Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 12, 1872, Page 4

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CONTENTS OF TO-DAY'S TRIBUNE. £IRST PAGE—Adrertisements. SECOND PAGE—Ald for Boston: Mecting of Citlzens 8t the Obamber of Commerce Yesterday—tome In- suranco Company—The Counts Board—Our Equine Patients—The Law Courts—Genera) Nows ltcms. THIRD PAGE—Condition of the Insurance Companies— Relief and Aid Socisty—The Cityln Briof—Governor Eoorner; How He has Fultilled 1its Trost as Rail- rond and Warchouse Commissioner—Lllinois Flec- tion Returns—The Zuni Villages—Railroad Time Table—Adrertisements. FOURTH PAGL—-Editorials : Boston's .Rocuperative Powers; Our Firo Apparatus—Current News Items — Advertisements. FIFTH PAGE—Common Council: Precautionary Mea- sures Against ¥ire in Qur Uninsured City—Adser- tisements. SIXTH PAGE-Monetary and Commercial—Marine Ta- telligence. SEVENTH PAGE—The Arkansas Bandit—General La- fasotte's Watch—Small Advertiscments: Real Es tate, For Sale, To Rent, Wanted, Boarding, Lodg- 1og, Ete. EIGHTH PAGE-Further Particulars of the Boston Calumity: Losses, Insurance ‘Tuesdsy Morning, November 12+ 1872, The right of way into Chicago has been given by the Common Council to the Canada South- em and Chicago and Tllinois River Railroads. . P ———— The Common Council have finally passed the ordinance for the purchase of what is known as the Walker lot, on which twater works are to be erected for the West Side. Houses are rapidly reappearing in the strects of Chicago. Nearly all the stage companics will fally resume travel to-day; the cars are still dependent upon their dummies, Only 142 deaths have occurred so far. Thisalight mortal- ity, and the speedy recovery of the suffcring horees have banished the apprebension that the ill effccts of the attack might be felt through “he winter. High mensard roofs served ss distributing reservoirs for the flames at the Boston fire, and sre believed to have cost that city 25,000,000 New York has the good tense and the good fortune to learn 2 lesson from this experience of others, and tbrough her Common Couxcil, yeetorday, for ‘ade any farther erection of MMarsard roofs un- Jess built of fire-proof materials. Mayor Medill, in view of tbe possibitity of another conflagration in this city, and the insc- curo condition of ineurance, rccommendod the Common Conncil, last night, to purckase four- teen large Babcock engines, aud fonr of the portable engines for each Police Station, to order the construction of a tower with an alarm bell, to add 75 or 100 policemen to the present force, and to sink s well at the end of each street running to the river. Boston finds it neceseary, as Chicago did, to reinforce her police with the military. Fifteen ‘hundred soldiers are in the streets aiding in the preservation of order end property {hreatened by the spirit of mad license which great calam- ity always excites among the abandoned clasaes. An additional reason for this precaution is the irruption of New York ronghs, who are pouring into Bostoa by the car load. The advices received from tho ingnrance com- panies involved in the Boston fire are, on the whole, of & cheering charscter. Their lossesare very emall when measured by the extent and magnitude of the conflagration. Very fow, if any, of the companies doing business here (except Boston ones) willbe obliged to saccumb, The ability of the companies to confront future firea s, however, impaired to the precise extent of their Boston Iosses. It may be assumed, there- fore, that insurance, even in sound companies, is worth rather less than before, althongh rates may be advanced. There is no help for this, ex- cept the subscription of new capitsl. The financial disastersresulting from the Bos- ton fire have been less marked than those fol- lowing the Chicago fire. Stocks opened at an average decline of 5 per cent, but soon recov- ered one-half of the depreciation, while the scenes of panic ferror on the New York Stock Exchange were insignificant, s compared with 1hose witnessed one year and one month ago. The intervention of Sundayhas probbly con- “ribnted to modify the feeling, while the fact