Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-21
List Of the Al New Doc
tors Admitted,
The Mutual Fire Insurance
Business in Maine.
Scores Of Capitol visitors...Four
New Corporations.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR
Next Meeting of Governor and Coun-
- Gil, Tuesday, Sept. 10, at 10 A. M.


men who successfully passed the ex-
aminati"ns Of the board of. .registra
tiGn Of medicine in this city last
month. The examination was held AT
the State House:
he Fred b. Colby, Boston, Mass.
r. T.. T. Thames, Boston, Mass. T..
George Relislc. Pawtuckct, r. +
Joseph T. CrOteau. Lewiston. Olive,
~ GAIA St Anicet. Quebec, George I.
Belanger. Chandieres Curve, Quebec
. ]. Ravul I.arochclle, Manchester. n
H., Lester II. Traufaut, Auburn. Ar
= thur s. Fletcher, Watervile. Franci,
y. Gnlliver, n. Y. City, Walter J
Marcley, Rutland, Mass, Heber W
Coulter Chesterville Robert A
sBrundage, Pittsburg. Pa, James Il
4 Penrosc, Pittsburg, Pa, Henry H.
Dnnham. Rutland, Mass, John r.
\ Bruce, Portland, Carl r. Pierce
Grtenburg, Pa, William ]. Lewis,
Portland, Forest C. Tyson, Dangor.
Frank w. Morse, Hudson, Mass.
Sherman Perry. Camden, Herbert F..
Simrns. Boston, Mass, Charles NJ.
Macghoc, Boston. Mass. Ralph w
Foster, Portland, Charles A. Wynd-
ham, Lewiston. Magnus G. Ridlon,
Porter, Edward r. Mansfield. Orono,
Louis f. Gould, Presquc Isle, Will
liam s. Garcelon. Lewiston, Horatio
w. FrOh0ck, Camden. r.. H. Mason.
Monroe, Harold ]. Everett, Portland
Fred L. Varney, Enfield. Karl r.
Sturgis. Auburn. Charles D. North,
Orr's Island. William T. Rowe. Port
land. Maurice A. Priest, Shawmut,
Roland r. Moore, Portland. r. p.
Cleveland. Mexico, T.. II. Ncwcombe.
Newburgh, II. III. Keller. Appleton,
ID. f.. Doloff. Monsoon. /. T. Edgley.
Old Town. A. l.. Sawyer. Fort Fair
field. o. F. Lamson. Monmouth,
George O'Donnell, Orono, NJ. A. Oul-
ton, Brownvile.
Another mutual fire insurance COM
pany was organized the past week
making "a doing business in the State.
There has been a great growth Of
these in recent years. The beginnings
of mutual fire insurance in this STATE.
are unknown. but 20 to IS years ago Il
company flouriShed in PiScataquiS
county, which did a large business all
over the State and finally died because
there seemed to be no one to attend
to the business of pushing it along
1t is said that it was discovered one
day that the company was inSurinS
everybody in Dover and Foxcroft vii
lagc and il was figured that if con-
flagration had struck the village Il
mans insurance would have been no
good, for his insurers would DO his
neighbnrs. who were burned ont the
same as himself.
n 1t was in the readjuStmcnt after The
discovery. or rather the realization Of
what it meant. that the company went
To- pieces The field of !, mutual COM
pany is both broadcncd and narrowed
by that consideration. 1t becomes
necessary to broaden it in order To- get
!. enough people liable to pay assess
!. menrs that no single assessment
will be too heavy. 1t becomes nec"s-
Z sary to narrow it by refusing to insure
sa man who is likely to lose his prop
Sserty by the same fire which destroys
1.-THE property of man already insured
I IN order that there may be no danger
.sof having any one assessment too big
ttfor The association to swing IN"
law requires these companies 70 haNH
: the policyhoders give notes for tn"
4 payment of the assessments. those
4 notes to be secured by the insured
property so that it will be possible to
ACOllect the insurance.
The Equitable Mutual Fire lns'lr-
sance Co. Just organized at Richmond,
requires the notes to be for ~ per
\ cent of the faces of the policies, $"
that when the fire losses run 10 that
amount i'm any one year. the company
stops doing business. contingency
that is believed to be impossible If tn"
fire risks are not crowded together.
The mutual companies carried ~
0N0,0 900 Of Maine insurance the past
year and paid $133. 191.SS insurance on
fire losses.
The locations of the existing COM
panies are two at Auburn. one each al
Lisbon Falls. Sahattus. Hoult"n
Brunswick. Cape Elizabeth. Cas'o
Cumberland Falmouth ana Frccport;
two at Gnrham che each at Harrs-
well. Harrison. New Gloucester and
North Yarmouth. three at Portland;
one each at Windham. Farmington
jay. Wilton. Bar Harbor. Fayctte'
Gardiner I.itchfeld, Pittston. Union
Warren. Dresden. Boothhay. Bristol
Edgccomb. jefferson. Newcastle, Wal
d"boro. Fryeburg. Lowell, South Paris.
Hnmpden. Hcrmon. Ncwburgh. Bow
doinham, Richmond. Woolwich. BuX-
ton, Eliot. kcnnebunk, Saco anu WthS'
being in every county except Piscata-
quis. Waldo and Washington.
Androscogsin. Aroostook and OXFORD
counties have mutual insurance COM
panies inside the Grange. that of An
,iroScoggn doing the largest business
$1,000. 900 insurance, of any of the mu-
tual companies in Maine. Seven or
the others are designated as farmers
companies. and rural property is I'M
derstcod to be the chief insurance
business of nearly all of them.
The following are recent registra-
tions of out of town visitors at the
fish and game departments:
Herbert F. Robert. Maiden. MASS
Mr.. and Mrs. G. II. Buxton. Caroihe
Buxton. Paul Buxton. Boston. Mass:
Mr.. and Mrs. William Taylor. Miss
Mildred II. Taylor. Boston Mass; Mrs
+. II. Tiff. Miss Katherine Tiff, mp
ton, Ga: Mr. and Mrs Ernest II. Nor
rill. Lewiston: Mrs Fl. M. Mckay
Haverhill. Mass: Mrs. George X