The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-05-20
ACCIDENT INSURANCE.
Striking Illustration OF Its Benefits.

1T is Eve years since the practice of &C.
cident insurance was introduced into the
United States, by the Travellers Insurance
Company of Hartford, Conn. Five years
successful business have made it familiar
as household words, and scattered its
benefits among the rich and the poor, the
merchants and the mechanics, the bust
ness men and the laboring men, among
those who travel and those who stay at
home.
The plan is simple For cash premium
of IS to $40, according to occupation and
degree of exposure to accident, the COM
pany contracts to pay $1,000 if the in
sured dies by accident within a year, or S.
per week for the time he may be wholly
disabled by a 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. Hazard
Gus risks are charged higher rates.
What are the chances of accident Let
statistics answer. One person in every
ten meets with an accident every year.
One in every fourteen, of the 10000 in
sured by the Travellers, has been paid
under q claim for death or injury by acct
dent 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.
Take few instances of recent date:
Hon. James Harper, ex-Mayor of New
York, and head of the great publishing
house OF Harper Brothers, killed by
accident a few days ago, was insured for
$4,000; 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 fresh in the public mind,
held an accident policy of $4,000. The
loss was paid April 9Th. Mr.. Ambrose
Lows, Chemist, of South Boston, was
killed by an explosion at his works, Feb
ruary 22d. His policy of $4,000 was
paid four days after proofs of death were
presented. Mr.. F. T. Van Kirk, promi-
nent citizen of Philadelphia, was drowned
last summer, only four days after the pur-
chase of q $4,000 policy. The loss was
promptly paid. Rev. Robert F. Parvin, a
clergyman of Philadelphia, was presented
with $4,000 accident policy, just before
starting on Western tour. Two days
later December A. he lost his life in the
collision and burning of the steamers
United States and America, on the Ohio
River. The loss was paid in February.
We might go on to enumerate scores of
similar cases of fatal accident, not to men
ton the ten thousand claims paid for non
fatal injury.
The Travellers is the Oldest accident com
pany in America. 1t has issued over 16O,-
900 policies; it has paid back 5000, 900 to
its policy holders, for death or injury by
accident; it has a paid up capital of half
million, and its cash assets amount to
81, 10000; 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 al!
principal cities and towns of the United
States and Canada, or by addressing the
company at Hartford, Connecticut