New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 6, 1918, Page 10

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1918 68th Annual Statement AETNA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY AND AFFILIATED COMPANIES . Aetna Casuaity & Surety Co. Automobile Insurance Co. OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT. MORGAN G. BULKELEY, President g true Aspirm Only One Beware-of Substitutes N The. sole makers of gen- uine Aspirin brand every package and every tablet with-the Bayer Cross, Aetna Life Insurance Company Capital Stock $5,000,060 Life, Accident, Health, Liabifity and Workmen’s Compensation Insurance JANUARY 1, 1918, “The Dayer Cross— LIABILITIES Home Office Building . . A . and Term e an [Acquired by Foreclosure Supply Department .. Cash on hand and in banks . . 6,773,455.85 Stocks and Bonds . . .. 47,508,459.51 Mortgages secured by Real Estats 61,990,138.56 SN s _ i3 Loans on Collateral ... e . .o 982,619.00 Loans secured by Policies of this Company - 12,091,876.24 Interest due and accrued December 31, 1917 2,803,460.09 Due from Re-Insurance Companies and others 31,340.08 Premiums in course of collection and deferred pre- miums K [P 4,207,449.36 Amortized value of Bonds and Mark alue of Stocks over Book Value, le not ad- mitted $ 1,000,000.00 ,616700 ,009.00 ,179.31 2,009.76 08.19 Reserve on Life, Endowment Additional Reserve, not included Premiums Paid in advance, and other Liabilities .. Unearned interest on Policy Taxes falling due in 1918 Reserve for speclal clas Policyholders Policies . . above 122,600.85 Loans Your Guarantee of Parity” of Policies and Dividends to able in 1018 Losses and claims awaiting proof Unearned Premiums on Accident, ,339.26 was becoming morose and sullen, i owing to the position I was in; no letters, no news of any kind, no friends, in a strange land of peo- ple Who talk a language I know nothing of. Then again, the ex- citement of the thrilling capture leaving me, different experiences in_different camps, ete. Your letter to me and my name on'the envelope—gee whiz! Just think, I had almost forgot- ten I had a name. Now I am sure. It was number 10 here and number 10 there. I took the letter out forty times that day to look at my name, and believe me, I was not the only onme. At work that day I would see a fel- low stop, turn his back, look around to see if any one was looking, and then take out the letter and look at the envelope. and not due Heaith yet and Liabil 206,803.28 968,461-83 29,172.06 ity Insurance . Reserve for Liability claims 4 Surplus to Policyholders amortized ba d his Seph Pot-war No.\ 3, first lette ristian associd Bn from the steamer § held at Gustrow, Phis letter he says: the surprise, the par- are inadequate in trying my gratitude. Robinson de must have been lonesome untit he met man Friday. I don’t think he had anything on ine until I \got your letter, and that letter and Also other letters I expect from you will be my man Fridav. “I am feeling good, experiencing no ill health, thank God. You say for me to state what I need. I need 3,073,045.37 18 Total Liabilities $140,584,444.91 Total Assets $140,584,444.91 Increase in Premium Income 5 £ 85025 Increase in Assets Increase in Life Insurance Payments to Policyholder >ayments for Taxes durin, New Life Insurance Issued in 1917 > 4 Life Insurance FPaid in 1917 ($185 68) and in Process of Collection ( 8,110,194.00) 1918 anization 6,768,123.05 $202,664, 9,285,820.41 105,370,625-64 19,875,699.75 1,244,866.08 # 3,817.781-68 572,916,282.45 318,710,609.48 1917 . in CHEM ian AsSSO S m northé J turned from COf his headquarters, bringing letters frol 'i these men. In addition, he brought with him the report of the work of last year. Pleads For Supplies. From another source one letter which tells of the German prison ra- Life Insurance in Force, Jan. 1, Paid Policyholders since ¢ in 1850 Total inceme in 1917, Aetna Life Insurance Company and Affiliated Companies $53,888,379.70 tions half pound of bread a day and two plates of weak soup a day— has reached this count The writer pleads that supplies be sent, and says that the Germans forward them as rapidly and safely as possible, as the men grow too weak for work on pris- on fare alone. For more than three years the Asso- ciation has been doing what it can to underwear, size 40, socks, bandker- chiefs, soap, towel, comb, sweater, outside shirt. “Thanking you for helping me.” Parcels the Mainstay of Life. Showing the spirit of the men and telling of the German prisoner-of- war rations, one writer, whose name is withheld for obvious reasons, man- aged to get his letter to this country They were all lke me. Wonder- ful what a letter will do. You want to know what T need. Well, here it is—socks, soap, underwear, size 38, towel, outside shirt and a sweater for the cold weather. Well, Mr. Wilson, T will close. Thanking you for now vour 11th Annual Statement Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. OF HARTFORD, CONN. 5th Amnual Statement Automobile Insurance Co. OF HARTFORD, CONN. interest in me, and hear from you soon. WILLIAM