Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-01-01
Answer to "Hopkinsvills 1mpro-
prieties." =.

III thc ldsb lssue OI llle aNcW inllfl,
we notice an article in its columns
headed "lIopkinsville's Improprie-
ties," and TO one section, and por-
ton ofanothcr we desire to reply,
through the South Kentuckian,
whose courteous editors have kindly
rendered the columns of their paper
TO us for the purpose. The article
aforesaid is copied from a New York
Insurance Journal, "The Chronicle
well-known and patronizei, insur-
ance medium Whose editors have
evidently been misled as TO the facts
in the case, and TO which misrepre-
sentation, we are confident, they were
\ Jed by some malicious party or par
ties, who desire to injurc ourselves
and another insurance firm of this
city, hoping, as we believe, to there
by aid their own cause, and thinking
Ino doubt, that, "The Chronicle being
lHnhllshed far from here, that the
censurc, If any, would, fall on the
shoulders ola poor editor, as usual,
andtheinselves remain in tie dark,
unknown and blameless. The first
statement asserts that NE South
kentuckian stated in its issue of5th
ult, that insurance was issued on
building and its contents while the
building was on fire." This is a
falsehood of the whole cloth, as the,
statement made by the Kentuokian
was, chat Wilson, Galbreath took
out insurance while Billiards. build
ing was burning, We admit that
we issued insurance on said stock of
Wilson q Galbreath, but did not &C
cept the contract or bind the compa-
ny while there was any danger to be
apprehended. In fact the fire engine
had been playing on the flames for
one half an hour, and had the con-
flagration under perfect control be-
fore we were ever asked to accept
said insurance, and considering this
fact also that the stock of Wilson
i Galbreath was in brick,
metal roof building, almost
impervious to fire from the exterior,
and that the wind was blowing
south by east and said stock re-
moved l50 feet north west and be-
lieving. perfectly secure, and an or
binary acceptance of an insurance
contract, we agreed to write $4,000
additional, and did accept and issue
the insurance. The Chronicle cor
respondent at Hopkinsville, also in
situated that the cause of the many
recent fires was lack of Judgment
on our part in underwriting, and a
reckless way Of doing business, also
bearing the palm for himself and
colleagues, by stating that said
.'erring" agents would do we'll to
follow their example, aud become
conservative and courteous agents,
which would no doubt prove much
more satisfactory to the companies
we represent" We wish to say that
though termed "erringa brethren,
and by said correspondent classed as
disreputable, we feel capable of
managing our own business, and so
long as the managers of the
companies we represent are pleased
with the quantity and quality of the
business we give them, we do not
fear that malicious tongues or pens
can injure us. AS our companies
have rendered us valuable aid in
their courteous and kind assistance
in extending our business, and as we
nave enueuVoreu 1althfully TO per-
form or duties to our companies
and o. patrons, we feel that we have
the confidence of the managers of
the companies as likewise our Gus
toners we do business for, and
through this confidence have OBJ
tanned for said companies an equal
proportion of the insurance prem
iums of this city, which necessarily
reduces the income of the seli-styled
courteous conservative agents." and
as we believe caused the unjust and
libelous publication in the Chronicle,
which was copied at the request of
agents of this city by the New Era,