The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . A. G. Bullockwas called to succeed his honored father. From January, 1883, the timethe present incumbent entered upon the duties of his office, the companyhas made a rapid and solid growth. At that date the company had in force5,165 polices, insuring $12,016,345. The annual income amounted to$501,068, of which $382,871 constituted the income from premiums, and$118,197 the interest on invested funds. The assets then amounted to$3,099,248; the liabilities to $2,452,804; the surplus to $646,444. The above statistics, compared
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . A. G. Bullockwas called to succeed his honored father. From January, 1883, the timethe present incumbent entered upon the duties of his office, the companyhas made a rapid and solid growth. At that date the company had in force5,165 polices, insuring $12,016,345. The annual income amounted to$501,068, of which $382,871 constituted the income from premiums, and$118,197 the interest on invested funds. The assets then amounted to$3,099,248; the liabilities to $2,452,804; the surplus to $646,444. The above statistics, compared with the corresponding ones of January,1898, will show the progress made by the company during a period offifteen years. January, 1898, the number of policies in force was 23,301;the insurance in force, $65,977,132. The total income of the precedingyear was $3,193,, of which the income from premiums was $2,629,; from interest on the invested funds, $564,; the assets were$13,455,; the liabilities, $12,156,897 ; the surplus, $1,298, Its. WORCESTER MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO. BUILDING. The Worcester of 1898. 385 present officers are: A. G. Bullock, President and Treasurer; Thomas HGage, Vice-President; Henry M. Witter, Secretary; and Thomas H GasjeM. D., and Albert Wood, M. D., Medical Directors; William E StarrActuary; B. H. Wright, Superintendent of Agencies. The Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Company Previous to the year 1835 the town of Worcester possessed no adequate force, facilities orappliances for use in extinguishing fires. The only assurance and hopeof assistance or protection at times of such calamity was in the efficiencyof the two fire societies-the Worcester, formed in 1793, and the Mutualformed m 1822, m their management of the clumsy hand-engine owned irithe town, and their control of the bucket-brigade, which comprised themembers of the two organizations and such individuals as volunteered orwere impressed for duty. Large conflagrat
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