The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-08-18

sequently their income and reserve to
keep pace with the scythe OF the grim
reaper Death. The gain OF tho
cheap rate" societies also has been
large, but not in proportion to the
insurance contracts issued, which, in
surance commissioners have pointed
out, must be backed by cash or its
equivalent in bonds to provide actual
protection for the widow and the or
phans of benflciaries. The cash re-
ceipts of 55 fraternal insurance So
cieties for the year 1907 were $74,-
150,043. Keen interest Is felt by
financial houses in the figures which
win be reported at the Fraternal Con-
gress as to the receipts and assets
for the year 1902. Both totals are
on the increase as results of the re-
adjustment of rates by many of the
societies to an adequate basis. TAX
ing the IL orders which show the
bandsomest gain from 1904 to 1908
the increase of assets per member is
from SIS to s2S. Two of the con-
cpicuous gains were made by soci-
cites whose members and officers are
exclusively women. One of these,
the Ladies of the Maccabees of the
| from s1,241,71S to $S,673. 466 and is
| now the strongest fraternal society
of women in the world. Although
these figures are large, the total paid
| for fraternal insurance is but q OF
one per cent. of wages and salaries
| disbursed in the United States In
1907, $4,000, 900, ,O0G. the total is bu.
"a small fraction also of the amount
| paid for old line Insurance at the
higher rates but the total fraternal
| insurance now exceeds S9,000,000 as
compared with $4,000. 100000 of old
line insurance now outstanding.
| The inevitable midsummer water
famine of Chicago is impending, de-
spite an average daily pumpage of
467, 900, 900 gallons. which is water
| enough to float the navles of the
United States and Great Britain with
n hundred frog ponds left over. Not
withstanding the water supply of old
Lake Michigan the requirements of 2.
| 100000 people have not yet been met
although there Is alienation ahead,
years in the distance when the
| great Southwest land tunnel Will be
completed to provide hundred mil
lion gallons more. City surveys in
dicate that so per cent. of the water
drawn in the famine section is vast
cd and mandatory orders regulating
use of water are flying thick as bees
| with agile follow-ups in the shape OF
st-on-sight policemen. One
fortieth of the supply is used by the
city for street sprlnl<ling, sewer flush
ing and similar purposes. The parks
consume 10,575,97S gallons of city
water every day, of which S,156,27S
gallons 20 to the South parks, 1,S39,-
900 gallons to the West parks. 500,-
900 to the various small parks and
| SO,700 to Lincoln Park for drinking
fountains. This saving of city wat
| er thus affected in Lincoln Park adds
| impetus to the agitation for the es-
tablshment of n special system ol
water supply for the parks and even
its prbable cost of $4,000 is rated
as an economy. Too much lawr
sprinkllng and too frequent and lib.
erl bathing are the ascribed causes
for the water deficit. Flat dwell
ers and humble city residents i'm the
Jackson Park and Hyde Park dis
tricts where the water squeeze II
tightest complain that Chicago is be
ing forced into wearing a water
works system that has been out
grown until II Is several sizes too
small. The wall of protest Is loud
est from dwellers in upper story fat
who claim that sanitary condition.
are impossible and that life holds M
mockery equal to faucets from whicl
water either hot or cold positively re
fuses to come. The city's receipts
| 10, ,riry In, oh
the total of $4,SS3.326, the tota
pumpage being over 172,500,O0O gal
Ions.