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.

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.