The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-03-11


panies do not classify the buildings and
rate them accordingly.
This gentleman is also evidently unin-
formed as TO the conditions prevailing in
. this city, inasmuch as the city of SaVan-
nan was re rated and exactly what he pro-
poses to do, was done, and every risk was
made 10 stand u.Ou its own merits. and at
Z the time there was great dissatisfaction.
+ Another gentleman states thaJ there was
/ no excuse to raise rates. etc, that the
. burning OF the Ferst building was the
crashing in OF the wall Of the adjoining
. building. Any one who witnessed this
( unfortunate fire has no doubt as to what
caused the Eerst building to burn, and
some who witnessed 1t and who claim or
binary intelligence, commended then and
now, that had the ordinary pTecaution
/ been adopted of putting two or three lines
. OF hose with men stationed on the build
ing, that when the walls fell, il would
/ have been sufficiently cooled to have pre-
/ vented the spread Of the flames.
am glad to note that one considerable
man demands that a larger water main
/ be placed on Bay street. Another states
/ that he believes Chief Puder TO be q good
man, but insurance people have always
! fought him and are always throwing up
/ Chief Connolly, Of Atlanta, (but, by the
! way, he, Connolly. is chief of the police
/ department., and has no jurisdiction over
VII az g AN litA- AAl4NAlLI oldAllE kLLL ne re-
/ celves 50, coo year, and the insurance
/ companies pay half of it. This gentleman
/ was perhaps thinking of Capt Joyner,
! chief Of the Atlanta fire department, who
/ receives 81 600 a year, every dollar Of
| which IS paid by the city of Atlanta. If
our friends could eliminate their preju-
I dices, and believe that some good could
come out of Atlanta, they would admit
[ what the country at large does that
/ Capt JOyner is one Of the ablest fire chiefs
IN any city of any size, not even excepting
/ New York, which is conceded to be the
best equipped city in the world.
A communication signed Lawyer
calls attention to an act of the general as
semDly, known as the Whitefield bill to
prevent combinations and pools of insur-
auCe companies. etc The lawyer. by
reference 10 a supreme court decision
where similar bill was passed by the
| Texas legislature will see that such leg
islatlon was deemed unconstitutional He
also states that only men of knowledge
and competent to do so, should fix rates
which statement is proper. The men
who have visited Savannah have in
spected the premises. and have made full
reports. These men may not be compe-
tent but they spend their entire time in
! this work and are educated up to it.
They make their report to the association
who simply apply the tariff. Another
communication headed do Insurance
I Companies Lose Money" Were it not
that such thought would be rank heresy,
one might suppose that this article came
from the fire dcpartment beaduuarters
The statement OF the condition nj the fire
| insurance business for the past five years,
I which Is appended to this communication,
and which is compiled at considerable ex-
/ pense by myself, at the request OF the un-
derwriters of savannah. shows how little
the gentlemen in question knows of fire
| insurance.
don't heliove that q nanar ,viaI5ipo
such influence as tbe NfopXr>g Nru3s
would wiIlinplv make a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THROUGH lie adiroriol ,olI,,,,, ma I sE,ii
trust In t,ai, sririt oF f1jrnees - invasfi1
o., ta tbie si,btoct in -, 80 ~, ;,fl,,,,.,
lion have Given and viii tber he LAD
10 have them mass iudg4nent mon If
comnIaint is ,1sdo ~ 70 ~
are bi,,ber tban alen,yba,., 10. 10 go
of conlna,.ison hoe, 70 y fo, ,,c,, ~,
i'm Atlanta which seaTne 70 hcar IN .a.tiy-o
noin+ and from which u, We, ,r,1lJ
ran como II 10 oneida tbot -, -
y tinn fro 5anartmont and a. e,oCd ME- ~
this is de,ro1stroted in very ar, on5 ,.a}
tho rates. an, tbai, huei,oss b,iIJirrrs 40
rclotjroi, ., ne htr-L &C. -, Ss,,,t o. y
/ Charleston where tho comnanins baI-e
| aIvavs made money = rorn,,a.o ia
rates with the savannah rates +bavvyare
| a triAe Io,re,, hut tho 80 ta,.i4f yhia6
| bae {ust hee,, o,,rliod 80 Cu,arios+o III
n,It them on ahont tbo sa,,o 6asie 90 80
Savonnab Ihs,.o 80 tb;s +a.;S %
| gonnare - WIS 'i'N
,,s -,
1A9 W tue au Ndhce III rates; WouIu cali
Your dVVellLlou 70 tHe iacG thaI Uhe asso-
ga 1loH III us territory C3eor-
ga, NlreIilLd, Nor1h ana South Carollna,
Alaoaua, Florlua ana MlSslsslppl, mas
oceh euucdNorluR 10 get an the towns ana
CUES raIeu upon an egultaole pasls' Ihey
/ nave mus lar rtfdteu, IN virginia, Rich-
/ 1Ionu anu Nor!o!u' III NorJh CarOhna'
! CudIIoC'e haIelsH anu WImlnRtohi IN
Georgia augusta savannah ana are now
/ aI Worh on AVlanVa' ana Wneh inns IS com
/ PIeteu VIII take macon IN MlSslSslppl,
/ JACKSON Merlulan ana N!ckSDurg III
/ konISldha' New orleans; IN AlaOana,
/ moo4le ana montgomery IN SoQth caro-
/ ilua' CharleSIoh ana Coium pa. Does TINS
] looA llAe % N'hhdh mas oeeh ulScrlhmateu
/ AGAINST. AS hdUlet OF lacI' any ner-
/ CHauO can put up oulldlng' IL ne likes,
/ INV VIII rdIe az 20 cents Jhe oasis rate
! lor savannah Delng oO cents, 10 cents pc
/ iitg adued on uhlS fate lor past nre record,
/ ihetuCleuI uIe uepafImenC' elc.' ana inns
/ WIVHouI any eAlrdorolhary eNpendl-
/ tare upon uhe part OF the merchant. IL IS
! true that ne Wlli not De permitted TO erect
/ a or t-sUory nululng win IL lhch wall,