THE HILL OF TARIK IN AMERICA, 
By HERBERT S. HOUSTON. 
(With Photographic Illustrations by Arthur Hewitt.) 
From Madeira the ship’s course was straight for the Mediterranean. Among 
those on board, bound for the Orient, were a New York publisher and a bright 
boy from the West, eager for all the new sights of the Old World ahead. As the 
land breezes caught the pen- 
nant at the masthead, the 
boy scanned the eastern hor- 
izon and he kept it up for 
hours. 
“What are you looking 
for so hard?” inquired the 
publisher. 
“Oh, I want to see that 
big sign of the Prudential on 
Gibraltar,” and the boy still 
peered into the east. When 
at last the great rock, the Hill 
of Tarik the Saracen, lifted 
its head above the ocean, the 
boy searched in vain for the 
sign he was sure he would 
see. For him, as for all other 
Americans who read the mag- 
azines, the Prudential was 
inseparably associated with 
Gibraltar. And this associa- 
tion has made the rock and 
the insurance company al- 
American Gibraltar achieved 
_ its strength in a few years b 
U. §. SENATOR JOHN F. DRYDEN, 
Pp *tont of the Prudential 
y ; 
dauntless human endeavor, while the slow accretions of ages gave strength to its 
namesake, the mighty Hill of Tarik 
Ten years after the close of : aye 
has scarcely been written—the Prudential was established in Newark. 
the Civil War—a period so recent that its history 
f 
As i 
foreknowing the great rock to which it would grow, it began its foundation in a 