that the loss is congiderably less than ours, and the smitten community more able to bear it, hag contributed even more to prevent a stampede, ‘The Chicago mopey market exhibited no agi- ¢ation in consequence of the Boston fire. There was & glight disposition to panic in the grain markets early yesterday morning, butno other branch of trade wss affected. The decline in Government bonds from the prices of Saturday a8 an average of less than1 percent. Prices of railway stocks, however, have been infiated for2 month past, and any unfavorabls event would bave tzken the wind ont. The average decline of the leading epeculative stocks, at the first call Festerday morning, was nearly 10 per cent, butby 2 o'elock there wes s genersl re- covery, so that the average decline from Satur- day's prices was not over 4 per cent. We print elsewhere in this issue s letter from ex-Governor Koerner in reply to certein charges made against him by Mr. B. . Morgan, Jr., oue of his associates on the Bailway and Warchonse Commission, Governor Koerner fails to find any taugible cliarges in Morgan's « publication, bu: indignantly repels the in- sipuation that he liad been more favorable to the railroads in ihe discharge pf his duty as Commissioner than he sbould have been. Governor Koerner also anjmadverts se- wverely upon the circumstance that o gentleman, with whom ke had been intimately aseociated so long, should have published such statements as Mr. Morgen made, immediately befora the elec- tion, and whenhe had nomeans of repiying to them in time to counterect their influence upon the peaple. : Our commercial columns yesterdsy contasned the astounding announcement that George Ar- ties of the late grain warehouse firm of Munn & Seott, have been obliged to buy up puper to the extent of 40,000 bushels of wheat, and not less than 475,000 bushels of corn ; that being the ex- cess of paper over the amount of grain in the clevators. It is stated that Munn & Scott ad- mitted a liability for promises for 20,000 bush- els of wheat, and 300,000 bushels of corn ; and even those large amounts were far short of the actual deficits. Even with all this, the incom- ing firm has felt iteelf justifiedin repudiating several receipts issued by Munn & Seott, and in cautioning the public against the negotiation of other receipts issued byMann & Seott, but not countersigned by them. The exhibit is a most lamentable one, and shows in a glaring light the evils made pos- sible andor tho old regime, which recent legisle~ tion is intended to provent in the fature. After all, it is consoling to know that the ome rotten spot in our warchouse system has beon eradicated with so little injury to the grain- dealing publi At the time of the Chicego fire, it was quitea common practice among certain clergymen to attribute the destruction of our city to a visita- tion of Divine Providence upon us for our mani- f01d sins and transgressions. It now devolves upsn these same clergymen to explain how it is that Boston, which has alwaye had the reputa- tipn of being & good city, bas just experienced a fiery visitation almost as terrible as ours. If Chicago, being a wicked city, was punished, why was Boston, being & good city, punished in the same manner ? There is & little inconsistency in cause and effect, which these clergymen should clear up. Rov. Henry Ward Beacher, who always has a happy way of looking at things from 8 common-sense point of view, in his sermon on Sunday, scouted at the ides of & Divine visitation of wrath, and lay the blame on the narrow, crooked streets and Mansard roofs. This is the view which most people will take of it, but it does not relievo us from the odinm which theee clergymen have thrown upon us. If they are convinced now that theyare mis- taken, or if they have any method of explaining this apparent conflict in the dispensation of Divine justice, they should at once relieve us. The merchants and business men of Chieago, at their meeting at the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday. gave ovidence of their heartfelt sym- pathy with the sufferers by the Boston conflagra- tion in 2 manner which cannot fail, we think, to Pprove