AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES, BUSINESS IN 1901.*-Continued. Commenced Business. INCOME AND DISBURSEMENTS OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES-1862-1901. The following statistics show the financial condition of all life insurance companies reporting to the New York Insurance Department during the past forty years: 3,699,661 129,371 5,764,043 7,021,649 146.729 10,595,355] 209,392 17,176,666 305,390 26,325,213] 401,140 40,959,021 537,594 54,471,576) 656,572 63,876,840 747,807 77,536,280 785,360 2,101,461,834 78,207,257 804,444 2,114,742,591 84,501,446| 817,081 2,086,027,178 799,534 1,997,236,230 774,625 28 $2,310,000| $30,123,332 $1,705,610 $2,801,419 $85,867 $3,759,153 81,232,333 79,982,466 1,922,043,146 76,618,183 74,337,324 706,179 1,735,995,190 633,096 1,556,105,323 72,128,070) 612,843 1,480,921,223 411,555,247 22,646,609 57,399,971 287,272 68,965,599 66,561,687| 65.815,377 31 4,050,500| 418,119,163 21,864,522 53,198,048 339,355 INCOME AND DISBURSEMENTS OF LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES-1862-1901.-Continued. 1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 32 8,570,500| 971,857,224 65,406,796/110,566,414 768,563 166,512,254|1,681,511 Amount. (Prepared from statistics published by The Spectator Company in The Life Insurance Year Book for 1902.) Insurance in Force Dec. 31, 1901. $77,147,515 9,504,586 44,076,007 190,446,885 77,928,280 Connecticut. 160,995,804 27,695,382 61,758,790 30,335,799 142,909,134 9,565,340 616,597,386 271,258,471 147,220,562 69,304,934 8,914,496 178,385,674 104,892,138 76,462,857 163,938,284 580,734,733 194,336,944 136,538,833 290,969,969 Prepared from statistics published by the Spectator Company in "The Life Insurance Year Book" for 1902. Aetna Life.. American Mut. Lia. Ins. 1887 388,557 196,131 261,299 262,983 275,000 Continental Casualty.. Employers' Lia. Asso. Corp..1880] 250,000 1,767,971 Employers' Mut. Indemnity. Fidelity and Casualty. Frankfort-American 1850 $1,750,000 $59,590,053 $53,540,450 $1,329,978] $581,995 $1,233,112 $182,998,619 236,798 271,705 746,899 1,059,177 508,007 966,476 1,130,969 1,447,433 39,481 69,076 3,336,755 3,768,516|1,530,637 3,674,683 531,433 272,652 97,211 249,007 94,414,600 62,129,685 44,106,534 1,599,928] 795,575 330,637,790 12,437,850 804,471,898 46,346,688 Frankfort Marine, Acc. and The following companies transact more than one class of insurance business: Aetna Life, Aetna Indemnity, Bankers' Surety, Central Accident, Continental Casualty, Employers' Liability Assurance Corporation, Fidelity and Casualty, Frankfort-American, Frankfort Marine, Accident and Plate Glass, General Acci dent Insurance, General Accident of Philadelphia, London Guarantee and Accident, Maryland Casualty. National Surety, New Amsterdam Casualty, North American Accident, Pacific Mutual Life, Pacific Surety, Pennsylvania Casualty, Philadelphia Casualty, Preferred Accident, Standard Life and Accident, Travellers, Union Casualty and Surety, Union Surety and Guaranty, United States Casualty, Ocean Accident and Guarantee. FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE MILLIONAIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES, JANUARY 1, 1902. (Compiled from The Fire Insurance Year Book for 1902.) Ins. Co. of North America, Pennsylvania. Liverpool, London and Globe, England. London Assurance, England.. Lumberman's, Pennsylvania. Manchester, England. Merchants', New Jersey Milwaukee Mechanics, Wisconsin. Munich, Bavaria. National, Connecticut. New Hampshire, New Hampshire Niagara Fire, New York. North British and Mercantile, England. Northern Assurance, England.. Northwestern National, Wisconsin. Norwich Union, Connecticut. Palatine, England.. Orient, Connecticut.. Pennsylvania Fire, Pennsylvania Petersburg S. & I., Virginia. Phenix, New York. Phoenix, Connecticut. Phoenix, England. Providence-Washington, Rhode Island. Queens, New York.. Reading, Pennsylvania. 400,000 369.56 3,106,431 1,078,240 500,000 264.79 1,486,037 823,945 200,000 570.89 3,812,369 941,775 400,000 201.74 1,163,345 406,970 .............. 1,000,000 549.31 1,997,883 584,742 2,231,133 400,000 138.47 1,251,241 153,898 St. Paul, Minnesota. 500,000 264.65 Sun, Louisiana.. 1,038,446 201,688 Sun, England. Thuringia, Erfurt. Traders', Illinois. Union, England.. 2,532,431 962,956 1,526,160 631,546 United Firemen's, Pennsylvania. Westchester, New York. Western, Canada. Williamsburgh City, New York. 1,622,348 172,026 1,219,258 2,280,954 735,492 2,234,020 1,187,933 ANNUAL FIRE LOSSES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS-1875-1901. (From the Chronicle Fire Tables.) Protecting America's Vanishing Animals. The question of the preservation of such characteristic animals of the United States as are now in danger of extinction is one which has attracted widespread attention among naturalists and students during the past few years, but it was not until its last session that Congress decided that the problem was one of National importance. In January, 1902, however, a resolution was passed instructing the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to investigate the matter and report upon the desirability of Government interposition in the case of the buffalo. As the result, just before the close of the Fifty-seventh Congress, Secretary Hitchcock submitted a report in which he not only furnished the figures in regard to the number of buffalo still in existence, but presented a definite plan for their future protection. "In my judgment," he said, "steps should be taken by the United States for the preservation from extinction of the buffalo or American bison, and with that end in view I have submitted to Congress an estimate of $30,000 for the purchase of buffalo and the corraling of them in the Yellowstone National Park. With these animals in a national reservation, under Government supervision, it is believed that a herd of pure-blooded American bison may be domesticated, which will increase in numbers, and the herds now running wild in the Park may be also benefited by the introduction therein of new blood." The table submitted by the Secretary of the Interior was as follows: The report was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry and will probably be sent to Congress during the next session, after which, if the suggestion regarding the buffalo is adopted, those who are interested in the preservation of America's vanishing fauna will submit similar resolutions for the better protection of the grizzly bear, beaver, elk, moose, mountain sheep and goat, and other contemporaneous animals that will soon become as extinct as the mammoth if something is not done to check their destruction. |