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All Forms of LIABILITY INSURANCE, Covering
The liability of Manufacturers and other Employers to strangers who may be injured upon their premises. The liability of Contractors to Employees and to strangers for injuries sustained upon buildings or other works under contract. The contingent liability of Owners having buildings or other works under contract. The liability of owners of buildings for accidenta, (including Elevator). The liability of Owners of Horses and Vehicles for driving accidents.
LIFE and ENDOWMENT POLICIES.
All Forms, Low Rates, and Non-Forfeitable. Its Increasing Life Plan affording options of conver- sion into temporary or life annuities, with liberal surrender values, is offered by no other Company.
Assets, $22,868,994.16
Liabilities, $19,146,359.04
Surplus, $3,722,635.12
Returned to Policy Holders since 1864, $34,360,626
GEORGE ELLIS, Secretary. JOHN E. MORRIS, Ass't Secretary.
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CONNECTICUT FIRE INSURANCE CO.
of Hartford, Conn. Office, No. 51 PROSPECT STREET, Cor. of GROVE ST. INCORPORATED JUNE, 1850.
CONNECTICUT FIRE INSURANCE CO'S BUILDING.
Forty-Eighth Annual Statement, Jan. 1, 1898.
Cash Capital, . $1,000,000.00
Cash Assets, January 1, 1898, .
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3,559,327.18
Net Surplus to Policy-Holders, .
1,984,017.65
OFFICERS. JOHN D. BROWNE, President.
CHARLES R. BURT, Secretary. L. W. CLARKE, Ass't Secretary.
DIRECTORS. HENRY C. ROBINSON, Attorney at Law, Director N. Y., N. H. & H. R. R. A. E. BURR, Editor Hartford Daily Times.
JOHN R. REDFIELD, President National Exchange Bank.
RODNEY DENNIS, President Connecticut Humane Society. FRANKLIN G. WHITMORE, Real Estate.
T. W. RUSSELL, President Connecticut General Life Insurance Co.
J. D. BROWNE, President.
D. R. HOWE, Treasurer Hartford Street Railway Company.
H. P. STEARNS, Superintendent and Physician, Retreat for Insane.
J. M. HOLCOMBE, Vice President Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Western Department-P. D. MCGREGOR, Asst. Manager, Rookery Building, Chicago, Ill. Pacific Department-BENJ. J. SMITH, Manager, San Francisco, Cal.
W. E. BAKER & SON, Local Agents, Gas Co's Building.
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1794.
The Oldest Insurance Company in Hartford. 1898.
THE HARTFORD Fire Insurance Company,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
53 TRUMBULL STREET.
Devoted exclusively to Insurance against Loss or Damage by Fire. All classes of Fire Risks accepted at rates graded to hazard involved.
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Incorporated May, 1810. Charter Perpetual.
GEO. L. CHASE, President.
P. O. ROYCE, Secretary.
T. TURNBULL, Ass't Sec'y.
OHAS. E. OHASE, Ass't Sec'y.
Annual Meeting, January 8.
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DIRECTORS.
Geo. L. Chase, Jon'n B. Bunce, Jas. J. Goodwin. Jacob L. Greeno, Theodore Lyman, George Roberts, John O. Day, Wm. O. Skinner, M. H. Whaples.
Has a Capital of One and One-quarter Million Dollars. Has Total Assets of Over Ten Million Eight Hundred and Nineteen Thousand Dollars. Has a Net Surplus of Over Four Million Two Hundred and Forty-Nine Thousand Dollars. Has Paid Over Fifty-Six Million Dollars in Losses.
SILAS CHAPMAN, Jr., Resident Agent, 51 TRUMBULL STREET.
Offices and Apartments To Let In the Hartford Fire Insurance Company's Building, Apply to M. O. Wells, Agent, 9 Central Row.
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CHARTERED, MAY, 1869.
ORGANIZED, Nov. 27, 1871.
NATIONAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.
No. 95 PEARL STREET.
Statement, January .1, 1898.
CAPITAL STOCK, All Cash,
$1,000,000.00
FUNDS RESERVED TO MEET ALL LIABILITIES:
Re-Insurance Reserve, Legal Standard,
1,734,945.34
Unsettled Losses and Other Claims,
317,654.02
Net Surplus over Capital and Liabilities,
1,380,419.50
TOTAL ASSETS, January 1, 1898,
$4,433,018.86
JAMES NICHOLS, President, E. G. RICHARDS, Vice President and Secretary. B. R. STILLMAN, Assistant Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES NICHOLS, President. HOMER BLANCHARD, formerly Pres't Broad BrookCo. JAMES BOLTER, President Hartford National Bank. WILLIAM B. FRANKLIN, formerly Vice President Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Co. FRANK W. CHENEY, Treasurer Cheney Brothers, Silk Manufacturers, etc., eto.
