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298 THE CRISIS added, bringing the membership up to 1,752. ¶ Bridge Street A.M.E. Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., has celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. Bishop Coppin participated in the celebration. The Rev. Mr. W. Spencer Carpenter is the pastor. ¶ Shiloh Baptist Church in New York City, has bought property near 131st Street and Seventh Avenue, 25 x 75 feet, at a cost of $24,000. ¶ Thirty bishops of the three colored Methodist churches, who recently met in Louisville, issued an address to the country touching the migration to the North and especially asking for better schools in the South. They pledged the help of their 2,000,000 constituents in the war and favored national prohibition. ¶ The joint commission for the unification of the Methodist Church and the Methodist Church South, which met in Savannah, adopted the following plan of union: One general conference, a court of appeal, six or more regional conferences based on geographical divisions, and five or more central conferences based on racial lines. The regional and central conferences elect their own bishops, if they have 250,000 members or more, and are represented in the general conference. It is proposed, however, that the Negro central conference shall have only limited representation and that on reaching a certain membership (600,000) it shall "automatically" become a "jurisdictional conference," with either no representation at all in the general church or a very limited representation. In order to further work out this plan the commission will reconvene in St. Louis, April 10. It is to be noted that in the photograph of the fifty or more members of the commission taken at Savannah, both the colored delegates were invited to be absent. PERSONAL BYRON ALEXANDER has been appointed to West Point by Congressman Gard, as a result of a competitive examination with twenty-one applicants in Dayton, Ohio. He is a graduate of Steven's High School and is seventeen years of age. He will report June 14. ¶ William H. Bishop, of Baltimore, Md., is dead. He was sixty-six years old and had served in the internal revenue office for [[image]] [[caption]] BYRON ALEXANDER [[/caption]] thirty-five years as head of the Income Tax Division. ¶ W. M. McDonald, Jr., a student of Howard University, and only son of W. M. McDonald, a well-known resident of Fort Worth, Tex., is dead at the age of nineteen. ¶ Richard A. Hudlin, assistant editor of the St. Louis Clarion and for several years a reporter on the Globe Democrat, is dead. He was fifty-nine years old. Pres. McKinley appointed him Postmaster at Clayton. ¶ Bartow F. Powell, who owned 10,000 acres of land in Albany, Ga., and employed 500 workers, is dead. ¶ W. G. Madison of Ames, Iowa, has been given the plumbing and heating contract for the County Home to be erected at Boone. His bid, $20,870.30, was the lowest of the competitors. ¶ W. Bruce Evans, former principal of the Armstrong Manual Training School, is dead at Washington D.C. ¶ Mrs. Belle Smith, wife of R. L. Smith, of Waco, Tex., a well-known citizen, is dead. ¶ Carter N. Brown, a colored lieutenant in the National Army, was given military honors by white soldiers at Mobile, Ala., on the occasion of his burial. ¶ The marriage of Annie Mae Vann to Sergeant Horace Poindexter at Winton, S. C., has been announced. Mrs. Poindexter (Continued on page 300.) THE CRISIS ADVERTISER 299 [[box]] [[Image]] STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Standard Life Insurance Company 200 Auburn Avenue Atlanta, Ga. Old Line (Not Fraternal—Nor Assessment) Legal Reserve Fifth Annual Statement To the Policyholders and Public Insurance in Force $5,174,491.00 Gain for 1917 $1,844,491.00 Total Income 203,266.10 (Premium and Interest) Gain for 1917 82,198.10 Admitted Assets 334,222.33 Gain for 1917 89,052.20 Policy Reserve and Other Liabilities 186,028.08 Gain for 1917 64,742.08 Surplus to Policyholders 148,194.25 Gain for 1917 24,310.25 Comparative Statement [[8 column table]] Year. | Number Policies In Force. | Insurance in Force. | Premium Income. | Death Losses. | Legal Reserve. | Admitted Assets. | Surplus to Policyholders. 1913 | 481 | $381,500 | $10,293.68 | None | $7,639.00 | $116,701.90 | $104,198.00 1914 | 1,622 | 1,205,000 | 37,329.92 | $2,625,00 | 22,545.61 | 131,248.48 | 106,730.00 1915 | 2,580 | 1,944,910 | 71,664.65 | 11,222.00 | 51,779.46 | 159,152.61 | 194,585.00 1916 | 4,069 | 3,330 000 | 114,794.08 | 19,012.91 | 119,353.67 | 245,170.13 | 123,884.00 1917 | 6,172 | 5,174,491 | 193,966.35 | 32,760.40 | 181,078.43 | 334,222.33 | 148,194.25 [[/8 column table]] The Company that gives to the race PROTECTION—INVESTMENT—EMPLOYMENT. STANDARD LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY Home Office ATLANTA, GEORGIA [[/box]] Mention THE CRISIS.