as grateful to them as the munificent gen- erosity of Boston was to us in our own calamity. One hundred thousand dollars of the funds Leretofore contributed for he relief of Chicago were trausferred by the Chicago Rolicf and Aid Society to the snfferers in Dos- ton, snd, in addition, our own citi- zens subscribed about fifty thousand dollars for the same purpose. Out of what romains to s from the wreck and ashes of our own dis- anler, wo are raising a fund, every dollar of which is sajted by tho tears of our own suffer- iog. What way be the fature extent of these efforts will dopond, doubtleas, on what may gcom 1o be the opportunity for trus and prac- tical relicf. At ail events, we have tried to speak In golden syllables s few true words of aympaiby, and chocr to one of tho noblest cities in tho world lu return for the more then gener- ous Kinitntr3s mamfested by her citizens toward usa year ago. — The Chicago produco markets were weak yes- teriay, aud most of them were dull, owing to pressaro to sell, due to fears that the money market will b rendered stringent and insur- anco unsottled by the Doston fire. Mess pork ‘was dull and easier, at $15.00 for old; $13.75@ 14.00 fornew, and $12.40@12.50 for do seller December or seller March, Lard was dull and easlor &£ 75@75¢c for cash or seller December, 2nd 73¢@77%c seller March. Meats were more active, but » ahads easier, part salted bemg quoted at 43¢c tor ehonlders, T@7ge for short xibs, and 8¢ for short clear. Highwines were more active and firm, closing at 90c per gellon. Lake freights wero dull, and 134clower, at 9¢ for corn, and 10c for wheat, to Buffalo. Flour was moderately active, and easier. Wheat was less active, and 4@4}c lower, closing firn at $1.02% seller the month, and £1.03%¢ seller December. Corn was dull, and %c lower, closing at 81} ecller the month, and 3l¢ seller December. Oats were dull and 2¢ lower, closing at 20@20%c seller the month, and 21@21c scllor Novomber. Tyowas dull and 1@2¢ lower, closing at 51@52¢c. Barley +was dull, and declined 1c, closing st 53¢ for No. 2, and 48c for No. 3. The hog market was dull and wesk for all grades save choice Leavy, which were in demand at full rates. There wes little doing in the cattle and sheep markets, and prices were nominally unchanged. BOSTON'S RECUPERATIVE POWER. More careful estimates than could be made while the fire was raging in our sister city now Teduce the Josses to eighty or one hundred mill- ioms. Of this sum = moderate portion will fellon the insurance companies, and a very considersble part will be borne by wealthy estates, like the Sears estate, and the Everott estate, which will still be left with millions after deducting all their losses. A statement fur- niehed by the New York insuzince companies ghowa that thirty-eight Now Yor. compenies have risks in Boston amountiig to 57,789,553 twenty-two companies in other States have in- surance in Boston amounting to £85,415,811, and six foreign companies Liave risks amounting to 826,228,362, The st is incomplete, but tends to show thst the total amount of rigks held by all companies jn Boston must bo nearly two hundred millions, of which thirty millions perhaps will fall within the burned djs~ trict. ‘The insurance losses are lessened by tho fact that the heavier losers had practised waat is absurdly styled “insuring themselves.” If the total logsin Boston foots up at £90,000,~ 000, and the insurango companies pay from 20,000,000 to $30,000,000, ag is probable, there is 1o reason to regard the destruction of the re~ meining sum of $60,000,000 or 70,000,000 as 8oy permanent blow to the prosperity of that city. The mnet loss will be about half that of Chicago in our great fire, and it will fall upon & community av- exaging threo timesas much wealth per capita 2sourown. Boston is the wealthiest city in the United States in proportion to population, excepting, perhaps, Providence, Jt8 Joss, rela~ 1ively fo is resources, is about cre-sixty 28 great as our own, and from this Toss it will rige in triumph, restoring its burned district to more then {is former grandeur and wiility, without the necessity of horrowing abroad a singla