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Show An Insurance Company Gobbled I p. New York, Jan. IS. Robert Lew is, general manager of the Alliance Life and Fire Insurance In-surance company of London, has completed arrangements for the purchase of the Royal Canadian Insurance company of Montreal, which has $i(Kl,(KK),otKi of insurance, and is the large.-t insurance company In Canada, It is the intention of the Alliance, which is the largest company in the world, lo extend its business to every part of the. world. Through the Dnlon Insurance company of California, which it purchased some time ago, the alliance proposes to do a big business busi-ness west of the Rocky mountains, and at a later date will secure control of a New York company, through which it will do all Its eastern American business. Lewis went to San Francisco after completing the purchase pur-chase of the Canadian company. (In hi.- return re-turn it is expected that he will make another an-other effort to secure a New York company. Iu the meantime he lias instructed his New-York New-York lawyer to look out for bargains for htm. |