Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-25
SOME HEAVY LOSSES.
Insurance Compa nies Who Shoulder
Part of the Loss.

Only a crude estimate of the insured loss
can be made this afternoon as it is carried
on several hundred policies and placed with
scores OF companies. The following is the
| list as complete as faithful Investigation has
been able to make II thus far:
Firemen's Insurance Company of the Dis
! trict of Columbia, $500 on contents. Ger
man American of the District of Columbia.
$500, contents: Lincoln of the District of
/ Columbia, 81 40. contents; National Union
of the District OF Columbia. 81. 100. contents:
| Riggs of the District of Columbia, s3..ss.
| contents; German American OF New York.
! SI.nD. contents: Queen. S5o0. building;
! Continental s9.1J9, contents and building.
| Hanover, s1,0O. contents ami building: ORR
ent. $500. contents and building; Trans
Atlantic. $500. contents; Atlas $1,000, con-
I tents; Girard. S6.VU. contents and build
I ing; Imperial, $500. contents and building;
| North America, S6.SOo. contents and build
! ing; GieEs Falls. $500, contents; Phoenix
(HartfOrtD, 5000. building: PheniX tNew
| York;, 5000. building, Home, SlVD, con-
| tents; Manchester x.JO0. contents: Under
writers Association. Sop. contents: Ham
I burg Bremen, Sl.vsl. contents; Greenwich.
si,Wn. contents; County of Philadelphia.
S,:ao. contents; Commercial Of the District
of Columbia, soon. contents; American OF
/ Philadelphia, 81 $50. contents; Royal, s5.Uu.
building; Franklin. $500. contents. Nor
wien Union. $3.50. contents: Niagara, &c.
500. contents; Arlington. $500. contents;
| Etna, 5000, contents: National of Hart
! ford. sloD contents. Corcoran Of the Dis
| trict of Columbia. si.9JO. contents: Colum-
bia Protective, $500 contents and build
ing: Liverpool London and Globe. sl5.voO
1 contents.
The Storage Losses.
So far as known. the heaviest insured
| loser IN storage was Benjamin 7. Cable
who. through Robertson & Blackboard. was
insured for $4,000 in the Norwich Union.
|
CARA.
| Mrs. Stanley Mathews. widow of the late
| chief Justice. who was insured for sl0oo
on household furniture in the Liverpool
London and Globe.
Following is an Incomplete list OF these
| having goods insured In storage:
Miss h. w: Berry. $3.50; Miss Chopper.
slw,: Mr. Fenwick; $3.50; Prof. Holmes.
| Henrietta Kiienberger, $in: Chauncey
| Thomas. $500: Mr.. and Mrs Grinneli
5000; Benjamin Helen. $500: Mrs. Stanley
$1,000: J. J. Kingman. 800; A. F. Bradley.
$500: Francis Z. Grice. sl.0o: Mrs Gist
/ =; Calf 4 Bro. 300: Mr.. Whitman. 81 so;
George A. Stitt, $500; w. J. Acker $500:
! Geo. V. Knox. 500: Z. W. Creecy, 81 900;
NJ II. White, 81 go. Mrs. Mary A WEIGH
, 500; NJ. w. Kirkus. 5000; Mrs. Bertha
1 Fisher. $Jgc Martin Cronin. Sl0o; Mrs s.
o sla s:i,v.sd;, slc@ ,,, hr thur s Brown
/ -
/ Lane, SEQ. and A. II. Holt. 81 ,000
| This list is necessarily Incomplete, because
! the only list known to exist was locked in
the safe, and this lies under the smok-
/ ing and red-hot ruins.
Insurance Men Cheerful.
! Insurance men are cheerful under the
misfortune. but say that IL is the hardest
| fire. from their point OF view, which has
| occurred I'm Washington. Ii was one II the
! biggest blazes in the history OF the city.
/ the only others which they can recall COM
/ parable TO II being those of the National
| Theater and the patent Office
The local insurance compa MES are unus-
4 ually heavy losers. the Commercial being in
! IL for 5000 and the National Union for
si.T"- No local company is known to have
| Wilson & Hough are very heavily on the
/ wrong side OF the ledger.
They say that they have always consid-
cred the hazard as especially high with re-
gard TO this building The variety Of goods
stored away. and the uncertainty as to
their nature the stable and other features
contributed In making it. as the Insurance.
people put II. very risky
They advance no theory as to the origin
Of the 1re. and express profound sorrow
for the loss OF life.
Not FireUrOOf.
Building Inspector Entwisle. when asked
IL IT was not generally understood that the
building was fireproof. said he had Fever
heard 1t so stated. When the building was
| erected he had given It his personal at
tention. but he never suspected for one in
slant that II was claimed to be fireproof
The reason the floors gave way he said.
was due to the fact that they rested ON
suspended girders.