The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-22


terday and would have more moments
to spend with them.
The remains of Mr., Toof We're taken
from Stahl & Hegels to Lewis & May
cocks yesterday afternoon
The deceased was manager for the
business of his father. The business
was the sale of sewing machine attach
| ments, which were manufactured for
| them of late by Pheghar & Son.
HENRY STEVENS.
Henry Stevens, the young man who
persisted in the flames, lived with his
| mother and sisters on Admiral street
He was spoken of by all who knew
him as an attentive and business-like
young man of great promise. 1t was
| said that Mr.. Stevens expected to marry
soon, being engaged to an estimable
young lady of this city named Norton.
THE INSURANCE RISKS.
The local insurance agents who We're
seen late yesterday afternoon and last
evening declined to outline any policy
| for their companies as to what would
be done in the matter of paying off the
| insurance policies
There was much speculation on the
| streets as to what would be done by
the insurance companies The general
| trend of opinion was that the companies
might make stubborn contest. Under
writer's in New York and Philadelphia
and other places advised taking no
policies on buildings where acetylene
| is used and the New York association
have declared emphat ically against it.
| CAME HERE TO SEE THE FIRE.
| Captain Burke, Engineer Lucas and
| Fireman Catlin of the Parker Engine
company, and Ebert NJ. Pratt all of
Meriden, came to New Haven yesterday
afternoon to witness the big fire
ERRONEOUS RUMORS-NO MORE
| BODIES FOUND.
| The report was spread about town
| last evening that two bodies in ad-
| dition to those above mentioned had
been found in the ruins of the Mersick
! building and a notice to that effect
was telephoned to Coroner Mix and
Medical Examiner White, who at once
drove to the scene of the fire in hack
and found that the report was untrue.
| The firemen worked last night until IL
| O'Clock searching for other bodies and
| it is now thought that the bodies of
all who persisted have been recovered.
THE LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
The loss ON the building will amount
to $4,000, which is offset by an insur-
ance of $4,000 placed by the Burton
Insurance agency in the following COM
panies: Broadway $4,000, Royal $4,000,
Pacific $4,000.
English & Mersick were carrying be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 worth of stock,
which is almost wholly destroyed. The
| insurance on the stock was placed as
| follows: Burton Insurance agency,
Royal $4,000, Connecticut $4,000, Nj
agara $4,000, German-American $4,000,
Springfield $4,000. Pacific $4,000; total
$4,000. With the John C. North agency,
Aetna $4,000, Hartford $4,000, Liverpool,
London and Globe $4,000; total $4,000.
! Virgil Mcneil, British-American $500,
Lancashire $4,000, Imperial $4,000, New
York Underwriters $1,000; total $4,000.
| The Cannon agency, Hamburg Bremen
$4,000, Norwich News $4,000; total $4,000.
With H. c. Warren & Co.. Hanover
Insurance company of New York $4,000.
The total amount of all these policies
| is 100000.
J. c. North had Pheghar placed in
the following companies: National Of
Hartford $4,000, Fire Assurance Of
Pennsylvania $500, Comemrcial Union
of New York $500, Liverpool, London
and Globe s4,5OO Total $12, 500.
The insurance on the stock of E. ].
Toof is placed by the North agency with
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