According to an article published today in the Hartford Courant, the final designs for the new office building of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company were finally approved.

The church installed a new memorial window in memory of John Voorhees during a morning service.

An article published in today’s Hartford Courant reported that excavation of the foundation for the new building of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company was well underway.

The deed transferring the Garden Street reservoir to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company was filed at the Office of the Town Clerk.

Representatives of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company and of the Hartford Water Department met this morning to finalize the purchase and sale of the Garden Street Reservoir property.

According to an unnamed source, the deeds for transferring the Garden Street Reservoir to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company could be passed tomorrow, October 18, or on Monday, October 20. 

The directors and officers of the American School for the Deaf approved plans for the new building in West Hartford at a meeting held today.

Whitney Palache told the Hartford Courant that, as far as the Hartford Fire Insurance Company was concerned, the company’s deal with the Hartford Board of Water Commissioners to purchase the Garden Street Reservoir from the city had been completed.

Asylum Hill Congregational Church observed Rally Day, and Willis Howard Butler preached his first sermon as pastor.

According the Courant, a special committee of the Hartford Fire Board was scheduled to meet with officials of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company at 10:00 this morning in order to discuss the future of the Garden Street Reservoir.