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Insurance. The Firemen's Insurance Co. of Newark, one of the world's largest fire and casualty insurance companies, last week consolidated with Commercial Casualty Insurance Co. of Newark, on a basis of ten shares of Firemen's for nine shares of Commercial Casualty. Capital of the merged companies will total...
...fire companies more or less organized this system, providing an engine house for the pump, and delegating only a certain proportion of the population to the duty of fire fighting. At every outbreak, the firemen of different ranks were there in full regalla, distingulshed by white leather painted caps with gilded fronts, ornamented by the insignia of the engineers, fire wardens, or ordinary firemen. The mayor, recorder, and aldermen were also supposed to be present, although their value as fire-fighters was problematical, and could be known by their white wands with a gilded flame at the top. Perhaps...
Heading south, last fortnight, President-Reject Alfred Emanuel Smith paused at Savannah, Ga., to slide down a brass pole and thereby amuse southern firemen. Last week at Sarasota, Fla., winter headquarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites...
Died. Norman St. Clair Hales, actor of Freeport, L. I.; by falling through a Manhattan firehouse pole-hole on New Year's Eve. Firemen were in jeopardy; for receiving late visitors, for suspected revels...
Alarums and an excursion of hook-and-ladder details lifted from their desks several hundred inmates of the Harvard Inns of Court early yesterday evening when a holocaust was reported in the new Langdell Hall addition. The firemen, upon forcing an entrance to the rooms under construction, discovered pots of fire suspended from the ceiling under a newly applied surface of plaster...