It was payday at the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, and along with their paychecks employees found an extra month’s pay, a 10% increase in their regular pay that would extend through December, and a letter from Richard Bissell explaining all of this.

Whitney Palache informed the Courant that Hartford Fire had agreed to accept the City’s offer to sell the Garden Street Reservoir to the company for $22,000.

Meeting of the Hartford Board of Fire Commissioners, at which the board discussed the sale of the Garden Street Reservoir to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company.

This evening, the Hartford Courant interviewed Richard M. Bissell, and he declared it a foregone conclusion that Hartford Fire’s board of directors would agree to purchase the Garden Street Reservoir for $22,000 at their meeting tomorrow, September 30.

The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a special meeting at which the board voted to offer the Garden Street Reservoir for sale to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company for $22,000. 

The American School for the Deaf re-opened at the end of its summer break, and students began moving back onto the campus.  Truckloads of trunks arrived at Cogswell Hall.  W. R. C. Corson told the Courant that architects for the American School for the Deaf were working on plans for a group of buildings at the school’s West Hartford location.  Meanwhile, Richard M. Bissell met with architects to review plans for the new building of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, as demolition of the main school building was well underway.

The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a regular meeting, at which Whitney Palache and Lucius Robinson of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company offered to purchase the Garden Street Reservoir property for $20,000.

The warrantee deed transferring title on the Hartford campus of the American School for the Deaf to the Hartford Fire Insurance Company was filed at the town clerk today.  The deed revealed that Hartford Fire had paid $250,000 for the property.

The Hartford Board of Water Commissioners held a special meeting at 2:00 PM in order to consider an offer of property from the Hartford Fire Insurance Company that would ultimately cause the abandonment of the Garden Street Reservoir.

A Hartford Courant reporter interviewed Richard M. Bissell about the Hartford Fire Insurance Company’s plans for its new property on Asylum Hill and the effects the planned Broad Street Extension would have on those plans.  Bissell told the reporter that if the configuration of the proposed street was not changed, the Hartford Fire Insurance Company would be forced to abandon its new building project.