JOHN R. BUCK, Attorney at Law, Ex-Congressman.
JONATHAN F. MORRIS, formerly President Charter Oak National Bank.
JOHN L. HOUSTON, President Hartford Carpet Co.
HENRY C. JUDD, firm of H. C. Judd & Root.
FRANCIS T. MAXWELL, Treasurer Hockanuin Co., Rockville.
ELLIS G. RICHARDS, Secretary.
BYRON A. SIMMONS, Capitalist.
Annual Meeting, the Last Thursday in January.
DIVIDENDS JANUARY AND JULY.
WESTERN DEPARTMENT, Office, 174 LaSalle Street, Chicago.
FRED S. JAMES, GENERAL AGENT; GEORGE W. BLOSSOM, Ass't General Agent. CHARLES RICHARDSON, 2d Assistant General Agent.
PACIFIC DEPARTMENT, Office, 409 California Street, San Francisco. GEORGE D. DORNIN, MANAGER; GEORGE W. DORNIN, Assistant Manager.
W. T. PRICE & CO., Local Agents, 95 PEARL ST., Hartford.
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TIME TRIED AND FIRE TESTED.
The Phenix Insurance Company,
64 PEARL STREET, Hartford, Conn.
Chartered, June, 1854.
Annual Meeting in January.
Cash Capital, $2,000,000
Loses Paid, OVER $41,385,760.27
CONDITION JANUARY 1, 1898. ASSETS.
Cash on Hand, iu Bank, and with Agents,
$747,147.73
State Stocks and Bonds,
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29,250.00
Hartford Bank Stocks,
569,280.00
Miscellaneous Bank Stocks
359,907.00
Corporation and Railroad Stocks and Bonds,
2,774.416.00
County, City, and Water Bonds,
344,270.00
Real Estate,
527,696.67
Loans on Collateral,
20,200.00
Real Estate Loans,
132,340.70
Accumulated Interest and Rent,
33,871.40
TOTAL CASH ASSETS,
$5,588.379.50
LIABILITIES.
Cash Capital,
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375,470.73
Reserve for Re-Insurance, ·
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2,139,993.40
NET SURPLUS, . .
TOTAL ASSETS,
$5,688,379.50
Surplus to Policy-holders, D. W. C. SKILTON, President. EDWARD MILLIGAN, Sec'y.
$3,022,915.37
J. H. MITCHELL, Vice Pres't.
JOHN B. KNOX, Ass't Sec'y.
H. M. MAGILL, General Agent Western Department, Cincinnati, Ohio. THEO. F. SPEAR, Assistant General Agent Western Department, Cincinnati, Ohio. HERBERT FOLGER, General Agent Pacific Department, San Francisco, Cal. DIXWELL HEWITT, Assistant General Agent. J. W. TATLEY, Manager Canadian Department, Montreal, Canada.
DIRECTORS.
CHARLES M. BEACH, MILO HUNT, HENRY K. MORGAN,
WARD W. JACOBS, JOHN H. HALL
PLINY JEWELL, CHARLES H. SMITH, D. W. C. SKILTON, GEORGE RIPLEY,
LYMAN B. JEWELL,
J. H. MITCHELL, Boston.
EDWARD W. BEARDSLEY, Local Agent, Hartford and Vicinity. Office, 64 PEARL STREET.
HENRY A. REDFIELD,
HENRY C. DWIGHT, CHAS. H. NORTHAM,
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$2,000,000.00
Reserve for Outstanding Losses, .
1,022,915.37
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Orient x Insurance × Company, 5 HAYNES ST., Cor. PEARL, HARTFORD, CONN.
Incorporated, June 28, 1867.
Began Business, January, 1872.
Annual Meeting, Second Wednesday in February. Dividends, January and July.
Statement of Condition, January 1, 1898.
CAPITAL STOCK, PAID UP IN CASH, .
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· 735,278.41
RESERVE FOR RE-INSURANCE,
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151,505.36
Total Cash Assets, . $8,346,684.49 .
