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I THE KANSAS CITY STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1906. With grateful acknowledgment to its 8,596,705 Policy-holders for their confidence, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company presents the following summary of its condition and affairs for the year ended December 31, 1905, showing it to have been THE BEST YEAR IN THE COMPANY'S HISTORY RESOURCES ASSETS, $151,663,477.29 OBLIGATIONS United States, City and R. R. Bonds and Stocks $79,629,477.18 Reinsurance Fund and Special Reserves $132,705,296.00 Bonds and Mortgages 38,062,610.75 Dividends Apportioned, payable 1906, on NonReal Estate' participating Industrial Policies 681,942.00 17,495,905.30 Same on Participating Policies, Intermediate Branch 621,081.00 Cash. 4,183,912.16 Same on Participating Policies, Ordinary Dept.

26,726.79 Demand Loans on Collateral 3,747,285.50 (NOTE. Nearly, at all low the rates Ordinary of premium) policies of the Co. are non-participating policies Loans to Policy-Holders 3,703,554.50 Contingent Dividend Fund, Intermediate Branch 299,768.48 Premiums deferred and in course of collection (Net) All other Liabilities 1,147,084.06 3,826,755.63 Capital and Surplus 16,181,578.96 Accrued Interest, Rents, etc. 1,013,976.27 $151,663,477.29 HOME OFFICE BUILDING $151,663,477.29 Largest Office Bullding in the World, Madison Fourth 254 and 94th New York City Metropolitan (INCORPORATED BY THE Life STATE OF NEW YORK) Insurance Co. JOHN R.

HEGEMAN, President The Company OF the People, BY the People, FOR the People A REASONABLE INDICATION OF THE DE- SIGNIFICANT FACTS Paid Policy-holders in 1905 for Death COMPARISONS, ETC. SERVED POPULARITY The Company's policy claims paid in 1905 averaged in num- Claims, Endowments, Paid-up Policies, Divi, Income In 1905 $61,531,588.49 ber one for each minute and a quarter of each business day of with amount aside their Gain over 1904 5,545,831.58 of its plans and of faith in its management may be fairly claimed 8 hours, and in amount $105.83 a minute the year through. dends, set on Surplus in 1905 16,181,578.96 in the number of Metropolitan policies in force. It is not only The value and timeliness of these payments may be gleaned behalf as increased reserve- Gain over 1904 1,346,358.97 greater than that other company in America, greater from the fact that of the claims paid during the year, 4,326 were Increase in Assets during 23,569,162.05 than that of all the other regular companies combined, bout less one. under policies less than 3 months old, 8,391 were on policies Gain in Insurance in force 126,085,438.00 It exceeds, in fact, the COMBINED POPULATION of 24 of the which had run under 6 months and 15,148 were within the first $37,755,428.59 The total number of Policies in force Dec.

31, 1905, was 8,596,705 States and Territories out of the 52. forming the American Union, year of insurance. The total amt. of outstanding insurance Dec. 31,1905 $1,596,509,769.00 viz: Maine, New Vermont, Rhode Island, THE DAILY AVERAGE OF THE COMPANY'S Number of persons in the service of the Company, over 19,000 Delaware, District of Hampshire, Columbia, Connecticut, BUSINESS DURING 1905 WAS: Paid Policy-holders since the organization Florida, Oregon, Colorado, Arizona, 395 day in Number of Claims Paid.

of the Company, the amount invested THE TWO DEPARTMENTS Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, North Dakota, per per in Number of Policies Issued. plus New Mexico, Indian Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wash- 6,972 day and now on hand for their security- In the Ordinary Department policies are issued for from $1,000 Territory, $1,502,484.00 per day in New Insurance written. to $1,000,000 on individual lives, premiums payable annually, semiIngton, Hawaii, and as to CITIES, it exceeds the combined pop- $123,788.29 per in Payments to Policy-holders and In its Industrial Department (which is ulation of Greater New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Addition to Reserve. $318,264,084.12 family insurance) policies are issued on all the insurable members annually, or quarterly.

Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Milwaukee. $77,275.94 per day in Increase of Assets. of the household with premiuma payable weekly. The Metropolitan gained in insurance in force on which premiums are still being paid MORE THAN ANY This Company issues no TONTINE or other forms of deferred dividend policies, in which the amount to OTHER COMPANY IN THE WORLD. be paid to the insured must largely be a matter of ESTIMATE at the inception of the contract, and of DISThe Metropolitan wrote more business in the Industrial Department in 1905 than ever before in any one APPOINTMENT at its maturity.

year. Its policies are plain business contracts which tell their whole story on their face; leave nothing to the imaThe Metropolitan wrote more business in the Ordinary Department in 1905 than ever before in any one year. gination; borrow nothing from hope; require definite conditions; and make definite promises in dollars and cents. The Metropolitan wrote more business in 1905 than any other Company in the world. And this for the 12th Is not the fact that, notwithstanding the agitation in life insurance, the Metropolitan wrote more insurance consecutive year.

in its Ordinary Department in 1905 than it ever wrote in any preceding year. proof that GUARANTEED BENEFITS for a fixed premium are what people want? The Metropolitan has more premium paying business in force in the United States than any other company. In its Industrial Department policies no obligation to pay dividends is either expressed or implied, the The Metropolitan has in force one-third of all the legal reserve policies in force in the United States. Its premiums being at stock rates, without the "loading" designed for dividends; nevertheless the Company for Industrial policies in force equal in number all the Industrial policies of all the other companies in the United States. years past, as a pure act of grace, has returned a part of its surplus, annually, to the holders of its policies.

The total amount so paid, including the amount set aside for 1906, is THE RATIO OF EXPENSE TO PREMIUM INCOME IN 1905 WAS THE LOWEST IN THE COMPANY'S HISTORY. OVER FIVE AND A HALF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN CASH Main and A. A. ALBERTI, 508-511 New Nelson Missouri Ave. ART IN MACDOUGAL ALLEY ONE OF THE MOST PICTURESQUE CORNERS IN ALL NEW YORK CITY.

Few Residents Know of Its ExistenceTwenty Souls Its Population, Then There Is Baby--Art the Single. Thought of All. From the New York Globe, Unlike Paris, New York has few picturesque nooks and corners. Macdougal alley is one of them. In many respects it resembles the impasse du Maine the French capital, where there are rambling rows of studios and a tumble down villa.

The houses in Macdougal alley were 1 built for stables, however, but just now they are the living quarters of a group of well known artists. Very few residents north Fourteenth street ever heard of Macdougal alley. Those who do know of it, even in the old Ninth ward, are surprisingly few. Yet it is half the length of a crosstown block, is paved with concrete, lighted with gas, and is only three minutes' walk from Fifth avenue and Washington square, It has a Always Uniform Always Reliable Everywhere Obtainable BAKER'S CHOCOLATE COCOA have stood the tests of time and service for over 125 years Registered U. B.

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Ltd. Established 1780 Dorchester, Mass. 46 Highest and Awards America in of with than twenty souls, thought- most population souls art. Then there is a baby, too. So, after all, notwithstanding its artistic tendency, there is an air of domesticity about the place.

Henrietta Deming, is the baby's name. She is only 17 months old, but when the sun shines, and always seems to shine in the alley, she toddles out in a white frock. She has become such a pet that one sculptor is modeling her and another painting her pretty face in oils. She is the daughter of E. W.

Deming, the painter of Indian folklore, who dwells in No. 5. IMPROVEMENT ON ACQUAINTANCE. To reach Macdougal alley one has only to alight from an Eighth street crosstown car at the corner of Macdougal street, at No. 12, is the home of Miss Sarah C.

Sweeney, a miniature artist. Miss Sweeney is very happy in her work and home. The front door opens into her studio, with black woodwork and green walls. There is plenty of warmth from the big, old-fashioned stove, and the cozy corners, and chairs like our grandmothers used to rock in, look very inviting. The second floor has been made into sleeping apartments, with a wide balcony approached by a small winding stairway.

Miss Sweeney has just finished miniature of George E. Sands's wife and baby. A NEIGHBORLY PLACE. The Hawthornes are Miss Sweeney's nearest neighbors. The alley folk are all very neighborly.

A stranger, let down in 1. stul M'DOUGALL ALLEY, WHERE A COLONY OF NEW YORK ART-FOLK DWELL. and walk south half a block. The at first sight looks to be a very plain and ordinary one, but it improves upon acquaintance. Being a blind alley, it comes to a rather artistic finish against a high red brick wall, back of which rises a spreading oak tree.

The houses are all two stories in height, some painted red and others brown. They were all at one time used stables for the old mansions on North Washington square, consequently, they have the large carriage door in front. A touch here and there, however, has added considerable charm to the general appearance. Some of them have their individual gas lamps in iron brackets, and nearly all of the window sills are trellised. In summer time the walls are covered with a heavy growth of ivy, and geraniums bloom in profusion upon the window sills.

