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MARCH 10 
•THE RURAL HEW-YORKER. 
“Say, Nero, I’m going to be out late, an’ I 
don’t want you to bark when I get home an’ 
wake the folks up.” 
timorous. 
We have always pitied the calendar. It 
could never get a day off..—Burlington Free 
Pt'ess. 
A Western young lady has given her pet 
goat the beautiful title of “Oleomargarine,” 
because it will never come to butt her.— Ana- 
costia Herald. 
Train-Hand: “See here! where are you 
going with that ax?” Passenger: “Keep cool, 
young man. We stop for sandwiches at the 
next station.”— Burlington Free Press. 
“I think, George, if you intend subscribing 
for a funny paper,” said Mrs. Spriggins, “this 
year, you might take Ex. I see it quoted all 
over, and the jokes are nearly always good.” 
—Life. 
At the Bridge Station of the Brooklyn Ele¬ 
vated Road a great crowd pushed and strug¬ 
gled. “That’s right, gents,” sang out a brake- 
man with fine irony, “jam in, jam in, or the 
ladies will get all the seats.”— The Sun. 
Miss Felicia: “Why do you call it leap- 
year, Mr. Scarey, do you know?” Mr. S.: 
“Really, Miss Felicia, I don’t, unless it is 
that a young man leaps the nearest fence when 
he sees a girl coming.”— Washington Critic. 
“Say, bub, I hear your folks are going to 
have a conversation club at your house this 
winter?” “Yep; we got one.” “Who are the 
members?” “Me and ma. I furnish the con¬ 
versation and ma the club.”— Detroit Free 
Press. 
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FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 
OF THE 
NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE CO. 
Office: Nos. 340 & 348 Broadway, New York. 
ISLAND HOME STOCK 
J ATSTU ARY 1, 1888. 
Amount of Net Assets, January 1,1887. 
REVENUE ACCOUNT. 
Premiums.$19,328,519.87 
Less deferred premiums, January 1, 1887. 1,1'41,6S6.15—$18,286,853.72 
Interest and rents, etc. 4,252,430 50 
Less Interest accrued January 1,1837 . 486,497.10— 3,765,933 40- 
.$71,SI 9,623.48 
$22,052,787.12 
$93,872,410.60 
DISBURSE 11 ENT ACCOUNT. 
Losses by death, and Endowments matured and discounted (Including re- • 
versionary additions to same).$4,861,377.88 
Dividends (including mortuary dividends),annuities,and purchased insurances 5,1 <3,843.9b 
Total Paid Policy-holders .$9,585,210 79 
Taxes and re-insurances. 264,49 d.60 
Commissions (Including advanced and commuted commissions), brokerages, 
agency expenses, physicians’ fee, etc . 8,531,026 06 
Office and law expenses, salaries, advertising, printing, etc. 629,360.98— 
$43,960,093.43 
$79,912,317.17 
ASSETS. 
$3,038,499.6!) 
49,088,286 14 
6,887,092.59 
15.969,872.78 
1,867,500-00 
388,799.44 
1,174,340.36 
839,156.08 
170,792.59 
488,477.59- 
Cash on deposit, on hand, and in transit.. 
United States Bonds and other bonds and stocks (market value, $52,255,814.82).. 
Real Estate. . .. 
Bonds and Mortgages, first Hen on real estate (buildings thereon insured for 
$14,000,000 and the policies assigned to the Company as additional col¬ 
lateral security).. 
Temporary Loans (market value of securities held as collateral, $2.404.853). 
♦Loans on existing policies (the Reserve on these policies, Included In Lia¬ 
bilities, amounts to over $2.000,000. . 
♦Quarterly and semi-annual premiums on existing policies, due subsequent to 
Jan. 1, 1888. 
♦Premiums on existing podcies in course of transmission and collection. (The 
Reserve on these policies, included In Liabilities, Is estimated at$l,- 
800,000,. 
Agents’ balances. 
Accrued Interest on investments. January 1,1888 . 
IHnrket value of securities over cost value on Company’s hooks. 
♦A detailed schedule of these items will accompany the usual annual re¬ 
port filed with the Insurance Department of the State of New York. 
TOTAL ASSETS, January 1, 1888,. 
Appropriated as follows: 
Approved losses In course of payment.. $827,078.88 
Reported losses awaiting proof, etc . „ 
Matured endowments, due and unpaid (claims not presented). 2<,582.30 
Annui'ies due and unpaid (claims not presented) . . 13,042.96 
Reserved for re-insurance on existing policies: participating in¬ 
surance at 4 per cent. Carlisle net premium; non-partici¬ 
pating at 5 per cent. Carlisle net premium .$68,807,642.00 
Additional amount of Reserve (transferred from Surplus account) 
required on account of new State Standard of valuation 
(Actuaries’ 4 per cent.), taking effect December 81,1887. 1,592.098.00—70,399,740.00 
Reserved for contingent liabilities to Tontine Dividend Fund, Jan¬ 
uary 1, 1887, over and above a 4 per cent. Reserve on exist¬ 
ing policies of that class . 4.176,425 25 
Addition to the Fund during 1887. 1,783,602.54 
DEDUCT- 
Returned to Tontine policy-holders during the year on matured 
Tontines. 
$79,912,317.17 
$3,167,528.68 
$83,079,845,85 
$5,962,027.79 
646,306.96 
Balance of Tontine Fund January 1, 1888. $5,315,720.83 
Reserved for premiums paid In advance. 52,886.73 
$76,428,265.74 
Divisible Surplus ((’ompany’s new Standard).$6,6 51,580.11 
$83,079,845.85 
Surplus by the present New York State Standard, i. e., 4 per cent. Actual-. 
ies’(including the Tontine Fund).$11,840 7J3.UO 
From the undivided surplus as above, the Board of Trustees has declared a Reversionary dividend to 
participating policies In proportion to their contribution to surplus, available on settlement of next annual 
premium. 
Number ol‘ policies issued during the yenr, 28,522. Bisks assumed, $106,749,295. 
Total number of policies in force Dec. 31,1887, 11 3,323. Amount ol risk, $358,935,536. 
WM. H APPLETON, 
WILLIAM H. BEERS, 
WILLIAM A. BOOTH, 
HON. BENJ. H. BRISTOW, 
HENRY BOWERS, 
THUS 
JOHN CLAFLIY, 
ROBERT B. COLLINS, 
ALEX. STU DWELL, 
ELIAS S. HIGGINS, 
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C. C. BALDWIN, 
JOHN N. STEARNS, 
WM. L. STRONG, 
W. F. BUCKLEY, 
HENRY TUCK, 
A. H. WELCH, 
L. L. WHITE. 
THEODORE 2VX BAN1A, 
Cashier, 
A. HUNTINGTON, 3VE D. 
Medical Director. 
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HENRY TUCK, Vice-President. 
ARCHIBALD H. WELCH, 2d Vice- 
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