Show ff 1 LLOYDS HOME TO HOLD OLD TRADITIONS LONDON LO May 2 AP Hom AP Hom Homage i age to the memory mory of ot Eddie i i iLloyd I Lloyd Llod who ke kept ta a little HUle hole In wall the coffee shop In Tower street treet 23 37 7 years ago where British mer- mer hants ants began to meet for tor the transAction trans trans- Action of ot shipping business Is to be by King George himself and numerous others o of note on onIa May Ia 23 Then the king will lay the f n a stone for tor Llo Ilo Lloyds Lloyd's ds d's new Mew ew buIld buIld- pg which Is to cost cost and andis is 4 require re several se years e ar to build 0 fhe Lloyds Lloyd's of ot those days that days that r 1 t e coffee cortee shop shop occupied occupied but pe small mall room kitchen and all 4 df 2 cb t e rent was but a few shillings shilling's shIll- shIll ng's a week In street o 0 the new structure is to stand lie e blocks o of old offices were ii to make room for tor a S new a for tor tho the Lloyds Lloyd's of ot I The new building I is to be at the largest ever er constructed IV ri 1692 the business 9 of ot the ship ship- took a more definite and anti it was wa decided de to desert desertes 1 es as a's place for larger quarters iove ove was made to Lombard kt et t and the romance o of Lloyds Lloyd's an to take a l form torm which In j was ivas to make the name of the shop keeper known to tong topIng pIng ng men in el e every quarter of ot obe be The business s grew glew rap- rap y and nd again in 1774 new offices in th the Ilo Horal al Exchange q where r th the they have ha been Ince aInee hough the business orIgInally c to the thi insurance of ot pIng risks Lloyds d's todo today deals de-als linearly n nearly arly er e every kind of risk A per per- may Insure thor ther through ough a tiber against a t day for tOI a afe alie atc lie tc fe crop failures allure agaInst twins bet tt against almost almot any Jn sort of ot a yel turc S or mIsadventure which ht befall a human being at I It ft Hf t On land or in the the- theall air all during flight of or an airplane And to today today I day as a n memorial to Eddies Eddie's ble ble little coffee cotteE house house- the un- un mUng room The room The Room it Is is arranged in the style n old fashioned coffee cortee shop in Jon b there here are bulletin boards f of ot shipping arrivals als A tures ures casualties and other othel- Cot bf pf interest to the shipping dc The new headquarters rs too fa 0 e have hare its coffee coHee room as a a. tinned d reminder of or Old Eddie Eddle I the underwriters' underwriters room also I hangs hangs the famous Lutine bell A stroke of ot the bell indicates news such as when a l ship overdue o is announced as har hay hav- r ched p port rt safely Two CbS of at the bell signifies a wreck en h or some other news of or mis- mis the rie fie Tie e bell is from H II H. M M. r. r S. S Lutine wrecked in iii 1799 and is e of ot the most interesting of ot the I lies Jos of Llo Lloyds Lloyd's ds It is to be carcare car- car j care cale and nell i I reverence to ta the I n bw v headquarters headquarter when complete |