Feb. 35, 1886 ] 



FOREST AND STREAM. 



99 



MUM AO SIGKIf 1CHI ITEMS 



FROM THE 



FOBTY-HBST ANNUAL REPORT 



New Yort Life Insnrance Co. 



A total income of over sixteen million one hun- 

 dred thousand dollars, and payments to policy 

 holders of nearly eight million dollars. 



Interest income, over three million dollars, heing 

 about h% per cent, on average net assets, and 

 nearly four hundred thousand dollars in excess of 

 losses by death. 



Market value of securities, over three million 

 thr^e hundred thousand dollars in excess of their 

 cost. 



. Liabilities, both actual and contingent, provided 

 for, and. a Divisible Surplus by tbe Company's 

 standard of over seven million dollars; Surplus by 

 the State standard, over thirteen million dollars. 



An increase of nearly two million dollars 

 in income, over three millions in surplus, 

 over seven millions in assets, and of over 

 thirty millions of insurance in force, during 

 1885. 



SUMMARY OF REPORT. 



BUSINESS OF 1885. 



Received in Premiums $12,722,103 03 



Received in Interest, Rents, etc 3,399,109 71 



Total Income 8 1 6, 121, 1 7» 74 



Paid Death-claims $2,999,109 64 



" Endowments 741,764 47 



" Annuities, Dividends, and for Pol- 

 icies Purchased 3,940,999 64 



Total Paid Follcy-Holders. . .87,681,873 75 



New Policies Issued 18.566 



New Insurance Written $68,521,452 00 



CONDITION JAN. 1, 1886. 

 Cash Assets 866.864,331 32 



♦Divisible Surplus, Oo.'s Standard $7,064,473 13 



tTontine " " " 3,123,742 77 



Total Surplus, " 810,188,215 90 



Surplus by State Standard, 813,225,053 94 



Policies in Force 86.418 



Insurance in Force 259,674,500 00 



PROGRESS IN 1885. 



Excess of Interest over Death-losses. . . $399,960 0'. 



Increase in Income 1.880,697 35 



Increase in Surplus, State Standard. . . 3,313,707 43 



Increase in Assets 7,580,567 75 



Increase in Insurance Written 7,036.902 00 



Increase in Insurance in Force 30.291,914 00 



♦Exclusive of the amount specially reserved as a 

 contingent liability to Tontine Dividend Fund. 



tOver and above a 4 per cent; reserve on existing 

 policies of that class. 



The Seven Advantages 



New York Life Insurance Co.'s 



N0NF0RFEITING-T0NTINE LIMII ED- 

 ENDOWMENT. P0LI0Y. 



FIRST ADVANTAGE.— Insurance for a definite 

 amount, or for an amount increasing with each 

 premium paid, as desired. 



SECOND ADVANTAGE —A Definite Cash Endow- 

 ment, and a Tontine Dividend, to Policies in force 

 at the end of Endowment and Tortine periods, 

 which periods correspond, and may beeitnerTen, 

 Fifteen or Twenty Ytars. 



THIRD ADVANTAGE.— Insurance for the full 

 amount of the Policy, extended for as long a 

 time as the value of the Policy will carry it, within 

 the Endowment period, in case of discontinuance 

 of payment of premiums after three years. 



FOURTH ADVANTAGE. — A Grace of one month 

 in the payment of premiums, during which time 

 the policy holder's security is unimpaired. 



FIFTH ADVANTAGE. -Three valuable options, in- 

 cluding cash value, to policy-holders who survive 

 their Tontine and Endowment periods and keep 

 their policies m force. 



SIXTH AD V A. N T A.GE . —Practical freedom of action 

 with respect to occupation, residence and travel, 



SEVENTH ADVANTAGE.— The payment of death- 

 claims immediately upon the approval of the 

 required proofs of death. 



Do not insure until you have seen full particulars 

 of this Policy. Do not fail to write the nearest 

 Agent, or the Home Office, for such particulars— 

 at once. THE NEW YORE LIFE INSURANCE 

 CO., 316 & 348 Broadway, New York City. 



WIHIAM H. BEE RS, President. 