Surplus, as Regards Policy-holders, $1,885,278.41
SCHEDULE OF ASSETS.
Bank Stocks, Railroad Stocks, Railroad Bonds,
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466,722.00
State, County, City, and Town Bonds,
432,161.63
Cash in Bank and in Agents Hands,
295,306.39
Real Estate,
58,959.43
Interest Accrued, and Rents,
18,229.38
Loans on Mortgages, first lien,
267,350.66
Loans Secured by Stocks and Bonds,
1,750.00
Total Assets,
$8,846,684.49
Losses Paid Since Organization to Date, $11,224,028.47.
CHARLES B. WHITING, President.
JAMES U. TAINTOR, Secretary. HOWARD W. COOK, Ass't Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
DANIEL PHILLIPS, ex-Pres't Mechanics Savings B'k. LEVERETT BRAINARD, President of the Case, Lock- wood & Brainard Co.
WILLIAM H. BULKELEY, Ex-Lieut. Gov. of Conn. JOHN R. HILLS, Mason and Builder.
JOHN G. ROOT, President Farmers and Mechanics National Bank.
ARTHUR W. ALLEN, Merchant, Chicago, Il1.
CHAS. B.WHITING, Vice Pres't City Bank of Hartford
J. M. ALLEN, President Hartford Steam Boiler Inspec- tion and Insurance Company.
P. HENRY WOODWARD, Sec'y H'f'd Board of Trade. B. W. FRENCH, General Agent, Chicago, Ill.
GEORGE POPE, President Hartford Cycle Company. M. S. CHAPMAN, Vice Pres't Plimpton Mig. Co. JAMES U. TAINTOR, Secretary.
WM. WALDO HYDE, Attorney at Law, Gross, Hyde & Shipman.
Western Department-B. W. FRENCH, General Agent, CHICAGO, IL.L. Pacific Department-W. J. CALLINGHAM, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Southwestern Department-TREZEVANT & COCHRANE, DALLAS, TEXAS.
SILAS CHAPMAN, JR., Local Agent, 51 Trumbull Street.
$500,000.00
NET SURPLUS OVER ALL LIABILITIES,
959,900.72
OUTSTANDING LOSSES AND ALL OTHER LIABILITIES,
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$333,090.00
473,115.00
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CITY JURORS
Chosen by Court of Common Council, April 25, 1898, for the year ending April 1, 1899.
Allen John
Kinsella R. J.
Anderson Montague
Kinyon F. S.
Baker William E.
Kohn Henry
Bartlett Alonzo
Lamb John W.
Bidwell Samuel W.
Lawler Edward
Blake Thomas J.
Lepard Frederick P.
Boardman Thos. J. Bosworth S. B. Bourn William
Long John C. Lull Lysander Madigan Charles R. Mahl George
Bragaw Isaac Brainerd Amaziah Bremer B. Z.
Marcy Frederick A. McDonnell John B.
1791-One snow storm of four days; snow 6 feet deep-
1793-Feb. 4, 84º below zero.
1800-Snow 8 feet deep, three months.
1803 -- May 8, snow fell over a foot in depth-freezing for two nights.
1807-Cold so intense Feb. 7, that forest trees cracked like reports from guns firing.
1816-Jan. 15-17, snow four feet deep; cold summer; frost every month in the year. 1818-May 17, snow lasted five days.
1821-Intense cold so long and continuous that Long Island sound was frozen over.
1828-Nov. 6, first snow; sleighing for 151 days
1827-Oct. 17, snow fell fifteen inches deep, and in all New England; a few miles above Hartford it did not go off until spring opened. Thousands of bushels of potatoes remained undug until spring, when they were found in good condition.
1835-Cold winter of this century; February, from
1? to 280 below zero, with deep snows. 1887-Was noted for deep snows.
1841-Oct. 8, snow fell one foot deep.
1855-Below zero 47 times, and crossing the ice om Conn. river, to near the sound, was continuous until the the 1st day of April, 1856, inclusive, and the next day steamboats steamed up to Hartford.
1857-Jan. 22-24, for 42 consecutive hours it was 18° to 80° below zero.
1859 Jan. 9-12, from 2º to 27° below zero. July 4 mercury was 86º, and a slight frost in several towns.
1861- Jan. 13 and Feb. 8, 18° below zero.
1866-Jan. 8, 18º below zero.
1871-Feb. 6, 12º below zero.
