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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
LIFE INSURANCE AND
SOME OTHER SALARIES

addition to this salary he had made
about So. 900 from underwriting syndi-
cate transactions.
John A Mccall as president OF the
New York Life draws 100000 per an
mum. No profits from syndicates were
shown in his case. In the Equitable.
ideut and James Ill. Hyde as vice pres
ident each drew 100000 per annum
I'm salaries and Mr. Hyde participated
IN syndicateS. which made his total al
nuaI revenue from the company ap-
proximate between S125OOO and S131-
go. Under the new regime i'll the
Equitable participation i'll syEdicateS
by officers Of the company il prohibit
ed Since Paul Morton became preSi-
dent salaries have been lowered. and
ne himself draws as head of the com
pany $4,000 less per snnum than his
predece>Sor-tha is, $4,000. Even this
il ten times what he received as sec
rotary of the navy. The difference af
fortlS typical comparison between the
salaries paid the principal officers of
large business corporations and those
paid IN the federal. state or municipal
Z
president of the AtchiSon. Topeka and
Santa Re railroad Mr.. Morton drew a
salary several times that which he re
ceived as member of the cabinet Of the
president EHhu Root i'm order 10 ac-
cept the $1,000 office of secretary Of
state gave up "A law practice estimated
To have yielded him S2uO.uOu per an
mum and also resigned from corpora
ton dlrectorateS which were Of pc
cuniary value to him
The insurance invest CATION has
shown that some insurance presidents
get larger salaries than the presidents
/ OF leading railroads. James !. Hill gets
! $4,000 rs president of the Great
Northern. and Stuyvesant Fish re-
| ceives 100000 as president Of the Illi-
neis Central. but such salaries are rare
among railroad men, and il Is argued
| that there is less justification for big
| salaries in the case Of insurance com
/ panies than in that of railroads. as the
| wealth OF the former is i'm the nature
, Of trust funds
: Sir Caspar Pur1on Clarke, director
| of the Metropolitan museum, the fore
most art Institution i'm America. re-
| ceives about $1,000 per annum. As the
| incumbent OF post Of corresponding
importance in England he received on
! ~ one-third that amount The preSi
dent Of Harvard university draws a
salary OF $4,000. but large salaries
are exceptional among college profess
ors. and those familiar with the sub
| ject place the average at $1,000. Presi
dent Mccall Of the New York Life has
l two young sons IN subordinate pos.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
ERSONALITY OF THE MEN WHO RULE THE MUTUAL LIFE

I tual at $50 per month. Later the elder
| Thebaud called on the elder McC urdy.
and a full reconciliation was effected.
Being now member of the clan in
good standing the son-in-law must
share in the Mutual bounties. What
| ever may be said of the senior McCur-
DIV no one has ever charged that be is
not a good provider for his own. The
first jump out of the box Louis A.
Thebaud was given Il $1,000 office
with the Mutual Life, although to
make him place another man had to
De ousted, and as this man was under
contract $4,000 had to be paid him in
order to induce him to release the con-
tract. But what is Il little matter of
$4,000 that it should stand in the
way of family harmony, especially
when people on the outside put up the
money?
There was originally another mem
Der of the family who reaped rich har-
vests from the New York general agen-
cy of the Mutual His name was John
A. Little. and he was another brother
in-law of Richard y. McCurdy. He
got the cream of the profits until the
son, Robert II. McCurdy, prince
Bob as his intimates call him, was
ready to step ill., Then Mr.. Little oblig-
ingly gave way and went to Paris TO
live. He died there year or two ago.
and his estate was valued ut $1,000, 900.
The "YeIIow Dog" Fund.
There were very many Interesting
things brought out in the testimony.
e
had been paid out to the legal depart
ment, for which no purpose was as
signed. 1t has been charged that these
We're for what is known as the yellow
dog" fund. intended for Influencing
legislation ana the like. Another was
that since 1896 the sum of S92.J0O had
been paid to the Republican national
and congressional committees. Still an
other and most sensational of all was
that $500 had been paid To Thomas
Ii. BoWleS. Back of this BoWleS pay
ment is q story. Most of the story will
never be told perhaps, but some of it
has leaked out. Thomas II. Bowles
was one or the most SUCCESSFUL General
agents of the Mutual He had made a
great mark in the central west and
WAS then placed in charge of the south
ern field. While there for some uneX-
planned reason he began Il secret cam
paign against the McCurdys. He
charged nepotism, extravaganza and
general disregard of the policy holders
interests. For one thing he said that
son Robert was raking $4,000 an
nually out of the foreign field. As Il re
suit, BowleS was fired. Then he began
a campaign i'll the open to Gust the Nc
Curdy management. To do This he
gathered policy holders proxies from
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

