Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-05-03
a FRONT YARD IN GARDEN PRO.
TECTIOA ass URANCE COMPANY.

| T1CT1O0 ASSUHANCE OOMSANY.
About this time OF year the average house
nOloer digs up his front J ard and plants It witt
nasturtiums capricorns, tiadiola fa,iosa, phlox
| aZaleas, onions, burdocks, Canada thistleS
chewing tobacco, and chow-cnow, white his
| wife prowl5 round with q trowel and a con-
1emneQ nat and makes the plants innocent
! ca Toes OF the city agriculturist are the cos
| {racca rutga, Linn), and the hen (chickena
| scrafchtna), and gentleman with red nose
and very shiny coat-sleeveS having observed
this, canvassed the West Division one sunshiny
| day last week with considerable success. See
| ing woman up in the Thirteenth Ward en-
gagged In tickling the front yard with coal
ShOVel, under the hailuctnation that 1t would
!aush Tor. d harvest OF hot-house grapes and
Victoria Reg'a. he saluted her deferentially.
YARD insured. Insure the yard-why. bless
The man, l think he's crazy; I've got the
knows that's enough in these hard times
considering there hasn's been a fire on this
street And the yard, wouldn't burn
madame said the stranger with a courtiy
bow; 81 observe that you are enga yed in gar
dening operations, and conclude that your ex-
mention it!' said She warmly; 1.-THE neIsh uoe
all keep hens but do not keep their hens to
themselves as they should; and as for COWS
my heart goes pitapat whenever I hear the
have chased away as many as ten Thousand
hens from this here yard, which was as the
dppiO VI LILY eye, dnu OlQ succeed IN rearing q
purple gafusia that was the finest 1 ever saw,
and one day while was following hen to her
businesses In the back yard terrible cow
1amoled In, ate up my galusia splenderiterosa,
Precisely, madame" said the stranger, defer
ent1ally; "these accidents will occur In the best
regulated front yards.or, rather they are not
and as the fruit Of series OF observations ex-
been enabled to get this cow and hen question lon
to 20 R psees oT is
OF average expectation of cows and hens
has been prepared, which is the funda-
mental mental basis and groundwork Of the ope-
tual Front Yard Garden and Horticultural Pro-
JectlOn Assurance company. We know how
many 'front.' yards there are in Chicago how
many COWS there are, how many hens there
are: All this science teaches us. From these
paste Clements we deduce how many chances
there are OF cow or hen entering a front
garden and wreaking damage thereon, and for
against any less from these fell and destruc-
tive graminivora." "Do tell; do want to
R mn%sa she Ss explained in surprise yes
MUM, the c. NJ. M F. T. aH. r. 4. Co. under der
takes to make good any damage that may
calves, steers, oxen, or bulls dogs OF ali varie.
ties, and cats, be the same Toms or otherwise
The c. N. M. F. Y. G. & II. P. A. Co. is duly in
COA uHUcf Tue laws OF lII001S, and has
cash capital OF $40 900, 900 and net assets of
$l6,4S3,26s. Sc. If you have copy of the Illinois
insurance reports In the house, will show you
lrom Page 2ss that am not making any repre-
sentat1on that is not strictly true up to the han
Ole. Our company does business on very liberal
priI c1ple We recognize that the nero intrinsic
value OF plant or shrub does not by any means
rep1 esent its worth to the person who has so as
SERIOUSLY tended 1t, watched over it and beheld
IL expand into beauty. Hence we do not pre-
tend 10 take The option OF replacing the article
or 4 In
scale filed with the Secretary OF State Perhaps
an tme pants mat you VIII produce in this hor
tlcultural paradise could be purchased for $50.
but when we add your time, ana anxiety, and
everything else, $500 would, perhaps, be too low
valuation" "Do you mean to tell me-" she
said, that II cow was to break In and deyas-
Certainly, madame, il you were one Of our
policy holders, and the garden were total loss.
II the COW didn't do much damage, perhaps you
wouldn't get more'n $50 or $780, OF course you
must not keep COWS or hens; and the Conditions
OF the policy are that the company is not to be
held responsible for loss by Socialist riots, light
1t cost to insure this garden for sSoSsn g t
wCuid cost l25: madame, yours being an Al
risk from the fact that the gate closes with bah
ard chain" 81 Will take policy" she said.
promptly, and as she went into the house for
tee money she said softly and rapturously to
herself: Well. If that isn't fool OF an insur-
ance company don't know what is,-why, the
COWS may come In and scratch, and the hens
trampie down every thing with their hOOfS and
won't SO much as lift a broomstick to hinder
them" The agen' took her premium and gave
her receipt, promising to send round steel
engraved. copper plate, photo photographic poll
cy next day, and, as he left, treasured her as to
how 1t was possible for the company to do bust
ness at such extremely low rates by explaining
that IL employed an efficient corps of detectives
and whenever it found damage done by q cow
or hen proceeded against the owner of the
animal urder the Estray act and had him heav-
lily fined, tie company as 1nfOrmer receiving
half the penalty. The company seem to be do
Ing very large business, indeed that agent
TOOK In more than forty applications last week,
but none Of the insured have as yet received
their policies. The delay, however, is in all
PROBABILITY due to this pressure OF business
(Chicdgo Tribune.