dollar of capital. lis banke, hotels, churches,” public buildings and records, schoals, manufactures, retail trade, residence property, and nezrly all its ordinary means of industry and enjoyment, | lines of its wholesale trade ave impaired, and these will be promptly restored. While the losses occur in the portion of the city in which the totals loom up largest, they render very few people homeless, they bankyupt comparatively few small traders, and, so far a3 inconvenience may visit the labor- ing class, they will soon be forgotten in the creased wages which will result from the ex- penditure of forty or fifty millions in rebuilding the burnt district, and of a like further sum in restoring the destroyed goods, a large portion of which were of New England manufacture. Tn all these particulars Clicago was'at o dis- advantage, compared with Boston, which even the late appalling calamity will but feebly aid the latter to appreciate. e had lost our public records, and thorein nearly ail tho evidences of title to all the lands, not only in the ‘burned district but outside of it. We had 60,000 homeless poor, not a few of whom had been ac- customed to homes of lusury and lives of ease. The aven burned over was twenty-nine times ag great as that burned in Boston, and, though much of it was not compactly oce cupied, yot it was all occupied by something. About three hundred acres of our business dis- trict would compare somewhat favorably in compactness, and in the permanence and dura- bility of our buildings, with the hundred scres burned in Boston, though 1o portion of our city had 80 narrow streets, or so generally high structures. Even prior to the fire we had been large borrowers of forcign capital, while Boston even after rebuilding, will be & large lender of capital to other cities and sections, Our public buildings, more than half our churches, nesrly all our hotols, all our wholesale houses of every kind, all onr banks, insurance companies, newspapers, rail- road depote, and commereial houses generally, were burned out, and over more than o third of our city, including the very heart of it. Noth- ing wasleft bu t pavements, and plnck. Boston Las had a severe fire, but we heartily congratu- late the “ Hub " on being epared from a calamity that can rival our own of last year. Yot we al- ready begin £0 sce, in the rebuilding of Chicago, tho rise of & city more uniformly elogant, com- modious, imposing, and agreesble as a place of business and of residence, than could ever have occupied this site but for the fire. We have mot yet reached the point where the fire ap- pears essential fo our prosperity, or even s blessing of any sort in disguise. Yot wo do perceive that, ata day not distant, our city will be a far nobler one, architecturally, than it could have been without the fire. Bat, while Wo havo boen compelled to plunge deeply into debt to restoro our position, Boston can call in tho capital necessary for her wants by eolling some of her Government, railway, and State bonds. The sixty or seventy millions will come to her onthe street the moment she asks for it. Her great publishing houses, newspepers, hotels, public buildings, record offices, banks and two-thirds of her morcantile houses are untouched. Sho has no reason, therefore, for despair, and will not feel bowed by her disaster. She will do well to wipe out 8ome of her crooked lanes snd cow-paths, throw their space into & fow broader streets, and rebuild her burned district with fire-proof buildings. Let her abjure all wooden roofs and all Mansards, all wooden floors, parti- tions, beams, girders, and supports of every kind. Let her make her buildings actually fire- proof by using in their construction the very minimum of combustible matter,—iron, slate, tile roofs, tile floors, and iron ceilings and sup- ports. Rebuilt in this style, Boston would, in a few years, gravely doubt whether her great fire ‘was & disaster, or whether it wss an indispensa- ble condition to the needed improvement of tho city. OUR FIRE APPARATUS. 