Show EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY Era of Insurance Activity Shown by New York Life Company lew York Fob11 Fiftythroe million mil-lion dollars of new insurance policies In the first six weeksof the year IB the astonishing highwater record announced an-nounced by one of the foremost life Insurance In-surance companies The announcement was made yesterday on the occasion of thecelebration of the ienth anniversary anniver-sary of the election of Hon John A McCall to the presldencyof the Now York Life Insurance company Insurance Insur-ance men and financiers admit that this Is one of the strongest Indications of the general prosperity of the counlfy that has been presented since the dawn of the new year President McCall Is being showered yIth telegrams and letters let-ters of consralulatlpn from officials and agents of the New York LIfo allover all-over tho land In his report made at the beginning of lhe year Mr McCr11 foreshadowed the era of Insurance activity now prevalent prev-alent lie Insisted that the old style < of management AvJilch Was disposed to quibble over the settlement of claims and which denied the right of the insured In-sured to loans and surtender values on demand must give way to more liberal ideas and also that an open record of all transactfons of tire year should be furnished onnunlly lo the Insured It was hardly anticipated however that the response jvvpukb be So spontaneous or of such dimensions Fiftythree million dollars Is more new business than many of the larger companies have hitherto been able lo write in Ito course of twelve nionlhs Should the present rate of new Insurance Insur-ance keep up for the year the New York Life will secure 300000000 In new paidfor policies a figure so far In advance ad-vance of anything hitherto achieved that there Is i no opportunity for comparison com-parison |