Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-02
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on one and pennant hopes than Nor,
MAJ iilil blood (apologies to TennSson)
IN Gnlcago last week during that
Pan VI, neck and neck race between
F. C.hicasn and New York In the Ma
lional, and Chicago and Cleveland III
lile american league, thousands Of
sIala business men greeting one am
utn n during the afternoon by asking
WHAT'S the score?' Elevator opera
tors IN office buildings conferred
earnestly with milIionaires as the
| cages shot up and down, while the
both waited for news from the Dattla-
helds. Messenger hoys We're called
INTO much-upholstered sanctums to re
port the latest bulletin and get a
quarter, IT was a period of tense:
anxiety beside which the recent finan-
cial furry was unimportant crowds
surrounded down town score boards
for hours and rich and poor We're fus
sed into true democratic brotherhood
!. by the weight of possible disaster and,
hope Of victory. One Chicago rooter
for the White aSoxs received through
the mails a postcard from Detroit to
which was pinned a dollar bill--the,
price CT admission to two games. The
card was inscribed:
Money to spare | never have;
Hard times, they are to blame.
But always4I give the price To see
a good old baseball game"
FIRE INSURANCE TROUBLES
The new militant mood of the coun-
strEss fire insurance interests it is said
win make a meeting of the Fire In-5
5derwriters' association of the north
west. i'll Chicago, Oct. I, something
of u milestone in fire insurance his
tory. Patience has ceased to be a
virtue" they say, the import OF the re-
mark being bestsunderstood by the fact
that in nearly every state or the Union
the fire Insurance companies are made
the target for one 10 81 varieties of
proposed legislation. most of 1t icing
aimed atany mutual interchange of
experience to enable each company to
adapt their rates to the comparative
hazard OF the different classes OF prop
erty. "antl-compact,' bills. so-caiied.
The fire losses in recent years have
been SO enormous that the Insurance
companies have seen wiped out the
profits of a score of years, mostly made.
in the Investment of the big sums of
money in their hands and not from
underwriting. which has not been Ero-.
fitable. A scientific REIMBURSEMENT OF
rates In their goal, that and the en-
actment of laws establishing the oihce&
of fire marshal WHOSE duty 1t Will be
to Investigate questionable fires and
bring incendaries to punishment,
arson having beer, encouraged In re-
cent years, according to the records,
particularly by valued policy" laws,
which eXactel the payment of a fixed
sum in the case or loss by fire. Fire
insurance officials and special agents
from o score Of states will be present
at the conference. The responsibility
.of the public to the insurance COM
panfes and the Importance to all bust
ness of sound insurance Will be SUD
jects of discussion.
The dedication of the S5,0OO,0OO3
court house of Cook County, October.
.9-.Chlcago day"--will be made a
large, brass band occasion. It all the.
invitations to civic organizations and
clubs should be accepted the ", 49,
900 cubic feet Of space in the bullains
would not be enough. and an oHerlloW
meeting in the streets, for half mile
or SO would ensue. AS many orators
on that occasion will proudly declare,
it is the largest county building IN the
Uunted states. more than twice tue
size of the one il replaced. Probably
no tactless illusions will be made to
the fact that the cost was less than
half the cost of the other. owing TO
the exigencies OF early day politics
and the spoils thereof. The caissons
under the structure extend ll6 feel
downward to solid rock. and contain
twice as much concrete as would
make bulk as bic as the Auditorium
tower. Next door, Chicago's dlngY
city rallis dwindling under the hands
OF the wrecking gang. Another year
ana the megaphone man on the rub,
abernecls wagon will point TO q twin
structure beside the court house, as
the new city hall" The county was
in much better shape to build home
than was the city. Its revenues are
not to be sneezed at, being almost
$4,000. 900 a year from taxes and over.
$1,000. 600 year from the earnings OF
the fee offices. The regular expenses
however are in proportion the salary
list lotalinc. over $2.5O0. 100 a year. a h