26 



INFORMATION RELATING TO INSURANCE AND THRIFT 



IV. - 



Name of Company 



Tornado Insurance. 



Indemnities 



American Central Insurance Company . . . . 



Aetna Insurance Compan}^ 



Canada Weather Insurance Company 



Canada National Insurance Company I^imited . 

 Fidelity Phenix Fire Insurance Company . . . 



Firemen's Insurance Company 



German American Insurance Company 



Glens Falls Insurance Company 



Hartford Fire Insurance Company 



Home Insurance Company 



Insurance Company of the State of Penn.sylvania 

 Mercantile Fire and Marine Underwriters, Agenc}' 



of the American Central Insurance Company . 

 Minnesota Underwriters' Agency of the St. Paul 



Fire and Marine Insurance Company . . . 

 National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford 

 National Union Fire Insurance Company . . 

 Northwestern National Insurance Compan}^ . 



New York Underwriters' Agencj' 



Scottish Union and National Insurance Company 

 Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Company 

 St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company . 

 Underwriters' Agency of the Firemen's Insurance 



Company of Newark 



494-51 



1,370.67 



624.04 



11.00 



487.36 



37-50 



321.22 



768.09 



1,379-14 



815,78 

 429,88 



147.99 



99-50 



747-25 



331-25 



639.90 



2,645.58 



369.40 



2,936.16 



5. 131-23 



10.00 



690.06 

 3,018.00 



483.28 



85.00 



177.20 



2.87 



48.10 

 82.17 

 59-00 

 32.50 

 1,160.27 



783-28 

 5.215-27 



Total 



Corresponding total in 



1916 19,797-45 

 1915 i4>357-55 



11,837.00 

 45e).38 



2. PREVENTION OF FOREST FIRES. 



Canada lost $ 9,000,000 by forest fires in 1916, more than six times 

 as much as had been spent on forest protection work. Most of these 

 fires were preventable. 



In British Columbia the effect of an efficient forest-protection service 

 and somewhat more f av^ovirable weather conditions was to reduce the num- 

 ber of fires to about half their number in the previous year. Yet a substan- 

 tial loss was suffered and a better protection service wotild have been pro- 

 fitable. 



The presence of a protective force, trails, and look-out towers connect- 

 ed with headquarters by telephone, enables fires to be effectivel}^ tackled when 