Robert IL. McCurdy. a Son. general
manager of the company. who receives
in the way of salary and perquisites of
one sort and another the sum of S121,-
166. so far as the returns are in. In
addition there IS Il son-in-law, Louis A
Thebaud. who secures three-fourths of
the proceeds of the New York general
agency, amounting to S14I.6S1 in each
twelve months This takes in all the
immediate McCurdy family. and it
seems very well provided for TO the
tune of something over 100000 Il
year, to be exact. But the list does not
end here. E. J. Marsh, a brother-in-
law of Richard A. McCurdy. has Il sal
airy from the Mutual of 100000 Il year.
Peter Stuyvesant Pilot. Il cousin of
Son-in-law Thebaud, pulls out $4,000
per annum. 10 say nothing of Walter
Il. Gillette. former family physician OF
the McCurdys and now vice president
of the Mutual. who gets $4,000 annual
ly. \ little sum in addition reveals the
fact that the original McCurdy. his
brother-in-law. his son, his son-in-law.
his son-in-law's cousin and his former
family physician thus net each year
the comfortable amount of Si94.4 53.
There is rather interesting and
withal human story in relation to
DR.. Giuette's connection with the Mu-
tual 1t appears that Mrs. Richard A.
McCurdy some years ago was very ill
so i'll. IN fact. that her life was despair
ell of. DIR. Gillette had charge of the
case Mr.. McCurdy became alarmed
and wanted to call in other physicians,
but Gillette demurred. saying that he
could effect the patients recovery
alone IF you do" cried President
McCurtlv impulsively. Il will make
you vice president of the Mutual"
Upon the recovery of his wife he made
good that DrOmisp
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

all over the country II was aU about
this time that the $4,000 payment was
made TO Mr.. BowleS. and the gar sud
denly stopped There have been vari-
Gus limitations that the amount he re
ceived was much larger. Rumor says
that it ran all the way from Il half mil
lion to i million. However that may
be. Mr. BOwles retired and is now said
10 own more than S1,OOO.OOO worth OF
property. most of it in the south
Richard \. McCurdy is past seventy
years old. His father before him was
connected with the Mutual Life com
pany. The son was graduated from
Yale and studied law. beginning the
practice i'll New York city. Soon after
he was made attorney for the Mutual
Life. After Il few years in this position
he was made vice president Temporal
rily until a permanent man could be
found. The permanent man was found
in McCurdy himself. Is he expressed
it in his testimony. he got the halter
about his neck and never could break
it," After long term as vice preSi-
dent he WAS promoted to the preSi-
dency of the company, first at $4,000
n wear and afterward advanced gradu-
ally 10 the present figure.
Does Not Mix With the Four Hundred.
He is not Il social man. He does not
mix with the -Four Hundred. lie has
managed 10 keep out of the public
prints all his lIfe-that is. until recent
ly. 1t has been his boast that lac could
walk all the cay down town i'll New
TO his office. and not he recognized
once. 1t has seemed 10 he his desire 10
surround himself with mystery and Sc
crecy. y lawyer recently described an
attempt to reach President McCurly
personally as Il very diScOuraging and
tedious experience. When at last he
did succeed in gaining access to the
highest Salaried insurance man in the
world he found that functionary in an
elegantly furnished office. seated on Il
$1,000 chair. i'll the middle of n $4,000
rug and before Il $4,000 desk. on which
was not scrap of paper or other sign
OF vulgar labor. How the lawyer knew
the prices of these different articles he
did not explain. but it is a good story
anyway. Mr.. McCurdy testified that
he did not know the price of these fur
niShingS.
McCurdy is like II king in the Mutual.
He has practically unlimited power.
He speaks habtually of it as my
company, refers To its officers as my"
officers and the agents rs my agents.
lie has never designated the assets as
my assets so far rs known. But.
then, he has no need To do so. There
are means of conveying n meaning of
that sort other than speech.
Both Mr.. MCCuTdy and his son have
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

