government from all sources for
the last fiscal year We're $500, 3l6 $40 49, and
the expenditures for the same period We're
*62t 1856 4654. showing surplus of ST.
~ .Ss43s Compared with the fiscal year
lSoo, the receipts for 1901 Increased 500
q, oss a. There was an increas of $50
253.s6l Ia in expenditures
The private moneyed interests as
gagged by the condition of the New York
associated banks. have an equally happy
story to tell. During the year the New
York banks gained in deposits $50 $50 600
and in loans Sol, 50T 600
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strikes Only slightly Disturhipr

Strikes were somewhat disturbing
factor in the industrial world May 20 the
machinists in some of the largest plants
in the country struck for a nine-hour day
without reduction in wages. About 20
coo men went out. In several cases they
were successful. but In others their places
were filled with other men. On the 18th
of July strike of iron, steel and tin
workers was ordered in some of the mills
OF the United States Steel corporation to
compel the adoption of the union scale
Seventy-tive thousand men were effected.
Growing out of the strike was that or
dered by President Shaffer of the Anal
Samated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers. in August. This ended in Sep
TENDER in failure. Strikes involving riots
and loss of life occurred in Albany, N
Y; in the Telluride mines, in Colorado:
among the teamsters in San Francisco
and the miners in Kentucky.
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BUSINESS CONSOLIDATION
Increasing Tendency Shown to Form
Combinations of CapitaL

The feature of the industrial situation
of the year was the continuation of the
tendency to form great combinations of
capital or trusts. In the first eight
months the aggregate capital of the new
corporations organized was 81. 467. 355 600,
as against 81. S6o, $50, OC0- for the same ne
Rod in 1900. The most gigantic of the
combinations effected was that known as
the United States Steel corporation hav-
ing q capital of $l,l00. 900 900. Its chief
organizer was J. Pierpont Morgan. The
companies entering the trust were the
Carnegie. Federal, American Steel and
Wire. National Tube. American Bridge.
National, American Sheet Steel Ameri-
can Tinplate, American Steel Hoop. Lake
Superior Consolidated iron mines and the
shelby Steel Tube. Some of the other
combinations brought about were the Al
disclaimers, AmalSamated Copper. AM
erican Can, American Locomotive. Amer
lean Plow, Consolidated Tobacco, North
American Trust. United Box. Board and
Northern Securities companies.
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FORGET WHERE THEY LIVE.
Instanc" OF Forretrulnesr That occa-
sionaIIy Come to- Notice.

sionnIIy Come to Notice.
1t was a diplomat. according to
Rtbot. in his book on Disease of
Memory" who. when about to make a
visit. could not tell his servant his
name. For heavens sake" he said
to friend, who accompanied him,
tell the servant who ! am" Worse
still was the case of one of Dr. Aber-
nethy's patients. he knew his friends
perfectly, but could not name them.
One day when out walking in the
street, he met a friend to whom he
was most anxious to communicate
something concerning another friend
But unfortuC ately he could not re-
member the other friends name, and
at last, frantic with his Intellectual
attempts tc make his friend under
stand who was the person meant, he
seized him by the arm and dragged
him through several streets to the
residence of the other and there
pointed to his (the second friend's)
name on the door
A complicated instance of mental
eclipse is that of a gentleman living in
Edinburgh. He was once found early
in the morning seeking in vain for his
residence. He appealed to a house
maid cleaning a doorstep. ''Lassie.
can you tell me which is Johnnie IS
house, he asked. Eth, mon" replied
the girl but you're Johnnie - your
self" That's not what l want to
know" was the angry retort. 4 want
so know where Johnnie IS house
is?'' That distinguished lawyer. Lord
Eldon, was the lord chancellor of Eng
land, and had to keep a cumbrous
piece of the national machinery known
as the great seal" His house in
Queen Square caught fire and to save
the seal from robbers he buried it in
his garden, but unfortunately forgot
the exact spot. The story is told in
many forms of the man who went
home to dress for party, but I'M
happily wound up his watch before
taking off his clothes. This set up a
sequence OF automatic actions which
ended in his going to bed instead of
going to his party.-Rochester Post
Express.
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mbezzlements of 1901,