1t is possible that-moat of the people of Chi- cago have regarded the firs of & year ago as one of those extraordinary events that could notbe ropeated in & thousand yoars, but the fire in Bos- ton ehows that it is liable to happen at any time. It will hardly bo assumed that there was ang- thing supernataral in sithor the Chicago or Bos- ton fires ; and, as these fires wore the natural re- “sult of the violation of plain and well-understood laws, it becomesa question how much, it any- thing, we aro better able now to contend against such a fire, than we were a year ago. Then we had an inefficient and demoralized fire brigade ; then there was an insufficiency of fire apparatus, and of men to work it; there wasa shocking want of hose, suitable for the purpose. We had asupply of water dependent upon the undisturbed operation of a siogle pump. We had a city built of wooden buildings, or where there were stone, iron, or brick exterior walls. The interiors were all wood, and, ina majority of cuses, the structures were surmounted by lumber yards in the shape of Mansard roofs. How much better are we gituated to-day? In those districts to the south and southwest, and north and north- west, the number of wooden buildings is greater than it was on the 1st of October, 1871. We have put up an increased number of iron, stone, and brick buildings, but we have not changed their interiora, Ninety per cent of all theso Dbnildings are entirely wooden, except a shell or veneering of brick or stone on the outside, pin- ned to wood, and, in case of fire, certain to fall withit. We have & better organized, but wholly insdequate Fire Department. Tho apperatus and the hose might be doubled in number, and yet be inadequatp for any serious fire, We have & polics force which is numerically too small, and which, therefore, leaves the city at night but poorly protected. Our water-supply has not been increassd, On tho 8th of Octobor, 1871, the property which next day was destroyed was supposed to b2 covered by $100,000,000 of insurance, of which aboyb one-half was realized. That fire cartied down 2n immgnse amount of insurance capital, Those who survived came forth with reduced ability to meet subsequent calgmi The Boston fire will unquestionably carry down 'many New England compsanies that outlived the Chicago fire, but hoy will if leave those who are &blo to meet this ad 8l heavy loss? Should = third firo gecur, destroying fifty millions of in- sured property, how much would insurance then be worth? How much is insuranee worth when it is known that the next great fire may break every Jarge American company left standing by the Boston fire ? However secure each person may feol in case of & fire of small extent, we are practically, i ¢aSe of alego conflagration, a5 m2ch without ineurance 45 ‘o' Were ho day after tho OctoycT fre of 1871, The ingurance wo had on last Sgturdsy 188 ceased to bo of any | value in cuse of another large fire, and such a fire is shown to bo not an imposaible evené; Wo should resort, therefore, tosuch precau- | tionary measures as will supply some of these doficiencies. A querter of a million of dollars better than three times that amount expended in insurance premiums at tus time. We want our Fire Department recruited by large number of additionel engines; we want an additionsl supply of good hose, equal to the increased ser- vice. Inetead of one Babcock apparatus on wheelg, we want a dozen, to be placed where they can be used to extingnish incipient fires. ‘We want atleast ono hundred additional night patrolmen, uniting the fanctions of policemen and auxiliary firemen. We want & dozen moro practical men as fire-wardens, to thoroughly in- &pect every building where thero aro engines, boilers, machinery, and inflammable material. We wanb every police station supplied with fire extinguishers, that, upon the first alarm, they may be employed. Until we can duplicate our water supply, we should make use of such facilitios as are at hand. Vells connected with the river can be sunk at all tho stroet crossings for half & dozen blocks east, west, and north of the river and its branches, and an unfailing sup- ply of water thus maintained for tho fire ap- paratus. Inshort, we must become our own insurers to the extent of adopting every