 HENRY TUCK, Vice-President. 

 ARCHIBALD U. WELCH, 2d Vlce-Pres. 

 RUFUS W. WEEKS, Actuary. 



THEODORE M. BANTA, Cashier. 



P. O'DELL, Superintendent of Agencies. 

 . A, HUNTINGTON, V, D., JJedical pirector. 



CANOE 



THE third edition of "Canoe and Boat Building" 

 is now ready. The additional matter includes 

 description and working drawings and sail plans of 

 the Barnegat Cruiser, Sunbeam and Lassie canoes, 

 and sail and rigging plan of canoe yawl. This 

 makes the book comprehensive up to date. The 

 author is W. P. Stephens, canoeing editor of For- 

 est and Stream. 



For writing such a book Mr. Stephens is pecu- 

 liarly fitted, beginning as an amateur, and having 

 after a long experience of the difficulties attending 

 a learner, taken a prominent place among canoe 

 builders, due both to the model and workmanship 

 of his canoes. Realizing fully the d ifficulty of ex- 

 plaining to a novice an art in itself far from easy, 



AND 



and with which he is entirely unfamiliar, the book 

 begins with a description of the various classes of 

 canoes in general use, with their main features and 

 dimensions, and definitions of the terms used in con- 

 nection with them. Numerous examples of canoes 

 are given, and in connection with them, such plain 

 instructions in designing as will enable the beginner 

 to select intelligently tbe proper craft for his pur- 



BOAT 



pose, and to plan her dimensions, details and fit- 

 tings. To this end designs of all classes of canoes 

 are given, with full dimensions and details. The 

 object has been not merely to enable the tyro to 

 build one boat as described, but to teach him the 

 principles of designing and building m such a way 

 that he may construct such a craft as he desires, 

 following the chapters on designing, the construc- 

 tion of a canoe is taken up in detail, the tools and 

 appliances being first clearly described, as well as 

 the various materials, after which follows the actual 

 work of building. Every Operation is taken up in 

 order, from the. selection of the keel to the varnish- 

 ing of the finished boat, and illustrated with numer- 

 ous diagrams. 



A chapter on sails describes all the varieties in 

 use by canoeists, down to the new Mohican settee, 

 with directions for making, rigging and measuring 

 them, while tbe method of proportioning the sails 

 to the boat is clearly explained, all the calculations 



BUILDING 



being worked out in detail, Tbe many minor points 

 of a canoe, paddles, steering gears, rudders, aprons, 

 and camp outfit are also described at length,*while 

 a chapter is devoted to canvas canoes. 



The subject of boat building is fully treated, a 

 rowhoat of the usual construction being taken as 

 an example, and described in all its parts in such a 

 manner as to make clear the principles involved, 

 and their application to any form of boat, either 

 lapstreak or carvel build. Each of the numerous 

 technical terms belonging to the subject is defined 

 clearly when it first occurs, and as the index is full 

 and complete, the book is in itself a glossary. 



In addition to the numerous diagrams in the 

 body of the work, twenty-nine large plates are 

 printed on bond paper, containing the working 

 drawings of canoes for paddling, sailing, cruising 



FOR 



and racing, with their sail plans, rowing sailing 

 boats, large canoe yawls, and various boats for 

 special purposes, such as gunning boats, yacht 

 boats, and the widely known sneakbox. 



The canoe yawl, a boat between a canoe and a 

 yacht, is illustrated by examples of various craft 

 from 17 to 20ft. long, and suitable for a crew of two 

 or three on a cruise. This class of boat, while little 

 known among us as yet, is admirably fitted for 

 cruising, and will meet the wants of many who 

 object to a canoe as being too small, and yet desire 

 a baat with the same excellent qualities. The boats 

 and canoes illustrated are in all cases among the 

 best of their class, the list of canoes including Eng- 

 lish, Scotch and American craft, and are all drawn 



AMATEURS. 



to scale, so as to be available as working drawings. 

 The plates, for convenience in using, are placed 

 loose in a tough manilla envelope and accompany 

 the book. 



Pp. 19-2, with 20 plates of working drawings. 

