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The World, Evening Edition
Tuesday, 7 October, 1913

         INSURANCE PEOPLE ACCUSE
          TRIANGLE CO. OF FALSE STATEMENTS
          
         HARRIS & BLANCK Are Plaintiffs in
          Suit to Recover $5,000 on Fire Loss
          
         ISAAC HARRIS and MAX BLANCK, proprietors of the 
       Triangle Waist Company, in whose factory at Nos. 
       23-29 Washington place, 146 employees lost their
       lives by fire in March, 1911, appeared as plain-
       tiffs yesterday in an action to recover $5,000
       on an insurance policy take out with the Royal
       Insurance Company, Ltd., Jan. 20, 1911, less than
       two months before the factory was burned out.
       
         "Since the fire," the insurance company alleges
       in its defense, "the plaintiffs have made false
       and fraudulent statements in the prooofs of loss,
       falsely stating that the actual value of the per-
       sonal property was $203,583.23, and that this was
       the loss, whereas it was not anything like that
       sum."
       
         It is further alleged that HARRIS & BLANCK
       made this statement for the purpose of inducing
       the company to pay a far greater amount than
       that rightly due. In any case, the insurance
       company claims it is liable for only its portion
       of the loss, as HARRIS & BLANCK were insured in
       forty-one other companies for a total of $174,750.
       The Royal was the only company that refused to
       pay.
       
         Francis L. Wellman, its counsel, said the Royal
       Insurance Company paid 100 per cent to insurers
       in the San Francisco fire, thus compelling other
       companies to pay in full, and that it would have
       promptly settled the claim of HARRIS & BLANCK had
       it not believed the claim is false.
       
         Actions of over $500,000 damages have been brought
       by relatives of employees of the firm whose lives
       were lost. A few weeks ago HARRIS & BLANCK were
       fined in Special Sessions for keeping the doors
       of their present factory locked.
       
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