Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1921 — Page 3

SHANK FORCES TO PUT ON TEST Committeemen Invited to Club Headquarters to Discuss Outlook. *,

Precinct committeemen of the primary campaign organization of Samuel Lewis Shank are receiving letters from Dr. E E. Hodgin. campaign manager for the Republican nominee for mayor, inviting iem to call at Shank-for-Mayor headquarters, 223-225 Indiana Trust building fhis is part of the plan of Shank manners to call in all Republicans, whether .■hey supported Mr. Shank in the primary or not, for the purpose of ascertaining what kind of support the entire Republican ticket is to receive in the fall. Practically all of the regularly elected Republican precinct committeemen, most of whom the disgruntled News-Jewett leaders have been claiming would not support Mr. Shank, have appeared at 6hank-for-Mayor headquarters in response to invitations from Dr. Hodgin and they are solidly behind the entire ticket, the ,Shank managers say. Regardless of whether Irving W. Lemaux. Republican city chairman, who repudiated Mr. Shank, following the latter's demand for his resignation, steps out, the Shank organization is going to be built np with the regular Republican organization, It was said. Wherever the duly elected precinct committeeman is known to be disloyal to the entire ticket a loyal committeeman will be placed to “build around’’ him. , The Shank managers do not Intend, however, that the fine machine they had functioning in the primary campaign shall be disrupted. The Shank-for-Mayor Club will be operated throughout the coming campaign with all of the Shank precinct and ward committeemen working band in hand with that part of the regular organization which is functioning for the success of the whole ticket it was said. They have stated that the position of the club in this campaign is to be similar to that of the Harding Club in the national campaign last fall. TRUCK PULLS 5 FREIGHTCARS Invention of Local Man Put in Movies by the Builders. The sight of a big steam truck pulling five empty freight cars in one of the loeal freight yards recently, up a slight grade and around a slight curve, was so well worth preserving that a movie of it is in the hands of the builders of the truck, the Alena Steam Products Company. of this city, and along with this demonstration of the trucks pulling ability are movie scenes depicting its hillellmblng ability. The Inventor of the steam boiler and engine in the truck is Fred Hamilton, president and chief engineer of the Alena Steam Products Company, who worked n the Invention for two or three years prior to the world war. Curing the war he was an aeronautical mechanic engineer at the Speedway, and at the close of the war resumed his work on perfecting the steam engine and boiler. Two trucks have been built by the company, one a five-ton truck and the other a one and one-half ton truck. It was the larger truck that gave the demonstration with the freight cars, and it is stated that this truck can operate from five to six miles to the gallon of kerosene, which it uses as a fuel and which Is fed under pressure. The boiler, which is of steel, and. it is explained, is tested to a hydraulic pressure of from 1.800 to 2.000 pounds, carries, when the truck is in operation, a pressure of about 600 pounds. In place of a radiator there is a condenser, from which the condensed steam passes to the water tank. The engine is of the double-cylinder type—each cylinder having a four and one-half inch bore and a five and one-half stroke. It is the intention of the company to manufacture only the engines and boilers, and not trucks, and it is stated that quantity production will be commenced when the company secures a suitable plant.

BUILDING HERE SHOWS GAIN Local Construction Work > Passes Record for May, 1920, by 10 Per Cent. While a number of cities of greater population were showing a decline In valuation of buildings for which permits were issued during the month of May under the figures for May, 11)20, Indianapolis passed the mark of a year ago by 10 per cent., the monthly tabulation of construction statistics Issued by tbs American Contrac'or, Chicago building trade publication, shows. Only eleven cities issued more permits than Indianapolis and sixteen startel construction of greater value than that undertaken here. Indianapolis took out 1.015 permits with $1,550,61 valuation last month, as compared with 71)0 permits and $1,403,237 valuation iu May, 1920. As indicative of a healthy building condition in Indianapolis, despite the fact that the building trades strike tied up activities part of May the report shows that Chicago, because of its strikes, lost 47 per cent under May, 1920: Baltimore lost 49 per cent: Detroit. 8 per cent; St. Louis, 36 per cent: Pittsburgh, 6 per cent, and Seattle, 13 per cent. Terre Haute showed the greatest gain of any Indiana city with 170 per cent to its credit. Cities capable of competing with Indianapolis in point of population which ‘ssued a lesser number of permits thau this city were San Francisco. Washington, Chicago. Boston. Kansas City. Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Milwaukee. Cities in the same class which issued permits of less valuation than that which Indianapolis undertook were San Francisco, Kansas City. St. Louis and Buffa'o. More permits for higher valuations than those issued in Indianapolis were recorded In Los Angeles. Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Seattle. Washington. Atlanta. Chicago, Boston. Newark. Pittsburgh and Milwaukee had higher valuations but not higher numbers of permits than Indianapolis.