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ANGLING. 



Adirondack Fishes, Fred Mather., 35 



American Angler's Book, f< orris 5 60 



Angling 50 



Angling Talks, Dawson 50 



Angling, a Book on, Francis 7 50 



Angling Literature in England 1 25 



Black Bass Fishing, Henshall 8 00 



Carp Culture. Peirce 50 



Fish and Fishing, Manly 5 25 



Fishing, Bottom or Float 50 



Fishing in American Waters, Scott, illus 2 50 



Fishing with the Fly, Orvis 2 50 



Fly Fishing in Maine Lakes 1 25 



Fly Bods and Fly Tackle, Wells 2 50 



Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing 2 50 



Frank Forester's Fishing with Hook and Line 25 



Fysshe and Fysshyne 1 00 



Fresh and Salt Water Aauarium 50 



Modern Practical Angler, Pennell 2 00 



Practical Trout Culture 1 00 



Practical Fisherman 4 20 



Prime's I Go a-Fisbing 2 50 



Rod and Line in Colorado Waters 1 00 



Scientific Angler 1 50 



Superior Fishing, or the Striped Bass, Trout, 



etc 2 00 



Trolling.. 50 



The Game Fish of tbe Northern States and 



British Provinces 2 00 



Trout Culture, Slack 1 00 



Walton. Izaak. fac simile of first edition 3 75 



BIRDS. 



American Bird Fancier ... 50 



Baud's Birds of North America 30 00 



Bird Notes 75 



Birds Nesting 1 25 



Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania 4 00 



Birds of the Northwest. 4 50 



Birds and Their Haunts 3 00 



Cage and Singing Birds, Adams 50 



Coues' Field Ornithology 2 50 



Coues' Key to North American Birds 15 00 



Game Water Birds of the Atlantic Coast, 



Roosevelt 2 00 



Holden's Book of Birds, pa 25 



Minot's Land and Game Birds 3 00 



Native Song Birds. . 75 



Naturalists' Guide, Maynard 2 00 



Natural History of Birds 8 00 



Samuel's Birds of New England 4 00 



Shore Birds 15 



Wood's Natural History of Birds 6 00 



CAMPING AND TRAPPING. 



Adventures In the Wilderness 1 25 



Amateur Trapper— papes, 50c. ; hds 75 



Three in Norway, or Rifle, Rod and Gun in 



Norway l 75 



Camps in the Rockies, Grohman 1 75 



Camp Life in the Wilderness 30 



Camping and Cruising in Florida, Henshall. 1 50 



Canoe and Camp Cookery, by "Seneca" 1 00 



Complete American Trapper, Gibson l 00 



Hints on Camping 1 25 



How to Camp Out, Gould , . 75 



How to Hunt and Trap, Batty's 1 50 



Rustlings in the Rockies 1 00 



GUIDE BOOKS AND MAPS. 



Adirondacks, Map of, Stoddard $1 00 



Farrar's Guide to Moosehead Lake, pa. 50 : clo. 1 00 

 Farrar's Guide to Richardson and Rangeley 



Lake, paper, 50 ; cloth 1 00 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Moosehead Lake 50 



Farrar's Pocket Map of Rangeley Lake Region 50 



Florida Annual 50 



Guide Book and Map of the Dead River Region 50 



Guide to Adirondack Region, Stoddard 25 



Map of Androscoggin Reg'on 50 



Map of Northern Maine, Steele, 1 OO 



Map of the Thousand Islands 50 



Map of the Yellowstone Park 2 50 



SPORTS AND GAMES. 



American Boy's Own Book, Sports and Games 2 00 



Athletic Sports for Boys, bds. 75c. ; cloth 1 00 



Boy's Treasury of Sports and Pastimes, etc . . 2 00 



Cassell's Book of Sports and Pastimes 3 00 



Croquet 20 



Easy Whist 50 



Every Boy's Book of Sports and Amusements 3 50 



Hands at Whist 50 



Instruction in the Indian Club Exercise 25 



Laws andPrinciples of Whist, Cavendish 2 00 



Quoits and Bowls ■>. 



