Show I The Northwest Underwriters Chicago 20The fourteenth annual an-nual convention of the Fire Underwriters Under-writers of the Northwest began today to-day and was attended by fully 200 delegates from companies doing business in the northwest and in Ohio Indiana Tennessee Kentucky Iowa Wisconsin and Kansas In his annual address the President W M Decamp of Cincinnati referred re-ferred to the beneficial rules of the organization of the State board of underwriters After the appointment appoint-ment of a standing committee for the ensuing year the convention took a recess Mr G A Holloway of Chicago read a paper on risks in which he deprecated the present tendency to broaden insurance contracts without with-out a great compensation and also the immediate allowance made on rates where novel appliances which I were untried are kept in readiness extinguishing fires Mr Mulllns advocated in a paper the compact system of making rates he did not deem local agents competent com-petent or free enough from preJudice preju-dice to go to work for companies on the compact system and contemplated contem-plated the appointment of competent compe-tent men to make jates of insurance for the several districts in which the companies do business these men to receive their remuneration pro rata to the business done by them Adjourned till tomorrow |