Coin of Wife No. 2 Builds Shrine to No. 1 CHICAGO, Jane 16.—Second wives have certain rights, according to Judge George F. Rush in Circuit CoitA These rights include the liberty to spend their dowries as they please. The Judge indicated he would grant Mrs. Eva Pollack, a aeeond wife, a divorce because her husband took her dowry away. Mrs. Pollack testified Michael Pollack, tha husband, had spent her SI,OOO dowry to erect a monument over the grave of hia first wife. Tha fact that he wanted to b# buried under the same monument *vlth no apace reserved for No. 2 only added to the latter's case, according to the court. Pollack incidentally knocked out Mrs Eva’s frost teeth when she objected to

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NO matter how much fine scenery you may see In New Zealand, there always Is to be found someone who is convinced that he can tell you where there is something still more wonderful to be found. In all my traveling in the Dominion'l still have to find any other traveler who was certain that he had seen it all. Always he is regretful that he cannot spend Just a few more days taking In some other sight of which he has heard. Sid Taylor is the government’s official photographer and moving picture man in Wellington. For eighteen years he has been wandering around New Zealand, photographing and filming places of interest. He has taken pictures by the thousand and reels of film that would stretch out for many miles. I found him one of the best informed men on New Zealand's picturesque features I met. “Ton must have seen It all,” I said to him admiringly. “No,” with a sorrowful shake of the shake, “I have never seen half of It,” and he rattled off a string of places and their claims to distinction, which he woulo like to visit. It Is easy to believe him. For the nan who has seen any great number of New Zealand's wonders need not travel over the world to see the others, oetter known though they may be. It is as if some mighty hand had gathered up a little bit of all the wonders of the woild and let thpm drop upon the two islands which make up the Dominion. For you can see snow-capped Alps, deep blue fiords, boiling springs, rumbling volcanoes, magnifident rivers, majestic mountains and dense forests, which ever you choose, but not in a lifetime would you see all of them in detail. THERMAL SPRINGS MOST VISITED. '

It Is perhaps the thermal springs district that attracts the most attention among travelers, for though there are water springs and volcanoes and similar attractions elsewhere in the world, there is no other place that crowds into six thousand square miles quite such an assortment of weird things—fire and steaming lakes, pools and streams; deadly guses from craters, spots unbearably hot in pools that are Icy cold, boiling mud and geysers, eaves and grottoes. And over them all there hangs the smell ot sulphur, tossed here and there by vagrant winds, but following you whoever you may go until you are glad to get away from it all aud breathe in deep of fresh air again. Earlier in this series of articles I tcld you briefly about how the Maoris cook their food in the steam of some of these boiling springs. Just as their ancestors did hundreds of years ago. When Susan, the old guide, was showing us the geysers she told us about Tarawera. the mountain which erupted in June. 1886. and covered a wide expanse of land with lava and ashes. For several days Tarawera had been growling and grumbling, but neither the Maoris nor the whites were alarmed. Six months before there had been strange doings in the volcanic regions. Geysers which had been spouting for years, suddenly stopped. Thousands of fish had been cast up on beaches, dead as if from poison. The crater lake In White Island suddenly went dry. Then steam began issuing from the top of Ruapehu, a volcano which never before had done such a thing.

