, 1874-10-04
INSURANCE.
General Serenity Prevailing
On I,aSalle Street
The -.Non-Board Companies Do
ing d Heavy Business.
Special Investigation pf New
York's Capacity for
Resisting Fires.
Fiiiy-nine Companies, Fifty-one
Engines, Twenty Hook
aud ladders, and
SIS Firemen.
The Location and Character OF
the Water-Mains and
Pipes.
One Hundred and Five Millions Of
Gallons OF Water Consum-
.. ed Daily.
The Dancers South OF Canal Street,
and Means for Resisting
Them,
The Location and Character of
the Water-Mains and
Pipes.
The Dancers South OF Canal Street,
and Means for Resisting
Them,
The St. Louis Globe on Sheridan's
Insurance Plan.

LaSa!le street is itself again The insurance
agencies abl>:nding on that thoroughfafa have
roco7ered from the excitement occasiored by
the Withdrawal of the National Board companies,
and everything Is going on again rs regularly ~
cicck-work. A. stated yesterday. nearly avery
agency II the city has retained two or more good
companies. and all OF them are doing now very
good business. In fact, they are doing bette1
business tnan they did before the National
Board Companies left the city. Ever since the
Increased tates were adopted By the local Board
last September insurance business in this city
h1s been at stand-stall, but few citizens being
willing to pay those e1orbtant rates.
The adoption of that tariff WAS actually
: withdrawal aud consequently when the
companies did Withdraw, it had 20 eIect What
ever. their action having previously been neu-
tralzed.
TIE Sos-EoARD COMPANIES
hare rs much business on hand as they can
possibly attend to. and they 6re still under
writing at the old rates. The Board companies
remaining heEear also sick Of the high rates
Rdorted las. September, and many Of them arc
row making their own rates. They claim that
they are no longer bound to abide By the decrees
OF the Board since the companies in whose favor
those rates we're made have Withdrawn. They
see 10 reason why they should not make the
brs, OF the present situation, nnd do all the
business they can, regardless Of the feelings OF
tic companies st present on strike.
THE UTMOST GOOD FEELING
prevailed IN insurance circlez Yesterday, and not
single insurance agent could be found who
felt discouraged in the lesat. They all vere
r1lan:Dous in their opinion that the action Of
the E1ecutl7e Committee had not the effect 1t
was expected to hare, and that the strikers
would be glad to come back again ere long. All
EXPRESSED themselves as confident that In short
time this city Eould be better protected against
fia than. any other city in the United States. not
execptilislNew York, and that the Withdrawing
ct,1Dpsnies would be glad to come back again,
bus that such companies as had heretofore been
afraid to do Iuanees in this city would establish
xgencies here. .;;':: -"
MOST or THE EASTERN INSURANCE MEN
who were in tia city daT be Gore yesterday left
lest evening for st: Louis TO nttsnd the meeting
OF Fire Engineers to be held in, that city. A
Tn1ETFH:reportcr conversed with seyenl of them
before tney left, asad they claimen thatthe &C.
tion Of tho Earionaf Board was not taken on ac-
count OF the lire of iJ3!y:14 as list swas
rather i blessing for TIE; better portion Of onr
city bat on account OF the fire. ut II: D.: Wells
Il Co.'s and Giles. Bwo- & Co.'S a@establtsb bHaehts.
Those 6res. they claiuL proved beEondsa doubt
tia. the Fire DeFRTtm cut, OF this city Wis !un-
disciplined. md OF DO acoOune Dor this teksun.
aIeo1gaazation =of tbs Fire Depantne ut:wea
tue nan thing leuuiral to bring bacE+he with
drawing conraa;es-:. It such; na:Rm nagement' a.
TINT e=hsnited.as toeao hres should: become ap-
p:rcut III other cita.s. the Satiobai Board would;
rrdouo-ealr. ..aiso ins'5s uponsa REORGANIZATION;
The meeting of 80 - So: ..-'; 81 :.
THE WESTERLY: INSURANCE 'AFs0u1IToN,: ~:
ileld ut the Grand Pacific Hotel during the last
TWO d1ye. has Adjourned. >Nothipg tof Interest
to .i,e outside public was tra ran~acteaa at tlese
1nce,ras:: r,er1 bers Of thfs Association are
the special and travelling agense ofEaatern Com
p.nics doing business IN tie ,'Vest and South:
Iilev meet every three or four month. seither:in
this city or.atLousslile; for The puIpose Of pav-
ing loye-fsastj.: This reasun the press Is eSt
cIuded from these; i,eetineH3 is' because s6mo 81
the SPECIAL agents :tone1in,ea criticiea rather
sharply. the aci,ons or their com pan'es; pd' Of
eonrss they do not'!kn E sueh.t1ulies to appear in
These agnuta e-o all old hands'and exceeding
II caultdontial They express Themselves pretty
freely. OF course, understa ndmg that 10 further
1i,e ;a ade Of their words after the meeting ad-
js,2rtH-:- Thes=a1so:sn5ov thenisel7ts: :g6neraHy.
the companies in aavsry care: f6oahg the bills.