Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-10-07
MARRIAGE INSURANCE..
Trouble Manifestlng Itself Among
These ssWild Cat - Associations.
From the Memphis Appeal.

| From the Memphis Appeal
friend Of the Appeal yesterday related to
us the predicament of young friend of his who
had four policies In as many schemes. Said he:
Yesterday he received assessment notifica-
lions amounting to $685. and to-day he has adj
ditiOnal notifications amounting to S25--
| amounting to S5S in two days. Now I happen
to know that my friends monthly salary does
not amount to half that much money.
and If he succeeds in hunting up
enough to pay those assessments he will
never be able to meet what might come tO-mor-
row and the days following. He has already
exhausted all his resources in raising enough to
meet demands; l think he has gone by the
board, and what he has been paying in will have
TO be forfeited" This Is true story, and Is
but the beginning of the game of freeze-out''
that Is going to be played upon the member
ship of nine-tenths of these so-caled marital,
natal, or whatever else name they choose to
hatch up. Bear in mind, the name is always
selected with the view to beguiie the unweary.
We were notified that suit would take place
before one of our magistrates yesterday against
marriage association. We were on hand, but
the magistrate knew nothing of it. or course
| it was suggested that a cOmprmise had been
effected but we wanted the gist of that COM
promise. The nformants we traced up as far
as the fourth story, resulting in story about
as follows: GA young man had been employed
| w all OuCtF Oh AL aSSOCidClOn-JUe Name Is
withheld, because the scheme did not work and
| the boldness of the adventure will break out at
no distant day in probably more disgraceful
| transactiOn-tO go down to some point in Mis-
| sissippi and induce a young lady friend of his,
upon whom number of policies had been
TAKEN and whose parents had protested against
her marriage with her present sutton, to run
| away and marry him anyhow. He went as di-
rected, but failed in accomplishing the desired
| result but earned his stipend all the same The
result was the association failed of the necessity
| of issuing assessments upon its membership to
pay these premiums-fiftecn or twenty per cent
of which would have gone to the officers Of the
| association; consequently the officers refused to
pay the hireng his wages and he threatened
suit. The inference drawn from the fact that
the suit did not come Off is that the association
feared the developments that would come out
at the trial."
We heard a rumor that two or three of the
schemes had suspended, but could not trace
1t to any authentic source. 1t was probably the
! augmentation of the incident of a weIl-known
bOOkkeeper who had policies amounting to sew
eral thousand dollars, which fell due day or
two ago. Up to yesterday afternoon he had
succeeded in finding the officers Of but two Of
the institutions, in each of which his dues
amounted to 5000. One of these proposed a
compromise by paying him S101 and the other
| S1O4 He did not settle on that basis and we
will likely be able to give an interesting narra-
tive of what he knows about marriage associa-
lions in q few days