MAORI NAME FOR BIIiMXG PEAK. Tarawera is the Maori name for Burning Peak but there were no traditions of any eruptions ever having taken place. The Maori once had buried a famous chief there and they believed that nature never would disturb his grave So when, about an hour after midnight, several slight earthquake shocks were followed bv roaring, booming noises the natives took to their heels. Suddenly a huge cloud burst out from the center of Tarawera and a shower of stones and dust and fire spouted forth. The explosions were heard in the South Island, 500 miles away, and in Auckland, distant 120 miles, the pillar of flame which played about the top of Tarawera could be seen. An electric storm burst at the same time and it resulted in a magn'ficent, yet terrifying spectacle. And then over it all settled a darkness that lasted foi many hours. The eruption was accompanied by the explosion of Like Rotomahnna. Indeed, there Is a well founded theory that the waters of the lake broke through an underground channel into the red-hot Interior of Tarawera and caused the explosion. The eruption also wiped out the beautiful Pink and White Terraces—vividly colored ledges over which the hot water trickled into basis below —several smaller lakes and springs and cleft great rifts in the face of Tarawera and its neighboring mountains. Today, almost thirty-five years later, there still is a feeling of desolation in the region which Tarawera destroyed and all the springs and boiling water and mud pools and the geysers act peculiarly. CALL ON INFERNO FOR THF.IR NAMES. Is it any wonder that in this region the natives gave to the various places names suggestive of the infernal regions? You will find there Hell's Gate. Satan's Glory, the Inferno, the Mouth of Hades, and so on. The guides will show you deep pools where oil and fuller's earth bubble angrily and hotly, rivers where the water is cold to jour legs and the sand at the bottom burning to the feet, waters in which yon can catch a fish in one part and a few feet farther on cook him in a hot spot, geysers that shoot up straight or shoot out sideways, depressions in the volcanic rock which hurl out great handfuls of hot mud at frequent intervals. And you will tie exceedingly interested In Packhorse mud geyser, which got its name in a peculiar way. A parkhorne fail lata U ou* day. It than was a dead.

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Above—The Hermitage on the slopes of Mount Cook, tlie highest mountain In New Zealand. Upper Left—Crater Lake and blow holes of White Island, twenty-seven miles off the mainland of the North Island in the Bay of Plenty. Lower Left—Hochstetter Ice Fall in the Southern .Alps. The fall is 4,000 feet long and ends on the Tasman Glacier,

still bit of mud and water, but it had sulphuric acid on it. And suddenly, hours later, it began to spout. What was the reason? The Maoris say, and some scientists agree with them, that the fat in the animal's carcass did the work. Why not, when other geysers can be made to play by dropping soap shavings down their mouths? And when they won't play unless they are soaped? There are several such geysers in the Kororua district, but it is feared that constant soaping for the edification of tourists may ultimately exhaust the geysers so now they can be soaped only with Government permission. STRANGE LAND IS WHITE ISLAND. Perhaps none of the volcanic wonders of New Zealand is stranger than White Island, twenty-seven miles from the mainland in the Bay of Plenty. It hrs a rocky and inhospitable shore, and only when the sea is very culm and the wind is not blowing can a landing be made. It la a vast bed of sulphur, steaming hot, whose ground breaks treacherously under your step and which will eat the soles off your shoes in two hours' time or bum through your clothes if it touches them. Once White Islnnd was worked for its sulphur, but that was given up. The rails which once carried tlie little <ars are today mere thin rods of rust that are crumbling to pieces. Besides White Island there are two other volcanoes that display activity that leads to the fear that some day they may erupt and repeat the scenes which followed Tarawera's outbreak. They are Ruapehu, 9,175 feet high, with glaciers on its upper slopes and a hot crater lake, and Ngaurehoe. youngest of them all from whose summit, 7,575 feet high, there always are Issuing little clouds of steam and sulphuric acid fumes. There are many lakes in the North Island which are well worth seeing. Os them all Lake Taupa, the largest lake In New Zealand, probably Is the most interesting. It is 1.200 feet above the sea and is 500 feet deep and it is famous principally for the excellent fishing which it affords and for the cliffs which hem it in, mile after mile, on Its western side. They are sheer almost to 1 the water’s surface and far below it. During flood times great volumes of water roll down to the edge of these cliffs uud leap off them In beautiful cas cades to the lake. On the other side of the lake the land is entirely different and wide strips of beach are interspersed with terraces of pumice and free covered banks. There is only one island in the lake. WAITOMO CAVES WORTH A VISIT. A hundred miles south of Auckland are the Waitomo eaves which are not so large as the Mammoth caves of Kentucky, hut compare favorably with them. They offer a wonderland of stalactites whoso rate of growth is an inch in ninety years. Most wonderful of them all Is the Glowworm Grotto, whose dark depths are lit up by thousands of glowworms on the walls and celling and which shed a light by which it is possible to see objects clearly. New Zealand offers one river which far surpasses all others for scenic beauty. It is the Wanganui, whose canyonwalled waters fall 500 feet in its 150 miles of length. At intervals there are rapids dowu which the flat-bottomed steamer which travels the stream climbs or descends with remarkable ease. This steamer is sixty feet long, nine feet wide and has a draught of only ten inches. Coming down stream when it reaches the rapids the crew lets it down the swirling stretch of water with a cable. A laughable incident of the trip down the Wanganui was when the boat lodged In shallow water and the Maori crew got off to try to get it going again. One of them tried to work with only one hand while with the other he held aloft a cherished watch to keep it from getting wet. THE PHOTOGRAPHER ACCEPTS DARE. Our photographer viewed with some disdain the Maoris' feat of shooting the rspids in small dugouts, which they dignify with the name of canoes. Dared to duplicate the feat over a half-mile stretch with three sets of rapids, he promptly accepted. The dugout furnished him was the smallest at hand and the Maoris seem particularly obdurate about lending a larger one. He overflowed the sides of the little dugout, but made the descent in creditable