precau- tion to prevent fire, and to arrest it at the begin- ning. True, the city has no money, but this is & pressing emergency. Our want of means. has loft the municipal authorities unable to put the Fire or Police Department in efficient order. The failure of & large number of our richest men, bankers, and real estate owners, to pay their taxes has crippled the public authorities. Bat the City Government must meet the emer- gency. The senson of fires is now upon s, and we must not sit down expecting Providence to prevent fires when we can do 50 much to avert them ourselves, POLITICAL. Returns are coming in more favorable to James Black, the Temperance cendidato for President, than to O'Conor, the Bourbon-straight candi- date. —At tho close of the year, andpractically even oW, the Government of New York City is in the hands of the supporters of the National Admin~ istration. ~It is formally announced, as if by authority, that Governor Boutwell will not remain in the Cabinet after tho 4th of next March, and that he will be a candidate for Mr. Wilson's placs in the United States Senate. ~—Frank Bird, for Governor, ran ahesd of Greeley in Massachusetts, nd the threat of the “Young Democracy” to give him a liberal scratching smounted to nothing. —In spito of that sudienco at the White House, Colonel Forney is still nervous and un- happy in his mind. Witness the following para- graph: 1f there is anything of which General Grant has s borror it is cheating in eloctions. With his just and impartial mind he cannot close his eyes to the fact that in our recent contest fraud reigned paramount, Fraud was King, and Le will roject with ineffablo scorn the idea that his nsme should bave been used for the apology of corruption in elections ; and yet the men 'who perpetrated these frauds will come in and demand Tewards for their perfidy. —It is currently reported in_ Cincinnati that Richard Smith, of the Gazelle, is getting ready to run a Municipal Reform canvass in the spring. Afr. Charles Thomas is his candidate for Mayor, —The Springfield Republican says : Henry Ward Beecher lately notified General Grant and friends that he should indulge in great plainnesa of specch on certaln points after the clection, The election is over, Brother Beecher, —*The Republican party,” says Senator An- thony, ** with its incroased power sccepts the corresponding responsibility.” That is & word the better class of Republicans cannot hear too often just now, or ponder t0o sericusly—respon- sidility. It means a great deal to them, and to the country. * —John P. Jones, the 8an Francisco operator in the Comstock lode and Novada politics, is conceded to have made sure his election to the United States Souate, vice Jim Nye. It cost him a trifle over £300,000. —The St. Louis Democrat (Grant) eays Frank Blair will bave not a few competitors for the seat be holdsin the Senato, and pames as such Colonel William H. Hatch, of Hannibal, and ex- Licutenant Governor Thomas C. Reynolds, The Democrat says Gratz Brownison the side of Blair, and Schurz against him. is doubtless idle to talk of beating Conk- ling in the next Legislature of New York, and yet many paragraphs in Grant newspapers point to ex-Governor Morgan as & favorite for Sena- torial honors. Conkling will be eligible to & seat on the beochof the United States Supreme Court after tho noxt 4th of March, and Governor Morgan may not have long to wait. ~—Theodore Gibbs, one of the Grant Con- gressmen elected in Tonnegseo is the * Frank Lumbard” of his district. He sung his way to an election. —Lewis Heyden, an “ex-slave,” who helped “Shadrack” on his way to Canads in the days of tho Fugitive Slave law, and who is employed in the office of the Secrotary of State, at Boston, i elected to the Masgachusetts Legislature for the aristocratic State Houso ward. —The Now Bedford AMercury relates a little perable—with a political application—about a ship-owner, who, whon his whaler, the Eliza Jane, came'in “clean,” complacently remarked: *Well, well, it isn’t 80 bad after all; she hag her casks ready for another voyage!” —The Democracy beat “the Whig party for twenty years. That party then changed its name to Republican, ‘and has been in the ag- cendency for the last twelve years, The old whigs did not believe that a name should stand in the way of success. Ideas are what men should fight for, and not names.