The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1867-11-23

company whose business is exclusively fire in.
surance The people of the West. who bavs
been so often deceived and swindled in this mat.
Ter OF insurance, will do well to note these fact.
ana give such company their patronage. We
nnd' IN looking over the early history of this
company, the first years business, Amounted 70
s4''4o'2o; this was the year of the last war with
England which unsettled the business of the
country, and hence now enterprises were not
very literally patronized, and the system of in.
surance was not fully developed. understood. or
appreciated In those days. But when VIC had de-
| monstrated our ability to conquer Old England.
and to survive without her assistance, American
institutions were looked upon with more favor,
and patronized in preference to those of England
When the "Old Hartford" unlured her banner
to the breeze, England was doing most of the in
surance business in the United States The wear
ending 1922 the total income Of the Company
was $40, 1Ol.6S ten years later, $50, 304 II; in
1912 it was $l3S,4125O; in 1852, 1894 80, .4s:
in 1853 was S517,946; in 1868 was $Go9. 0iO.9j:
the total from 1868 to 1867 was the enormous
amount of 81, 025 ,537O3. The total income since
the organization, s14, 2227, 6302l But this Com
pany was not organized solely nor mainly for the
purpose OF obtaining premiums-far from it.
But for the noble object of furnishing relief TO
1 sufferers by the ravages of fire What is it's re-
cord in this respect? Has it fulfilled its osten-
sible mission? Let the same record tell the
story. From 1910 to 1885 i, paid losses to the
amount OF S37l ,50S.90; from the latter period to
1906 1T paid S3316 $685. to 1853 paid 81 ,237,-
| 1880, and to 1868 it paid S1,7O5, 6040l; and
from that period to June 3d. 1867, it paid ST.
lo6 21.5s-making the grand total of $3.50
| O99oO. Has it not been true to its purpose?
These figures answer the question These facts
demonstrate that investment, in every sense, in
this Company is good and safe one. To advise
one to insure in it after this exhibit is not giving
him credit for possession of good, practical BUSH
ness sense 1t isl rare opportunity-a pirilege.
This is not New England Company alone
1t extends its operations to all parts of the coun-
try. Its agents are found in almost every city,
village and hamlet in the land from whom duly
authorized policies may be had. We seldom
hear of a great fire in which this Company is not
its losses, and, Phpnix.like, arose from the ashes
of the great New York fire in 1S35-later, in
Troy, Portland, &c. Its business is managed
with such caution aud prudence that its stability
cannot be shaken.
Our readers are specially interested in the
general
WESTERN DEPARTMENT,
under the management of Geo. f Bissell Esq.,
of which we wish to add word The ideas of
permanence ard stability which characterize all
Of the enterprise OF this institution were we'll IL
lnstrated in 1884, -hv the Company directed
Mr.. Bissell to purchase lot and erect a suitable
office in this city for the accommodation Of its
growing Western interests. Any one visiting
the elegant structure belonging to this Company,
st 40 Ii Sale street, Chicago will be impressed
with the evidences Of the life and vigor which
fills its local and Western Department offices.
| Here may be seen, in its system of business, all
of the features generally pertaining to thorough
ly organized insurance company, with = large
and extended business. Western agencies arc
opened and equipped from this Office, the bust.
ness reported by them examined and audited;
all Western losses are adjusted and paid here.
avoiding the delay incident to their being reforr-
ed to a distant ofice--no small convenience to
the Western insuling public. More than sir
kindred agents Of the Company, in arteen West
ern States and Territories, transact all Of their
business through this Office, which thus becomes
ayeritable WESTERN INSTITUTION, aRordiny its
patrons all the advantages Of a local organize
ton. backed up with the solid wealth and ripe
experience of the ablest Of Hartford's under.
writing capitalists. Mr. Bissell is an experience.
ed and accomplished underwater, and We com.
mend those seeking insurance in safe and
thoroughly responsible Company, to him and
the "Old Hartford"
For policies in the old Hartford" apply to
WIN 8. EASTON.
! The emily Agent for Ottawa and vicinity
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