Skating 25 



Stonehenge, Encyclopedia of Rural Sports. . . 7 5C 



Whist for Beginners 50 



HUNTING— SHOOTING. 



Across Country Wanderer 5 0C 



American Sportsman, The, Lewis 2 50 



Breech Loader, Modern. Gloan, illustrated... 1 26 



Crack Shot (The Rifle), -'Barber," illustrated. J 25 



Dead Shot (The Gun), illustrated 1 25 



Field. Cover and Trap Shooting 2 00 



Frank Forester's Sporting Scenes and Charac- 

 ters, 2vol., cloth 400 



Frank Forester's Manual for Young Sportsmen 2 00 



Frank Forester's Fugitive S. Sketches, paper 75 



How I Became a Crack Shot, Farrow 1 00 



How I Became a Sportsman 2 40 



Hunting, Snooting and Fishing 2 50 



Hunting and Hunters of all Nations, Frost. .. 1 50 



Hurlingham Gun Club Rules 26 



Instructions in Rifle Firing a 00 



Nimrod in the North, Schwatka . . 2 50 



Rifle Practice, Wingate 1 so 



Rod and Gun in Calif omia. l 50 



Shooting 50 



Shooting, Dougall 3 00 



Shooting on the Wing 75 



Sport. Fox Hunting, Salmon Fishing, etc., W. 



"B. Davenport, illustrated 7 50 



Sport With Gun and Rod, cloth 10 00 



Sport with Gun and Rod, new, plain edition . . 5 00 



Embossed leather 15 00 



Sporting Adventures in the Far West 1 50 



Still Hunter, Van Dyke , . . 2 00 



Stephens' Lynx Hunting i 25 



Stephens' Fox Hunting 1 25 



Stephens' Young Moose Hunters. 1 50 



Tbe Quo and Its Development, Greener 8 53 



BOATING AND FIGHTING; 



A Canoe Trip, or a Lark on the Water 30 



Around the World in the Yacht Sunbeam 8 00 



Boat Racing, Brickwood 2 50 



Boating Trips on New England Rivers . 1 25 



Canoe and Boat Building for Amateurs, W. P. 



Stephens 1 50 



Canoe and Camp Cookery, by "Seneca" 1 00 



Canoe Handling, C. B Vaux 1 00 



Canoeing m Kanuckia , l 26 



Canoe and Camera 150 



Canoe. Voyage of the Paper. Bishop's. 1 50 



Cruises in ttmall Yachts 2 50 



Corinthian Yachtsman. 125 



Donaldson's Steam Machinery 1 50 



Four Months in a Sneakbox, Bishop 1 50 



Frazar's Practical Boat Sailing l 00 



Inland Cruise , , 50 



Model Yachts and Boats, Grosvenor 2 00 



Paddle and Portage 150 



Practical Boat Sailing, Davies 2 0C 



Practical Boat Building, Neison... 1 00 



Tbe America's Cup, paper, 50c: cloth 1 00 



The Canoe Aurora, by Dr. C. A. Neide 1 00 



Vacation Cruising. Ror,ndck 1 50 



Yacht Architecture. Uixou Kemp 16 80 



Yachts and Boat Sailing. Kemp 10 00 



Yacht Designing. Kemp.. 25 00 



Yachts, Small. C. P. Kunhardt 7 00 



Yachtsman's Guide, Patterson 3 00 



HORSE. 



American Roadsters and Trotting Horses 5 00 



Boucher's Method of Horsemanship 1 00 



Bruce's Stud Book, 3 vols 30 00 



Dadd's American Reformed Horse Book, 8vo. 2 50 



Dadd's Modern Horse Doctor, 12mo 1 50 



Dwyer's Horse Book 125 



Horses, Famous American Race 75 



Horses, Famous American Trotting 75 



Horses, Famous, of America 1 56 



Jenning's Horse Training i 25 



Manual of the Horse 25 



Mayhew's Horse Doctor 3 00 



Mayhew's Horse Management 3 00 



McClure's Stable Guide 1 00 



Rarey's Horse Tamer 50 



Riding and Driving 20 



Riding Recollections, Whyte Melville's.. 3 00 



Stonehenge, Horse Owner's Cyclopedia 3 76 



Stonehenge on the Horse, English edition, 8vo 3 60 

 Stonehenge on the Horse, American edition, 



12mo 200 



The Book of the Horse 8 00 



The Saddle Horse. , 1 00 



Veterinary Dictionary, Going 2 00 



Wallace's American Stud Book 10 00 



Wallace's American Trotting Register, 2 vols. 20 00 



Woodruff's Trotting Horses of America 2 60 



Vouatt and on the Horse 2 00 



KENNEL. 