The record of embezzling. forgery, de-
faulting, and bank wreckage for 1901
shows small decrease as compared with
that of 1900The total is 81 LOSS, 569 as COM
pared with $4.660,134 in 1900 The state
ment of dishonesty by months is as fol-
lows: January. $345,lS6; February. s75. 500;
GA; June, $50, 900; July, $179, 3O6; August
sl97,s92; September, s121, 400; October, $685.
232; November. $45S. 1853; December $3.50
800
The losses are distributed as follows:
Stolen by public officials $685. 945; from
banks. $l513,496; by agents, 1927 zoe: for
geries. 1854, 600; from loan associations
S266,315; by postmasters, SIS 1876: miscel-
laneous stealings, 81, 00S, 977
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CHIEF SPORTING EVENTS.
Americans Uniformly Successful Over
Their Foreign Opponents.

Sporting events of Importance included
the races for the Americas cup, resulting
in another victory for the American
yacht the Columbia over Sir Thomas Lip
tons Shamrock IL. Sept. % and Oct.
and 4: the defeat of an English team of
trapShooterS by Americans Hendon.
England, in June: the winning of the
worlds sCulling championship by George
Towns of Australia at Rat Portage, Ont
Sept z, and the decision of the fnterna-
tional committee at Paris, May 81. that
the next Olympian games are to take
place in Chicago in 1904. PittSburg won
the championship il the National Base
ball league and Chicago was first in the
American league. In the east Harvard
was the undisputed football champion
while in the west the donors were divid-
ed between Wisconsin and Michigan In
horse racing the feature of the season
was the trGtting of mile in 2:O2L by
Cfesceus at Columbus, o., Aug. 2.
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spite mountain. 5000 meters high
t9.S40 feet}, on the Austrian frontier
of Bavaria. throughout the year Last
September. the Bavarian postal tele-
graph administration put the matter
into the hands of the Allgemeine Elek-
tricitats Gesellschaft, who have now
solved the difficulty by establishing a
wireless telegraph installation be-
tween the observatory and the post
office of Eibsee. on the Slaby-Arco sys-
tenn. The difference in altitude be-
tween the summit of the mountains
and the Eibsee postoffice is 1000
meters In designing the apparatus
such a wave length was chosen, so
that DETECTION from the surfaces OF
rocks. etc, on the mount tain should as
sist rather than impede the transmits
sion of the signals. Another difficulty
which has been overcome is that OF
the power supplied to the apparatus.
The transport of heavy batteries. ETC..
to the top of the mountain would have
been extremely difficult, and therefore
the company has designed the appa-
ratus so that it should require
minimum of -ower AND the dry cells
which are employed with it have prov
ed sufficient. says Nature. Instead OF
the wire which has been used in many
recent Slaby-Arco experiments, ordi-
nary steel rope has been employed,
and this has been fixed in a slanting
direction to the surface of the rocks
without the assistance of either a mast
or insulators 1t is stated that the
system has so far given entire salts
faction to the postoffice authorities.
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Expensive Entertain
mcnt Given
at Delr1onicc.

as sailors, The host was a wachtsman.
and he bought the walters clothes.
The guests drank or. rather, tasted.
every vinted liquor that ever has been
brought to America. They finished
with a poUsse cafe made of eleven
liqueurs. Before each plate sat cut
glass basin about twenty inches in d.
ameter and four inches deep. Each
was nearly filed with water perfumed
with altar OF roses, on the surface of
which lioated half-open pond lilies. In
the basin a perfect model of the yacht
owned by the host was placed. 1t was
cut in red cedar wood, with cabin, rail,
wheel for steering, brass work, such as
Delaying pins and pinnacle. man-ropes
worked and trimmed with sailor knots,
scraped pine masts and booms, rigging
of silken cords colored as it would be-
in the original, and sails of satin
There was a gold oar and many other
gewgawS.