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manner without overturning, although when half way down he had to get out fully dressed and pull his craft upstream because the spectators protested that he had guided the dugout into still waters and was not riding down the main rapids. His success was greeted with cheers and as a prize he was presented with a small carved canoe. The Wanganui’s scenery varies. High cliffs give way to densely wooded stretches that come down to the bauka of the stream and hero and there are villages, mere clearings in reality, which bear the strange names of Jerusalem, Damascus, Athens, Galtea and so on, due to the Influence of the missionaries in the early days of the Dominion. MOUNTAIN RISES FROM FLAT PLAIN. North of the town of Wanganui, in the Taranaki district. Mount Egmont, 8,200 feet high, stands in an otherwise flat plain. It la a beautiful vulcanic cone, now dead, whose location in that peculiar spot is accounted for by the Maoris in a characteristic legend. It has long been a Maori custom to regard some mountains as male and some as female and where male and female are close together to “marry” them. Egmont, so the legend runs, fell in lore with the "wife" of another mountain The lady mountain seems to have been a perfectly dutiful wife and told her husband of Egmonl’s advances. Thereupon husband and wife belched forth lava and stone and showered them upor. Egmont so fiercely that the mountain fled and did not stop until he had reached the plain where today be rears his solitary head. At the south end of the west coast of the South Island are the fourteen sounds, arms of the sea stretching inland from six to twenty-two miles, of which Milford Sound Is the chief attraction. All of them are deep hollows excavated out of the island by glaciers In days gonj by and their walls are so steep that they are virtually ucclimbable and trees grow to their very edge. In the days before the war the government tourist bureau capitalized the sounds by running steamers into them frequently. Today, once a year a supply ship travels to them to visit the lonely lighthouses erected to keep mariners away from the dangerous coast. The only way the traveler can reach them now is by taking a coach and a steamer, and walking. Lake Manapouri. a beautiful body

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of fresh water, in rainy periods is fed by great waterfalls from the cliffs surrounding it. SECOND LARGEST LAKE LIES BEYOND. Beyond it lies Te Anau, tbt second largest lake of the Dominion, and at Te Anau’B head begins Milford Track, which New Zealanders have named “the most beautiful walk in the world.” It takes three days to pass through the mountains, the valleys, the forests to Milford Sound, and the trip, any time between November and April, when the track is free from snow, is one succession of scenic beauty. One the track are huts maintained by the government for the care of travelers, who may find at them food and beds. Milford Sound is well worth the toil involved In getting there. It Is hedged In by mountains, some of them 5.000 feet high, around whose tops the mists always are playing and down the sides of which great cataracts and cascades tumbel into the sound. The other sounds cannot equal Milford, and only ten of them are frequently visited by travelers. Stretching north from tho sounds along the western coast are the snow-capped Southern Alps. Os them Mount Cook, which the Maoris call Aorangi the cloud piercer, is the most imposing. For many years the New Zealand Alps have, attracted those with a de3ire for mountaineering from all parts of the world because they are not cluttered up with tourists and amateurs and because some of the heights are more difficult to surmount than famous mountains of the Old World. They present from their peaks tie strange sight or forest and sea on one side and grassy plains on the other. Os all the glaciers in the Alps most spectacular is Tasman glacier, a fiver of frozen snow, into which half a dozen ice streams seem to flow. Its surface presents dangerous fissures and avalanches are frequent. Still farther north are thj passes which

