Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-04
INSURANCE CO.
TO DO BUSINESS HERE.
". j. Gardner to Manage New
Concern.

The Commercial Casualty Insurance
Company, of this city, will definitely
announce within a few days when it
will be ready to do business. The en-
tire capital has beer subscribed and
the organization has proceeded to a
point where it can quickly be taken in
hand by the general manager and Sec
ond vice-president, William j. Gardner,
the announcement of whose election to
this important position has just been
made by the board of directors.
Mr.. Gardner is we'll known in the
casualty insurance world, and the
board of directors feel that they have
been very fortunate in inducing him to
cast his lot with the new company.
For the past four years he has been the
resident secretary and general manager
of the New York branch of the Aetna
Life's accident and liability depart
ment. His success in this position is
well-known in insurance circles and
speaks for itself. He is generally re-
garded by the men who know as one
of the best of the younger liability and
accident men in the country, and his
ability as an organizer and executive
is second to none. Mr.. Gardner will be
in the harness as Don as he Is relieved
of his present duties. and the hum of
preparation is heard in the local offices
of the company.
Speaking for the board of directors,
Edward w. Gray, secretary of the COM
pany, and n of it's originators and or
ganizers, a this to say:
we feel proud of the fact that we
have organized a company which we
have every reason to believe is destined
to become n of the great insurance
institutions CT New Jersey and of the
country. 1t has been organized on an
absolutely sound and substantial
basis; its board of directors is a most
representative body of men; it has Sc
cured as its general manager a young
n progressive man, clean cut, hon
est, capable and aggressive, and it will
begin to do business at a time when
the whole nation is pulsating with
the new prosperity that promises to
last for many years to come.
"A large volume of business is await
li.g the operation of the company in
New Jersey; the Greater New York
and the Philadelphia agencies are
practically organized and the work in
other fields is being pushed as rapid
-
ly as possible.
A the outset we shall devote our
selves particularly to personal acct
dent and health and ali the branches
of liability. We shall take up the lines
CT surety, fidelity bonds, burglary.
p~late-glass and boiler insurance. in
due course.
THE policy of the company will he
enc of progressive conservatism We
shall be up to date. alive to the needs
OF the hour, ready to take advantage
of our opportunities and shall base
our best hopes for success upon a
strict principle of actual service to the
public, but we shall prefer to build
SLOWLY safely, rather than to de-
eeive ourselves and our stockholders
with bic immediate profit effected by
The acceptance of questionable business.
We shall make it our consistent aim to
cultivate friendly relations with our
polleyholders and to show them by our
acts that we occupy toward each other
positions of mutual advantage.
"The directors feel hat the future
of the company is safe in the hands
of Mr.. Gardner. and that he is just the
kind of man to manage this kind OF
company"