When the winter winds blow, the alley takes on a decided warm and cozy aspect, with smoke pouring from the tiny chimney pots and the lights gleaming from the trellised windows. Several of the houses are still used as stables, but they are far enough removed not to be objectionable. In two of the stables, the coachman and his family reside. Starting from Macdougal street the first dwelling on the left is occupied by James A. Fraser, a sculptor.

The door, with its old-fashioned knocker, opens directly into the studio, with its chaotic array of clay and plaster models. There is plenty of room and light here. Mr. Fraser has made it his home for two years. He said he liked it because it was very convenient to bring horses into his studio for modeling purposes.

Directly across the alley, at No. 6, is the studio of F. E. Triebel, a well known sculptor. On the same side of the alley, life and lore of the American Indian.

His studio is decorated with the spoils of the plain, and an Indian tepee made of buffalo fur, several large moose heads, native trappings and beadwork, and a rifle make up an interesting background. There are art colonies in various sections of the city, but the one on Macdougal alley certainly lives more neighborly and creates more an old world atmosphere. The alley is seen to best advantage on a rainy day, although a rainy day is anything but acceptable to the folk who live under skylights. On such days, winter days at least, there is a degree of picturesqueness in the red of the brick walls, with dead leaves scurrying down the alley, the moan of the trees in the wind, and the lone figure of the Italian vender, with his red kerchief, carrying wood to the artistic alley folk. Iowa Was Bought for 8 Cents an Acre.

From the New York World. DES MOINES, fertile soil, now worth an average of $70 an acre, was bought for eight cents an acre a littie more than half century ago. True, there was an additional consideration of forty kegs of tobacco and forty pounds of salt annually for thirty years, but this constituted but a fraction of a cent an acre. The deal to which reference is made was that in which the government acquired title from the Indians. An interesting chapter of the report of the census of 1905 deals with this subject.

The various "purchases" between the years of 1830 and 1851, embracing the territory of Iowa, cost the government an aggregate of $2,877,647, or eight cents an acre. The Sac and Fox and Sioux Indians and subsidiary tribes were the beneficiaries. "Auto House Parties'! the Latest, From the New York Press. Auto house parties, the latest fad, are a natural sequence of the prevailing passion for motor driving. For several seasons automobile shows have been fixtures of the season, and as needful for society's amusement as the more common dinner or dance.

But never before was enthusiasm as great as it is now. Many women of fashion are planning to set forth soon for Cuba to see the road contests. They take as keen an interest in all the details of fine machines as do the men. Just now these auto house parties, which it is prophesied will be in full swing in Lent, differ from the ordinary house party, where much of the time is taken up with motoring, is not clear. But it is likely all house parties will be called "motor parties" just for the sake of making an old idea assume a new aspect.

Austrian Country Doctors May Strike. From the London Pall Mall Gazette. -Tired of working for the miserly payment which the state allows them, the Austrian country doctors are preparing to strike. No longer, they say, will they vaccinate the poor for two pence a head when veterinary surgeons get four times that sum for inoculating cattle against disease. Neither will they go on examining tramps and vagrants at a rate which pays a qualified doctor less for overhauling a roving vagabond than the barber gets for cutting the hair of the same individual.

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The Charles W. Hawthorne studio at No. 15 is one of the most artistic on the alley. The studio itself takes up the entire interior, with the exception of a bedroom and a balcony, accessible by a narrow staircase. Most of the furnishings have been brought from New England and Holland.

An old Dutch clock ticks away the hours, and the various brasses reflect the sunlight, which Mr. Hawthorne declares pours his studio even when the sky is cloudy. At present there are several of his prize winners upon the walls. This year he took the second Hallgarten prize at the academy. Two years ago he captured the first Hallgarten prize.

The basement of the studio has been transformed into a dining room. Mrs. Hawthorne, who also studied art for several years in Paris and Holland, has gained an enviable reputation among the alley folk for her cooking. When she cooks steak and onions, or makes one of her famous Dutch stews, it is said that the other artists walk up and down the alley, just to get an appetizing whiff. THAT WONDERFUL BABY.

It is at No. 5 where the Deming family dwells in domestic bliss. There are five in all, including the wonderful baby. Miss Alden, aged IT, and Miss Catharine, just 7, are already following in their father's footsteps, and have several excellent clay models to their credit. Mr.

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