Statement of Condition Os THE Northern Insurance Company NEW YORK. 1 Liberty St.. N. Y. ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920, WILLIAM BREWSTER, President. JAMES MARSHALL, Secretary. Amount of Capital paid up...s 500,000.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash in banks (on latertat and not ou interest) $ 169,590.90 Bonds and Slocks owned i (Market Value) 2,086^)16.42 Mortgage Loans Real Estate (free from any prior incumbrance) 67,000.00 Accrued Securities (Interest and Kents, *c.) 14,069 97 Premiums and Accounts due and In proc ss of Collection 161,431.50 Accounts otherwise secured... 3,281.06 Total Net Assets 32,501,400.38 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 31,443,264.96 Losses unadjusted and in suspense 129,067 72 Other .Liabilities of the Company . 25,000 00 Capital tuci: paid up 500,000.00 Surplus 404,047.70 Total Liabilities $2,001,400.58 Greatest amount in any one rink $ 50,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Commissioner of Insurance: I, the undersigned. Commissioner or Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that tlie above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1920, aa shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto sub scribe my name and affix my (SEAL) official veal, this 18th day of April, 1921. T. S. Me MURRAY, JR.. Commissioner.

Statement of Condition Off THE Pacific Fire Insurance Company NEW YORK, N. Y. 59 John St. ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920, C. V. MESEROLE, President. H. B. LAMY, JR., Secretary. Amount of capital paid up $400,000.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash ill banks (on interest and not on Interest) $ 236,735.17 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 2,009.112.07 Mortgage loans on real estate (free from any prior Incumbrance) 50,500.00 Accrued securities (Interest and rents, etc.) 16,153.68 Reinsurance due on paid losses 21,600.02 Premiums and accounts due and In process of collection. 845,195.19 Total net assets $2,828,303.13 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary too reinsure outstanding risks *1,428,707.80 Losses unadjusted and In suspense 250,900.31 Reserve for taxes 30,000.00 Capital 400,000 00 Surplus 718,607.02 Total liabilities *2,828,306.13 Greatest amount In any one risk, gross : | 100,000.00 Net 25,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Commlaaloner of Insurance: 1, the undersigned, Commissioner es Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of tne above mentioned company on the 81st day of December, 1920, as shown by the original Statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my (SEAL) official seal, this 18th day of Aprß. 1921. if. S. McMURRAY, JR., s l Commissions*.

are traversed by small steamers plying between the north island and the west coast ports of the south Island. For years French Pass had a singular claim to distinction, because through Its waters ships often were piloted by. Pelorous Jack, a fourteen-foot dolphin, or grampus, which met the ships and accAipanled them through the pass, diving and plunging around their keels. Parliament passed an act to protect him, but Pelorous Jack has disappeared. A whaling steamer operated in the vicinity of the pass a few years back and Pelorous Jack

