Fire Insurance Development On The Pacific Coast

Author : Herbert H. Kirschner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330447895
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Fire Insurance Development on the Pacific Coast written by Herbert H. Kirschner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Fire Insurance Development on the Pacific Coast 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. 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.