The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-05-19
MATRIMONIAL INSURANCE.
Chicago Bachelors and Spinsfers
Please kead.
Inducements Held Out TO Invest i'm the New
Compauy-The Great scheme, and Those
Who Are Running IL.
[ChicagO Tribune.l

| For some time past the newspapers about
| the country have been giving considerable
| free advertising 10 q new scheme, >tarted
under various names, by which man or
| woman can, by taking out pOlicy" in
| the company. receive a certain sum on his
| or her wedding day. The ostensible OBJ
| iect of these organizations, as stated In the
| plausbly-w0rded prOspectuses. is to en-
courage matrimony, and they are said
| to be run on the same plan as
the cooperative life-insurance compa-
MES, an assessment being made on
the policy.holders every time one Of
their number departs the single life. In
few of the States in which these compa-
MES have been started they have been pro-
nounced illegal, as their expressed objects
have been considered contrary TO all moral
law" aud they have died natural death,
| but In other States they have flOurished,
and many have been caught in their nets.
IL has been thought verv strange that with
the excellent facilities offered by Chicago
for marriage and divorce that no attempt
has been made to
START ONE OF THESE COMPANIES HERE,
| but the thoughts that our city bad been
overlooked were dis?elled by the following
advertisement, which appeared in the news
| papers q few days ago:
"THE AMERICAN MUTUAL AID AssOcIk-
TON for the unuIar rico pays 81 900 10 $4,000
at marriage; the Association Is conducted on the
mutual assessment plan. q. VI. McANICH ,
| Agent, 1877 Madison street, Room g."
With the object 10 view OF gathering in
formation regarding this new organization
for the benefit of the marriageahle people Of
Chicago. a 1TitUxe reporter called on Mr..
McAnicb, the agent, yesterday afternoon.
and represented himself as one who had
been attracted thither by the advertisement,
aud who thought seriously Of taking out a
policy. The Cfiice was EOdestly furnished
with Il desk and three chairs, and on the
| glass dOeCs which separated the front room
from the room adjoining were the words,
"COnsuiting Ro0m," indicating that the
atrimOaially-iEcliDed could be treated
with privately as well as under the
eyes Of the anxious muitttudes which
were orowdng the rooms for the pur-
pose OF insuriRg their bachelor life. I'M
mediately behind pen, and just in front OF
the desk, was seated youtsiu-loeking
man, upon whose face no razor had ever
left its mark, and, IN ans aer TO the
reporters query. he stated be was Mr. Nc
| Aaich. the age0t OF the American Slutual
Aid AssociationSor unmarried persons, vide
the modest tin sign on tie outside OF the
| door.
The reporter stated that re had seen the
compaDy's advertisement and bad called to
get some information about the workings
OF the company Before taking out pokcy,
which he bad been thinking seriously OF
doing. At this the agent became exceed.
ing anable and laxative. and handed over a
prospectus OF the company and several
circulars for examination.
TIE Objects ~ THE Association, A.
as given In the prospectus, are as follows :
"Tbere are protective corporations fox
almost every emergency-tre, sickness.
death, snd numerous Otbers--but nothing
| whatever for the greatest event 10 homan
liie-marriages for then real, practical life
only begius. The systems now la use. mu-
tuai aid associations, are superior to all
Other systems. The meaning OF the word
mutual Is reciprocal, eSen acting Ia re-
turn 10 the other. A aumber OF per.
sons make an agreement by virtue OF
which, on the marriage OF one OF the
members, pay an assessment rated ae.
cording TO age aud amount OF benefits
TO be received. The objects therefore, we
wish TO accomplish by the American Mu.
tusl Aid Association for unmarried persons
Is TO provide for The future welfare OF those
VINO are It's members. The induce ments
offered BY this organization towards accom-.
plifhlng that end arc greater than has ever