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Statement of Condition OF The Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company PHILADELPHIA. PENNSYLVANIA. SO6-610 Walnut Street. ON THK 31st Day of December, 1920. CECIL F. SHALLCROSS. President. W. GARDNER CROWELL, Secretary. Amount of capital paid up. .3 750,000.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash in banks (on interest and not on interest) 3 807,979-53 Real estate usiiucurabered... 150,000.00 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 3 7,520,336.32 Mortgage loans on real estate (free from any prior Incumbrance) 215,000.00 Accrued securities (Interest and rents, etc.) 115,399.76 Premiums and accounts due and ia process of collection 1,410,406.8d Accounts otherwise secured, cash in office 400.00 Loans secured by collateral.. 1,796.22 Reinsurance, recoverable ou pi Id losses 11,000.40 Total net assets... 310.342,331.29 LIABILITIES. Reserve er amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 3 6,361.704.59 Losses due and unpaid 89,963.69 Lessee adjusted and not due. 654,008.23 Losses unadjusted and in suspense 10,550.00 Bills and accounts unpaid... 211.046.80 Capital stock paid up 750,000.00 Surplus 2,265,057.08 Total liabilities 310,342,331.29 Greatest amount in any one risk $ 250,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Commissioner of Insurance: I. the undersigned. Commissioner of Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement ot the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31et day of December, 1920, ns shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix ray (SEAL) official seal, this 18th day of April, 1921. T. S. McMURRAY, JR., Commissioner.

Statement of Condition OF The Phoenix Insurance Company HARTFORD, CONN. 80 Trinity Street. ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920, EDWARD MILLIGAN, President. JOHN B. KNOX, THOS. C. TEMPLE, GEORGE C. LONG, JR., Secretaries. Amount of capital paid up.. .*3,000,000.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash in banks (on Interest and not on interest) * 1,740,004.01 Real estate unincumbered... 672,134.42 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 18,763,092.92 Mortgage loans on real esstate (free from any prior Incumbrance) 124,650.00 Accrued securities (interest and rents, etc.) 163,483.48 Other securities, collateral loans 100,000.00 Premiums and accounts due and In process of collection 1,948,554.90 Reinsurance due on paid losses U 7.591.26 Total net assets *23,629,510.99 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks * 9,e.48,326.38 Losses unadjusted and In suspense 1,506,854.07 Reserve for taxes, commissions and expenses accrued 500,000.00 Capital stock $3,000,000.00; surplus $8,974.420.56 11,974,420.56 Total liabilities *23,629,510.99 Greatest amount in any one risk, gross *350,000.00; net. 250,000.00 Greatest amount allowed to be insured in any one block 500,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Commissioner of Insurance: I, the undersigned. Commissioner of Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1920, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement Is now on file In this office, i In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my I (SEAL) official seal, this 18th day of 1 April, 1921. T. S. McMT’RRAY, JR., CctumUsione*.

never was seen again. There were many strange tales told of him and the Maoris believed that he was not less than 275 years old, which was somewhat Improbable, although he must have been very, very old. I have not tried to give 1n detail any large part of the wonderful scenic description which could be written about New Zealand. It is a task which would daunt the most facile pen. But if sometime you wish to travel where scenery is wonderful and varied you could not do better than to visit New Zealand.

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Statement of Condition OF THE National Liberty Insurance Cos. ot America NEW YORK CITY, 709 Sixth Awnna ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920. GEO. B. EDWARDS, President. Amount of capital paid up..3 1,900,000.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Caah in banks (on interest and not on Interest) 3 915,428.43 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 7,906,758.50 Mortgage loans on real estate (free from any prior incumbrance) 1,383,900.00 Accrued securities (Interest and rents, etc.) 90,770.35 Premiums and accounts due and In process of collection. 1,647,719.99 Accounts otherwise secured... 126.751.17 Total net assets 312,071,029.44 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks 6,625,685.44 Losses adjusted and not due. 391,233.08 Losses unadjusted and in suspense 293,153.50 Other liabilities of the company 255,000.00 Surplus over all liabilities.. 8,505.957.42 Capital paid up 1,300.000.00 Total liabilities 31.2,071,029 *4 Greatest amount In any one risk J 200,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Commissioner of Insurance: I, the undersigned. Commissioner of Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 81st day of December, 1920, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my (SEAL) official set‘l, this 18th day of April, 1921. T. S. McMURRAY, JR., Commissioner.

