The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1864-05-26

Assets, $4,000, 000-- Securely Invested.
This is one of the Oldest Safest most Successful
Life Insurance Companies in United States and Of
equalled by any other t has paid to Widows and
phans OF the assured over Eighteen Hundred
Thousand Dollars. Its Trustees in New FORK City
are of the very first and most reliable names.
The New York Lies receipts for the last year were
larger in proportion to its capital, than any other
Company the continent. (See sworn statements to
the General Superintendent of the Insurance Depart
ment.) The New York Life has returned to the Policy
Holders more, in the form OF dvieends in proportion
to its capital the last year, than any other Company
doing business in the United States Beware of nv
new Company protesting to offer extra Inducements,
by taklng half note, on any premium however small
or claiming to have declared large dividend before
accommodating sufficient capital; or by low rates of
insurance.
1t is strictly mutual, the poll holders receiving
the entire profits.
e5- Special care in the selection oft its risks-strict
economy-and safe and judicous investment of its
mphatically characterize the management of
this Company. -kzl
nually, the option OF tie assured Policies issued in
all the various forms, of WI ole Lite, short Term, En-
dewment, Annuity, &c
DIVIDENDS DECLARED ANNUALLY.
The mortality among its members has been pr0pOr-
0ndteky less than that of any other Life Insurance
Company in America-a result consequent on most
careful and judcious selection of lives, and one of
great Importance to the policy holders.
1t offers to the assured the most abundant security
in a large accumulated fund, amounting now to
THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
1t accommodates its members IN the settlement of
their premiums by giving credit for part of the
amount when desired--thus furnishing Insurance for
nearly double the amount for about the cash pay
ment, as is required i'll an "all cash Company"
The new feature in Life Assurance recently intro>
duced by this Company of issuing
Life Policies not subject to Forfeiture,
only argument of any weight h.ch possibly be
brought against the system of Lie Insurance.
rae lsely prosperity and of this Company is
shown in the fact that for the last three years it has
the lead of the Life Insurance Companies in
thl- country; the Official Returns Of the MdSsGch-
sets Insurance Comm iSSi0nefS showing that the
| amount of New Business for the year 1862, nearly
equailed the combined business of any 9TH
en- two Companies in the United States
Below will be found a summary OF the business of this
Company, reported to the Insurance Commissioners
OF the State of Massachusetts, as required by the laws
of that Commonwealth the first of November, 1868.
No. ofNew Policies issued during the year, 39S.
Receipts for Prems. & Int same time, 81 l1U,123 "a
! Losses and expenses during the year, 493,294 "
| Bal. in favor of Policy Holders, Ola S29 %
Total Assets, Nov 1st 1868, S1,566,923 %
The following statement, taken from the official Re-
turns of the Massachusetts Insurance Commissioners,
showing the plumber of policies issued in the years 1861
1862 and 1868, exhibits at glance the present COM
paratiVe of the principal Life Insurance Com
panies in this country.