The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-07-18
Insuring the Mobility.
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 "Only one of their old liesl" The speak4 was an officer of one of our larg- est lie insurance companies, and the lies he referred to were contained in a German pamphlet that bitterly attacked American life insurance. "They have taken advantage, over on the other side, of our last years smash in Wall street to assail our whole system of finance, think ing to get rid of unwelcome rivalry. But it won't work. Judging from this" tap ping the pamphlet, "one would think that all Europe was filled with distrust of us. Well, here is specimen of distrust "a draft for os 900 marks from the may or of Frankfort on-the- Main, in one pay ment, for an annuity for his sonl That mail brought us a regular insurance from Europe half million dollars. We get three malls week, and one bag has brought as much as a million and a quafter of insurance Do you see the reason why they kick2
 Our policy books are full of the names ct German noblemen and landed pro- prietors who are insured as high as hundred thousand dollars, some of them. All over fifty thousand we reinsure to protect ourselves. In the city of Ponn, the famous university town, there is scarcely well known or distinguished man who is not insured in our company And it is not in Germany alone we drive ahead like that. Here is an application from Prince Sergius Galitzin, of Warsaw. l mention the big names because they count more on the other side than here. In Paris we have just paid a policy of $50 900 francs to the heirs of Prince Or. ioff, Russian. And there, too, is one of our patrons or customers, Prince Philippe Mare c Orleans, scion of the French royal house. He owns large mines in Spain, and the company has given him a permit to go down in his mines, but by no means to engage in the actual labor of miner Routine, you knowi Fancy prince of the house of Orleans with pick and shovel, and a miners lamp on his hat"
 Do you insure any crowned heads ?"
 No kings and queens. There are too many nihilists around these times but dukes and counts without end. The nearest we get to royalty is in the case of ex Queen Isabella, who is the beneficiary of policy we have written on the life of one or her devoted courtiers. Very fond | of her, l presume. We had brother in-law of the Danish king, Baron Blk whose wife was the aunt of ot the princess of Wales, the empress of Russia and the king of Greece Now that he is dead, if my memory doesn't fail, we insure his son. Another of our risks, who is dead, was son ot Maria Louisa, the great Napoleon's s last wife, by her second marriage. He was an Austrian notable, whose name forget. The other day we insured dlstip guished governor, with an offish name l can't pronounce.
 "There are three American companies who insure lives in Europe, the New York, the Equitable, and the Germania. Trust them to take care of themselves. As an instance of it, let me tell you that the agent of the New York, in Paris, Harry Romans, has been made a cheva. Tier of the Legion of Honor the Equita- ble's agent, in Madrid, is a member of the Cortes. President Cleveland's new minister to Denmark, Professor Rasmus B. Anderson, was an Equitable agent out west, and may be on their management over there"