M. FITZGERALD. Asks for His Brother. In another letter Mr. Fitzgerald ks the Young Men's Christian Asso- iation to locate his brother, Joseph E. Fitzgerald, who was formerly a member of the crew of the fireboat “Willett”, foot of Bloomfield street. In this second letter he sa My reason for writing it to notify you of my present address, which will be permanent; that is, as long as I remain in Germany. I have been here since March 2 1917, having been March 10, 1917, in the lan Now, Mr. Wilson, there is something I wish you would do for me, and that is to try and lo- cate my brother. I have writ- ten and received no answer. I think he has moved away from the address he formerly had. but vou can locate him through the New York city fire department headquarters, 67th street, Third and Lexington avenues, New York city. He is a member of the department. Perhaps he has retired now, for when last I saw him he was a member nearly 10 vears, and he could retire at the end of the 20th year of active service on ¥ . Whether he retired or is ill a member, they have his present address. His name is Joseph E. Fitz- gerald; last assignment, to my knowledge, was the fireboat ‘“Willett”, foot of Bloomfield street. That was three years ago. Kindly let him know of my predicament. This will be a load off my mind. He must know. The rest I can bear as all Americans can who have red blood flowing in their veins.” First American Prisoner of War. Barnby Boyle, an old soldier and marine who went through the Sitting Bull cam ign, and served in the Spanish war without a scratch, met with misfortune when he turned sailor. He was captured by the Ger- mans and was the first official Amer- ican prisoner of war. He was known American prisoner of war No. 1. letter he say: Since my last writing I re- ved a parcel that was much appreciated. It gives a fellow new life and new hope to receive word of any kind from a friend on the outside world. This is not the first time that the Y. M. . A. has been a friend to me. During the Spanish-American war Mr Dean of the Portsmouth, Virgiria, Y. M. C. A. made life home-like to us marines at that time; also during the Sitting Bull campaign, when I was a memniber of the Cavalry, the Y. M. C. A. at South Dakota came to our rescue, and now here in Germany I find they are on the job. I hope you will have power to continue the good work. hoping to Capital Steck $2,000,600 JANUVARY 1, Capital Stock $2,000,000 JA make life ore endurable for the prisoners-of-war in the various camps | f scattered throughout rope and Asia. The number of prisoners is now estimated at 6,000,000, Since Amer has entered the war, the work h included a hundred or more Ameri- cans. Most of them were captured I submarine Some of them were tak: thout having it pass through of- al channels. After stating that the American Red Cross is sending weekly food parcels to the Americans in his camp, he says, in part: “At the present writing we aro all waiting patiently for the Red Cross parcels, but we have the Y. M. C. A. bacon and oatmeal to fall en to Germany before the and } back on, which is much appreciated, have been held there ever I assure you. Should we have to The American Youn wait three days more, why, then it's Association has the German half pound of bread a Worth of suppites in food and clothing | day—watery soup—twice a day to relieve the necessities of American Now we know that the British and Allied prisoners-of-war. Siirilar | Red Cross is sending the parcels ghipments will follow month by | regularly and we are quite sure that month the German postal officials are doing The what they can to let us have the prison parcels regularly possible, be- cause a man can do more work with sstian Association is splotch fair meal than with otherwise, but color as they tell of their |lack facilities, such as men, etc., discouragement and of | delay these par very often; too for the folks at | often, in fact, to satisfyy our peace of mind. “The daily enought to unba besides waiting 1918, ARY 1, 1918. ASSETS | LIABILITI ASSETS LIABILITIES Cash on Hand and in Banks Stocks and Premium Reserve $ 3,146,106.22 Cash on Hand and in Premium Reserve ..... $1,914,657 bonds secured |Losses in proc Losses in process of Ad- Adjustment Stocks and Bon Mortgages Real Loans Collateral .. Interest Due and Ac- crued Dec. 31, 1917 .. Agents’ Due from Re-Insurance Companies Paid Losses ...... 5 89,659.43 Other Assets .... o 18,431.81 Gross Assets ........ $7,298,029.85 Son B SR Less Special Deposits and Assets not Ad- mitted by Insurance Departments 1,986,848, 1s war justment Loans on Collateral 586,815 secured Interest due and Ac- crued Dec. 31, 1917 Premiums in Course of Collection S Equity in Funds of N » Y. Excise Re-Insur- captured ance Association mid-At- Due from Re-Insur- ance Companies on Paid Losses and Sal- vage Recoverable Other Assets 5 Commission Reserve on Estate 426,100.00 xes Falling 683,175.00 S0s Premiums in course 97,162.9 on of Collection Falling Due 64,454.60 |Funds Held under Re- 240,950. Balances 1,102,689.30 | Insurance Treaties Al »r Liabilities 53 All other Liab drab picture of life in the other iabilities 141,537, camp as drawn by the prisor letters to the Young on Total $ 5,839,165, Total $3,086,345.45 ed with of 30,921. fight against their anxious thought home. Surplus to Policyhold- Surplus to Policyhold- Gross Assets .. & 0,466.01 Less Special Deposits and Assets not Ad- mitted by Insurance Departments | Capital $2,000,000.00 Capital $2,000,000.00 routine of the day 1s ance any one’s mind | for parcels. The parcels are the mainstay of our life. We know we are prisoners-of-war and the game Americanism within us has arrested itself more than once here. “We are men who look facts straight in the face unuinchingly, so do not think we complain. We do not know what the word complain means. That word is not in the dic- tionary we men handle.” The Most Human Letter of AlL Probably the most human letter of the batch is one from a wife Who lives in HEast Boston, Massachusetts, to her husband in a prison camp in Germany. He asked the Young Men Christian association to find out why she did not write. Here is what she wrote and what he forwarded to Mr. Wilson “I have been writing to you since May and can not understand Wwhy ou d@id not receive at least one of the letters. The letters must be held wp somewhere. T hope you will re- ceive one of them, at least, this one for tuck. “If you have not received the let- ters I sent before, I will have 1o tell you agzain that a beautiful baby davghter was born to us April 26th, 1917. I had her baptized the name of Mary. I had her pose for her ure especially to send you . I n't suppose you have received that her. Mary is a beautiful baby. T could ite a book about all the cute things she does, 1 can you be- lNeve, Tom, she is sitting up by her- ~lf and wearing soft shoes and only | mon old at present. h black hair and blue eye but I can see you over her n her smile hinks of His Mother. Thinking chiefly of his mother, Henry R. Hendren, a sixteen-year-old lad of Norfolk, Virginia, probably the voungest American held as a prisoner of war, writes to Mr. Wilson as fol- lows from Lubeck, Germany: “I was certainly glad to from you. I am in need of your assistance very much. 1 bave written to the British Red Cross several times for bread, but have not received a reply. “I wish you would kindly notify my mother of my whereabouts. 1 have written to her several times, but have not received a reply. The address is 210 Maple Avenue, Norfolk, Virginia. “I saw in one of my mates’ let- ters that you were from Char- lotte, N. C. I am from Virginia. I would like to correspond with you, as it is lonely here not re- ceiving any mail and others r ceive letters “I am sixteen years old. It seems very young to be a prison- ar-of-war but it was not my fault. 1 was a member of the Young Men's Christian Association in Norfolk, Surplus ,883.02 Surplus 2,180,193.36 4,180,193.36 31,491.04 Assets $7,26 Total Admitted Assets $10,695,048.53 .. $10,695,048.53 Total Admitted Increase in Premium Income. . Increase in Assets Increase in Surplus to Polic $3,208,630.18 Increase Increase Increase in Premium Income. in Assets in Surplus to Pol hear 558,188.64 hotders vholders Automobile Combination Policy Covering Liability, Fire, Theft, Transportation, Collision, Property Damage and Loss of Use. erty Damage for Teams and for Elevators. Plate Glass, Burglary, Flywheel, Sprinkler 1 Postal and Baggage Combination Res NC MARINE INSURANCE Liability and Propg kage, Water Damage, idence Insurance. NERAL FIRE INSUF FIDELITY AND SURETY BONDS. LIFE DEPARTMENT C. E. Shepard, Manager, 18 Asylum St., Hartford ACCIDENT & HEALTH DEPARTMENT Arthur G. Hinkley, Manager for Conn., 39 Pearl Street, Hartford. The Home Banking & Realty Co.. Agents, New Brita LIABILITY AND OTHER LINES 9 Pearl Street, Hartford. Charles H. Gillin, Agent, New Britain. Robert C. Knox, General Agent, The Home Banking & Realty Co., , New Brita John § “I received the food parcel you of tho | 1t me in good condition and I neraldas, | am very thankful for it and hope you will send me parcels regular- ly, as I am not getting parcels from any other source. I shall be very thankful to you If you will please write my mother, whose address is Mrs. Bettie Reynolds, 236 Wabash Avenue, Wichita, Kansas, U A. “I did not get one of ‘your reg- ular cards. However, I am writing a letter just the same. I would like very much a lLittle soap, please.” In explaining the work of his de- partment Mr. Wilson said: 1 am enclosing a letter from Mr. John T. Sawyer, who was one of the American prisoners-of-war on the i picture which I gave you. This letter | will explain in detail regarding the two pictures sent you. You will note that the three men on the one picture are as follows: John T. Sawyer, of Dubuque, Towa; Walter Mayes of New | York, and Raoul Broulouis, of Con- necticut. These men were all cap- | tured on the steamship ‘Esmeraldas. This steamer was captured in mid- ocean on March 10, 1917, and the Americans on board reached Germany jon March 22, 1917. They were first interned at Gustrow in Mecklenberg and have been