The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-21
SALVAGE Of IHE BIG FIRE
INSURANCE C0MPANY,s COMMITTEES
TELLS WHAT CAME OF WHAT
WAS SAVED
FROM COLD STORAGE PLANT
All Salvage Through the Help of
Friends Has been Shipped From
MinneapeIis-Most OF
1t So.d

Joseph ]. Windle, w. c. Burleigh. e. G.
Henry. George C. Mott. J. Q. Haas and II.
e. Daniel, the committee on adjustment
of the loss of the st. Paul Cold Storage
warehouse fire. have submitted a report
| on the work 1t is interesting to the
; lay dealer as well as the insurance man,
because it tells of the way salvage has
been handled and disposed of by the
committee, and also expresses the senti-
ment of the committee on the burning
of the ruins by the health department.
| Here is the report:
When your committee assumed con-
tfol great deal of salvage DuttSr and
other merchandise, had been shipped ~
! minneapolis, OIL which no account had
oeen Kept, other than by carload lot=;
was mixed up indfscrimina teiy, and was
IN very bad condition. for. although the
| assured had done ali in their power to
save the property, they lacked both or
ssantza ton and experienced supervision
All this has entaLed q great deal OF
| labor on Cur part. as the salvage has
! sort out the various inter SITS. ana we
st!n nave ON hand in the hands of the
western Savage company. 1892 pounds
or unidentified butter. the ownership OF
winch we nave beSn unable to determine,
( ana the proceeds of same viii be app;r-
! toned according to the GeficiJ of the va
OF the butter belonging to the genel al
FORM PosicIeS was not in marketable con-
eitfei, and SS,G33 pounds Of same a. e
Delng renovated and p oces sed' by the
4ainneapo is Cold Storage company IN
ger contract between that firm and the
western Salvage Wrecking- agency Your
committee has had to handle ard check
al me savage butter irrespective oe VINO
| owned or insured it.
Shortly after your committee assumed
controi OF this loss various officiais- ZEN
resentlng the health department of fba
city of St Pau, commenced Interfering
! with the work and threatene 20 cOrda-n9
past OF the salvage which had been re-
moved mis- IL reference caused us some
! decay, and tEey did even tuaIly condemn
some z5,O G0 pounds CT poultry On -Jul1,
81 they declared the ruins to be a pub ic
nuisance and menace TO the gen -raI
i health, and threatened to arrest Some of
- ur men if :be same was nor ahatod
snosequent-y they did arrest Mr. Sch enk,
poesIdent OF the Cold Storage Warehouse
company, but failed to appear against
j MN when the case was Ca::ad on AI3r
I they advised us that they W-u!d set
| Ere Ere TO the ruins in order to prevent the
SasTeeable oder that was arising thara-
| Ircm: We protested to the comm .ssio3er
! LII. image. and the assured filed formal
protest with the mayor and health de-
paftment. About u o clock noon of Aur
! z. The employees OF the health d@pa4 inert
! acting under Instructions Of DR.. Oha~e
| Scattered straw and kerosene through the
building; set it on fire and allowed g., M -
to- burn until the contents OF the h,,i:d
ring Were completely destroyed. and the
Ere m the basement is st:n snoulda: iur
at this date. -
After care fully checking Up our vari-
chs accounts VIC find that the only prom
erty insured under the general form, noii
cies and destroyed by the fire of Aug. 2
u.s. approximately. 2.500 cases of eggs of
t alt original sound value of $40 600 soma
cXnerts estimated their vaiue. Aug. at
%Stte. ard so reported, but we had taken
OUT several thousand cases of fha best
eGSS including all those on the fiy.st
| foCrs from these. we have been able m
! make up less than ,20O cases of sound
esss, aEo II Is question as 20 whether,
we SfSll realize sufficient from the sale
OF same to ray freight and cost of haf4d
ing, so that 1t would be extremely diff
"a .loI,. fofi t2e companies to prove that we
really lost anything by The fire of Aug .
After this fire of August q the ST. paul
Ieatth department. presumably realizing
/ 5laI theY had made mistake, have en-
aeavored to persuade the health author
lt'es- OF minneapolis and Chicago. to con-
oemn all the salvage which we had taken
out, 1nclEdlng the poultry which their
own men had specifically passed uD0n
When 1t ~" aiken from the wareboTsn
/ AS an evidence of this, one week before
| we were notified of any proceed nesI nv
I the health department Of Chicago. an
article appeared in the ST Paul napers
i, stating that the Chicago department had
condemned all the salvage which had
! peen snlpped from St Paul A week sub
sequent to this the Chicago authorities
ADVISED the Western Salvage Wreckine
Agency that they had condemned ali orr
savage and would have same hauled ont
immediately. Mr.. Cans, acting with the
advice and consent of your COMMITTEES
at once procured counsel filed the nee
essary protest and after hard and
commendable fight, he succeeded in bay-
ing all-our salvage released The Mime
2poIis department had men in the yar:oIJe
| warehouses, who advised US at different
tlIneS that we should not be allowed TO
sell or ship any of the butter but with
the help of some of our friends in this
city we succeeded in evading any formal
proceedings and have now shipped out all
the salvage from there, excepting such a 6
! has been melted up and is now in process
Of renovation: this is now beyond iden-
ohcatton as far as the health department
is concerned.
| All of these difficulties have. of course
materially increased the cost of the hand.
ing this salvage, yet we hope to event
ualIy declare dividend and refund the
companies from 20 per cent to % per cent
of their policies.
Your committee unhesita tingly recon-
mend that the companies pay the fac
OF their pol ctes as shown by the proofs
because 1T was the only way In which
We could make definite settlement and
close the loss as far as the assured's IN
tereSt was concerned thus preventing any
subsequent claims and ending the contin-
ual arguments with which We were con-
franted relative to further claims of
different parties holding that their stock
was insured under general form policies
and claims for storage charges or goods
in which the assured had an interest or
lien for such charges, all of which are
now covered under the item s644 49,
though, as originally presented these
items amounted to several thousand dol
lars.