Fire Insurance Development on the Pacific Coast (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Kirschner, Herbert H.

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ISBN 10: 1330447891 ISBN 13: 9781330447895

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Agents were given instructions as to the sort of risks to write. But often questions arose. In many cases property owners were delayed two and three months in their quest for insurance, while letters from the San Fran cisco agent traveled by pony express over the plains or vessel via the Isthmus of Panama to New York, and then proceeded on the slow return journey. There were a few cases where the building was destroyed by fire before the requested information reached the local agent. The mail situation resulted in daily reports being dispatched monthly.

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It is doubtful whether any business has had a greater influence upon the industrial growth of the Pacific Coast, and San Francisco in particular, than that of fire underwriting. As an example: Had it not been for the insurance indemnity afforded the community of San Francisco at the time of the 1906 conflagration, the great metropolis of the West might have been wiped out. never to be reconstructed. From the ashes, dust and ruins, insurance restored the baker, the butcher and the tailor. Figuratively, it put each and every line of endeavor "on its feet" again. So. over the entire Pacific Coast, the extension of fire coverage has been the business savior and stabilizer. Inasmuch as fire underwriting has been so prominently interlinked with the history of the West, the growth of fire insurance practices on the Pacific Coast has been flavored with that color and picturesqueness that have marked the development of this section of the country. "East is East, and West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet," said Rudyard Kipling, world-renowned author. From its inception, fire underwriting development on this Coast has been distinctively different from the growth of the business in Eastern centers. Even today the business is conducted in the East - the Eastern way; in the West - the Western way. Perhaps because "East is East, and West is West" (although Kipling had in mind the Orient and the Occident). The foregoing is our introduction to the following chapters devoted to the history of fire underwriting on the Pacific Coast.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330447891
• ISBN 13: 9781330447895
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 36