—Cincinnatti Znguurer, T — Shirt Manufacture. A neatly-fitting shirt with an immaculate bosom is & possession which gives the wearer o fecling of confi- dence in public places, no matter what sizo his boots may be, Porter &Hoyt, in ono of the elegant stores in McVicker's Theatre, have reduced shirt making toa science, and guarantee their patrons excellent goods, an admirabls fit, and perfect satisfaction, and have 2o doubt that a trial will convince the most skeptical, —_— Centenary Church Sociable will transpire this (Tuesdsy) evening, from 7:30 to 10:30, in the very pleasant parlors of this Church, The pastor, Dr. Fowler, moving to Evanston, his Dew dield of labor, his friends will be pleased to enjoy this Social Lour with him, —_—— —The Marquis of Westminster has been fur- nishing his London house with a ceiling of Spanish mahogany, two feet thick, and elabor- ately carved, together with a cornice of polishad abony, throé fect wide, costing o trife of $110,- 000. INSURANCE. RELIABLE INSURANCE. Citzens Tusuranca o, NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, right, INSURANCE. INSURANCE. The old established and relia- ble Insurance Agency of ARTHUR G, DUCAT: EXL O DI TEy INSURANCE CO. OF N. Y. ORGANIZED, 1853._ Cash Capital, - - $2,500,000.00. Total Assets, - - 4,250,000.00. CITIZINS’ INSURANCE CO. OF N. Y. ORGANIZED, 1836. Cash Capital, - - $300,000.00 Total Assets, - - 750,500.00 HOWARD INSURANCE CO. OF N. Y. ORGANIZED, 1825. Cash Capital, -~ - $500,000.00. Total Assets, - - 700,000.00. MANHATTAN FIRE SURANCE CO. OF N. Y. ORGANIZED 1872. Cash Capital, - - $250,000.00. NATIONAI, INSURANCE CO. OF N. Y. ORGANIZED 1838. Cash Capital, - - $200,000.00. Total Assets, - - 300,000,00. Providence Washington INS. CO. OF PROVIDENCE, R. I, ORGANIZED,1799. Cash Capital, - - $200,000.00, Policies issued on good property, as herctofore, at Office, corner Market and Madison Streets, over Union National Bank. TELEGRAMS RECEIVED: *“ The Boston losses of the Home does not ex- ceed One Million of Dollars, With present as- sets, no stronger Comgsmy on the Continent." . A F. WILLMEARTIL, Vice-President Home Insurance Company, of New York, *‘Howard does not Tose a dollar in Boston.” A A. OAKLEY, President Howard Insurance Company, of New York, “With Eight Hundred and Fifty Thousznd Assets, we_shall lose Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand by the Boston Fire, and are ready for all good business that offers.” E. A. WALTON, Secretary Citizens' Insnrance Company, of New York. “ Manhattan is all right. Go abead with business.” A. J. SITIL President Manhattan Fire insurance Company, of New York. “Loss at Boston, One Hundred and Forty Thousand. We have the necessary amount to il up capital. We are now doing husiness.” NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY Of New York, “Our Boston losses do mot equal helf onr assets.” * JOHN KINGSBURY, President Providence Washington Insarance Company, of Providence, R, 1. Manhattan Fire Insurance Company, New York : ** Assets, Four Hundred and Thirty Thonsand Dollars, *Boston losses, only Thirty Thowsaind Dollars,” ” A._J. SMITH. President Manlattan Fire Insurance Company, Nev York. Insurance Treadway & Jewell, Auents Lycoming Tostrance Co. Munocy, Penn. No Losses to Lycoming at Boston. J. W. CHAMBERLIN & C0., Managers East, Dept, Despatch received 9:30 8. m.. Nov. 1, 1872. TREADWAY & JEWELL, Agents, Treadway & Jewell, Agents German Ins, Co, Eri, Pena,, No, 75 South Canal-st, Chicago, Il German all right, Loss very light, M. SCHLANDECKER, President, Despateh received 9:45 a. m., Nov, 11,1872, TREADWAY & JEWELL, Agents, Treadway & Jewell, Agexts Pern Fire Ins, C0, of Pennsylvania. Loss $23.000. Go ahead. CHAS, H, STOKES. President. Company all Despatch received Nov,11,4:15 p.m. Capital aHSurplus, $352,900. mpany had no agency in Eostdu, “and is not b b the Great Conflagration. THOMAS GOODIAN, Agent, 188 and 190 Madicon-st, | HANBURG- BREMEN Fire