1878-Jan. 80, 82° below zero; 36 zero mornings this winter, and 102 days sleighing.
1874-April 25, 28-80, snow stormns.
1875-Jan. 10, 10° below zero.
1878 Jan. 9, 180 below zero. May 11, snow in sev- eral states; frost in Conn. for three successive nights. 1879-Jan. 10, 10° below zero.
1880-85 snow storms and 43} inches snow fell Ser- eral times below zero.
1881-Jan. 1-12º below zero.
1882-Jan. 24, 16° below zero. Feb. 4th, a severe snow storm that drifted so as to universally stop all traveling-many churches were not opened for service. 1883-Dec. 22, 18° below zero.
May 29, 80, 1884, there were severe frosts throughout all New England and western states. Ice formed from ¿ to 1 inch in thickness, killing early beans, potatoes, corn, etc. Thermometer 240 in this city. A snow storm in Litchfield county. The frosts extended south- erly to Virginia. It was a huge polar wave that made a "Black Friday " for the farmers.
June 15, 1884, another severe frost, killing all tender vegetables, throughout the most of New England and the West. Aug. 25, another frost; but September fol lowing was intensely hot.
1885-Last of January and month of February, in- tensely cold weather, from zero to 200 below.
1886-January 10-18, 10 to 20° below zero.
Halliday W. H.
Hayden George A.
Haspey William Hatch George E. Herrick Lewis B.
Heublein Louis F. Hill Eben B.
Hinckley Nelson G.
Hogan Matthew Hudson Wm. M.
Hurd Charles F.
West Frederick A.
Judd Edward H.
Winship William L.
Keane H. P.
Wood H. R.
Kennedy Henry King Charles
Woods George H.
UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE. Post Office Building, 65 State street.
Thos. A. Lake, Rockville, Collector. Geo. R. Case, Chief Deputy Collector. Theo. M. Byxbee, Hartford; J. J. Kennedy, New Haven; Chas. W. Murphy, Provi- dence, Stamp Deputies. H. J. Hirsch, New London; G. M. Phelps, Bloomfield; Herman Hoffman, Water- bury; J. V. Squier, Hartford; J. Flahavan, New Haven; E. N. Sloan, Bridgeport ; . J. J. Gilmartin, T. F. Cava- naugh, Providence; Division Deputies. R. A. Rathbun, Providence ; Joseph Mairson, E. T. Case, Hartford; Thomas F. Clarke, Providence, Office Department. Thomas Langdon, Bridgeport; J. R. Daly, Hartford; C. H. Owen, Providence: E. A. Joachinson. New Haven, George C. McKee, Gaugers. Fred M. Godard, Melrose; W. H. Coggswell, Warehouse Point, Store. keepers and Gaugers. Bernard C. Lynch, Warehouse Point: M. F. Delaney, Melrose; J. A. Linsley, New Haven, Storekeepers. T. F. Daily, Storekeeper and Gauger special bonded warehouse, Wallingford.
BUSINESS PANICS AND DEPRESSIONS, 1825; 1886-89; 1847; 1857; 1866; 1878; 1888-4; 1886; 1898-8, over silver, lack of confidence, war with Spain.
COLD WEATHER.
1641-50 days crossing Conn. river on ice. 1664-Large comet seen in New England.
1669-In February, deep snow storms.
1691-Terrible snow storms.
1717-Snow 11 feet deep; one storm commenced lith lasting until 24th.
1740-Sleighing Nov. 13 to April 20.
1761-Very cold; deep snows.
1778-Very severe winter.
1774-Largest snow storm known.
1780-May 19, the dark day in Northern states; wia- ter very severe; the sound frozen over.
1784, 1785, 1788, 1792, 1796 and 1799, severe winter
Burnham Edgar F.
McKee Geo. C.
Butler Patrick F.
Messenger J. T.
Cadden Abraham
Cambridge Ichabod L.
Camp Howard A. Case Horace J.
Moody Geo. F. Morse J. H. Mulcahy Edward J. Norris Michael H.
Noves Geo. N.
Oakey P. Davis
Oakley Ernest F. O'Donnell Frank Otis John Henry
Packard Caleb L.
Peek DeWitt J.
Persse T. B.
Donaghue William Ehret John
Farrell Robert J.
Freeman S. G. Garvie John B.
Russell Henry B.
Sage Edwin J.
Gaffey P. J.
