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74 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [May,
HARTFORD, MAY 15, 1893.
J. M. Allen, Editor. A. D. Risteen, Associate Editoi:
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so that we may give proper credit on our books.
The twenty-third Annual Repjort (for 1892) of the Norddeutscher Vereiu zur Ueberwachung
von Dampfkesselu, of Hamburg, is at hand.
Messrs. Burwell & Briggs have been appointed general agents in our Northern
Ohio department, to succeed the late Mr. A. S. Ferry; and Mr. H. M. Lemon, in the
Northwestern department, succeeds the late Mr. H. D. P. Bigelow.
Obituary.
Arthur S. Ferry.
It is our painful duty to record the death of Arthur S. Ferry, general agent of this
company for Northern Ohio, which occurred at his home in Cleveland, on April 4,
1893. Mr. Ferry had been identified with this company since July, 1887, as special
agent for the first four years, and as general agent in the Northern Ohio department
since July, 1891. During his connection with, us he had traveled over the country very
generally, as assistant supervisor of its agencies. Mr. Ferry was a faithful and efficient
officer, and was personally very popular with the officers, agents, and other employes
of the company. He was a comparatively young man, just entering upon a wider field
in his life-work, and it is with feelings of deejD sorrow that we record his untimely
death.
H. D. P. Bigelow.
Death has thinned the ranks of the early agents and inspectors of the Hartford
Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company ; only a few now remain. The oldest
in service was Mr. H. D. P. Bigelow, general agent of the department of the Northwest.
He was appointed a special agent of the company in the early part of 1867, and
at that time lived in the city of Milwaukee, and became deeply interested in the suc-
cess of the company from his first connection with it. We had entered upon a class of
insurance that w^as entirely new and untried, and it was by no means easy to persuade
people then that boiler inspection and insurance were necessities. Mr. Bigelow met the
incredulous spirit manifested by steam users, when he presented the merits and benefits
of the company's system, with such profound earnestness and faith in the value of the