The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-25
AGENTS KICK.
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Among the insurance agents who have
lost business are w. A. Lester, Beach ~
Sweet Issac l.. Gotf, Spencer n Brother,
Calvin * O'DOnnell ana several others.
Beach Il Sweet lost more than half n
million dollars worth Of insurance IN
one place
The several insurance agents have been
looking up the matter ana they find that
Paine and Nadeau's new customers in-
clude formidable array of tho wholesale
and retail liquor dealers and brewers.
Among uhe list is the Narragansett
brewery, Burke Bros, wholesalers; r.
Glover of Mathewson street, John L..
Keane of 259 South Main street. John II.
Good, wholesaler; Edward Il. Riley of 80
Fountain street; Joe Coupe, the st. .Japes
Hotel, O'Connor Bros. Of 66l and 66o
Broadway Edward o. Maley OF "a Foun-
tain street, John j. Mcclure, wholesaler,
and many of tho retail saloons owned or
controlled by tho wholesalers.
Ii is said that this matter Is TO be
brought TO the attention Of Mayor Me-
Guinness by the insurance men and it
will he so presented that an Investigation
will probably follow. Then it Will be-
come apparent why SO much insurance
business Jumped from the old hands into
the new, and why the son OF the license
commissioner should meet with so much
favor from the liquor dealers.
Mr.. Paine said this morning that his
father had no knowledge of the firm )
business, and that the reports relative to
his fathers influence in securing business
for tho firm was the talB of jealous insur-
ance agents, men who were trying by
every means to hurt their business. lilo
was Of the opinion that he had as much
right to do insurance business rs any ono
anu he had been doing it in a perfectly
legitimate way.
Beach ~ sweet were the greatest kickers
because they lost tho business OF the Mar
ragansett Brewery. There was "a good
reason for that AS Beach x Sweet very
we'll knew. Mr.. Paine also said that he
did not secure that business as IL came
through MIR. Nadeau. who was personal
friend of AIr. Posner, who had the Dlac-
ing of the insurance on tho brewery.
He also said that the firm only hal a
limited part of the liquor trade insurapce
when the whole of 10 was considered.
To be sure 10 was quite natural that some
of the business would come through the
fact that his father was license com
missioner, there was no denying that,
bat his father did not have anything e.
do with the actual transaction even To the
smallest degree. In tact, he did not know
how much or from whom the business
came
Liquor dealers came Co the office to sec
his father and they knew that the insur-
ance business was carried on by the
young men. In more than one instance
they secured business because tho men
who wanted insurance stated that they
liked TO encourage young men in business.
Mr.. Nadeau told how the Narragansett
Brewery came TO the firm and of how a
great deal of the other business was So
cured. It was obtained fairer than a lot
secured by the insurance agents endeavor-
ing to hurt them.
They had nothing to hide and were per-
fectly willing that the extent and tho
kind of the business should be known.
Both young men were satisfied that il
was an attempt TO force them out of busi-
ness, but il wouldn't work.