Insurance Firms
Aid Flood Victims
Brouwershaven Is Your Town Now
Adopted Dutch Village's Plight Stirs Plea
For Fund Help by 15,000 in 11 Companies
By ALICE BURKE
Boston's insurance industry mobilized today to help
insure the future for the flood-ridden men, women and chil-
1 dren of Brouwershaven.
A SPECIAL APPEAL for funds to rebuild the homes
and hopes of the Dutch villagers adopted by Boston went
out to upwards of 15,000 employes in 11 Hub insurance
companies.
PH.D.,
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Heading up the drive among in
surance people, who know from
their work the cost in misery and
money of disaster as it struck
Brouwershaven, is William Sey
mour, vice-president of Liberty Mu
tual.
HE REPRESENTS HIS industry
on the citizens' committee for the
Traveler's Save-A-Town campaign.
He is also the boss of Dr. Willem (Continued on Page Sixteen)
JAR
Frederik, a native Dutchman and
now a Boston resident, to whom the
call for help from Brouwershaven
first cameafter three days and
nights of watery death and terror.
WHEN HE WAS TOLD that the
first three days' contributions to
FEND
LEGIONNAIRES HELP DUTCH TOWNOfficers of the William F. Sinclair Post, repre
senting city and county employes, give Mayor Hynes $100 check to be turned over to the
Traveler's Brouwershaven relief fund. Left to right: Charles McCarthy, post service
officer, City Auditor Charles J. Fox, the Mayor, Daniel F. Cronin, post commander, and
Mortimer J Coakley, post welfare officer.
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the Traveler's fund were nearly
$3000, Dr. Frederik beamed.
j "This," he said, "is wonderful.
This is the American way of adopt
ing—far different from the way we
know Russia wants to adopt the
■rest of the world."
Insurance companies asked to
help with the Brouwershaven adop
tion -a job that includes rebuild
ing dikes and schools and churches
as well as homes—are:
1 American Mutual Liability, Bos
ton Insurance, Employers
jAssurance, John Hancock,
ware Mutuals, Liberty Mutual,
Lumberman's, Mutual Boiler and
Machinery, Boston Manufacturers,
New England Mutual and the bro
kers O'Brion and Russell.
OTHER CROUPS DIG DOWN
Other groups in the city—busi
ness, fraternal, civic, educational
and social—were also digging down
to help the ravaged little farm
and fishing village.
Today, William F. Sinclair Post
250, American Legion, represent
ing city and county employes, gave
1 $100 from their welfare fund,
ij If YOU want to help little kids
who had to climb ice-sheathed
trees to keep from drowning, men
and women too old, too frightened;
or too weak to carry a single poses-
from their swamped homes
SEND your contribution to the
80 Mason street, Boston,
it before March 10, the Save-
Town deadline.
