The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-12
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FROM GOTHAM |.
As Pretty Girl the Heroine j. Of a New
York Fire.
.lNsu RANCE cos. OWN N BANKS n (.
Richard Harding Davis Goes to South.
Africa to Write Up the War.
His Wife Accompanies
Him.
"a. Pretty Gill the# Heroine Of a New
lNsURAN CE cos. OWN BANKS 4 I;
!, Davis Goes to South

NEW YORK, Jan. 11.-Spe cial.-Allssg
Minnie Swarts, a very pretty slri, Is me
.heroine OF the hour. There was hre
yesterday at sos west Fifty-ninth street,
in which twenty-three firemen were over
/ come by smoke. Miss Swarts was a pas
senger on a car which had to stop be-
cause of the fire. The rest is tod by one
of the local papers:
Instead of grumbling because her trip
had been interrupted, she asked If any
one had been injured. On being told that
tiremen by the dozen were Frustrated by
the smoke, she called to benjamin Stern,
seventeen years old, of No. BIZ west l22d
street. who also had been passenger IN
the car.
Sire told him she wanted him to help
her carry a gallon Of milk. Taking him
along, she hurried to a grocery store
where she bought the gallon OF milk
Then. with him helping her carry u, sae
entered an apartment house and found
Tenant willing to allow her to heat H.
after she had explained that hot milk
was good for those overcome by smoke.
after she had forced her way through
the fire lines, she went into the burning
building wadingT through the pools OIL wa
ter and not caring about that which
poured on her from above. To those VINO
were carrying out flremen who had been
overcome she announced that not milk
should be given to the sufferers, and that
a gallon of it was on the sidewalk. rev
did not get some of the milk, which was
repIenlsned from time TO time She and
her companion continued their work until
they, too, were almost overcome
BANKS AND INSURANCE.
Of no mr.
posed consolidation of the Bank of Com
merce and the National Union. In speak
ing of the consolidation a member 0. the
Clearing House Committee said:
1.-THE National City Bank, which started
its recent development by taking IN the
Third National Bank. has intimate rela-
lions with the New York Life Insurance
Company. The Western National Bank,
which about Il year or so ago took III the
United States National Bank. Is known as
the Equitable Life Insurance Company.s
bank. Now the Mutual Life Insurance
Company desires bank of equal stand
ing and strength, and so this consoilda-
ton of the Bank of Commerce and the
National Union Bank is brought about
The latter has always been closely lden-
tiled with the Mutual. and its president.
Joseph C. Hendrix will be president oil
the ConsolIdaTed Bank. Tne three great
insurance companies. with their immense
assets and enormous financial power, are
mot only competitors in insurance, but
have become competitors in the banking.
business OF course. other interests are
represented in all three banks. but the
insurance interest is. perhaps, the most
powerful, certainly In two of the three
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Harding Davis
sailed yesterday for Liverpool Imme-
diately after their arrival in England Mr..
and Mrs Davis will sail for Cape Town.
Mr.. Davis goes TO the scene of the war
in the Transvaal as the special cores
pendent of the New York Herald and the
Philadelphia Public Ledger He will
write a series of letters on the war for
these papers.
The State Republican organization has
come out in favor of the repeal of the
Horton law, and prize fighting in New
York is doomed.