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Excerpt from Lectures on Fire Insurance: Being the Substance of Lectures Given Before the Evening Classes in Fire Insurance Conducted by the Insurance Library Association of Boston During the Fall and Winter of Nineteen Hundred and Eleven and Twelve In offering to readers this volume of lectures on Fire Insurance the trustees of The Insurance Library Association are actuated solely by a desire to be helpful in the movement for the better training of young men, which seems now to be general throughout the country. The lectures themselves were delivered before students in evening classes formed to aid men in their preparation for the examinations of the Insurance Institute of America. It is not supposed that they possess in all cases either exceptional originality of thought or exhaustiveness of treatment. The lecturers are men engaged as managers, inspectors, engineers or attorneys at law, in the successful performance of exacting duties. Lack of time alone, from the insufficient hours of days already filled with labor, rendered impossible the extended research and comprehensive comparison indispensable to works of pure scholarship. The aim has been to combine theory with practice and to present problems from the standpoint of the beginner. If the reader has been made to see the inherent difficulties of many of these problems it is felt that he will have been helped more than if offered easy solutions which seem simple but do not solve. The Association is greatly indebted to the lecturers all of whom have offered their services freely. Especially is it indebted to Frank M. Forbush, Esq., attorney-at-law, who, although not a member, contributed the chapters on local agency law, which may be confidently claimed constitute the most comprehensive monograph on this subject, as it applies in Massachusetts, which has ever been written. Also mention should be made of those individuals and firms through whose courtesy most of the illustrations used in these pages were made available. They include Messrs. Knight & Thomas, American District Telegraph Company, Eco Magneto Clock Company, American La France Fire Engine Company, A. J. Morse Son, Boston Auto Fire Alarm Company, Badger Fire Extinguishing Company, Hersey Manufacturing Company, United Shoe Machinery Company, New England Bureau of United Inspection, and the National Fire Protection Association of Boston; C. T. Ham Manufacturing Company, Minimax Company, Newman Clock Company, Pyrene Manufacturing Company, Safety Fire Extinguisher Company, and the Gamewell Fire Alarm Company of New York; the Robinson Fire Apparatus Manufacturing Company of Saint Louis; Builders Iron Foundry Company of Providence; The Insurance Field of Louisville, Ky.; H. J. M. Howard Manufacturing Company of Washington, Buffalo Steam Pump Company, Buffalo; Rodney Hunt Machine Company, Orange, Mass., and the Waggoner Sanatory Fire Bucket Company of Chicago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.