50 50 fighting chicagos crime trusts
by henry barrett chamberlin
Author: henry barrett chamberlin
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...become even more systematized and by Seven 1912 it was admitted on all sides that half the city's annual loss was due to incendiarism. The annual tribute paid to the fire bugs by the honestly insured throughout the country estimated from the total in the United States and Canada for 1911 was figured at $257, 000, 000. It is the policy holders and not the companies that pay the incendiary's profits. Some insurance men denied the existence of an arson trust and laid the excessive fire losses in the United States other cities faced conditions similar to those in Chicago to frame construction. But Norway, Sweden and southern Germany also build wooden houses and their ratio of fires to ours is only one to eight or thirteen. Blame for the scandalous condition in this city appeared to lie between the insurance companies and the prosecuting authorities. The companies were issuing policies without inspection, or safeguard, or investigation to find out the character of the person asking insur-...
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