JeWelcFS tlFcuhrs
One large marQuise shaped diamond
ornaments Il diamond studded hoop in
a striking ring.
Not only i'll small, open face chIrc-
Iaine watches, but in large watches,
very thin. fat models are shown.
\ handsomely chased openwork Dor
der. surrounding an oval in Roman
gold. with II diamond in the center.
forms novel pattern in sleeve links.
The furorc for bracelets results in
extremes, 50 10 speak. as TO width.
For the girl who affects the tall, svelte
style there is the slightest Of gold
chains. with diamond heart IS a
charm. or the narrowest of diamond
bracelets
Rose gold is employed in new models
in wide bracelets. handsomely chased
and set with gems. Gold braid is simu-
lated in half inch bands with the brace
let catch under Il roSctte formed of the
braid. aud many other novel styles are
shown.
Fashions latest fad is the veil pin.
Some are convex and thus well shaped
for fastening fiat the stylish. circular
veil or the automobile veil Fancy
bars. dragon flies. arrows and swords
are among designs seen. the pins being
longer than those used for stocks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
ADELE RICHIE. SINGER
DARING HORSEWOMAN

that. 1 remarEcu u.ol a..
Why. my dear" the rlir Ace re
piled, they woId ra.hcr - Wi.h3It
their hay ana bran f'c Il Nyr.. taan
hurt me even the ti9.e-i l.ttlc BIZ. I
love them al. ani they !.ao.. it. AMI
| think the Ike lie pet we'll
Then she showed me the b.g coach
ana pointed out the foUr -: horses
that pull il; also Il drag gnd three
horses thit pull that. asked her who
drove those affairs.
WHY. DO. silly" shr replied. with
merry laugh. Il drive anything in
the way OF horses. l drive single. tan
dem. unicorn auI four INLAND aud
ride Sidesaddlc or cross saddle and
follow the hounds ID You ride? If
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
Religion In the Workshops.

The Presbyterian department of
church and labor is about To begin Il
series of regular MONDAY religious
services in shops and factories through
out the United States. says the Chicago
Tribune Superintendent Charles Steele
of the Chrag go office will direct the move
ment through representatives appoint
ed in $50 centers. who in turn will lead
the men in the territory which has been
assigned TO them. IF the wOrkingnan
does not go To church we must take the
gospel to him." Mr. Stelzle said.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
PAGES 9 TO IL.

behind tho drawer Ia he forgotten per
haps, anyway To hc dragged ont rum
pled and dusty. Have case OF
shelves Tot too high. Have daintiiy
padded and scented covers for the
shelves. or which shall rcpose neatly
folded garments. Il glance showing just
what yOu want. Loaded glass doors
lined with silk the prevailing color If
the room viii keep out the dust and ne
an ornament To the room.-Good
Housekeeping
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

that mutual insurance is a benevo-
lence, a phiianthrOpic. missionary en-
terprise. as il We're. 1t should be all
that. But it seems that under the
right sort of manipulation benevolence
and philanthropy can be made to pay.
While providing for the policy holders
after death. they can also be made to
bring in not unhandsome returns to the
Insurance officials during life. Great
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
Nut Cookies.

Cream two teacupfulS of sugar with
half teacupful of butter, add half Il
teacupful of milk, teacupful of chop
ped hickory nut meats, two beaten
eggs, heapinS teaspOonful of baking
powder sifted with -four enough to
make soft dough. Roll. not too thin.
cut with Il small sized cutter and bake.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
A Creeping Death.

Blood poison creeps up toward the
heart causing death. J. Z. Stearns.
Belle PLANE. Mimi, writes that a
friend dreadfully injured his hand,
which sweiied up like blood poisoning
Bucklin's Amica Salve drew out the
poison. healed the wound. and saved
his life Best in the world for burns
and sores % cents at Hartz IL Tile
meyers drug store.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
Favored by Legislation.

lions in his company. one Of whom
draws as much as Harvard's president
and the other $4,000 more. Great Brit
ain pays high officials well. Yet Lord
Curzon as viceroy of India and govern
ing One-fifth of the worlds inhabitants
receives $4,000 less per annum than
James Hazen Hyde for some years
drew as vice president of the Equita-
BILE
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

family might extract further revenue,
and from the indications they are not
just the sort of people who would over
look chances of that kind. Some inter
cstcd people have figured on the prob
abilities and estimate that in the last
twenty years the McCurdys have taken
out of the Mutual and related compa-
nies al least $10,0OO,OOO. Yet the head
Of the clan McCurdy has often said
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