American Kennel, Burges 8 00 



Dog, Diseases of, Dalziel , f 00 



Dog, Diseases of. Hill 2 00 



Dog Breaking, Floyd 50 



Dog Breaking, by Holabird 26 



Dog Breaking, Butcninson 3 75 



Dog, the Dinks, May hew and Hutchinson 3 00 



Dog Training vs. Breaking, Hammond 1 00 



Dogs of Great Britain, America and other 



Countries 2 00 



Dogs, Management of, Mayhew, 16mo 75 



Dogs, Points for Judging 60 



Dogs, Richardson, pa. 30. t 'loth 60 



Dogs and Their Ways, Williams 1 25 



Dogs and the Public 75 



Dogs, Their Management and Treatment in 



Disease, byAshmont 2 00 



English Kennel C. S. Book, Vol. 1 5 00 



English K. C. S. Book, Vols. HI. to X., each. . 4 50 



Our Friend the Dog 3 08 



Practical Kennel Guide, Stable* 1 50 



Setter Dog, the, Laverack 3 00 



Stonehenge, Dog of British Islands 7 50 



The Dog, by Idstone i 25 



Vero Shaw's Book on the Dog, cloth, $8.00: 



morocco , 22 50 



Y ouatt on the Dog , ,", 2 50 



MISCELLANEOUS; 



A Naturalist's Rambles About Home, Abbott. 1 50 



Adventures of a Young Naturalist 1 76 



Amateur Photographer 1 00 



Animal Plagues. Fleming 4 sc 



Antelope and Deer of America 2 50 



Archer, Modern 26 



Archery, Witchery of, Maurice Thompson 1 60 



Atlas of Jersey Coast 1 50 



Black Hills of Dakota, Ludlow, quarto, cloth, 



Government Report 2 50 



Common Objects of the Seashore ^ 60 



Eastward Ho! J 25 



Historical and Biographical Atlas of New Jer- 

 sey Coast 5 00 



How to Make Photographs 1 00 



Humorous Sketches, Seymour 6 00 



Insects Injurious to Vegetation , 6 50 



Keeping One Cow 1 00 



Life and Writings of Frank Forrester, 2 vols., 



per vol 1 50 



Mammals of New York, paper. $4; cloth 5 00 



May nam's Manual ot t'axidermy 1 25 



Manton's Taxidermy Without a Teacher 50 



Natural History Quadruped 75 



North American Insects , 1 50 



Old St. Augustine, Fla., illustrated , l 50 



Packard's Half-Hours With Insects 2 50 



Pistol, The 50 



Photography for Amateurs 60 



Practical Forestry, by Fuller l 50 



Practical Taxidermy and Home Decoration, 



Batty 150 



Practical Orange Culture 1 00 



Practical Poultry Keeping 2 00 



Randall's Practical Shepherd 2 00 



Sportsman's Gazetter, Hallock 3 00 



Sportsman's Hand Book, Col. Horace Park. . , 1 00 



Studies in Animal Life, Lewis 1 00 



The Cream of Leicestershire 3 50 



The Forester, by Brown 10 00 



The Northwest Coast of America 20 00 



The Heart of Europe 3 75 



The Botanical Atlas, 2 vols. 12 00 



The Zoological Atlas, 2 vols , 10 00 



The Taxidermists' Manual, Brown 1 00 



Wild Flowers of Switzerland 15 00 



Wild Woods Life, Farrar i 25 



Woodcraft, "Nesgmuk" , ... 1 00 



Woods and Lafces Gi 5?aiBa. .„.. = . 100 



