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
4,581,325 141,182]
6,232,036 277,700

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
2,653,500 37.838.190 2,305,892
27 3,134,200 49,027,297 3,136,659
30 3,498,200 64,232,123 4,125,442
39 4,790,600| 91,587,028 6,071,759 10,187,805 218,526
43 5,577,600| 125,548,951 7,628,430 16,504,409 340,361
55 8,387.768 175,262,330 10,108,134 26,529,084 640,248
70 9,876,364) 229,097,425 15,640,266 36,575,593 617,505
71 10,519,484] 269,520,441 19,455,908 44,949,2571578,152
68/10,898,359) 302,558,199 28,685,923 56,661,039 632,534
59 9,667,416] 335,168,543 25,578,371 59,672,388 528,008
56 9,313,456) 360,140,684 27,124,575 66,840,264 452,976
50 7,227,000] 387,281,897 25,655,389 64,868,833 376,619
45 5,746,700 403,142,982 24,994,840 65,489,810 364,062
38 5,176,500 407,406,333 22,338,037 63,109,354334,410
34 4,866,500 396,420,591 20,977,923 60,652,974 356,785
34 4,950,500 404,097,145 19,655,882 60,886,669 249,350
32 5,262,900

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
429,788,508 22,815,952 52,706,157 250,624
449,994,616 23,007,639 52,794,761 276,400 66,693,779
597 646.847 35,931,143 68.972,710 315,197 72,445,653 705,659
492,240,5971 27,126,634 58.471,954 349,591 77,603,161 750,713 1,870,745,521
524,705,494 30,331,300 61,637,373 376,981 81,499,913) 814.691 2,024,102,988
561,551,080 30,817,888 61,521,327 339,451 84.111,350| 848.908
597,646,847 35,931,143 68,947,470 403,362 95.979,784) 930,588
643,622,033 40,293,292 75,226,244 354,836 106.284.574 1,022,546
700,868,017 43,996,385 80,604,990 372,385 118,092,648/1,141,733)
758,313,654 49,880,865 88,462,239 413,127 131,288,705 1,276,167
826,623,746 54,598,198 95,140,902 571.783 141,041,093 1,405,684 3,868.385,818
903,734,547 62,734,637 102,621,820 602,783 152,890,333|1,540,932

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
33 8,970,500 1,056,331,683 67,914,136 116,054,725 735,063 177,863,333 1,780,307
35 9,570,500 1,142,419,926 71,925,224 122,978,718 741,313 185,772,902 1,877,808
36 9,810,500 1,228,324,342 76,110,579 134,219,515 793,052 199,173,299 1,975,747
35 9,740,500 1,334,051,345 76,977,875 137,544,815 739,554 205,866,394 2,155,241
36 9,740,500 1,451,116,914 81,409,305 144,787,604 829,151 218,515,257 2,364,597
37 9,740,500 1,576,334,673 92,800,710 155,786,799 745,063 243,154,558 2,700,550
40 10,340,500 1,723,737,723 98,534,789 165,704,652 980,563 261,467,238 3,071,253
38 10,165,500 1,879,624,564 110,108,487 183,393,529 736,313 287,181,045 3,458,464

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
85.439 256,535

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
94,215 35,114

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 and Lancashire, 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.