transferred from time to time to various camps. When I left Copenhagen most of the men were either at Brandenburg on Havel or at Lubeck. “As soon as I learned that these American prisoners were in Gern:any I sent a letter to each of them, tell- up of the camp at Gustrow, Miller, who was a member crew of the steamship I writes: I received your most welcome letter and was glad to hear from you. I received the parced vou sent me, and I thank you forit. I wish you would send me the following necessities if possible: socks, underwear, siz 36, hand- kerchiefs, soap, towel and out- side shirt. You asked me about a com- plete list of Americans in this camp. All the Americans in this camp received letters from you dated May 29th, so you can go by that. The names of all you wrote to on that date are all that's here. We have nearly mostly British, vice as they might need if they wouid inform us regarding their necds. [ also stated that we would be glad to communicate with their relatives. “The parcels which we sent usur ed of about the s: Two pounds of bread, pounds of meat, a pound of cheese, tin of condensed milk, a packaze of cocoa or coffee and a package of oat- meal. We sent them these parcels from week to week until the American | Red Cro with headquarte at Berne, Switzerland, took over the work. ed same them their back o them. A large number of requested that I write to parents and have letters went to them from their relatives through our office at Copenhagen. following I wrote to all of their parents and relatives, and a week or two hefore I left Copenhagen replies were re- ceived from most of these, which re- plies were forwarded on to the the prison camps “In brief, which we ply them men in therefore, the rendered them were good whol { auate clothing, serve f “Most of the men wrote asking for | exchange for some articles of clothing. 1 pur-|ters between chased as many of these as could be nd above all, secured in Copenhagen, and forward- ' the hour servives to sup- food, ade- medium of of let- itives to them in some four the transmission 1 their iend has myself, all them a re be | out anc neec | lient I | an s a head shaved like yours inds are the very shape of She even has a liftle crooked you ave on your left foot. vou would be wild about her | could only see the dear— | such a comfort to me. I iove nd kiss her for you.” In my last letter I told you of Name on an Enveiope—Gee some things needed. Since then Whiz! I found, owing to the kind of letter to me and my name | work we follow hore, that rain- —gec whiz!” writes | coats are much needed. Not the Fitzzerald, American pris- | fine kind, but coarse working mer No. 10, held at Gustrow, Ger-| ones. In the other fellows' let- many. Tle s ters you stated for them to send Some time ago T their sizes. Now if you can send Jetter and no doubt t wer is raincoats my size is 40. I had on the way. Since then T o suit case sent me through the received a parcel from you. Tt ‘Adams Fxpress to Camden, New was a good sound sensible ann Jersey. Will you write to them that, and I appreciated it ry and < them to hold it until I much. After that bacon in the can make arrangements with morning I go out to work feeling some of my friends to get it for fit and in a cheerful mood. me? Your letter came to me at a I will now close, time when T was well in the hear from you. as they say. I am of a A Cosmopolitan Crowd. mood a rule, but I Telling of the cosmopolitan make- he h her vours. ke ow vou 300 men here, several Portu- Spanish, Hollanders, and Every American re- ceived his letter from you dated May 29, nearly all of them re- ceived their parcels. Those that did not will get theirs almost any day now. So you have the com- plete list if you look over the names you had at first. If you at any time reccived letters from men with names that are not on your first and originai list, then they are not Americans, but some other nationality trying to ring in. I will now close, thanking you for the interest displayed and hoping vou are in good health. Would Like a Little Soap, Please. Another man who asks that Hhis mother’s fears be set at rest is Walter W. Perkins, of Wichita, Kansas, held at Brandenburg, a. d. Havel, Germar He writes: | toe When Tired and Nervous If the end of the day finds you weary or irri- table,with aching headand frayed nerves,you need something to tone and strengthen the system. BEEGHAM'S PILLS are a remedy which quickly helps in restoring normal conditions. They acton the stomach, liver anc% bowels, Cuticura Soap Is My Ideal| envelope M for preserving, purify- ing 2nd beautify The Complexion Hands and Hair | | | Especially when preced- \ wrote vi an 1t and so renew the strength, and steady th A few doses of these world-famed far?flly (;)irlllgr\\;v%?i it (| Bring Welcome Relief Directions of Special Value to Wome: with E: B capture, that we were sending ther i b e e S | Eals o f o e Sold by druggists throughout the world. In boxes, 10c., 25¢. to continue to render them such ser- edy tonchesof Cuticura ment to pimples, , roughness and dandruff. hoping to dumps, cheerful