The New York herald., 1871-10-13
MORE RELIEF COlIlNG.
Highly Important Meetings Of the Insurance
Companies, the Chamber Of Commerce,
the Bank Officers, the Methodist
Ministers and Offers

tives OF several insurance companies held yes
terday, at IOon In the board room or the Equitable
Insurance Company, for the purpose ol devisng
for the speedy relief OF the sufferers in Chi
cago. There were present w. &. Alexander, Presi-
dent OF the Equitable Lie Insurance Company;
John u. De Witt, United States Life Insurance Com
pany; Sidney Athmore, j. O. Hoyt, Republic Life
Insurance Company, Chicago; y. r. Beckman Mer-
chants Insurance Company; William Walker,
Universal Life Insurance Company; Il. A. Jones,
National Insurance COMPANY; Phny freeman,
Globe Insurance Company; +. Shonnard,
American Popular Insurance Company; A.
w. Morgan, Mutual Protection Insurance
Company; H. Wesendonck, Gcrmania Life
Insurance Company; X. L. Case, security Life In.
surance Company; Il. c. Fisher Anchor Lrc Insur-
ancc Company; Q. w. lsouck. Brooklyn Lie lnsur
nnce Company; D. d. r. Marshal homeopathic
Life Insurance Company; G. G. North, Asb1ry Lie
Insurance Company; G. Waliord, security Life In
surance Company; w. u. Brewer, Washington Life
Insurance Company; T. A. Lambert. Craftsmems
Life Insurance Company; N. d. Morgan. North
American Life Insurance Company, and others.
Mr.. Alexander said, as the hour had now arrived
for the meeting, the first step to be taken was to
| lect Chairman to conduct the deliberations, and
| he therefore nominated Mr.. Maurice Franklin, OF
\ the New York Life Insurance Company, TO the Of.
| fee, and Mr.. John re Witt, Of the United States
/
! moved that Mi. r. L. Kennedy, President of the
Bank OF Commerce. be appointed Treasurer.
1 The CHAIRMAN sail:--It IL hardly necessary for
me TO say one word calculated to excite your feel
| ings or to control your judgment in reference
to the action which has called you together; for
we ali know and we painfully realize that the
Queen City OF the West Is now q smouiderIne ruin.
les fairest portion has been destroyed, and
thousands and thousands Of its citizens have been
hunger and disease while many OF them have
found refuge in death. We are now called upon to
pe as an aes an,enS
q helping hand TO them IN the hour Of
their ore necessity and out OF our abundance TO
deal them scanty Dlttance to save them FROM utter
misery desrtuton and woc We are the represen
tallves OF great nourtsning money institute ons, and
Il becomes Us as the guardians or the widows and
or phans to do something for those who have thus
been suddenly deprived or the necessares and COM
forts OF life. need not therefore detain you with
any further observations upon the subject. pray
God, III the plcniitude Of His mercy, that He may
temper the wind for the snorn lambs. and that IN
ills own good Judgment ne may restore them to
comparative wealth ana prosperity. tApplause.)
the action OF this meeting to some sort OF system
and to elicit the opinions OF those present, beg
viii say 70 the gentlemen asscuDlcd tnat it IS
hardly necessary for me to add one word TO the
this, that in view OF the calamity which has be-
fallen ine city my sympathes are not 50 mucn eX-
cited for those VINO had wealth and who may have
been reduced to temporary poverty for the thou
sands Of families women and children who have
suffered by this terrible and desolatng afiicton,
which, by the providence OF God, has been sent upon
them, and therefore move the following res0-
lntions:--
we e e =, OF OF Gss p c ., az ~
and G to according 9 their
prosperity and Of life companies depend
such should do ali hat within them ss 10 ad ~
in.urns resoraton Of such well being when impaired.
ceys contributions oevs: mchods their proper dsr
The resolutions, having been duly seconded, were
passed unanimously
Tne following committee was then appointed. tho
nine:-N. u. morgan, II. h Hyde, NJ; Franklin, T.
9. Fisher, Pnny Freeman J. H. Bewsy Z. W.
Bouck, f. A. Jones, ). Q. Hoyt
Mr.. HORT inilrnaled that number OF gentlemen
had suggested tnat. as many OF the agents AMI SO.
lictors or insurance companies had lost their homes
and their all by the calamity and were left In very
destitute circumstances, II would DO wise to take
: MIR, N ID. MORGAN informed the meeting that at |
9 reg nlar meeting Of The North =, American Life
erencc to this calamity, voting that all policy |
holders who might be sufferers by INC fre should |
che Ss seeuy Oas es
also made an appropriation OF $1,000, TO be dis
troYted as the Finance Committee might see ~. !
leaving the door oDen for the committee 10 decide |
whether IL would be distributed among needy policy
holders or the needy solicitors and agents Of the
ne Somss might ps By
tns NV wlHiS HoT gg9 q I Hs MSsy ae.nacn
stating that as the building OF the Republic Life
Insuraf CO Company OF Chicago mad been burned |
arrangements had been made for the rebuilding oft
at once In Cleveland.
The committee then retired to deliberate upon
what steps shouldsbc taken and returned with the
following reporL:--rhe committee would recon-
mend :hat subscription books be Immediately
opened contributions for the relief Of the suffer-
ers By the late 1re In Chicago second, that the
money subscribed be used through the treasurer for
the purpose rst to relieve the suiierlngs OF life IN
surance agents and solicitors, and the balance, II
any, would be applied for general relief purposes.
The report was unanimously adopted.
The CHAIRMAN read letter from MIR. Lyman Pre-
sldent OF the Brooklyn IAIe Insurance Company,
containing an acknowledgement from the Mayor OF
Chicago that he had received an order for 81, 500
from the company.
rue powers Of the committee having been fully
defined the meeting adjourned.
THE Chamber Of Commerce.
The members OF the sub committee OF the Cham-