The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-21
ARE DISSATISFIED
WITH THE RATES.
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The Local Fire Underwriters
Are Displaying
Mutiny.
WILL COME UP AT OLD POINT
Meeting Of S. Z. +. a. Will be
Held There This
Week.
WILL COME UP AT OLD POINT

The annual meeting Of the Southeastern
Tariff Association. the orsapizatlon or
association OF the IRE insurance COM
paties doing business In the southeast.
ern states and managed from headaunr-
ters at Atlanta, Ca, will be held at
Old Point Comfort, Va, Wednesday and
Thursday, 24tl, and 18th OF May. Tho
executive committee Of that association
will hold Its last meeting ut Old Point
on Monday or Tuesday, preparatory for
the annual meeting OF the association.
a large attendance of FIRE Insurance peo-
pic Is expected. and much interest Is
manifested in the outcome OF the meet
Ing, as the plans for the future man
agcmcnt and control OF the fire Insurance
business in the state Of Virginia es-
pecially
Mutterings OF discomfort with the
present methods arc heard from all over
the State, and suggestions of hostile Leg
islaton against the insurance companies
TO be proposed for enactment at the
General Assembly Of Virginia to convene
next January are frequently heard.
A resolution endorsing the present meth
DDS Of the Southeastern Tariff Associa-
.tlOn IN virginia WAS Oileicu VIC ul-
nual meeting of the Local Agents Asso-
citation of Virginia, held here at Muir
Ihys Hotel last week and was over
whelmingly defeated.
The local situation at Richmond is APP
parently very unsatisfactory. one evil
dence Of such local dissatisfaction being
found in the fact that the following pc
tition was being circulated on yesterday
for signatures Of the local fire insurance
agents at Richmond.
The Petition.
..Thc undersigned policy writing fire
insurance agents at Il Richmond, Va,
would most respectfully represent to their
companies and to all other companies
doing business at Richmond, that the ex-
rerlence under the Richmond city tariff
promulgated August 9Th. 1903. and the
subsequent notifications thereof, has
been most unsatisfactory They believe
that this dissatisfaction is chiefly due to
inability to justify or defend its rates
BY the schedules current. They believe
that, in the event Of the passage Of an
anti-compact law by the General AS
aembly Of Virginia in January next, as
now seems probable. with q possible re-
sult4 OF perpctuating that tariff OF rates
for Richmond, that situation Of this
point will become, II 1t is not now, We'll.
nigh unbearable.
Premises consldered. your petitioners
beg that your influence may be exerted
at the annual meeting Of the South.
eastern Tariff Association. to be held
at Old Point Comfort, Val. May Gtt
ana 25th, 1905, to provide for the prompt
preparation and publication OF q new
tariff OF rates for Richmond based or
schedules strictly and uniformly applied
and to be rigdly enforced, without any
modification Of the resulting rates. except
for changed conditions contemplated BY
such schedules. Such action, II prompt
~ taken, might provide suchta tariff as
could be perpetuated under anti-compac,
conditions without great injury to the
common interests Of the companies and
agents"