CASUALTY AND SURETY INSURANCE

BUSINESS IN 1911.

The business of Companies doing a miscellaneous insurance business in the United States during the year 1911 was divided as follows: Automobile business, $2,676,767 received from premiums, $1,129,193 paid for losses; burglary, $2.850,344 received from premiums, $1,110,978 paid for losses; credit, $1,752,582 received from premiums, $1,056,133 paid for losses; fidelity and surety, $16,958,051 received from premiums, $4,980,430 paid for losses; health, $7,101,666 received from premiums, $3,314,301 paid for losses; liability, $35,201,753 received from premiums, $20,341,029 paid for losses; personal accident, $27,351,626 received from premiums, $11,837,347 paid for losses; plate glass, $3,960,546 received from premiums, $1,714,236 paid for losses; steam boiler. $2,246,225 received from premiums, $282,338 paid for losses; sprinkler business, $178,016 received from premiums, $73,438 paid for losses; flywheel, $184,514 received from premiums, $75,704 paid for losses; live stock, $572,564 received from premiums, $267,315 paid for losses; workmen's collective, $711,726 received from premiums, $306,433 paid for losses. Courtesy Spectator Ins. Year Book.

The first fire insurance company in the United States was established in Boston, Mass. by the Sun Insurance Company (English) in 1728. The first fire insurance policy was issued in Hartford, Conn., 1794. First accident insurance company established at Hartford, Conn., 1863.

From the Report of the Director of the Mint.

GOLD AND SILVER CURRENCY AND

TOTAL MONEY IN THE TREASURY
AND IN CIRCULATION.

At the close of the fiscal year 1911 the gold in the United States was divided as follows: Coin and bullion in the Treasury $233,533,255, and in circulation $589,295,538; and certificates in circulation $930,367,929. Thus the total amount of gold in the United States was $1,753,196,722.

The silver of the United States, for the same year, was divided as follows: Standard dollars in the Treasury $39,043,622, and in circulation $72,446,049; certificates in circulation $453,543,696; and subsidiary coin in the Treasury $21,185,641, and in circulation $138,421,723. Thus the number of standard dollars and of certificates in circulation amounted to $565,033,367, and the amount of subsidiary coin to $159,607,364.

AGGREGATE SAVINGS DEPOSITS OF

SAVINGS BANKS, NUMBER OF DE-
POSITORS, AND AVERAGE AMOUNT
DUE TO EACH DEPOSITOR: YEAR
ENDED JUNE 30, 1911.

At the end of the fiscal year 1911 there were 1,884 Savings Banks in the United States [This includes only mutual and stock savings banks transacting chiefly a savings bank business] and they had depositors to the number of 9,597,185. The total amount of the deposits for that year was $4,212,583,598.53 or an average deposit to each depositor of $438.93.

the Treasurer of the United States, amounting to $34,338,503.18. This statement of money held in the Treasury as assets of the Government does not include deposits of public money in national-bank depositaries to the credit of

A revised estimate by the Director of the Mint of the stock of gold coin was adopted in the statement for Aug. 1, 1907. There was a reduction of $135,000,000.
account of money held as assets of the Government.
For redemption of outstanding certificates an exact equivalent in amount of the appropriate kinds of money is held in the Treasury, and is not included in the
$9,700,000.
A revised estimate by the Director of the Mint of the stock of subsidiary silver coin was adopted in the statement of Sept. 1, 1910. There was a reduction of
• Includes $33,190,000 currency certificates, act June 8, 1872.

July 1.

RESOURCES AND LIABILITIES OF SAVINGS, STATE AND PRIVATE BANKS AND LOAN AND TRUST COMPANIES FOR THE
YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1911.

$4,652,313,302.62.
The 1,884 Savings Banks in the United States at the end of the fiscal year 1911 had resources and liabilities amounting to the grand total of
For the same period the 12,843 State Banks had resources and liabilities amounting to $3,747,786,296.35; the 1,116 Private
Banks for that year had resources and liabilities to the amount of $182,824,220.68; and the 1,251 Loan and Trust Companies had total liabilities
and resources amounting to $4,665,110,868.71.

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 (Korana, 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 IN 1911: BY MONTHS. [Source: Post Office Department.]