Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-06-02
Accident Insurance.

STRIKING ILLUSTRATION OF ITS BENEFITS.
1T is five years since the practice Of ac-
cident insurance was introduced into the
United States, by the Travellers Insurance
Company, Of Hartford, Conn. Five years
OF successful business have made IL familiar
as household words, and scattered itsbene-
Ats among the rich and the poor, the rner-
chants and the mechanics, the business men
and the laboring men, among those who
travel and those who stay at home
The plan ia simple. Fora cash premium
Of $5 to $40, according to occupation and
degree of exposure to accident, hecompa.
ny contracts to pay 81 900 If the insured
dies by accident within year, or So per
week for the time he may be wholly disa-
bled by n non-fatal INJURY. Larger sums,
up TO $4,000 in case OF death by accident,
or $50, weekly indemnity as above, in the
same proportion. Hazardous risks are
charged higher rates.
What are the chances of accidentY Let
statistics answer. One person inevery ten
meets with an accident every year. One
in every fourteen of the $50, 900 insured by
the Travellers, has been paid under claim
for death or injury by accident. On the
books of the Travellers are recorded the
names dates and amounts paid by this
company to more than ten thousand of its
policy holders. These amounts vary from
So. to $4,000. ,I...a.
Take q few instances Of recent date Hon.
James Harper, ex-Mayor Of New York, and
head of the great publishing house of Har-
per brothers, killed by accident a few days
ago was insured for $40, 0,000l having been
patron of the Company from the start -
The money was paid April 10th. Mr..
Charles NJ. Rogers, Of New York, whose
mysterious murder is SO freshin the public
mind, held an accident policy of $4,000.
The loss was paid April Sth Mr.. Ambrose
Lows, chemist, OF South Boston. was
killed by an explosion at his works, Feb
ruary %. His policy of $4,000 was
paid four days after proof of death were
presented. Mr.. L. Il. Van Kirk, a
prominent citizen of Philadelphia, was
drowned last summer, only four days after
the purchase of $4,000 policy. The loss
was promptly paid. Rev. Robert f. Par
vim, Clergyman of Philadelphia, was pre-
sented with q $1,000 accident policy, just
before starting on a Western tour. Two
DAYS later December ~ he lost his life in
tuo COnlbIOH huu puihlhb VI WV D'NonNip
United States and America, on the Ohio
River. The loss was paid in February.
We might 60 on to enumerate scores OF
similar cases of fatal accident, not to men
ton the ten thousand claims paid for non-
fatal injuries. .r
The Travellers is She oldest accident
company in America 1t has issued over
10000 policies; it has paid back 5000, 900
to its policy holders for death or injury by
accident; ii has paid up capital of q half
million, and its cash assets amount to
$1,l5O,O 900; and it has, in an experience of
five years, demonstrated the fact that its
insurance against accidents is one of the
most desirable and inexpensive forms of
personal insurance, valuable to all classes
Of men,
Policies can be obtained Of agents in
all principal cities ana towns of the United
States and Canada, or by addressing the
onmnanv at Harfford ConnecticlIt