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Show j CHICAGO FIRE AND FIRE RATES Chicago has had a $5,004,000 fire In which an entire block of big bulldinzs was destroyed. With all the equipment of the lar;: cities, fires, now and then, do much j damage. i Had B fire such us Hint in Chicago ! occurred In Ogden. even on a much smaller scale, ihere woutu have been criticism of the fire fihtlm,' forces, and the insurance companies would have made It the excuse for In creasinc rates of Insurance Recently, after ogden had spent over $13,000 for new equipment and bond were voted to enlarge the water system, the fire Insurance companies,, under a preiext of making a new survey, sur-vey, Increased premiums on many buildings The fire insurance compiuni - pi k flaws in a city's tire protection and make their disclosures th basis of boosted raies. and, if tho alleged defects de-fects are remedied, they proceed to Increase In-crease ihe rates regardkss of the lm proved condition. It is an arbitrary method which they pursue, and one extremely unjust to a city with fire losses as low as have prevailed here In the past twenty years. |