7 EARLY half million dollars a
~ year. That is what the insur-
4 ance investigation revealed to
be the income of the McCurdy
family from the Mutual Life. 1t is
more than suspected that, stupendous
as this amount is, it does not tell all
the story, for there are large number
of subsidiary concerns connected with
the Mutual from which such a thrifty
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

but ignorance or partizan prejudice will
be responsible for the election of Nc
Kinney (if he is elected. If the farm
ers and laboring men would support
and read such papers as The Rock
Island Argus and Warren County Dem
Ocrat instead OF trust advocates. they
would fare better ]. ID. Porter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

women and children. She took ex-
ception to the presidents ideas and
then said: When Mr.. Roosevelt is NOT
settling disputes in football and wars
he devotes a few minutes TO his other
hobby and settles the destiny OF VIC
men"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
SIDE LIGHTS UPON j. HOWARD PATTEE

Monmouth, H.. Nov. editor Rock
Island Argus: see your paper has
some quite interesting articles on Mr..
Pattee. | have known Mr. Pattee very
many years. and know him for his
staunch and incorruptible integrity, as
well as sympathy with the laboring
man and farmer but story that
comes from leading republican bank
er of this county and is vouched for
by men of unquestiOned veracity,
seems to win him votes from every di-
rection.
NJ CoIfaN Springs
II seems this banker was at the
COlfax. Springs. Iowa. some years ago
a: the same time as Mr.. Pattee, and
witnessed Mr.. Paytee's settlement with
the landlord and spoke of guest who
was very unwel and who appeared so
poor that he had TO take one of the
cheap rooms at the top of the house
and receive but little care. Mr.. Pattee
told the manager TO give the man one
of the best rooms in the house and
secure a good doctor to look after him,
and whether he lived or died TO send
the bill for expenses TO him at Mon
mouth for payment. for that was the
kind of christianity he believed in.
am inclined TO believe that is the
practical christianity that leads us TO
believe in it. especially if it affects
bankers. many OF whom are nice, re-
spectacle fellows like Mr.. Mckinney
but who make their money by drawing
interest on their debts-bank note
promises 10 pay" money. while the
common people have TO pay interest.
Favored by Legislation.
heard Mr.. Mckinney denounce the
trusts" in his speech at Alexis, while
he and his father before him got their
money by the favOrs conferred on
them by special legislation, which their
party is responsible for. and the party
he trains with owes its success to the
money contributed by the McCalls.
Hydes. bankers and others of a kind
who defeated Bryan and all other men
faithful to the interests of the common
| people
That protected class have large
majority in this district yet nothing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
NEWWOMAN RAPS ROOSEVELT
He Is Put in Cleveland Class by Cri-
teal Speaker

Binghampton. y. Y, Nov. Al a
meeting OF the New York State Fed
Grafton of Women's clubs here Mrs.
Mathilda Childe Dorr. New York.
spoke cOntemptuously of President
Roosevelt's well known ideas about
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

T~ HE large salaries paid by life
insurance companies To their
officials have been the subject
of much discussion in cOnncc-
ton with the investigation of insur-
gnCe matters now in progress. II is
interesting To compare the salaries paid
some of the men AT the head of leading
life insurance corporations with IN"
remuneration which men of CORE
spending ability I'm other lines of activ-
ity obtain The highest paid public Of
ticcr in the United States is the preSi-
dent. whose salary of 10000 year
Is only oue-third. however. of that re
Ceived by Richard y. McCurdy a. pres
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

To analyZc this income more III de-
tail, there is Richard y. McCurdy, the
president of the Mutual, who receives
salary OF $4,000. three times that
of the president of the United States
and the largest salary paid an insur-
ance official on earth. Then there is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04

