Deposits received subject to check payable through the New York Clearing House INTEREST ALLOWED ON BALANCES Higher rates of interest allowed on Certificates of Deposit payable on demand or upon specified dates. 177-179 MONTAGUE STREET Statement made to Banking Department, June 29th, 1901, shows GAPITAL invested in United States Government Bonds, $1,000,000 UNDIVIDED PROFITS exceed 1,800,000 Assumes Trusts under agreements revocable at pleasure, securing investors freedom from care and risk in making investments and affording other distinct advantages. Our Trust Department is organized with special facilities for the management of Trusts and Estates. Acts as Trustee, Executor, Administrator, Guardian or Committee. THEODORE F. MILLER. President FRANKLIN TRUST COMPANY MONTAGUE, COR. CLINTON ST., BROOKLYN Allows interest on deposits subject to check. Checks on this Company paid through the New York Clearing House. Issues certificates of deposits bearing interest. Authorized by law to act as Executor, Administrator, Trustee, Guardian, Committee, or Agent, and to execute financial Trusts of every description. Information furnished to those seeking investments. Wills receipted for and safely kept without charge, in our fire and burglar-proof vaults. A registry made of their deposit and delivery made in strict accordance with instructions. If you have not made a WILL, or if you desire to make changes in your present will, this Company offers its services as EXECUTOR and also as TRUSTEE. Large, well-lighted, thoroughly ventilated OFFICES TO RENT, at moderate prices, in this absolutely fire-proof building. WM. H. WALLACE, GEO. M. OLCOTT, ROB'T B. WOODWARD, GEO. H. PRENTISS, GEO. H. SOUTHARD Williamsburgh City Fire Insurance Company Cor. Broadway & Kent Ave., E.D., & 148 Montague St., W.D., Brooklyn 150 BROADWAY, NEW YORK FRED'K H. WAY, Secretary W. H. BROWN, B. W. LYON, Ass't Secretaries MARSHALL S. DRIGGS, President Policies issued under provisions of the Safety Fund Law of the State of New York THE BROOKLYN EAGLE ALMANAC. VOLUME XVII. Tlish a record for trustworthiness. HIS is the seventeenth year of publication of the EAGLE ALMANAC, a sufficient time in which to estabThe first number of the EAGLE ALMANAC, published in 1886, was a book one-third the size of the present volume. Each year since, the ALMANAC has increased in size, in importance and prestige, until to-day it has become recognized not only in New York City but throughout the United States as a statistical annual second to none published in this country. The first volume was prepared with special reference to the then City of Brooklyn. The scope of the book every year has been enlarged until now it contains a record of every interest of importance of the entire City of New York, of Long Island and, in a general way, of the United States. The year 1901 has been a notable one in the history of the BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. This paper has not only maintained its place as the leading journal in its own locality but has extended its fields throughout all the boroughs of New York City and, in a marked degree, throughout the country. Its circulation was never larger, its advertising patronage was never greater, nor was its influence and reputation more extended than it is to-day. In December, 1901, the EAGLE opened its new Manhattan office in the World Building. It is regarded as one of the handsomest business offices in Manhattan. On December 13, 1901, the EAGLE announced the erection of a large addition to the EAGLE Building, work to begin next Spring. The EAGLE's Sixtieth Anniversary was celebrated on Thursday evening, October 24, 1901, by a reception held at the Pouch Mansion tendered by the owners of the paper to the people connected therewith. It was a notable event in newspaper circles. An anniversary souvenir was published on October 27th. Following its example of the World's Fair at Chicago, the EAGLE maintained a bureau in Buffalo for the special benefit of the visitors of the Pan-American Exposition. The office was at 233 Main street. The rooms were fitted up in a magnificent manner and every possible attention was shown to visitors. Bureau was very largely patronized and was thoroughly appreciated by New Yorkers. A special number of the EAGLE was published, giving the complete history of the Exposition, as was a special edition issued at Buffalo, on Brooklyn Day, October 9th. The Paris and Washington Bureaus were maintained as usual, The EAGLE Information Bureau continued during the year with its work of giving information with reference to hotels, boarding houses, travel, etc., and furnished data concerning educational institutions. It published a handsome book containing a list of all the summer resort hotels in the country, and also a book giving a complete list of educational institutions. In addition to these valuable publications it also issued a series of other complete and valuable guide books, one to Paris and the Pan-American Exposition, another to Washington, another to New York City, and one to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. These books were uniform in size, were illustrated, and were given out gratuitously. The Among the EAGLE publications for the year, in addition to those already noticed, were the EAGLE Index, a valuable reference book to the paper, and the following numbers of the EAGLE library: No. 49, The Proposed Charter of the City of New York;" No. 50, "American Communes;” No. 51, "Christian Science Claims, Un-Christian and Un-Scientific;" No. 52, "Studies in American Character;" No. 53, "The Tenement House Law;" No. 54, "The Revised Charter of New York City:" No. 55, "The PanAmerican Exposition:" No. 56, "Summer Resort Hotels," No. 57, The American Soldier;" No. 58, "Educational Institutions;" No. 59, "McKinley Memorial;" and No. 60. "Public Officials in New York State, City and Kings County." THE ART PRESERVATIVE. IN none of the arts is the advance of the beautifuzi more pronounced than in that of the art preservative