Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-17
UNDERWRITERS
SWARMING IN
TO CONVENTION
HUNDREDS TO ARRIVE TODAY
BY SANTA FE
ELABORATE PROGRAM PLANNED
FOR THE WEEK
Gathering Is Regarded as the Most
Important Thus Far Held by
Members of the National
Association

The nineteenth, and by far the most
important, convention of the National
Association of Life Underwriters will
take form in Los Angeles today by
the arrival of several hundred dele
gates at noon overt the Santa Fe. Af-
ter breakfast the, special train will stop
at Riverside for a ride in automobiles
and carriages along Magnolia avenue
and to Fullerton. The delegates will
spend the afternoon arranging for the
weeks stay here, and this evening they
will be guests at the Belasco theater
for the initial presentation of Nuts
burg Life Insurance"
The executive committee of the Los
Angeles association will meet this af-
ternoon to arrange final details in the
weeks program. The national asso-
citation is twenty-five years old, but 1t
has never before met on the coast and
some of the eastern members were
against a convention so far west, fear
ing that it was too large a gathering
to be well taken care of. Accordingly
the local men in charge of arrange
ments have exerted themselves to see
that California idea of a good time
is shown their fellow underwriters.
Session Opens Tomorrow
The sessions will open tomorrow
morning and the business end of the
convention will continue through
Thursday. All business sessions will
be held in Berean hail. on the second
floor of the Auditorium, 427 West Fifth
street, and will be open to the public.
The underwriters are anxious to have
any persons interested in learning of
the progress of life insurance attend
the meetings, as the addresses will be
full of information. They expect to
give a special welcome to any poll
tictans who may stray into the hall.
Tomorrow's session will be opened
at 10 o'clock with an invocation by
Rev. Baker P. Lee. Addresses of well
come will be delivered by Mayor A. G.
Harper, President George 1. Cochran
of the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance
company, and John w. Wilmington,
president of the Los Angeles Associa-
tion of Life Underwriters. Following
the officers reports and other routine
| business the local committees will an
nounce the weeks schedule.
| AT the afternoon session tomorrow r.
Myron Wolf, insurance commissioner
| of California, will make an address or
"The Relation of a State Insurance
Department to Those Who Buy and
| Sell Insurance" Charles Dobbs OF
Louisville, KY, associate editor of the
| Insurance Field, will speak on "Edu-
cation of the Agent" General topics
will be discussed under fiye-minute
unit.
Entertainments Planned
The Los Angeles association will en-
tertain the delegates and their ladies
W. h reception and ball at the Hotel
Virginia, Long Beach, Tuesday even
ing. Through the rest of the week and
until the guests leave for San Fran
cisco Saturday evening, the Los An
geles country will be covered from
Mount Lowe to Catalina, the regulation
trips being interspersed with numerous
special entertainments.
The local and national headquarters
are at Hotel Alexandria. The Salt
Lake and San Francisco delegations
will also open headquarters there to-
day. Louisville has been the leading
candidate for the 1908 convention, and
that city's headquarters will be main
tanned at the Alexandria in charge of
H. G. Powell. e. ]. Clark of Baltimore
is so far the leading candidate for
president.
The Los Angeles executive commit
tee, which has worked hard to perfect
arrangements for entertaining the
convention, consists of 1. ]. Muma,
chairman; G. S. Montgomery, secre-
tary; j. w. Wilmington, w. B. Stir
divant, ]. r. Norris E. L. Eldredge, j.
N. Russell Jr., F. N. Coffin, F. L.
Moses and ]. L. Collins.