ATLAN PRINCIPAL STEAMSHIP ROUTES FROM NORTH AMERICA HIGHEST AND LOWEST CONTINENTAL ALTITUDES. In order to compare the elevations in the United States with those in foreign countries the followin list is given, but many of the figures must be considered as approximate only: LOWEST POINT. NAML 276 15, 782 1,290 1.50 Population of continental United States August 1, 1913, estimated at 97,478,000; circulation per capita, 834.44. RESOURCES AND LIABILITIES OF SAVINGS, STATE AND PRIVATE BANKS AND LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES FOR THE The 1,922 Savings Banks in the United States at the end of the fiscal year 1912 had resources and liabilities amounting to the grand total of PEOPLE OF NO DISTINCTIVE RACE The Basques in the western Pyrenees of France and Spain, about 60,000, probably descendants and remnants of the old Iberians; the Dravidians about 60 millions in Hindustan, and the Deccan, the presumed primitive race of India, with the Tribes Gondas, Kolapoors, Telugas, Tamils, etc.; the inhabitants of the Arctic regions of Asia and North America, the Kamtchadales, Yukagirs, Eskimo, Tchooktchees, Aleutians.; the Hottentots and Bushmen (Koraza, Gricqua, Namaqua, etc.) in southwest Africa; the Gipsies, a peculiar nomadic tribe scattered over the whole of Europe, west Asia and Africa. SUMMARY OF TRANSACTIONS OF THE POSTAL SAVINGS SYSTEM JAN. 1911-MAY 1913. [Source: Post Office Department.] May. 93 154,505 28,016 394,931 735.10 581.00 1,341.10 396,440.10 381,977.90 400 316,714 34,500 677,145 1,236.60 690.00 1,887.70 679,310.40 571,670.90 1,000 578,817 73,907 1,182,055 2,911.90 1,851.00 2,948.60 1,189,384.73 973,390.73 184,819 2,172,854 3,936.00 6,701.90 2,184,542.91 1,535,137.50 6,720.00 12,873.60 4,095,768.66 2,993,018.77 985,607 12,738,772 17,793.20 13,859.00 27,873.90 12,834,521.23 11,970,140.27 3,162,367 28,532,143 16,055.80 13,702.00 39,859.20 OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE. fwenty-nine marine insurance companies orting to the New York State Insurance artment had on January 1, 1913 assets $37,742,590, surplus of $17,634,538, and ums earned in preceding year $15,849,losses incurred $8,496,570, risks written policy holders $12,226,276,614. NOTABLE CONFLAGRATIONS IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY. From "The Insurance Year Book," reprinted by permission of The Spectator Company," New York and Chicago. Even before man began to congregate and build cities, there existed the danger of prairia and forest fires; but these, except in a minor way, were not especially destructive of other property. When cities had been built and many thousands of people came to be housed within a small area, the danger of fire and its capacity for doing harm to men and their property were greatly augmented; and as cities increased in size, the fire hazard and the accumulated values subject to destruction were both correspondingly multiplied. During the last four thousand years many cities have been swept by fire, some of them several times; and some have been practically obliterated. Below will be found a list, compiled from various sources, of some of the more important fires of history, comprising those most notable because of the values or lives destroyed, or for some peculiar reason: |