of arts. And it is by a return to the past, idealizing the typography of the Fifteenth Century, that the highest form of the beautiful has been attained Within ten years the greatest changes for the better have been made. William Morris, of the noted Kelmscott Press, is quoted as saying in 1890 that no good book printing has been done since the middle of the Sixteenth Century, and that the degradation of the art had been largely due to mean types. He urged the use of better types, a tolerance of quaintness, and the revival of mediæval methods. The adverse criticism of 1890 does not hold good now. A revolution has taken place in ten years from the over-ornate to the attractive and restful in typography. America has not been behind in this regard. The Jenson type is, perhaps, the best-known illustration. Between Nicholas Jenson and the American Type Founders' Company stretch nearly 450 years. It was in 1458 that Jenson, an engraver of the Paris mint, was sent to Mainz, by Charles VII., King of France, to learn the new art of printing. He studied for three years, and returned to Paris. In 1471 Jenson printed four books in Venice. He remained in that romantic city to the end of his life, in 1481. It is said that he was not the first printer to make Roman types, but that he made them better than did his rivals In honor of this old typemaker the Jenson type of to-day is named. Like the French pioneer of the craft, the American type founders excel in their time in making the best faced type. On reflection, however, it seems strange that this handsome Roman letter, used in Venice in the Fifteenth Century, reached in the highest degree the necessary qualities of legibility and purity of line, and that the Twentieth Century can do no better than borrow its beauties for to-day's readers. From the inception of printing from movable types, the masters who have handed down the honorable calling have taken pride in their work like all true artists. Pierre-Simon Fournier, in his Manual Typographique, wrote: "Type-founding is not like other arts, in which imperfect workmanship may find a use proportionate to its relative value. Printing should tolerate nothing that is bad, nor even that which is mediocre, since it costs as much to found and print bad types as it does to found and print perfect ones." It is safe to say that the time will never come when the handicraft of the type-founder will be a lost art. The demand for the artistic in type, as well as in the other finer fancies of the age, is growing, and is being met by "the founders," by which appellation the printers of the entire country designate the American Type Founders' Company, embracing the best-known and oldest established concerns of a dozen cities. This Company is the originator of all the leading type designs, and has unequalled facilities for supplying everything required in printing offices. It has lately issued very attractive specimen books, which cover the widest range in type faces in both plain and original designs. Among the new faces are the Jenson Condensed, the Abbott, the Tiffany Text, Engravers' Italic, and Arlington Italic. Additional specimen sheets are constantly being issued from the office, corner of Rose and Duane streets, New York City, showing the new faces as soon as they are brought out for the public verdict. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS, 1902. Prepared for EAGLE ALMANAC BY BERLIN H. WRIGHT, PENN YAN, N. Y. ECLIPSES. There will be five Eclipses this year, three of the Sun and two of the Moon, as follows: I. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun April 8, visible around North Pole only. II. A Total Eclipse of the Moon April 22. The beginning is visible in Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa; the ending visible throughout Europe, Asia, and Africa. III. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun May 7, 'visible in the Southern Pacific Ocean. IV. A Total Eclipse of the Moon on the evening of October 16 and morning of the 17, visible generally throughout North and South America, Western Europe and Africa, and N. E. Asia. Visible in the United States as follows: Size of the Eclipse 17.6 digits, the Moon's apparent diameter being 12 digits. V. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun October 31, visible throughout most of Europe and Asia. CHURCH DAYS AND MOVABLE FEASTS. Solar Cycle.. Roman Indiction. .7 Jewish Year 5663 begins at sunset October 1. PLANETS BRIGHTEST OR BEST SEEN. MERCURY (), February 1 to 3, and September 25 to 30, setting shortly after the Sun, also March 11 to 15, and November 4 to 7, rising shortly before the Sun. VENUS (), January 5 and March 21. MARS (¿), not this year. JUPITER (2), August 5. SATURN (1), July 17. URANUS (), June 10. NEPTUNE ( ! ), December 24. EVENING STARS. MORNING STARS. MERCURY. February 18 to April 28, June 23 to August | MERCURY, from January 2 to Febru: ry 18, April 28 to 11, and October 18 to December 12. VENUS, from February 14 to November 28. URANUS, until March 12 and after December 14. Superior Planets West of Sun. 8, after March 29. 24, from January 15 to August 5. , from January 9 to July 17. H, until June 10 and after December 14. f, from June 23 to December 24. June 23, August 11 to October 19, and after VENUS, until February 14 and after November 28. Superior Planets East of Sun. &, until March 29. 24, until January 15 and after August 5. EMBER DAYS. Wednesday, Friday, Saturday after First Sunday in Lent, February 19, 21 and 22; Wednesday, Friday, THE SEASONS (EASTERN STANDARD TIME). SITUATION OF THE PLANETS EACH SUNDAY OF THE YEAR. Planet. Venus (?).. Mars (3). Jupiter (2) Saturn (5). Uranus (H). Jan. Feb. Mar. April. May. June. July. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. EXPLANATION-T Aries. - Taurus. II Gemini. Cancer. Leo. Virgo. Libra. Scorpio. ↑ Sagittarius. 45 Capricornus. Aquarius. Pisces. The place indicated for the Planet is for the first, second. third, fourth and fifth Sundays of each month in the order named, |