Gilman Julius S. Govan James
Schall Ernst Schmidt Emil Schwab Joseph Shelton Edward
Child A. Kennedy Collins Samuel Cook James S.
Cowles Samuel W.
Cummings Francis A. Cummings Leonard G. Davenport Joseph Dillon James D.
Post Charles A. Prentice Charles H. Pye Thomas F.
Smith Willis E. Sperry Henry T. Stewart Chas. W. Talcott William H. Thrall Edward B. Tillinghast A. H. Tuller George W. Tuttle Charles L. Welton Henry A.
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Established : WEEKLY, 1764; DAILY, 1836.
The Oldest Newspaper
A Representative Journal
in America.
of New England.
PUBLISHED BY
The Hartford Courant Co.
DIRECTORS.
- JOSEPH R. HAWLEY. CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, President. CHARLES HOPKINS CLARK, Vice President. ARTHUR L. GOODRICH, Treasurer. FRANK S. CAREY, Secretary. .
COURANT BUILDING, 66 STATE STREET, Hartford, Conn.
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PATRICK GARVAN,
Paper Manufacturer ₭
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PAPER WAREHOUSE.
205 and 207 STATE STREET, HARTFORD, CONN.
Established 1864 .-
The East Side Paper Store,
M. KEMLER, Proprietor.
WHOLESALE PAPER GOODS
RETAIL.
Bags, Butter Dishes, Ice Cream and Oyster Bc. Twines, Stationery, and Printed Wrapping Paper a Specialty. 53 MORGAN STREET, HARTFORD, CO'
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R:S:PECK:S.CO: DESIGNERS ENGRAVERS SPRINTERS EMBOSSERS HARTFORD CONNECTICUT
OUR IMPRINT.
R.S.PECK & CO PRINTERS. Novelties In Type Printing. WOOD& PHOTO ENGRAVERS
IXZE CONTRACT TO MAKE CATALOGUES COMPLETE- DESIGNING, ENGRAVING, PRINT ING AND BINDING-WE DO THE WHOLE WORK AND ASSUME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ENTIRE JOB.
EMBOSSED CATALOGUE COVERS -
DESIGNS
SUBMITTED
HALF-TONE ZINC-ETCHING WOOD ENGRAVING
ELECTROTYPING BRASS DIES
NEW LOCATION NEAR DEPOT.
Bet. Allyn and Asylum Streets, 26-28 HIGH STREET.
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
424 ASYLUM STREET, HARTFORD, CONN.
20
Publishers
OF THE Leading Subscription Books of the Day.
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AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY. HARTFORD CONN.
in all their branches.
1 want employment, call nd for circular.
ESTIMATES GIVEN ON APPLICATION.
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FRANK E. BLISS, President.
WALTER BLISS, Secretary.
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'OBS :
Frank E. Bliss, Sidney W. Clark,
Walter Bliss, Stephen J. Cox, George H. Gilman. Incorporated April 8, 1865. Capital, $50.000.
ANNUAL MEETING THIRD WEDNESDAY IN JANUARY.
Fine ..
Printing, Binding, and Electrotyping
Agents Wanted.
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'For Sale' and 'To Rent' Cards in Stock and For Sale.
LAW BLANKS
For Sale.
WE SOLICIT YOUR PATRONAGE.
WE PRINT
Trade Catalogues, .
Genealogies,
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Geer's Hartford
City Directory,
Books of all Kinds,
Mercantile Work
of Every Description.
WE WILL CALL ON YOU OR SHOULD BE PLEASED TO HAVE YOU CALL ON US.
C. J. E. GEER, PRESIDENT. ERASTUS C. GEER, TREASURER. E. HOWARD GEER, SEC'Y AND BUFT.
Our Office is 16 STATE STREET. Our Telephone No. is 803-6.
The Hartford Printing Co .- (Elihu Geer's Soi
Hartford, Co
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Established, 1836. Chartered, 1873. Capital, $400,000.
The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co.
L. BRAINARD, President. MARCUS A. CASEY, Vice President. JOHN REARDEN, Secretary.
DIRECTORS.
J. H. TURNER, Treasurer.
A. E. Burr, L. Brainard, T. G. Batterson, W. H. Lockwood, J. M. Allen.
Annual Meeting, Third Tuesday in February.
Printers, Bookbinders,
and Manufacturers of FI-t Opening Blank Books, The "American" Diary, and "Peerless" Daily Calendar. MISCELLANEOUS FINE LEATHER WORK.
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