Statement of Condition OF THK National Union Fire Insurance Cos. FITT9BFRGH, PENN. 1303 Chamber es Commerce Bldg. ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920. E. E. COLE, President. WM. G. ARMSTRONG, Secretary. Amount of capital paid up.. .*1,300,000.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash In banks (on Interest and not on Interest) $ 737,554.37 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 5,629,556.95 Mortgage loans on real estate (free from any prior Incumbrance) 247,000.00 Accrued securities (interest and rents, 'etc.) 85,009.04 Premiums and accounts due and In process of collection 838,678.71 Accounts otherwise secured.. 344,750.08 Total net assets $7,883,209.75 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding j risks *4,860,007.51 Losses adjusted and not due. 15,170.38 Losses unadjusted and In suspenses 677,813.91 Other liabilities of the company 225,000.00 Capital stock paid up 1,300,000.00 Surplus 804,615.65 Total liabilities *7,853,209.75 Greatest amount In any one risk $ 225,900.00 Stats of Indiana, Office of Commissioner of Insurance: I, the undersigned. Commissioner of Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above Is a correct copy of the statement of the condition or tne above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1920, as shown by the original Statement. and that the said original statement Is now cn file In this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my (SEAL) official seal, this 18th day of April. 1921. H. S. McMCRRAY, JR., Commissions*.

Find Buried Treasure Is Precious Quartz SPRINGFIELD, Mo.. June 16.—While digging for lost treasure along the banks of Wilson Creek, J. C. Hale, a farmer, uncovered a large quantity of what geologists have declared to be gold and silver bearing quartz. It is believed Hale's find may lead to the discovery of a fabled treasure reported to have been buried in that vicinity by Spaniards and Indians in the seventeenth century.

Statement of Condition OF THE New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY. 70 Bayard Street. ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920. CHAS. D. ROSS, President. E. B. WYCOFF, Secretary. Amount of capital paid up...3 500,000.06 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash in banks (on interest and not on interest) 3 114,675.43 Real estate unincumbered 200,900.00 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 1,511,549.00 Mortgage loans on real estate (free yon any prior lncumbrance) 339,550.00 Accrued securities (Interest and rents, etc.) 9,697.77 Other securities 8,106.70 Premiums and accounts due and in process of collection. 183,096.90 Total net assets $2,314,674.82 LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding „ risks 31.245.550J8 Losses unadjusted and in suspense 300,216.53 Other liabilities ot the com* „ Pan? 45,000.33 Capital stock paid up 500.000.00 Surplus 214,907.71 Total liabilities $2,314,074.82 Grestest amouni in any one risk $ 50,000.00 State of Indiana, Office of Commissioner of Insurance: I, the undersigned, Commissioner of Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the ctatement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1950, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my (SEAL) official seal, this ISth day of April, 1921. T. S, McMURRAY, JR., Commissioner.

Statement of Condition OF THE New Jersey Insurance Company NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. 40 Clinton Street. ON THE 31st Day of December, 1920. JACOB R. HALL, President J. Y. MILNE, Secretary. Amount es capital paid up.. .$1,000,600.00 NET ASSETS OF COMPANY. Cash In banks (on Interest and not on interest) $ 104.555.79 Real estate unincumbered 330,939.97 Bonds and stocks owned (market value) 1,505,932.04 Mortgage loans on real estate (free from any prior incumbrance) 153.70 C Other securities 15,209.54 Fire t'nderwriters of Philadelphia 100.00 Premiums and accounts due and in process of collection 167,197.78 Reinsurance recoverable on paid losses 53,823.94 Expense recoverable 19,819.90 Total net assets $2,351,055JH LIABILITIES. Reserve or amount necessary to reinsure outstanding risks.* 93,549.77 Losses due and unpaid 67,127.47 Losses adjusted and not due. 770.07 Losses unadjusted and In suspense 241,296.72 Other liabilities of the company 417,506.23 Reserve for depreciation of securities 230,148.07 Capital stock paid up 1,000,000 00 Surplus 300,660.53 Total liabilities *2,351,058.91 Greatest amount In any one risk * 50,000.00 Greatest amjunt allowed by rules of the company to be Insured in any one city, town or village 1,000,000.09 Greatest amount allowed to be Insured In any one block 50,000.08 State of Indiana, Office of Commission** of Insura'nce: I, the undersigned. Commissioner of Insurance of Indiana, hereby certify that the above is a correct copy of the statement of the condition of the above mentioned company on the 31st day of December, 1920, as shown by the original statement, and that the said original statement is now on file In this office. In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my (SEAL) official seal, this 18th day ol April, 1921. T. S. JIcMURRAY, JR., Commission**.

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