The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-24
Fire Underwriters Hold Session
at Jefferson and Conclude
Business.
SPEND NIGHT AT LAKESIDE
Date and Place for Next Meeting
Left to Executive Com
lnittcc

. .
Members Of the West Virginia Fire
Underwriters Association assembled at
the Jefferson Hotel yesterday morning
| In semi-annual session to discuss busl-
ness pertaining to fire insurance.
The association is composed of sixty
or seventy general and special agents
doing business in West Virginia and
| in such parts Of Ohio. Virginia and
Maryland as are contiguous to West
Virginia, and nave overlapping busl-
ness relations.
The body holds two meetings every
year. the annual session, which is
usually held in March, being The more
i Important event The semi -annual meet
ling, which is held In midsummer, is
lin no sense as important as the spring
meeting and is never so largely at
tended. AS a matter of fact, 1t is a
sort of summer outing at which most of
l the business Is transacted by the ex-
! ecutive committee.
Officers and Members Here.
!, The officers of the association, all Of
a whom were present at the meeting
j yesterday, are as follows:
II. II. HugGnrd, president, l. w.
Garfield, vicc-Drcsidcnt;' #. w.
Strcr. Secrctnry ana treasurer.
Executive Committee: W. Il. Good
win, chairman; d. H. Collinson, i.
w. Jones'. II. l.. Meek. w. y. Young
. i. A. Lent, n. T.. Julian, IL. w. ca
rey.
The members present We're: S. Z.
Bicl<ford Fl. w. Carey, b. j. Carr, w. Is.
: Goodwin, III. M. Gibbs, r. r. Huggard.
II. a. w. Harper, +. M. Jones, Paul
Kline. L. a. Kent, i. l.. Lockwood, II.
L. Meek, It. j. Mosher, j. M. Neuberger,
+. j. Potts, w. NJ Sweeney, a. NJ. Trav-
ers, w. Y. Young, r. Z. Micnaels D. w.
Canfield, A. T.. Lurty. II. Y. Chatterly
n. b. Sellers. c. H. Coffin, A. w. Werm-
), niger, r. Woods Brown, a. II. Harris
j. NJ Waller, W. R. Robbins, a number
OF visitors from other ass ociatsons, and
several local agents who had grev.
4 ances to lay before the general and
special agents.
The meeting was called to order in
room $40. the sky rarlor of the Jeffer-
son, at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
Mr. Robert Lecky, of this city. secre-
tary of the Virginia State Insurance
!, Company, and as representative Of tn:
Virginia special and general agents
/, extended to the West Virginia under
writer's a most cordial welcome tc
Richmond. In conclusion hs extended
. an invitation to the visitors to be the
: guests of the Richmond general agents
l at Lakeside for dianer and genera
!. good time last evening. The Invitation
: was accepted
The business that came before thu
body was in nature private. and bu
!, little OF the details was given out
: Complaints of number of local agent
81 were read, and some were made Orall.
. by others who had come on for tina
: purpose. 1t seems that the business Q
1f the association Is to protect ! is mem
J. hers, Its companies and its local agents
:. and in such manner as may DO Lawful
:. and proper to maintain rates at
$ fair .live and let live figure. All tn
, discussions yesterday bore upon dies
:. points.
70 Afternoon Session.
xt The afternoon session was devote
" entirely to the hearing ana the dispo
b sition of the complaints of local agen
cies. and those complaints were abou
too much competition. A special com
3 mittee Of five was appointed to settl
some cut rate matters that had com
Z up from Bluefeld and other point
y md report at the annual meeting to b
held in March. The exact date !
March and the place for the annuf
III meeting were left to the cXecuti,
committee
Several matters of Importance to tt
craft We're refered to the eXecutiN
committee with power to act. and
al that way the association finished U
10 its business yesterday afternoon. tt
O. election of officers does not take plat
IL until the March meeting.
az At 6 o'clock the association four
" special trolley cars at the Main Stree
g. entrance Of the Jefferson TO taxi
lie them to Lakeside Park. &
le- The festivities at Lakeside We're ii
Ne formal and there WAS no speech-lnakir
n,t except in am informal way. A lY,
cheon was spread and tina lnsuran'
a men enjoyed the beauties of the PAL
ed by moonlight. They returned to Il
ne city about / o'clock,
~ All the insurance men hold Jane
OK town tickets and during to-day the
m, Will leave to sec the exposition, Son
ne Will remain several days. Many of u
ew delegates are. accompanied by the
as Wives. vi 81.
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