Insurance Co., OF HAMBURE, GERMANY. Tosses in Boston smell, We continue to ‘write, as heretfore, on Mercantile and Dwell~ leg, [HENRY GREEVEZAUM ¢ 00, < Agents, 16 - ‘canal-st. " coxmiD WiTROWsKE, INSURANCE, THE TRADERS Cash Capital, Capital, invested in NSURAREE GO, OF! CHICAGO. Office, 25 and 27 Elia?nber of Ccnmerce, TiA SALIIE-ST. $500,000, Invested in Registered Bonds of the United Statis, Nov. 1, 1872, Surplus over $100,000, Trom which its Boston Losses will he paid prompy. No other similar institution has ever been organized with a full paid Registered Bonds, of its own Government, based upon the prosperity of the whole nation. v OFFICERS: ) : s s : B. P, Hutchinson, Pres't, 8, A Kent, Vice Pres't. Wi, E. Rollo, Sed'y, DIRFOTORS:: B. P. Hatctlason. 2. W. Pragton. Nachan Corwith. E. A. Keat, New York. G Blair. R John Buckmabim. e e 8. A, Keat,_ Villiam E. Doggett. . L. Parker. Charies P, Kellogg. Gharles B. Pope. B, E Macph? Charies Comatock, G Chimslin: Asa Dow. Wllixm Dlckeneon. W' D. Houghtelisg. V. H. Marray. £, Sravoas. Guurge Ellison. . G Runnty: 2N Jones, Suffalo, N. Y. C. E. Culver. Robert Warrea, Murshall Field, o+ K. Fisher. A. S. Burt. J. M. Richmond, Buffalo, N.Y. H. A. Hurlbut. Howard Priestly. MHE WESTERN ASSURANCE C0. Of Toronto, Canada. Capital and Assets $1,000,000, $200,000 of which has been deposited with] the State Auditor at Springfield, this State, as per advices received from the Hon. C. E. Lippincott. WIL. E. ROLLO, Agent, - 25 and 27 Chamber of Commerce. that its responsibility will not WML, Ei. Tocal and General Agent, 25 OFFICE WESTERN DEPAR Girard Ins, Co, of Philadeleh Chicago, Nowv.11,1872, By telegram received this morning from the Secretary of the Girard, I am informed that its Boston losses are small, and SLENT 1, ool m Sre e be affected thereby. ROLIO, and 27 Chamber of Commeree, REVIABLE INSURANCE. NDERWRITERS ACENCY, OF NEW YORX. Gash Assels, - 84,000,000, cThe following telegram was received yesterday (Monday) : New York, Nov. 11, 9:50 a.m. David Beveridge, AdjtT, care Jas. B. Floyd, Agent, Chicago, 11 % Qur Boston losses will not exceed One Xillion Dollars ($1,000,000), and will be paid as promptly as were our Chi- cago losses, (Signed) A, STODDART, Gen’l Agent, Reliable Insurance Will continue to be furnished by JAMES B. FLOYD, 168 LaSalle-st., Bryan Block. DSTrECE GOy orF OFFICE: 1i0. 135 BROADWAY, Cash Capitel, - - - - $2,500,00000 Assels, Ist Jul, 1872, - - $4.303,56451 Lighies, - - - - - $174,00859 Abstract of the Thirty-Fighth Semi-Arnnal Siatement Showing the Condition of the Com- pany on the st day of July, 1872, Assets: Cash, ¥ Bank, Bonds and mortgages, being first lien Estate, worth $4,79,500... Lozns on Stocks, pssablo on demand (mare ket value of sacurities, 879.013), . UNITED STATES STOCK. $164,000 6per cent B'ds 1861, macr- Kot salue.... -.$18,805.00 120,00 Currency 6, marketvalas 172,500.00 750,000 5-20 Bonds of 1834, market STATE BONDS, VIZ. §20,000 Tenesseo Bonds, . 2,000 South Carolina Honds, Interest due on Ist July, 187, Balanco In hand of Agents, prge Salvages, aud othor miscellaneons ftoms. 1;’,'5?3 Premiums due and wncollected on policies fs. sued at this office Tatal.,. Claims for losses ontstanding on Ist July, 1672 §174,000.5 CHARLES J. MARTIN, Pregident, AP WILLMARTH, Vice President, D. A BEALD, Second Vice President J. B. WASHBURY, Secretary. GEO. M. LYON, Assistant Secretary. T. B. GREENE, Second Assistant Secratary., A C. DUCAT, AGENT,- Corner Madison and Market-sts., Ohicego. The following despatch hos been receiyed from tho Home ; RS 70 GENERAL ARTHUR G, DIICAY, Objeago: Home's losses will 5ot excead one milliog; with proseny assots thero 13 10 stronger Company on the Contineot. ARTHUR F. WILLMARTH, Vico Presidont Home Ins. Co. of New York, DEWITT O, CREGIER, P, G. M. SCALES. MASONIC. FAIRBANKS® STANDARD MASONIC. i pase meeting of the Masontc Frataroily of this, ity SCAL mHS cvoning, 8¢7 3 o west SIS, wotske mach netion o8 ey bo To- OF ALL SIZES, quired ia betmlf of ‘our brethren ia, Baston, who arg FATRBANKS, MORSE&00 sufferera by tho recent disastrous fixe 1o that city. it » » every craftemsn attend. £ WEST WASHINGION-ST,