Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-13
TIL, Price OF nm Accident.

An accident insurance company in n
of the Eastern States has published q list
OF persons to whom it has paid compensa-
ton in looking over which we are sorely
puzzled to account for the principle upon
which the amount Of damages in each par
ticular case is apportioned. An insurance
agent, for instance. falls down stairs and
gets sixty dollars for it. and a merchant
(but then his mishap occurred at d fashion
able New York hoteD gets a round hun
dred while an editor, for the same acct
dent, receives the beggarly p~ittance OF
,eren dollars and fifty cents. An ice dealer
is the victim of an "~unprovoked assault"
Tor commits one, it is not clear which),
and the company pays him ten dollars; a
gentleman" in the same case receives
fifty dollars. A merchant bruises his shins
against q trunk, and the damage is esti-
mated at precisely nineteen dollars and
twenty-eight cents. A teamster brings
the same tender portion Of his frame into
collision with q wheelbarrow, and the
bruise is thought to be worth only eleven
dollars and a half, which, Us he had paid
twelve dollars premium on his policy, en-
tails q dead loss Of half a dollar. But
then the wheelbarrow may have made all
the difference. In another instance o mer-
chant gets for o bruised shin the exorbi-
tant sum of seventy-6ve dollars. An
agent who just falls against the corner OF
a door is assuaged by the payment OF $50:
o lawyer tumbles into a cellar, and receives
S26 while q cabinet-maker and a farmer,
k...- k.a, notaonoA opn olInuad tho
one only IS, and the other IS.
In the matter Of sprained ankles, the
variations are positively startling. The
schedule seems to be, for o fireman $40;
for a carpenter, $50 /; for a merchant, 500;
for a paper finisher, 81 AZ /; md for a dem
fist, the ridiculously small sum Of % IL.
Then look at fingers: a merchant has
Sl4 2S for a mere cut q tinman 5000,
and a manufacturer 1920 for o finger cut
off while a machinist has his finger Sawed
off, and gets only IS, which is one dollar
less than his premium. We con only &C.
count for it by supposing that the market
for fingers in Cincinnati was oyerstocked
Just at that time.
A householder is " thrown out" (what-
ever that may beg by a horse, and he is
paid, we are told, $25 05-an exasperat.
ing statement, which, in default Of some
satisfactory explanation Of the odd five
cents, leaves the mind well-nigh unhing-
ed. Then again. why should q %machinist
get exactly S5S SO for a piece Of iron in
his eye, and a poor bru,h-maker only
50 So for a chip in the anne delicate or
GAM Why should the company pay $40
10 q lawyer who has blistered his heel with
q new shoe, and only $40 to a merchant
who has been struck by lightning: Why
should a railroad conductor have no more
than S25 for breaking his jaw, while q
millwrigh. receives $50 for a sprained
toe? A grocer has S7s So, for the bite Of
q spider and a manufacturer, after pay
ing q premium Of $25, falls of a build.
ing, and is recompensed with 1926 II,
leaving him only seyenty-one cents for the
fall, which. we think, can hardly have
paid him for his trouble. Altogether, the
business, or at least the advertisement, 10
"all a muddle." Chicago Republican.