ADELE RIToHIE READY FOB FOX HUNT.
you do. I'll give you q mount on
champion topper. and We will 20 over
the course together, and box Of gloves
to the one who finishes first You
know. | have full course on these
forty-hve acres Of mine here. with WA
ter jumps. stone walls. brush hurdles
and a few five bar rail fences 80 you
can enjoy all the excitement you
want"
They brought ont the hunter she was
70 ride. and in some way that / am
still wondering about she managed to
get on it's back between its frantic
jumps. and away they went. thought
at every jump that the actress would
be thrown; but. when the horse landed,
instead Of falling off she stayed right
On and urged him TO what seemed even
more fooIhardy stunts.
She said she wanted me to drive with
Continued ou Page Eleven
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04


ident Of the Mutual Life Insurance
company. MIR. McCurdy has been IN
AS present position for twenty years
and for Il time his yearly cOmpenSa-
ton was the comparatively moderate
sum Of S30,OOO This was looked upon
IS fairly generous pay Il score of years
ago. but as time went on and ideas en-
larged as To what a captain of industry
or colonel of commerce should receive
IL was Thought hit 10y the trustees Of
the Mutual To raise his pay To 100000
per annum. II continued at this fig
ure until four years ago, when the
trustees passed n resolution 10 recOg-
nize his services 10y increasing his an
nual salary 10 $lJs.U0O. II was shown
- the insurance investigation that in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-11-04
Highest Salaried Insurance Official.

is benevolence, especially the KIM un:>
is kept in the family.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-20
My Offer to
Kidney Sufferers
will give you full dollars worth OF my rem
edy FREQ to try without cost or deposit
or promise to pay.

could not make this otfer--a full dollars
WORT, free-df mine an ordinary kidney
,emedy. 1t ia not. 1t treats not the kidneys
The cause Of kidney trouble lies always in these
nerves, The only way to cure kidney trouble
IS By strengthening and vitalizing and Restoring
these kidney nerves. That Is exactly what my
ehoop's Restorative-does. There
fore can make this offer with the certain
knowledge that every kidney sufferer who makes
ibis trial Will be helped.
When cay '.nsrvas," do not mean the or
lnary nerves Of feeling, thought, action. I mean
the automatic nerves, which night and day, un
operate every vital process OF life - These, are
the master nerves. The kidneys are their slaves
lot sway them. Yet when they are strong, YOU
lie "'''' "1'A ''' 40 ~ .
! have written book on the kidneys which
plains fully and clearly how these tiny. tender
inside nerves control not only the Kidneys
but each Of the other vital organs.
remedy nay '4sF is 'n not
need no further evidence. But to those who hav1
.-+Ioubted: say simply write and ask"
vii send you an order for which your druggis
will hand you full dollar bottle-and he vii
send the bill to me. There ore no condition.
For free order for Book on Dyspepsia.
full dollar bottle you Book on the Heart.
must address DR.. Shoop, Book on the Kidneys.
Box F82O. Racine. Book for Women.
Wis. State which book Book for Men.
you want. Book on Rheumatism
Mid cases are often cured by a single bottle
For sale at forty thousand drug stores.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-02-20
S0UTHERNER'S GOOD FORTUNE.
Sam Hoover Finds Something Better
Than Gold Mines,

There is no happier man in this whole
wide world today than Sam. A. Hoover,
Of Greensboro, N. c., who is receiving
the congratulations Of his friends upon
his fortunate find of something better
than gold mines or oil wells. Mr..
Hoover in letter to a friend in Min
neapolis writes: -.
''Three months, ago I was greatly
distressed by nasal catarrh and entire
deafness in the, right ear. The labor
Of hawking and scraping to get my
throat and nasal passages free from the
foul secretions deposited there, might
be about equal to that Of six mule
team with a road-scraper to get the
earth from the roadside to the center.
II purchased an outfit of Hyomei
and Hyomei balm, and as a result Of
it's use my head, throat and nasal pas
sages are all free from secretions of
any sort, only as Nature designed, and
my hearing in both ears is nearly as
acute as it ever was.'
There is no disagreeable stomach dos
ing in using Hyomei; just breathe it
and it's pure fragrance will kill the ca
tarrhal germs in the head, throat and
lungs. Hyomei balm used in connec-
ton with Hyomei, will cure the worst
case Of catarrhal deafness.
The complete outfit costs but 81, and
extra bottles are only SO cents. Ask
Voegeli Bros. Drug Co., corner Of Hen
nepin and Washington avenues and cor
ner Seventh street and Nicollet avenue,
to show you the strong guarantee un-
der which they sell Hyomei. It costs
nothing unless it cures.