Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-13
A BAD SHOWING.
Losses by Fire in Dallas-What May Adams
ssys-Press Association Meet
in.-Court Cases.



DALLAS, Ten, Sept 12.-On Monday next
| there will be held III this city the first an
| nual meeting of the Southern afternoon
| press association. The election of officers
| for the coming year will take place in con-
nectiOn with other important business. A
| full attendance of the members Of the aSSO-
| citation is expected.
| just at this time when the amount OF
| water being furnished by the city's pump
ing stations is very limited and thereby the
risk from fire is very great. the question Of
insurance and higher rates is general talk.
The frequency of fires during this year has
caused comment from all over the United
States.
The heavy losses sustained here have
caused many insurance companies to with
draw from the Dallas business. while those
companies that have remained have adj
vanced rates 80 per cent They claim in ex
onoration of their position in these ad
vances that the property i'll this city has no
protection from fire on account of the lack
of water, which the city fails TO furnish.
From January l to September l of this
year there has been property to the amount
of FLIP, $40 involved in Dallas fires.
On this property there was insurance to the
amount of 81, l63, $50. Loss sustained on
tins property. S136, SOS. The estimates made
on the property involved was made by the
property owners, land IL is thought to be at
least 33H per cent too high. If this is the
case it will be readily seen that the in
surancs held on this property was more
than the real value of the property.
That there have been many fires that orig
mated by the hands of AN incendiary there
is but little doubt, Us various arrests have
been made on this charge and the cases are
now pending in the courts. Whether over
insurance and the burning of property have
any connection is not fully known, but
many good people believe that 1t has. II
This ha h. fh.. ,is.l,
are themselves to blame for the over insur-
ance. The companies should agree or a
basis of insurance as far as the amount of
any risks are concerned. and when this is
done and property not insured TO its full
value fires will be scarce in Dallas. From
January l to September l there were IA
fires in this city, which number is far too
many as anyone can readily see.
A motion of enioinder was this morning
argued before United States District Judge
Mccormick TO restrain Green Hum
phries ct al. from disposing of any property
in their possession acquired from Bate
man Bros. of Fort Worth. The Judge has
the matter under advisemeut and will
probably render his decision on Monday.
J. NJ. Masters, a student at the Dallas
business college, committed suicide last
n ght at the residence OF his uncle By
taking strychnine. The deceased was
about thirty years old and came here from
Ardmore, L T. He left letter to his sis
ter residing at Howe, Tex. 1t is under
stood that dependency caused by financial
troubles was the motive that prompted the
act
Charles ParresSa. charged with theft, and
Elmer Blackburn, charged with forgery,
were bound over 0y Judge Lauderdale this
morning to await the grand jury.
May Adams, who on yesterday shot at A.
NJ. Krich, was this morning taken before
Justice Braswell for examination and was
bound over i'll the sum of $500 TO await the
action of the grand jury. Public sympathy
is with the girl. 1t is the same old story Of
loving not wisely but too well. according
to Mays story. Desertion followed, she
says, and after protracted sickness and
loss of child the girl attempted the life of
the man she once loved.
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