Identifier: americanaunivers08newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ue. Hartford as the head of navigation andtherefore distributing point for the ConnecticutValley earlv gained an importance as a centreof wholesafe trade which it has never lost: toaccommodate this, the Harttord Bank, the fitthin the United States, was organized in 1792-But its largest importance is now as one ot theleading insurance centres in the world, andthird in the United States. This business de-veloped from the marine insurance on its \\ estIndia cargoes, added fire insurance as a branch,and in 1846 life insurance. The loans of its in-surance companies with their vast assets notre^ricted bv law as are those of New iork,have been one of the greatest agencies m devel-oping the West, amounting to several hundreamillions of dollars. There are now six litecompanies, two of which also have accidentbranches —the latter being the onginal andchief department in one; five fire companies be-sides a countv mutual, and the Lnited Statesbranches of three foreign companies; and a HARTFORD.
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HARTFORD — HARTFORD CONVENTION steam-boiler insurance company. There are7 national and 5 other banks of discount, 4savings-banks, and 4 trust companies. The man-ufacturing interests arc heavy and varied. Fire-arms, includnig Catling guns, at the famousColt Works; electric machinery and vehicles;bicycles, of which it is the centre in the UnitedStates; cyclometers; woven-wire mattresses;horse nails; screws ; steam-engines and boilers;typewriters; leather belting; and special machin-ery of all kinds, besides knit goods, furniture,carriages, harness, and many other things aremanufactured here. It has also one of the larg-est printing houses in New England, which hasmanufactured many famous works; four dailypapers, one of them the oldest newspaper inthe United States (The Courant, 1764), anda number of weeklies, monthlies and quarterlies. The mayor holds office for two years, andthe representative body is two-chambered. Theassessed valuation of property is about$81,000,000, making it per

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